Articles for tag: Modern, motherboard, ports

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Ports a Modern Motherboard Needs

Ports a Modern Motherboard Needs

When we buy a motherboard, we navigate through a sea of ​​different ports or connectors. Between acronyms, versions and so on, you can end up with a big headache. We simplify it for you and we explain to you what are the ports which yes or yes must have the motherboard. Connectivity on a motherboard ...

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This part of the motherboard can and should be optional

This part of the motherboard can and should be optional

One of the industry’s big secrets is that the motherboard chipset is an almost dispensable part right now, but they need its implementation so they can sell much cheaper processors by forcing the sale of different baseboard models with different specifications. However, the day will come when this will no longer be sustainable. The motherboard ...

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What is an SSD soldered to the motherboard of my PC for?

What is an SSD soldered to the motherboard of my PC for?

If we are lucky or need to open a PlayStation 5 console, we will see that its SSD is not on a small expansion card, but soldered to the motherboard. Is such a scenario possible in the PC world? Will we buy our computer’s motherboard in the future taking into account the storage memory it ...

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Is the internet crashing on your PC?  Maybe your Intel motherboard

Is the internet crashing on your PC? Maybe your Intel motherboard

A very annoying thing is to be in the middle of a game or a conversation with another person and suddenly internet goes down. Normally, we usually blame the router for us being quick to do a reset. What if we told you that the culprit could be a chip on your motherboard? Specifically the ...

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Do you have an MSI motherboard?  Well, your PC is in danger.

Do you have an MSI motherboard? Well, your PC is in danger.

Computers have various built-in elements that seek to enhance user security in the face of growing threats. Among these elements is the BIOS, which includes a series of elements and protocols such as Secure Boot. This function, responsible for detect malwarehas been disabled from MSI on nearly 300 motherboards. You’ve probably never heard of Secure ...

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Next year it will cost you 10% more to change your motherboard

Next year it will cost you 10% more to change your motherboard

The COVID pandemic has generated an increase in the prices of computers and their components due to high demand. We have left this bad period behind us, but components and computers have become more expensive. It seems that we are heading towards an elitist and very exclusive market. More expensive mid-range motherboards According to the ...

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A lot of motherboard and little bread: do we need so many models?

A lot of motherboard and little bread: do we need so many models?

We must bear in mind that we currently have different types of motherboards. Classified according to the type of box on which it will be mounted. However, there is another categorization within each generation of processors and that is the fact that we have different chipsets within each generation and for each processor. Now we ...

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Don’t buy an Intel motherboard from MSI if you’re using Windows 11

Don’t buy an Intel motherboard from MSI if you’re using Windows 11

The PC is an extremely complex piece of engineering, which relies not only on hardware, but on a close and integrated relationship between it and software. So much so that sometimes a simple system update can kill a hardware function or cause it to fail. This is what happened to MSI motherboards under Windows 11, ...