Buying a new computer…

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  1. Johnden_

    I had to check if what I presumed the word to be a motherboard because I never heard someone call it a “gaming mainboard”

  2. DrMcnasty4300

    if your motherboard costs more than your cpu you need to be getting a worse motherboard or a better cpu lol

  3. sparklepusss

    A ‘mainboard’ would set you back quite a few doubloons nowadays

  4. blackest-Knight

    Padme right though.

    If your motherboard is more expensive than your CPU, you got scammed by MSI/Asus/Gigabyte marketing gimmicks.

  5. UlteriorMotive66

    Are the Z-series (Intel) or X-series (AMD) of motherboards even worth paying all that additional cash if ur never gonna overclock ur CPU?

  6. Jokes on you, my mobo was more expensive than my CPU.

  7. JesusAycheChrist

    No such thing as a gaming motherboard.

    Get the cheapest board that sockets your desired cpu, ram, pcie card(s), and storage options.

    You do not need a 790 chipset with 4 pcie slots and 128 gig ram capacity at 7200mhz.

    They are inflating the cost and selling you shit you will never use.

    Unless you have use case for a feature, don’t fucking pay for it.

  8. babicko90

    Gaming motherboard. Jeez… what else am i going to hear thesedays

  9. NewUserWhoDisAgain

    The thing that annoys me about mobos nowadays is if you want the bells and whistles you also gotta pay the “GMAERZ” surcharge as well.

    Want an extra M.2 Slot?

    Sure.

    That’ll be an extra 50bucks for the GAMING motherboard.

  10. MasteredtheBlaster

    Ah yes, the mainboard. I too, have spent many dollars on my mainboard. The mainboard is a very necessary and integral part of any electronic device, such as a gaming computer.

  11. DarkLord55_

    My motherboard was $400 ish and my cpu was like $820

  12. PicnicBasketPirate

    So what exactly is “gaming” about a gaming motherboard?

    Extra X’s and Z’s? Or a couple of extra RGB headers?

  13. tcholoss

    My friend always bought expensive motherboards and said: oh but it can do this and this and he never ever used the functions it presented, not even all the memory slots, pci slots, pci express slots and so on.

    I always bought something with good chipset and the cheapest or the second cheapest option of it, oh and always Gigabyte, that is all. The average user/gamer almost never uses those features built in those expensive stuff. I think it should support a good CPU, enough RAM and buy a good CPU and GPU and of course never cheap out on the power supply, my power supplies were mostly more expensive than my mobos. There are not much option on SSDs though, usually a couple of options are good price and performance-wise so yeah.

  14. Is there any real benefit in one of those expensive MBs other than flexing it?

  15. ohshititshappeningrn

    I have a crosshair VIII dark hero am4 board with a 5800x3d in it.

    Retail: MoBo is $450,
    Cpu is $320.

    Price I paid for the mobo on eBay was $172.
    I made out like a bandit.

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