Title says it pretty much, I’m not new to building PC’s and stuff like that, but I was browsing parts today and was wondering why motherboards, a pretty large piece of tech that’s responsible for a lot of different tasks, are usually so much more cheap than the GPU or CPU even RAM sometimes, a much smaller part. Just curious, thanks for any info.
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Motherboards come out more or less all useable. When creating CPUs, a number don’t pass benchmark tests.
i3, i5 and i7 are all the same CPU. When they test the chips after being made, most will flunk the i7 tests, some will flunk the i5 tests, and a number will even flunk the i3 test. They manually handicap the processors so that they are limited to the next lower performance class.
The reason the i7s are so expensive is because not many of them come out of a batch.
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