LET’S FACE IT, much of the buzz surrounding product launches of new CPU architectures revolve around core count, thread count, clock speed, turbo clock speed, supported memory speeds—you name it. However, if the CPU is the engine of a system, then the motherboard is the manifold without which nothing would function.
With so many different key components that make up a computer system, the motherboard is the central hub that binds and connects the processor to the graphics card, memory, storage, and so on. Not only that, but it also connects a whole host of controllers from the motherboard chipset to the CPU, which essentially manifests into input and output, such as USB ports, audio jacks, M.2 slots, networking controllers like Ethernet and Wi-Fi, and even Thunderbolt 3 on premium…
