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Slimebeast on 05 March 2014
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Zkuq said:
Slimebeast said:

Yeah Im thinking that too, but when I was about to click the order button I started to think what if I'll miss something useful with the more expensive motherboards.

The cheapest has 2 PCI-E slots as far as I can tell and thus should be enuff fore me, but I'm very unknowledgeable about modern features of mothaboards such as blue-tooth stuff (I never understood what is Blu-tooth and Wifi and all that stuff), connection to external.... stuff... what are those cards called, when you can put a little card in the computer, like a card reader or something?

Can't really say a whole lot because, again, I'm really out of the loop, but I think all of the stuff you mentioned you can get as USB peripherals. Bluetooth is used to connect devices to one another on short range, for example cell phones to computers and vice versa, or console controllers to consoles. I bought a USB stick for this years ago, cost like $5 I think. Wi-Fi = WLAN, and you use to to connect wirelessly to the internet; to be precise, it creates a short-range connection to a wireless router (or modem, I think), which in turn has internet access, and this allows you to connect to the internet. Again, there's USB sticks for this, and I don't know if they're still common but I have a PCI WLAN card in my PC. And finally, if you're talking about memory card readers, I'm pretty sure you can get those in USB form too. Basically any basic peripheral you can get in USB form.

As for other concerns, if I had to guess, I'd say you're pretty safe if you're getting a motherboard that supports dual graphics cards. Those things are for gamers, and for gamers, you don't sell crap (pardon my French). I suppose technically you might be interested in things like Firewire (if that's even a thing anymore), but you probably know already if you need it. Have a printer etc.? Check what it uses.

Okay cool. What about wirless routers? Which one should I buy? I had one in the past and it wasn't reliable.

What's Firewire?