Shoutbox

I have been using computers for many years (5< years at least if not much more), but have hardly concentrated on the hardware side of things so therefore I no little about hardware details that are more than the very basic. Recently I am wanting to upgrade my computer and have therefore ran into some questions I'd like to ask. Any help is much appreciated.


Are there different motherboards made to suit different brands of cpus? e.g. a motherboard that fits athlon cpus won't fit intel cpus? I heard you have different sockets for each kind of cpu; is that correct?

Also I heard that e.g. athlon 2800 is only like 1.7ghz while pentium 4 is normally like 2.4 ghz or above? if pentium is so many more ghz more than athlon then why do people buy athlon?

I heard if the volts of a video card isn't the same as a motherboards then the video card won't work?

thanks