**Understanding DDR3 Memory and Its Overclocking Potential**

DDR3 memory is a type of dynamic random-access memory that is widely used in computers today. The standard speed of DDR3 memory is 1333 MHz, but enthusiasts can overclock their RAM to achieve higher clock speeds such as 2133 MHz, 2400 MHz, or even 2800 MHz. This requires a motherboard that supports overclocked RAM, which the Enthusiast motherboard mentioned in the text does.

**USB Ports and Header Connections**

Motherboards typically have USB ports on both the front and rear panels. The number of USB ports available can vary depending on the motherboard model. Generally, most budget motherboards come with only two USB 3 ports, while higher-end models may offer six or more. Additionally, some motherboards may include eSATA ports or Thunderbolt ports for connecting external storage devices or peripherals.

**Ethernet Ports and Graphics Support**

Most motherboards have a single Gigabit Ethernet port, but Enthusiast motherboards like the one mentioned in the text often provide two Gigabit Ethernet ports, including an Intel-based port that is considered to be faster. To take advantage of built-in graphics processing units (GPUs) on processors such as Sandy Bridge and IV Bridge, the motherboard must support a graphic port, which may include HDMI, VGA, DVI, or other connectors.

**Overclocking and Virtu**

For enthusiasts who plan to overclock their system, it is essential to have ample space around the CPU socket for installing aftermarket coolers. Additionally, extra heat sinks on the chipset can provide better cooling performance. Some motherboards also come with power-on/off switches and reset buttons, which can be useful for troubleshooting and repairing the system.

**Choosing a Motherboard: Factors to Consider**

When purchasing a motherboard, several factors must be considered, including the type of CPU socket used (e.g., LGA 1151), the number of USB ports, Ethernet ports, and graphics support. Enthusiast motherboards often offer more features than budget models, such as overclocking capabilities, extra heat sinks, and power-on/off switches. It is also crucial to choose a vendor with good warranty and replacement policies.

**The Importance of Motherboard Quality**

Motherboards are the backbone of any computer system, and choosing a high-quality motherboard can make all the difference in terms of performance, reliability, and overall user experience. In this article, we have discussed some key factors to consider when purchasing a motherboard, including DDR3 memory overclocking potential, USB ports, Ethernet ports, graphics support, and overclocking capabilities.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, choosing the right motherboard for your computer system can be a daunting task, especially for enthusiasts who want to overclock their RAM or install aftermarket coolers. By understanding the key factors that affect motherboard performance and reliability, you can make an informed decision when purchasing a new motherboard. Remember to consider the type of CPU socket used, USB ports, Ethernet ports, graphics support, overclocking capabilities, and vendor warranty policies before making a purchase.

