Difference between motherboards?

[Slimebeast]

Zkuq said:

Slimebeast said:

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?

Well, I would recommend you to stay away from wireless routers if possible because I too have had trouble with them in the past and I'm never, ever using one again unless I really have to. Right now I have my PC hooked up to my router with a wire, and I only use WLAN for my laptop and my phone for which it works just fine. It's a cheap Netwjork router and I don't know if they're sold outside Finland though; Google doesn't seem to show any non-Finnish results for it so that shouldn't be of much help to you unfortunately. The only guess I have is to have the router and the Wi-Fi card come from the same manufacturer, maybe they'll work together better that way. You should really Google more though.

As for Firewire, I'm not entirely sure as I've never used it. I've heard quite a bit but that's it. A quick internet search gives me the impression that it's like USB, like a competitor, but not as advanced anymore (faster than USB1.0, slower than USB2.0, which is what you'll find at minimum these days I think).

Wow, so somebody else is actually using wired internet. I thought I was the only one.

Problem is that I need to get internet access in two places in my house  simultaneously from the same ISP provider(and sometimes a child comes to visit and he always wants to hook up his phone or iPad or something to the internet and asks if we have "a node" or something. I don't even understand what that means.). So what should I do?

I'm thinking of this one:

ASUS RT-N56U Dual-Band 11n Router

Black Diamond, Gigabit LAN-WAN, USB x2, AP, 300+300Mbps Wireless-N

Is that a good product if I want good internet in my upper floor and bottem floor in my house?