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Small Details on Motherboards

In order to face competition more and more motherboard manufacturers are adding extra small features to their motherboards, such as fancy boxes, diagnostics display, two BIOS chips, etc. Take a look at what you can find today as small extra features.

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Introduction

Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Diagnostics Display
  • 3. Two BIOS Chips
  • 4. Cooling
  • 5. Cooling (Cont'd)
  • 6. Cooling (Cont'd)
  • 7. Dual Voltage Regulator
  • 8. On-Board Audio Connectors
  • 9. Rounded Cables and Conclusion

Seeing that the edge in performance between top of the range motherboards using the same chipset is very slight, frequently even negligible, manufacturers are increasingly turning more and more to details to attract the consumer. The first sign came when manufacturers started to give away relatively expensive commercial programs, like Norton Ghost, Drive Image and Partition Magic.

Some manufacturers have chosen to market motherboards in highly stylised packaging, so that their cases have more shop-floor appeal to the consumer than those of their competitors. Just look at the packaging of some of the EPoX (plastic) and Chaintech (extra-large size, with carry handles) motherboards.

The pictures below are just a sample at random from what you can find on the market. More and more manufacturers are lauching products using fancy boxes.

Chaintech MotherboardFigure 1: Box from a Chaintech motherboard.

EPoX MotherboardFigure 2: Box from an EPoX motherboard.

Gigabyte MotherboardFigure 3: Box from a Gigabyte motherboard.

But this is mere window dressing. The important thing is that now several manufacturers are going a lot further, providing small details that can make a difference to their motherboards. And we stand to gain from it.

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