{"video_id":"lCpH-ryKKhI","title":"Why Motherboard Shopping is CONFUSING","channel":"Techquickie","show":"Techquickie","published_at":"2019-05-06T14:58:16Z","duration_s":332,"segments":[{"start_s":0.56,"end_s":6.319,"text":"if you're getting ready to build your own pc selecting a motherboard might","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.08,"end_s":10.96,"text":"seem pretty straightforward you just pick something with a compatible socket","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.4,"end_s":15.599,"text":"that has the right aesthetic and you're ready to go right no","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.28,"end_s":20.96,"text":"not so fast even motherboards with the same CPU socket can be equipped with","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.48,"end_s":25.039,"text":"different chipsets that affect what features will be available to you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.119,"end_s":29.359,"text":"the good news is that typically motherboard manufacturers 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hey","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"if you're getting ready to build your own pc selecting a motherboard might seem pretty straightforward you just pick something with a compatible socket that has the right aesthetic and you're ready to go right no not so fast even motherboards with the same CPU socket can be equipped with different chipsets that affect what features will be available to you the good news is that typically motherboard manufacturers will indicate the chipset right in the model name so that you'll know exactly what you're getting but the bad news is that unless you already know what they stand for the confusing mix of letters and numbers conveys about as much meaning as a piece of abstract modern art so let's demystify the men starting on the Intel side team blue assigns a letter to their chipsets h b q z or x along with a three-digit number the letter will tell you which general tier the chipset is in starting at the bottom h chipsets are lower end to mid-tier consumer grade chipsets while b chipsets are technically geared more towards businesses with that said the distinction between h and b has eroded significantly in recent years b chipsets used to provide more support for legacy features like conventional pci for businesses that needed to use older parts but these days there's no significant difference between them and either would be suitable for a budget to mid-range build q-chipsets have actually kind of turned into the step up for entry-level pcs and they support extra enterprise features such as remote management if you want something on the higher end you'll probably be more interested in the z and x chipsets which both feature full support for overclocking so if you bought an unlocked processor you'll want to choose either a z or x series motherboard with the latter found on Intel's upper tier high end desktop or hedt platform that supports cpus with more memory channels more pci express lanes and extra processing cores so that takes care of the letters now let's talk about the numbers the first digit tells us which generation of chipset we're dealing with and whether it will be compatible at all with your processor then beyond that higher numbers typically mean better features such as improved pci express connectivity more usb ports more memory slots or compatibility with optane memory which you can learn more about right up here but what if you're more of a team red person and you've got an AMD CPU well like Intel they combine both a letter and a number with newer chipsets for ryzen cpus using the letters a to indicate an entry level chipset b to mean mid-grade or mainstream and x for extreme i mean enthusiast so here's what this means in practical terms you'll need either a b or x series chipset to overclock an x chip set to use sli and either an x or a b 450 for crossfire you'll also find more SATA ports more usb headers and again more flexibility in the pci express implementation the further up the product stack you go now currently the number will either start with a three or a four with four indicating a second generation part that supports AMD store mi which caches your frequently used data from your hard drive to an SSD also of note is that currently all ryzen cpus will work with all zen chipsets though a second gen ryzen chip might need a BIOS update to work with a 300 series motherboard and as always make sure you've at least got the sockets lined up because a threadripper chip is technically ryzen threadripper but it won't work in a b450 board so hopefully this episode has cleared things up for you but if it hasn't and you're still super confused i get it this stuff is hard there's no shame in just buying a laptop and being done with it speaking of being done with it i'm not done telling you about our sponsor are you worried about a data breach exposing your financial information to cd cyber criminals well then check out privacy.com techwiki we're going to have that 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