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Gaming motherboards
I recently gave a friend a spec for a gaming machine. On it I quoted him a $187 motherboard that had 6xsata3, usb3, dual GBe LAN ports, can run OC memory up to 2800 mhz, was a socket 1150, with an I7-4770K CPU, Z87 chipset.
He took it to a PC shop, where the sale person was "absolutely shocked that anyone would quote anything so shitty, and it was nothing like a gaming motherboard". He sold him one worth $569.
His budget was $2000. He ended up paying $2800.
Other than the motherboard he was sold 1600 mhz memory, instead of the 2133 I quoted him, and a
Samsung SSD (NOT evo) - With only 130MBs write with a 2tb WD hard disk.
What is it that makes a motherboard a gaming motherboard? I have looked around at places like Tom's Hardware, and overclockers.net, but I can't really see what the major differences are...
Eg.. http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/...therboard.html
thanks
Tanya