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Originally posted by jukaimessenger
if you have say a rather good motherboard the extra bang in the m/board won't be utilised if say you only have like a celeron 2.4 cpu so is it better to buy cpus and mbs that are similar in like their own price level? (for the respective products)
Well, the motherboard does no processing, it mainly has the buses that connect everything together (CPU, GPU, RAM, storage). You don't really get motherboards suited to a Pentium 4 2.8 GHz, and then others suited to a Pentium 4 3.2 GHz. Rather, the differences are manufacturing and design quality, amount of slots, onboard controllers and adaptors (integrated RAID, sata, graphics, sound, IR or not).
Motherboards also have limits that they put on components, but if your components are lower than this, the motherboard isn't really being underworked. For example, some RAM speeds are not supported, and AGP/PCIe speeds. For examply, my motherboard has AGP 4x, and if I put in an AGP 8x card, it will run at 4x. It it were an 8x motherboard, and I had a 4x card, the card would run it's best, and the motherboard doesn't really do work anyway, so the 8x capability isn't really being wasted.
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