How about a new category for motherboards?

[dmitche31958]

[Moderator Note: Moving thread from Motherboards to Opinions and Experiences. More applicable "discussion" category.]

Tom's is very good at comparing motherboards for gaming, no doubt. But how about comparing motherboards for those who do something useful with their PCs,or at least perceived as useful. How about comparing some of these things. I'm just waking up and I'm writing this still in bed. LOL

• Chipsets used in USB ports. Some of these really limit the speed of the USB ports eventhough they can claim to be USB 3.2 gen 2, or what evs.
• SATA driver performance while using multiple drives. How many data channels are limited because they are used for graphics or ?
• Ease of use when upgrading BIOS, recovering from re-installing Windows and other misc.

I mention this after spending an hour trying to figure out why Windows 11 kept complaining that my PC wasn't capable of running it, just to find out that I needed to clear the previous security keys. Argh
And yes, some of us still use HDD, like 16 TB, in which I would never put on an SSD as the reason for my reinstalling Windows was caused by a power outage that left my OS drive unbootable, failing with a totally worthless "program failed to load" message.

• Any new advancements that replace the ancient board layout. How many times I've connected cables for power, front case USB, reset, sound, etc. and left more jumpers never used. I know that there is a move to change power supplies and MOBOs, and that will come in time. But perhaps someone will design a MOBO that has one cable that could be used to connect to a case? Or as I've written before, a modular design to cases that allow cables to be plugged into the case in one location and avoid ALL of the cable management issues, along with the changes to the power.

 

[Colif]

I mention this after spending an hour trying to figure out why Windows 11 kept complaining that my PC wasn't capable of running it, just to find out that I needed to clear the previous security keys.

Secure boot? that question could have been asked in win 11 area though that reason is a new one to me.

I think most of the motherboard questions here wouldn't be about gaming. Could be I don't answer the right ones. A lot are comparing two boards or asking about problems. The gaming questions more likely in Graphics cards or Systems.

Creating two means we need to make a distinction between them and probably rename the current motherboard forum to one of the two names, and then move all the posts that don't match that description... splitting 245k posts so they in right place is unlikely to end cleanly. Or be achievable from what is on the posts. It wouldn't be free. Even if somewhat automated it would still mean someone has to check the files the process couldn't decide on.


This is all hypothetical as I don't have the ability to do it.