Mursalin Khandaker

When you decide to buy a personal computer, one of the very first thing come to your mind is – which motherboard you should buy? Yes, there are many variations of them within the same socket generation. The two main platform builders are Intel and AMD. Both offer a lot of choices when it comes to motherboard picking.

For example, if you talk about Intel’s 9th generation and AMD’s 2nd generation AM4 refresh 20xx series, there will be 3 tiers of boards supporting all the microprocessor of that generation. They are basically categorized by their price point and features availability. Both Intel and AMD have their full-featured top tier motherboards and also some budget-oriented little brothers with similar specs. There is little to no performance difference from the motherboard picking.

AMD has their X470 with all the features enabled of the current generation whereas it’s little brother B450 offers similar but lacks the Multiple GPU integration, Multiple PCI lanes for NVMe and better VRM support. Similar is present in Intel side if we compare the Z390 & Z370 with the lower ranged H310 also the budget B360.

There are some other factors, such as motherboard size or form factor, for example, ATX, mATX, iTX and so on. One of the good part to choose top tier boards is for there better power phase or VRM support and another is better memory module support. Overclocking is another facility that you will get full-fledged in the flagship motherboards.

Which one do we suggest you to get? That is truly based on your work propose. If you are into video editing and rendering, need two or more GPUs in a single bench then flagship ones are your go-to option. But for overall use and even to some light workload to mid-section, we will suggest you to go with the budget series. Such as B450 or the future counterparts as B55x and in Intel side B360/B46x or even H310 variations.

It’s better to buy the custom series from different brands. In Bangladesh perspective, we will recommend manufacturers such as MSI, Gigabyte, ASUS, and ASRock.

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