**Final Thoughts**

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi there this is ranit from Tech tas.com and in this video I'm going to talk about how to choose a motherboard specifically what you need to look at when you're purchasing a motherboard and specifically I'm going to talk about desktop based motherboards in this video and why am I making this video is because frequently I get this question that ranit I'm making a gaming computer and SES me the best motherboard and I also get frequent question like I'm making a budget uh desktop computer which is the best motherboard they don't not even suggest me which processor they using Etc and the thing is that with motherboards you get a lot of choices you get motherboards from $50 all the way to up to $450 so there's a wide range and you need to specifically look at what are the features that they going to use and based on that you need to choose your motherboard and I I want to thank OES because uh they have sent us this z77 based motherboard this is a premium range motherboard that you can use for the IV bridge and the Sandy Bridge processor and I'm going to show some of the motherboard visuals using this motherboard to help you uh understand the various components that go into the motherboard I have also scribbled a few features that you need to look so here it goes the first thing that you need to decide is the type of processor that you're going to use for example if you're going to use Intel based processor the motherboard will be entirely different and consecutively you're going to use the AMD processor the motherboard is going to be different you can't use a uh what do you say chip that is AMD chip in a inter motherboard and vice versa also you need to to be careful uh again uh even if you just uh select a particular platform for example let's choose an Intel platform and you can't just take any chip for example the first generation I5 chip and put it in a latest z77 based motherboard it is not compatible so first if you have already decided what kind of processor you're looking you need to match that with your motherboard and this is a z77 motherboard and I'm going to show you the features of the motherboard using this one and the first thing that you need to decide is the kind of processor that you're going to use for your motherboard for example this is the z77 based motherboard and this uses the Intel processor that's the I3 I5 or i7 based on the LGs socket 1155 so you need to uh make sure the processor that you're going to buy is compatible with your motherboard for example we also have the old generation of I5 i7 processor which have a socket of 1156 but you cannot use those with this motherboard uh once you have selected the processor make sure uh the motherboard that you buy is compatible with the same the other thing that you need to look at is the form factor for example uh these two motherboards that I have here these are on the standard ATX form factor we also get motherboards in other form factors for example microatx for example if you're going to make a small home theater PC where a space is constrained you might need to look at the uh microatx form factor and these motherboards are very small one thing you need to realize realizes that due to the small nature of this Micro ATX form factor you won't get a lot of boats on the motherboard so also keep that into mind but if space is not a constraint and you're using uh going to make a tower PC generally you'll go with the normal ATX form factor the next thing that you need to specifically look is the amount of SATA ports that are available on your motherboard because this will determine the type of how many number of what do you say uh storage devices can be connected to your computer for example if your motherboard supports only two SATA ports and yes I have seen some of the really budget oriented motherboards based on the h61 platform they have just two SATA ports and as you can see these are the SATA ports and you need to make sure that you have appropriate number of SATA ports uh on your motherboard for example on this motherboard we have eight SATA ports and that means we can connect up to eight storage devices on this motherboard for example we can connect up to 4 hard drives two SSD drives and even two Optical drives so you need to make sure you have appropriate number of SATA ports on your motherboard I would uh suggest that if you're buying a new motherboard make sure your motherboard has at least four SATA ports so that you have a little bit of expandability and if you are Enthusiast then make sure you have appropriate number of SATA ports and you can see this motherboard has eight SATA ports again out of that four of the SATA ports are based on the SATA 2 interface and these four are based on the sata 3 interface again out of these four these two the white ones are native Intel sata 3 ports and if you're going to purchase a SSD and install it on your computer make sure that your motherboard supports the sata 3 interface and ideally connected to these Intel based ports for the best performance this motherboard also offers SSD cing so you can look at that and some of the motherboards also have SATA port that you can use for cing so make sure that you have enough SATA ports based upon your storage needs and also make sure that your motherboard supports uh the sata 3 interface if you're going to use SST the next thing you need to look at is the pcii slots for example this might not be a big deal if you're not a gamer or something like that but if you're a gamer make sure uh the the kind of PCI slots that you get and also if you want to do what you say you're an extreme gamer and you want to use SLI or Crossfire