Why do motherboards (and hardware in general) look so gay now? I miss the days where heatsinks were actually made of densely packed copper fins instead of anodized aluminium or plastic.
Why do motherboards (and hardware in general) look so gay now...
Hunter Cruz
Xavier Diaz
Don't know what you're talking about user. This is pretty sexy
Oliver Cruz
That black and white scheme looks pretty fucking soy to me, I prefer an all black mobo. Also server-grade parts on consumer boards should become a thing again, muh OCing.
Robert Martin
>all that plastic junk on the left side of the board
>stupid silkscreened graphics on the PCB
>heatsinks that barely have any exposed fin area
no user, that's a perfect demonstration of how ugly motherboards are today
Angel Williams
>cogs don't match up
>sexy
Ian Hernandez
You do know thermals improved so enormous heatsinks aren't necessary in most cases?
Jack Parker
dumb gaymer aesthetics
Lincoln Wright
>I prefer an all black mobo
You been watching too much BLACKED.com user?
>Also server-grade parts on consumer boards should become a thing again
Asus WS or Supermicro.
Elijah Phillips
>Why are all new motherboards actually decent to look at and not use 30 different colored plastics?
FTFY. And there are decent boards if you know what to look for. AND the plastic shrouds can be removed. The last motherboard I've owned that was amazing is pic related.
Hunter Nelson
You obviously don't know anything about style
Juan Bailey
You're looking for Jetway motherboards
Landon Barnes
Don't really give a shit about aesthetics, a green PCB is fine too.
>ASUS WS or Supermicro
Terrible fucking UEFIs.
David Brooks
The modern heatsinks still look worse. Why can't they just use plain ones like the server boards do? This is how VRM and chipset heatsinks should look.
Evan Perry
I know that your style is pure cringe if you think all that white plastic and those "epic" unnecessary steampunk cogs look good.
Wyatt Walker
>Style over function
kys
Ayden Howard
These are actually decent looking.
Jayden Powell
>IT USED TO BE BETTER IN THE OLD DAYS
Mason Ramirez
Next you're going to tell me fedoras aren't cool. You don't know style user, get over it.
It's one of the best x370 boards user
Elijah Hall
Get a biostar mobo
Grayson Rivera
Looks like Starbursts
William Clark
Using pic related, other than the Realtek networking and audio chips it's pretty fucking based.
Connor Cook
MSI makes shit Momo's though :(
Adam Harris
I think they use those to keep costs down, not because they dissipate heat the best.
Liam Brooks
is unironically better looking than
Easton Lewis
>pssst.. hey kid. Feed me a Phenom.
Robert Ortiz
Just depends on your luck really, I've had to RMA several ASUS boards in the past couple years. Most consumer tech is shit anyway.
Brayden Bennett
>Realtek Networking
>Sub-par audio
And this is what kills me. If they made a plain Jane motherboard with top end audio, Intel based LAN, good caps and VRM's etc I'd gladly pay $150 for it. I don't care about OC and GAYMUR XXXTREM3 RGB SYNC.
Pic related was my latest purchase for my server. I have an Asus ROG Crosshair VI in my 1700X build because it's the absolute best board you can get for Ryzen. Features and support wise, but God do I wish it wasn't so over the top.
Camden Allen
These were made out of calcified vomit. Beautiful.
Carter Cooper
Using an Intel NIC and I'm passing audio through a DAC, so it doesn't really affect me senpai, it'd be nice to have those features out of the box for sure though.
Owen Johnson
lmao you actually believe that you fruitball
Christian Young
>actually buying intel's boards
Bentley Stewart
It's the truth, boyo.
Jayden Smith
>Intel's Boards
huh? That's a SuperMicro board. Unless you're talking about using Intel CPUs in general. If the latter, I don't have a choice. I want ECC in my server. I already own a Haswell Pentium G3260 and DDR3 ECC is cheap.
AMD only has Threadripper and EPYC that can correct 2 bit errors. Ryzen is hit and miss and can only capture 1 bit errors. I'd have to go from buying just a board and some RAM, to a $1000 setup minimum.
Leo Lopez
Masterrace
Adrian Reyes
Aluminum is cheaper and works well on low TDP applications like chipsets. I’ve used Al heatsinks on up to 95Watt CPUs no problem. Many aircooled 130 watt+ chips will still use copper. Also, Omnipath HCAs have copper heatsinks and they’ve been around since maybe 2015.
