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this video is brought to you by mano price offering you high quality cables at everyday low prices all with a lifetime warranty monoprice also has adapters keyboards headphones and even gaming monitors click the link in the description for more information or visit monoprice comm excellent welcome to today's video every one based on all of your excellent feedback I am doing another edition of the first five this time covering the first five things I consider when I'm buying a new motherboard as always your feedback is appreciated via your comments likes or dislikes and just like last time I want to know if you agree or disagree with my first five choices the motherboard is a delicate creature though like this gigabyte z97 X SOC for example often overlooked often seen is simply a go-between between or CPU memory storage and video card and even worse very often blamed for computer problems that arise simply due to its central location but I've had a long and sordid love affair with motherboards and with the help of this video you can too since you're all viewers of my channel I am once again going to make the astute assumption that prior to considering your motherboard you've already chosen a CPU maybe even a few other choice components for your build as well but where to go from there especially when confronted with the milieu of matriarchal mainboards on any given PC retail website well the first thing I would want to do is narrow down my choices to match the motherboard socket type with the socket type of my chosen CPU this one is pretty straightforward for AMD there is am3+ for CPUs and FM 2 plus for AP use on the intel side you have LGA 1150 for mainstream processors as well as LGA 2011 - 3 for high-end enthusiast chips take this one step further by checking the motherboard manufacturers website where CPU compatibility charts will be available to confirm that your CPU will work with your chosen motherboard just remember sometimes a BIOS or UEFI update might be necessary the second thing is another compatibility check this time the motherboards size or form factor this will make sure it will actually fit in your case ATX is the standard size where you'll find the most widest selection of motherboards and compatible cases larger sizes like EA TX are a bit less common they're usually used for high and boards they'll need a larger case to fit them smaller sizes are becoming more and more popular micro ATX is one step down from ATX gives you a smaller size while still retaining some expansion slots and many I TX is the smallest of the mainstream form factors suitable for tiny systems we're minimizing space is more important than expandability the third thing I'd look at is the chipset that's a chip on the board that among other things helps shuttle data to and from your CPU from other parts of the system like your storage SSDs or your hard drives the chipset can have a big impact on the board's feature support so for example on the Intel side you need an X or Z Series chipset like the X 99 or Z 97 in order to enable overclocking on your K series CPU like a 49 70 K for example there are cut-down chipsets that can be found on budget motherboards but for my money I always like to go for the best chipset available that currently means Z 97 or x99 chipset for Intel boards or a 88 X or 990 FX chipsets on the AMD side the fourth thing I consider is expansion potential building your computer is all about upgrading at every chance you get in the future right this means looking at storage support are there a bare minimum of SATA connectors or has the manufacturer added more are they all say to revision 3 to handle fast SSDs have they included next-generation storage like m2 support or SATA Express also there's the PCI Express slots you'll need at least one for your graphics card but are there more for capture audio or raid cards or can you add another GPU in the future with crossfire or SLI support are the lower pci express slots routed directly to the cpu or through the chipset which can limit their performance also I might like to add memory as a future upgrade so the DIMM slots are also very important I consider for to be the minimum for mainstream systems like Z 97 and I'd like to have eight available for enthusiast or workstation boards on Intel's X 99 platform the fifth thing that I consider much as I hate to admit it is the board's aesthetics look here at this gigabyte z97 X SOC board how beautifully orange-and-black it is say I was raised by a maximum PC and Gordon owned to focus on performance with PCs but as DIY computer building has evolved I can't help but emphasize is making a system that is uniquely your own and aesthetic choices simply play a huge role in that I chose this board for example not just because gigabyte is a manufacturer that I trust and it has all the features I need but also very much because I am setting up a build in the be quiet silent base 800 case which is black with orange trim and this board just matches perfectly I make no apologies for this but honestly if you go back 10 years or so there was nowhere near this level of visual choice when it comes to motherboards with black PCBs and stylish accents and badass angular heat designs but that is all of my five things but there are other things that you might consider to well motherboard shopping so I want to know what your first five things are what features are designed choices make or break a motherboards potential for you let me know in the comment section down below go admit that like button while you're down there maybe share this video if you know anyone who you think might like it check out my store where you can support me and my channel by buying a shirt like this one subscribe to my channel if you haven't already and as always thanks for watching check out my store where you can support me oh there's been a battery on the table this whole time