make sure that you have appropriate ports for the same again do note that if you have selected the Micro ATX form factor you'll be civilly limited because generally those have just one PCI Express slot so make sure that look you look at your motherboard specifications and make sure that uh you have appropriate PCI slots for example on this motherboard we have ample we have actually uh three PCI uh e Express slots 1 2 and three so uh ideally this is a high-end motherboard that's why we have three but generally on budget mother boards you will have just one and on mid-range boards we'll have two H so make sure that you have appropriate number of PCI Express slots the next thing that you need to look at is the ram slots the amount of ram slots that you have on your motherboard for example these are the ram slots on this motherboard and if you notice we have 1 2 3 and four slots and the maximum capacity that this motherboard can support is 32 GB and the uh RAM type that this motherboard supports is DDR3 and as this is a Enthusiast motherboard this motherboard can support overclocked Rams for example the standard speed of DDR3 is 1333 MHz but uh if you want to install higher clock memory for example 2133 MHz 2,400 MHz or even 2,800 MHz memory slots you can do the same with this motherboard so if you're going to uh use overclock memory make sure your motherboard supports the same next we come to is the number of USB ports that are available on your motherboard uh generally they are divided uh into two parts one is on the back plate you get uh USB ports also many motherboards have header and using that you can uh connect what you say USB ports for example many of the what do you say computer cases have USB slots on the front and they'll be connected to these headers uh moving on also look at the rear panel and here look at the ports that are available here you'll have the number of USB ports for example these are the USB 2 ports and these blue colored are the USB 3 ports and if you are going for a higher end motherboard you might also have other ports like eSATA port or even a thunderboard port so make sure that if you need all those ports those are available also make sure the number of usb3 ports that are provided for example in most of the budget motherboards only two USB 3 ports are provided but there higher and motherboards you'll find a lot more for example on this motherboard we have six usb3 ports on most mother boards you'll find just a single gigb ethernet port but on this board as it's a deluxe board we find two gigb ethernet ports and one of them is the Intel based uh gigabit Port which is pretty good also uh make sure that if if you're going to use the integrated graphics on the motherboard for example the Sandy bridge and the IV Bridge processor both these processors have built in graphic processor itself on the Chip And to uh take advantage of the that your motherboard needs to support that and you need to make sure that your motherboard has a graphic port for example on this motherboard you do have a HDMI port on some other motherboards you will also find what do you say a VGA or a DVI port so make sure that that you have the appropriate what do you say uh VGA DVI or the HDMI port available on your motherboard also for example this is the z77 based motherboard and uh this motherboard can take advantage of built-in graphic chip that is provided on the Sandy bridge on the IV Bridge chip and also what do you say if you install a external graphic card it can take advantage of that simultaneously and that is called as virtue so if you would like to take advantage of features like that make sure your motherboard supports uh virtue Graphics also if you're planning to connect your computer to home theater system or a high-end audio system I would seriously suggest that uh your motherboard supports digital out for sound for example uh something like Optical out or quax out for example this motherboard has six analog outputs and one Optical out for sound also if you are an overclocker pay a particular attention to the uh space around the CPU socket ideally want ample space so that you can install aftermarket coolers also for overclockers is it is ideal to have extra heat sinks on the actual chipset as you see on this motherboard also if you are an Enthusiast for example on this motherboard we directly have the power onoff switch and the reset switch over here and also we have a small LED display so while assembling the system if you uh have any problem you can just directly look at this LCD display to figure out so this might these features might be ideal for a person who does a lot of tinkering with this motherboard if you are someone who does a lot of tweaking with this bios settings look at a motherboard that has dual bios support so that you can quickly revert back if you make a mistake apart from that also look at the uh vendors generally uh the three big vendors for motherboard are osus gigabyte and MSI uh but I won't go into details look at the vendor which offers the best warranty and replacement policies with your motherboard I generally had good luck with OES and gigabyte boards and these are great even for overclocking but if you do not plan to do any overclocking or stuff like that I would say even the Intel based desktop motherboards are pretty good uh so these are some of the things that you need to look when you're purchasing a motherboard for your computer I hope you found this info useful if you found it useful I'll appreciate if you can click on the like button given below you can also subscribe to my channel there thereby you'll be notified whenever I add a new video that's it for now this is ranit from Tech tas.com and