Charles Hernandez
copper is overkill, heavy, and far pricier. aluminum is fine, the retarded paintjobs aren't but alas what can you do when retards run companies
Luis Jenkins
>Server board uses $.25 heatsink to keep cost down instead of $1 one
No they use them cuz they work fine.
Ian Ward
>caring about something you spend a whopping 30minutes in your peripheral vision while you assemble the pc and proceed to never look at it again
oh this is that thing where you pretend to be as big a faggot as possible to get as many (yous) as possible because you get no attention from mammy in your neetlife
Lincoln Fisher
What
Isaiah Richardson
You don't know their life, for all we know you're the seen. They call it projection in psychology
Elijah Rodriguez
>why do they look so gay now
>posts motherboard with rainbow colors
Bentley Gutierrez
CPUs became more power efficient, so they got prioritized gaymer aesthetics over efficiency. This is now biting us in the ass because for the first time in a decade core counts and frequencies are going up, and the dog shit vrms that have become so popular are melting.
It's build quality on some of the X58 motherboards were amazing compared to anything you'll see on X370 or Z370.
Luke Perez
People want style. If they're going to buy something great, they want it to look great too.
>Reee it isn't plain ant hurts my autism feelings
They're not going to make hardware for people who can only afford a used cum stained ThinkPad.
Nicholas Baker
>projection
i'm not the one prancing around as a faggot to garner (you)s with the most retarded bait
good try at your "i know you are but what am i!" tho
Oliver Miller
Julian Fisher
Gigabyte board actully does looks better just due to having some real copper VRM heatsinks. There is even a tiny heatsink for the top 2 mosfets
Jayden Ward
Macfags are so fucking retarded.
Ian Green
Dylan Walker
Photoshop has built in spellcheck.
Looks like you used GIMP.
Hunter Ward
>best apple macbook
>not the 2015 pro
Connor Robinson
stop being a faggot
Evan Fisher
>I prefer an all black mobo
There is the MSI B350 PC Mate. However, it's not a strong overclocker. It also has had some chipset issues at times.
Source: Own one. Will probably swap it for an X370/X470 board when the new chipset launches in two weeks.
Andrew Fisher
i feel violated
Brandon Johnson
Goyim, just buy an MSI Z370 GODLIKE featuring the XTREME AUDIO DAC
Lucas Richardson
I'm still using that exact same mobo
Hunter Wood
Nice b8, plenty of (You)'s
Luis Moore
Carter Torres
>Asus P5Q Deluxe
Shiiiiiit, I had that motherboard, and I fucking loved it. Lasted for many years and was built like a tank; it could handle anything I threw at it.
Luke James
I believe Intel hasn't made new boards in years
Connor Rivera
>Consumer socket
>3 m.2 slots
>1 16x slot
>3 16x slots wired for 8x
How? I would understand if that was LGA2066 or TR4, but all those lanes with LGA1151 makes no sense.
John Kelly
i wonder if it's always the same retard wondering the same fucking thing every fucking day. kill yourself, OP
Xavier Nelson
there's literally nothing wrong with realtek audio
Lucas Nguyen
>UNLIMITED POWERRRRRR
Kayden Morgan
>I prefer an all black mobo
Ouch, that edge
White and red masterrace
Gabriel Ward
If you have a window on your case then you're underaged.
Bentley Howard
>heatsinks ... made of ... plastic
user...
Alexander Torres
because server boards sell based on specs
gay men boards are sold to a broader range of people from adults who don't care either way, to kids who may care how 'cool' it looks
basically, it's win-win, those who don't care don't care, those who do will appreciate weirdly-shaped heatsinks
Nathaniel Bailey
I take it you've not seen the reviews of some cheaper boards.
Justin Wood
i haven't looked into mobos since i got my current one (2012)
don't take this as doubt, but could you link to one that uses plastic where it should be metal? that's really concerning
Isaiah Gutierrez
I think even the ones made of aluminium can actually make the temps higher. Some of those boards get lower temps if you just remove the heatsinks.
Gigabyte recently made a board with actual heatsinks. Will be nice to see more boards like that.
Henry White
I can't find the exact model, but I saw it on Jow Forums so maybe some user can recall.
Also note , many modern motherboard use tiny aluminum heatsinks and put a plastic shroud on top of them.
