How have motherboards changed over the years?
they look way too gamery, that is to say they try to appeal to normalfags just like everything else related to computers and the internet these days
>>106633425They're almost all black instead of green or orange now. (Good thing)
>>106633425They tend to be pederasty marketers.
>>106633425All the important features became standardized so they switched to stripping out and selling back basic QOL stuff and making them look like gaudy shit. There is very very very little reason not to buy the dirt cheap boards, short of wanting very specific features or needing it to look nice with your $3000 gamer trash
>>106633425RIP Northbridge>t. ABit NF7-S v2.0 reporting in
>>106633425on the surface level: legacy ports were removed and new ports were added
>>106633433>they look way too gamery>that is to say they try to appeal to normalfags Sorry to burst your bubble but no normalfag cares about desktop computers
The gnome huts received better roofing.
How much can manufactures save if they stripped away the sata ports? You can have a usable system without sata storeage...
>>106633606There are a lot of really obnoxious bormalfags who overspend on gaudy builds that are glorified display pieces. Consoles are half-dead and not every normie wants to use a phone to play fortnite
>>106633425We went from motherboards full of expansion slots that you could customise your addon cards however you wanted.To motherboards with everything built in and full of m.2 slots, where expansion slots other than the main 16x PCIE slot are almost an afterthought, and most of them share lanes with each other or with the m.2 slots so you have to pick one or the other.Still not entirely sure which one i prefer.
a 2 cent 7 segment display is now the reserve of $400 motherboardsless pcie slots pcie lane bifurcation aids pcie lane sharing aids whole lotta argb meme headersthere's some nice stuff cmos reset bios flashback even start buttonsbuilt in io shieldsI love a metal backplate even if they are pretty unnecessary no more coloured boards though, no greens reds bronze just black black black black and maybe white also total memes like BTF also terrible pricing
>>106633425why they don't put rams horizontal any more?
>>106635590EVGA used to do that because it shortened the traces to make overclocking the CPU more stable/faster. EVGA don't really do anything now though and horizontal ram slots would interfere with what PC builders care about - AIOs blocking their gayass rgb light up ram kits
more importantly how have motherboards resisted the nu-speak wave. slave, master, "male-female" connectors, whitelist, blacklist, even grandfathered is problematic language genociding xir that must be stopped. it should be called controller board or something equally retarded.
>>106635632Only autists give a shit about motherboards, that's how the producers get away with overcharging for them. Retards buying $2000 gpu's for their epic fortnite rig just pick the most expensive mobo to go with it.
They didn't. That's why sales are down and boxes are getting smaller.
>no AGP are you even trying?
>>106635590>DFI LanPartyMan, those were good days. Still have mine in a box somewhere along with the shittiest overclocking Opteron 165 known to man.
>>106633456>There is very very very little reason not to buy the dirt cheap boards, short of wanting very specific features or needing it to look nice with your $3000 gamer trashWhat's the difference between these? MEG X870E GODLIKE XMEG X870E GODLIKE MPG X870E CARBON WIFIMPG X870E EDGE TI WIFIMAG X870E TOMAHAWK WIFIPRO X870E-P WIFIMAG X870 TOMAHAWK WIFIPRO X870-P WIFIX870E GAMING PLUS WIFIX870 GAMING PLUS WIFI
>>106633425Many things went wrong.But ultimately, I'm not sure that matters.The key problem is the cost is too high. Back in my day you could get a decent ATX board for $60 but now they're about $120-150
>>106633425Not enough expansion slots or PCIE lanes to support them, not enough SATA ports, and a massive price discovery leading to hikes especially on full-size ATX boards.God I wish BTX became standard sometimes.
>>106633425IME AIDS
>>106638859>back in my dayShut the fuck up old cunt you live in the present not the past
>>106633425>How have motherboards changed over the years?Way to over the top, not enough VRM
>>106639617That Vrm is fucking pathetic
>>106640176It was a beast for a $100 motherboard, Anon... and when you look at that absolute jokes with 4+1 phase gaymer aesthetics that came with RYZEN after, it was pathetic the state of motherboards in 2018
>>106633425>AMD trash
>>106639557it's not living no more since my wife diedjust lingering around
>>106633425they turned black and got rgb leds.
>>106640260I think the switch to matte black was amazing, because even a low to mid range motherboard could look expensive, but the LEDs are peak cringe, there's nothing premium looking about it.
>>106638826marketing
>>106633425they don't look cool anymore, just black with all the interesting electronics covered up
>>106640238I'm sorry, anon :(
>>106633456> There is very very very little reason not to buy the dirt cheap boardsBad VRMs?No nvme?2 RAM slots?
>>106633606nah, your "normalfags" circle is just poorfags, here in asia people with/came from slightly higher than average income obsess with everything "gaming"/rgbpuke, especially zoomer city folks, likelaptop?gamingkeyboard? gamingheadphone? gamingmouse? gamingram? gamingchair? gamingdesk? gamingdesk mat? gamingmonitor? gamingthat and rgb.but never gpu and mobo(too expensive for these fags kek)like "gaming" is the new personalities for these zoomers nowadays.
>>106633606yes retard, that is the point
>>106635590There's a heatsink for part of the chipset in the way.