I hope to see you in my next videohi there this is ranit from Tech tas.com and in this video I'm going to talk about how to choose a motherboard specifically what you need to look at when you're purchasing a motherboard and specifically I'm going to talk about desktop based motherboards in this video and why am I making this video is because frequently I get this question that ranit I'm making a gaming computer and SES me the best motherboard and I also get frequent question like I'm making a budget uh desktop computer which is the best motherboard they don't not even suggest me which processor they using Etc and the thing is that with motherboards you get a lot of choices you get motherboards from $50 all the way to up to $450 so there's a wide range and you need to specifically look at what are the features that they going to use and based on that you need to choose your motherboard and I I want to thank OES because uh they have sent us this z77 based motherboard this is a premium range motherboard that you can use for the IV bridge and the Sandy Bridge processor and I'm going to show some of the motherboard visuals using this motherboard to help you uh understand the various components that go into the motherboard I have also scribbled a few features that you need to look so here it goes the first thing that you need to decide is the type of processor that you're going to use for example if you're going to use Intel based processor the motherboard will be entirely different and consecutively you're going to use the AMD processor the motherboard is going to be different you can't use a uh what do you say chip that is AMD chip in a inter motherboard and vice versa also you need to to be careful uh again uh even if you just uh select a particular platform for example let's choose an Intel platform and you can't just take any chip for example the first generation I5 chip and put it in a latest z77 based motherboard it is not compatible so first if you have already decided what kind of processor you're looking you need to match that with your motherboard and this is a z77 motherboard and I'm going to show you the features of the motherboard using this one and the first thing that you need to decide is the kind of processor that you're going to use for your motherboard for example this is the z77 based motherboard and this uses the Intel processor that's the I3 I5 or i7 based on the LGs socket 1155 so you need to uh make sure the processor that you're going to buy is compatible with your motherboard for example we also have the old generation of I5 i7 processor which have a socket of 1156 but you cannot use those with this motherboard uh once you have selected the processor make sure uh the motherboard that you buy is compatible with the same the other thing that you need to look at is the form factor for example uh these two motherboards that I have here these are on the standard ATX form factor we also get motherboards in other form factors for example microatx for example if you're going to make a small home theater PC where a space is constrained you might need to look at the uh microatx form factor and these motherboards are very small one thing you need to realize realizes that due to the small nature of this Micro ATX form factor you won't get a lot of boats on the motherboard so also keep that into mind but if space is not a constraint and you're using uh going to make a tower PC generally you'll go with the normal ATX form factor the next thing that you need to specifically look is the amount of SATA ports that are available on your motherboard because this will determine the type of how many number of what do you say uh storage devices can be connected to your computer for example if your motherboard supports only two SATA ports and yes I have seen some of the really budget oriented motherboards based on the h61 platform they have just two SATA ports and as you can see these are the SATA ports and you need to make sure that you have appropriate number of SATA ports uh on your motherboard for example on this motherboard we have eight SATA ports and that means we can connect up to eight storage devices on this motherboard for example we can connect up to 4 hard drives two SSD drives and even two Optical drives so you need to make sure you have appropriate number of SATA ports on your motherboard I would uh suggest that if you're buying a new motherboard make sure your motherboard has at least four SATA ports so that you have a little bit of expandability and if you are Enthusiast then make sure you have appropriate number of SATA ports and you can see this motherboard has eight SATA ports again out of that four of the SATA ports are based on the SATA 2 interface and these four are based on the sata 3 interface again out of these four these two the white ones are native Intel sata 3 ports and if you're going to purchase a SSD and install it on your computer make sure that your motherboard supports the sata 3 interface and ideally connected to these Intel based ports for the best performance this motherboard also offers SSD cing so you can look at that and some of the motherboards also have SATA port that you can use for cing so make sure that you have enough SATA ports based upon your storage needs and also make sure that your motherboard supports uh the sata 3 interface if you're going to use SST the next thing you need to look at is the pcii slots for example this might not be a big deal if you're not a gamer or something like that but if you're a gamer make sure uh the the kind of PCI slots that you get and also if you want to do what you say you're an extreme gamer and you want to use SLI or Crossfire make sure that you have appropriate