Motherboard prefixes meaning

[Blox]

Hey guys I want to learn more about the letters and numbers every motherboard has, to put it in a layman's term would be the correct words for it. I had made this thread so I and many others that are new and not familiar to the meaning behind it and to understand what kind of motherboard you need or want to use, meeting the perfect buy for every gamer, for example:

P8H61 - M LE

I had learned about the H61 part wherein,

H means that it is not overclockable and it is not capable of SLI/Xfire
P means that it does not support integrated graphic card within CPU(i think if i'm wrong correct me please), but it has a capability of using SLI/crossfire technology
Z means it can do overclocking and supports SLI/crossfire technology also at the same time can use the integrated graphics


for the part of the 61 what I know about is the,

6 is used for the sandy bridge processors
7 is used for the ivy bridge processors
8 is used for the newest haswell processors

so if anyone can contribute here it would be an advance thank you to me and further explain all the other parts that i had missed.

Also i haven't learned about the AMD part so if anyone knows thank you again

 

[Alec Mowat]

H61 is the chipset of the board.
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/mainstream-chipsets/h61-express-chipset.html

I think it's going to depend on the manufacture.
I don't think there is any official standard.

I mean, the Motherboard in my signature is an Asus P2B-D. The D stands for Dual, and the P2B part does not align with the theory above. An Asus 990FX Sabertooth has no identifying number. It's called a "Sabertooth", the Chipset is 990FX, and it's the second revision of that board.

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_990FX_R20/

Same with other high end boards.
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/MAXIMUS_VI_FORMULA/

 

[Someone Somewhere]

One letter and two numbers indicates the Chipset used. This is unrelated to the rest of the name. Examples are H61, H67, B65, P67, Z68. And that's just Cougar Point.

The Wikipedia article on Intel chipsets is probably a good read.

Everything beyond the chipset number is up to the mobo manufacturer, though M usually means Micro-ATX, and N or I is Mini-ITX.

You can use SB and IB chips on both 6+7 series chipsets. There was even a board made that let you use a Nehalem chip on a 6-series chipset, IIRC.