Trying to understand computer technology is melting my brain. I understand the abilities of varying GPUs and CPUs and even RAM. What I don’t get is what makes a motherboard good or bad. Isn’t it just the circuitry that everything talks to each other through? If it’s made of the same material and has the same ports how can it be good or bad in comparison to another of like build quality?
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The speed of any system is set by it’s slowest moving component. Traffic, electric, plumbing etc doesn’t matter if you have a 10 lane highway, if it reduces to 2 lanes, even just for a few feet EVERYTHING slows down.
The motherboard is what moves data from one component to another, cpu to memory, memory to storage, and so on. The newer motherboards do a better job of moving the data faster and more efficiently. There is obviously much more too it, but the motherboard interconnects all the parts and the faster and more efficiently it can move data around, the faster the “computer” will appear to move for the end user.
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