ports for the same again do note that if you have selected the Micro ATX form factor you'll be civilly limited because generally those have just one PCI Express slot so make sure that look you look at your motherboard specifications and make sure that uh you have appropriate PCI slots for example on this motherboard we have ample we have actually uh three PCI uh e Express slots 1 2 and three so uh ideally this is a high-end motherboard that's why we have three but generally on budget mother boards you will have just one and on mid-range boards we'll have two H so make sure that you have appropriate number of PCI Express slots the next thing that you need to look at is the ram slots the amount of ram slots that you have on your motherboard for example these are the ram slots on this motherboard and if you notice we have 1 2 3 and four slots and the maximum capacity that this motherboard can support is 32 GB and the uh RAM type that this motherboard supports is DDR3 and as this is a Enthusiast motherboard this motherboard can support overclocked Rams for example the standard speed of DDR3 is 1333 MHz but uh if you want to install higher clock memory for example 2133 MHz 2,400 MHz or even 2,800 MHz memory slots you can do the same with this motherboard so if you're going to uh use overclock memory make sure your motherboard supports the same next we come to is the number of USB ports that are available on your motherboard uh generally they are divided uh into two parts one is on the back plate you get uh USB ports also many motherboards have header and using that you can uh connect what you say USB ports for example many of the what do you say computer cases have USB slots on the front and they'll be connected to these headers uh moving on also look at the rear panel and here look at the ports that are available here you'll have the number of USB ports for example these are the USB 2 ports and these blue colored are the USB 3 ports and if you are going for a higher end motherboard you might also have other ports like eSATA port or even a thunderboard port so make sure that if you need all those ports those are available also make sure the number of usb3 ports that are provided for example in most of the budget motherboards only two USB 3 ports are provided but there higher and motherboards you'll find a lot more for example on this motherboard we have six usb3 ports on most mother boards you'll find just a single gigb ethernet port but on this board as it's a deluxe board we find two gigb ethernet ports and one of them is the Intel based uh gigabit Port which is pretty good also uh make sure that if if you're going to use the integrated graphics on the motherboard for example the Sandy bridge and the IV Bridge processor both these processors have built in graphic processor itself on the Chip And to uh take advantage of the that your motherboard needs to support that and you need to make sure that your motherboard has a graphic port for example on this motherboard you do have a HDMI port on some other motherboards you will also find what do you say a VGA or a DVI port so make sure that that you have the appropriate what do you say uh VGA DVI or the HDMI port available on your motherboard also for example this is the z77 based motherboard and uh this motherboard can take advantage of built-in graphic chip that is provided on the Sandy bridge on the IV Bridge chip and also what do you say if you install a external graphic card it can take advantage of that simultaneously and that is called as virtue so if you would like to take advantage of features like that make sure your motherboard supports uh virtue Graphics also if you're planning to connect your computer to home theater system or a high-end audio system I would seriously suggest that uh your motherboard supports digital out for sound for example uh something like Optical out or quax out for example this motherboard has six analog outputs and one Optical out for sound also if you are an overclocker pay a particular attention to the uh space around the CPU socket ideally want ample space so that you can install aftermarket coolers also for overclockers is it is ideal to have extra heat sinks on the actual chipset as you see on this motherboard also if you are an Enthusiast for example on this motherboard we directly have the power onoff switch and the reset switch over here and also we have a small LED display so while assembling the system if you uh have any problem you can just directly look at this LCD display to figure out so this might these features might be ideal for a person who does a lot of tinkering with this motherboard if you are someone who does a lot of tweaking with this bios settings look at a motherboard that has dual bios support so that you can quickly revert back if you make a mistake apart from that also look at the uh vendors generally uh the three big vendors for motherboard are osus gigabyte and MSI uh but I won't go into details look at the vendor which offers the best warranty and replacement policies with your motherboard I generally had good luck with OES and gigabyte boards and these are great even for overclocking but if you do not plan to do any overclocking or stuff like that I would say even the Intel based desktop motherboards are pretty good uh so these are some of the things that you need to look when you're purchasing a motherboard for your computer I hope you found this info useful if you found it useful I'll appreciate if you can click on the like button given below you can also subscribe to my channel there thereby you'll be notified whenever I add a new video that's it for now this is ranit from Tech tas.com and I hope to see you in my next video\n"