Et____ :
i still don't get why you focus on giving the crown to the motherboard with the most everything.
Where are you getting that? We don't award a board simply because it has "more." We award boards that have "more" for less money. I gave an MSI H81 board our "Editor Recommended" award, and it was under $60. Joe gave the same award to an H97 board. Neither of them had everything. They simply had more features for the money than their competitors. Yes, some "kitchen sink" boards get Editors Choice awards for the simple reason no other board offers all those features together in one product. Just remember that Choice doesn't mean best value so much as highest performing product. A Ferrari performs better than a Taurus, but no one recommends a Ferrari as an everyday driver.
Et____ :
i built a pc for my father in law and saved a ton of money compared to what he thought was what he needed.
you need 1 or 2 usb type C for future proofing. a handfull of usb 3.0. a few sata 6gb/s.
other than that. very few componants change. there's a change in ram speed limit and some overclocking capabilities depending on the price. but just warn about that, give a crown for best overclocker and a crown for best "i want a good pc don't bother me too much"
The thing is, a "good PC" means different things to you than it does to me than it does to everyone else. The aforementioned MSI H81 board is a great option for someone who wants a basic computer. But it doesn't meet my needs. Some people legitimately need more than six drives and RAID. Some people need 32GB+ RAM. And some don't. Since we can't get a one-size-fits-all ( or even one-size-fits-most ) mboard, we simply look for what a board offers at its given price, how it performs, and compare that to what you can get in the market for a similar price. We simply offer the boards that impressed us the most in the hopes it arms the reader with good information when making a decision about their computing needs.
Et____ :
the people that need 10 sata and need 10 usb 3.0, they already know that, and they are shopping for it. i don't need all that, not many readers need all of those. and it makes a big difference between a 200 and 400$ motherboard
I agree, a lot of people complain about boards not being "high-end" enough, and I tire of their meaningless complaints. That said, refer to above. Some people do run home servers with numerous drives. Some people can use an 8C/16T CPU that X99 supports. Go back to the Ferrari analogy. While most people don't need one for their daily driving, some people do work at a race track.
We can only review what is sent into us. Though I hopefully have one on the way. If there are specific boards you'd like to see, let us know and we'll see if we can get them. Realize we have finite time, so we can't get to them all.
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