Camden Allen
>Soylike enthusiast gayming
James Parker
Anodising the heat sink to be black increases their emissivity therefore making them radiate significantly more heat than a shiny heat sink. In other words, just heat up your copper heat sink to get it covered in copper oxide for the best of both worlds. But if you've got a fan blowing over the heat sink, the amount of heat dissipated through radiation will be insignificant to that dissipated though convection anyway.
Lincoln Rogers
>Anodising the heat sink to be black increases their emissivity therefore making them radiate significantly more heat than a shiny heat sink.
Isn't it actually the opposite?
Thomas Thompson
no, it does help, but only very slightly
Christian Edwards
why does this animation even exist?
Christian Sullivan
Blackbodies radiate and absorb radiation much more readily than a perfect reflector, which will radiate and absorb none. Absorptivity and emissivity of a material are the same, barring metamaterials, which I know fuck-all about.
Luis Anderson
-- oh, that is assuming it's not exposed to sunlight or something
darker colours absorb light better than light colours, but the opposite isn't true
Levi Williams
K4 A QT
Carson Adams
Designed by Julian Clary
Bentley Ortiz
The "plastic junk" work as a cage protecting I/O and audio components
I like the stupid transfer graphics on the PCB, have no affect in performance
Heatsinks doesnt need 300 fins to mean anything, it must have enough surface area to dissipate the heat of the VRMs, the surface area is what matter, not the amount of fins. Fins are more effective if direct airflow is applyed, if not, they are just sharp blades that will cut your hand while trying to install your cpu cooler.
VRMs can go up to 120 °C If a motherboard have no heatsinks in the VRM dont dare to use a high tdp cpu or overclock it.
Check my image, it is a B350 Asus board, cheap and overclockable, but no heatsinks on the VRMs, it still have holes to install generic heatsinks on it, but would you ramp up voltage to try and get 4.1 with a 1800X or 4.3 in a 2700X? I wouldn't.
Landon Martinez
Just need to go for the premium boards. Even ECS (Elitegroup) had good motherboards in their premium segment.
Jack Sanders
Motherboards will never be this sexy ever again.
Connor Ramirez
>ECS (Elitegroup)
>had good motherboards
Daniel Rogers
I rocked a black series on my Phenom II, ramped up to 4.0Ghz and was like that for over 5 years. No problem.
Kayden Miller
I remember being mighty salty around 2002 or so because boards insisted on including those useless AMR or CNR slots instead of just sticking a handy ISA slot at the bottom of the board.
Lucas Howard
Bought the same one, user. Works great with my Xeon and GPU passthrough. I use it for plex and stuff and pass through a workstation cheap graphics card with a Windows 8.1 VM to my TV so I can steam stream/play emulators downstairs since the server’s down there anyways. Love the IPMI features.
Logan Morgan
because some rodditor thought it would be funny
reddit.com
Jackson Robinson
I actually do like RGB but that many LEDs on a mobo pisses me off.
Joshua Allen
>"game boost" knob
>goes up to 11
Fucking what
Fucking why
Dominic Gutierrez
personally i really like the super gaudy stuff
im debating spending the extra dosh on a Z370 Dead End (tm) system just to have this board from biostar and some yellow LED ram
black/yellow just isnt common anymore
Alexander Rodriguez
in the 939 crossfire boards, ECS had the best looking one
Kevin Williams
>he doesnt have a qt3.14 mini itx socket 478 board
Hunter Miller
Why do so many motherboards only have 2 RAM slots now
Nathan Wood
8gb sticks are the most common, most people wont buy more than 8/16gb
no need for more slots
its still retarded desu and i think 4 should be a minimum even on mini itx boards, but i guess mobo manufactures are cheaping out, since very few people use more than 2 slots they dont see a reason to include them on basic/entry level boards
Julian Thompson
>VRMs can go up to 120 °C If a motherboard have no heatsinks in the VRM dont dare to use a high tdp cpu or overclock it.
Because all motherboards uses D-PAK MOSFETs. /s
Colton Diaz
>horizontal cpu configurations
Michael Gutierrez
>caring about the colouring
How fucking soy. It is a machine, a tool, not a dress up doll
James Lee
My first and also current motherboard that i bought 2 years ago.
Pretty minimalist compared to a lot of the crap they release these days.
Looks good inside my enthoo pro black.