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If you want to purchase  a motherboard, but don’t know which one is the better on the market, there are some motherboard classification and parameters, you could reference!

Motherboard Classification

1, according to CPU
2, according to I / O bus type.
3, according to the logic controller chip components.
LX early P60 and 66.
NX: P75 or more sticks are very popular before the 430FX.
FX (430, Commercial Computer)
VX (430 for ordinary and multimedia applications could be optimized and streamlined, have been replaced by IX)
TX
GX, KX450 series, GX – server, KX – workstations and high-performance desktop PC.
MX (430) notebook PC Pentium-class chips.
Non-INTEL Corporation
VIA Taiwan, VIA, ALI Taiwan’s Silicon Integrated Systems, OPTI Taiwan OPTI.
4, according to the structure:
AT BABY AT motherboards smaller than the AT (many original machine integrated motherboard)
ATX Integration (ALL IN ONE) – Original Brand
NLX 3/4BABY AT

Motherboard Parameters

A, performance factors, including speed, stability, compatibility, scalability and upgradeability.
B, motherboard component selection, through the components on the motherboard to a specific embodiment of the. Such as chipsets, CACHE speed and size.
C, the price.
D, other factors.

Non-INTEL (PENTIUM-class CPU) on board the special requirements of the company:
A, bus frequency
B, chipset
C, voltage, frequency setting

PENTIUM MMX right choice of board
A, CPU support, general PENTIUM use SOCKET with or SOCKET7 slots, but only SOCKET7 only supports PENTIUM and PUNTIUM MMX, PENTIUM MMX minimum frequency is also 166.
B, chipset, 430LX, NX, FX motherboard can not be used directly, PENTIUM MMX CPU, but can only use with MMX support PENTIUM MMX OVERDRIVE upgrade chips. 233 or more PUNTIUM MMX CPU can only use other chipsets.