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Well, it is already pretty easy to throw out any motherboards that don't correspond to the processor you've chosen. On most PC part picker websites such as ebuy
by mokash 14y ago
Well, it is already pretty easy to throw out any motherboards that don't correspond to the processor you've chosen. On most PC part picker websites such as ebuyer you can select only motherboards with the correct socket. I don't like what Intel are planning to do as I absolutely love the flexibility of desktop PCs. This move could end them a lot sooner.
- bunderbunder 14y ago> Well, it is already pretty easy to throw out any motherboards that don't correspond to the processor you've chosen. Not really. You can use it to throw out motherboards that aren't compatible with the category to which your processor belongs. Which is probably a very loose category - "Motherboards which support socket AM3 CPUs", for example. That's just not a very fine filter - probably only vaguely more specific than "Motherboards which were released in the past 48 months."
- mhurron 14y agoNo its pretty good as a first filter. Lets say I want a i5 or an i7 but I must have a bunch PCI-e slots and 4 e-SATA. You start with a motherboard with the right socket and go from there. Perhaps I can get away with getting the most inexpensive processor right now but I must have these other features. This will probably work out to an inexpensive processor on an expensive motherboard. Right now, you can do that. In the cheap processor is married to the low-end motherboard and the expensive processor is married to the high end motherboard world you couldn't. To get the higher end features you would have to buy the expensive processor, even if you didn't need it.