Motherboard- Heart of the Computer

Planning to buy or upgrade your system. I am writing this for the powerful users. If you are a normal user this review will only give the knowledge.

A whole sort of Motherboards are available in the market.  To simplify, Intel and AMD technologies are leading in the market. AMD’s tend for the performance on the other hand it produces lot of heat and additional fans required to cool your cabinets.  Opting for the Intel, Intel manufacturers have there own boards most of them comes with 3 years warranty and have successful stories.

I opt motherboards based on the expandability in upcoming future.  For an instance, I choose the board to have more PCI slots and lot of additional gadgets that capability of reading.  Sorting out there are ATX, Micro ATX and Mini –ITX.  If you visit Intel website there are categories and classifications of boards. I have chosen ATX boards among those motherboards.
Extreme series is quite expensive and I can’t even go near that until unless I am making a bunch of money out of that.  Essential series, Classic Series, Executive Series and Media Series are remaining.  Executive series all boards come micro ATX which is ruled out for expansion.   Media series has two ATX boards (DP35DP & DG965WH). Essential Series has Micro and Mini ATX even this series is ruled out. Remaining Classic Series which has Six ATX boards (1) DG43NB 2) DP43TF 3) DG33FB 4) DG965RY 5) DP965LT 6) DQ963FX)

Totally Eight boards have very good expandability. Among those 965 Chipset is failure models by the user reviews and comments from vendors. Our Job is simplified much easier.
Next comes important expandability is processor. I am looking in today’s market whether Core 2 duo and Quad core processors suits the board.  (DP35DP/DG43NB/DP43TF/DG33FB)

Most of the motherboards are coming with inbuilt Graphics, High definition audio enabling 5.1, LAN, Expandability Ram up to 8GB, SATA ports, 1394 ports and also meets Intel VIVA technologies, Raid drivers,  USB’s and all other regular stuff.

Comparatively Inbuilt graphics external PCI express x16 gives you excellent clarity for multimedia (graphic work), playing games and watching movies.  Latest HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface), DVI (Digital Visual Interface), HDCP’s (High Definition Content Protection), Blue-rays are booming in the market.  Some high end users interested in Dual / Three monitor support.
Lot of Fluctuations from Internet WAN connections. May damage the board hence preferred External LAN card.

Opting for PCI Sound cards for extreme gaming and watching movies.  Various expendabilities’ for various users.

DP35DP is Performance Motherboard has Raid support, 7.1 channel audio Enabling, Consumer IR receiver and emitter (via internal headers), 1 digital optical out connector and all other. Doesn’t have Graphics.

DG43NB is Main Stream Motherboard has 5.1 channel audio enabling, S/PDIF out Audio header (3×1)

DP43TF is Main Stream Motherboard has 5.1 channel audio enabling, S/PDIF out Audio header (3×1) the only good expandability compare to other boards it has PCI Express x16 four slots.

DG33FB is Main stream Motherboard has all the features apart from Consumer IR receiver, Raid..

Currently DP35DP and DG33FB motherboards are available in the market.  DP35DP is costing Rs.5400/- and DP33FB is costing Rs.4900/- in today’s market.

I have chosen DG33FB motherboard it comes with G33 Express Chipset, 8GB Ram supportive slots, Core and Quad processor supports LGA775 socket, 5.1 channel audio enabling, Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 onboard graphics subsystem with Intel® Clear Video Technology, Legacy I/O controller for diskette drive, serial header, and PS/2 , Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem using the Intel® 82566DC Gigabit Ethernet Controller, Twelve USB 2.0 ports, Four Serial ATA IDE interfaces, Two IEEE 1394a ports (1 external port, 1 internal header), One Parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100/133 support, One serial port header, One diskette drive interface, PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports , Three PCI Conventional bus add-in card connectors, Three PCI Express x1 bus add-in card connectors, One PCI Express x16 bus add-in card connector and support Intel VIIV technologies.
Actually I want to choose DP35DP motherboard which is not available with my vendor. Finally after buying DG33FB known that DP35DP is available.

Overall DP35DP, DG33FB, DG43NB and DP43TF boards are excellent with new supportive chipsets.