what is the latest and greatest motherboard ever made as of 2013?

Question

first of all, i don't care what it costs. i want a motherboard that can fit as many slots for ram, video/sound cards, processors, etc. also, would server motherboards have more slots than other motherboards already specialized for gaming?

Answer 1

If you were really serious, you'd get a quad-socket XEON motherboard from SuperMicro that has 32 DIMM slots for up to 1 TB of RAM, and put an 8-core E5-4650L Xeon in each socket at $3600 per CPU.



With riser-boards , you could easily have a couple dozen external PCI/PCIe cards connected.



But there a plenty of single and dual-socket gaming-oriented motherboards that support quad-SLI.





If that is too cheap, IBM Power7 or Oracle Sparc T4 based systems could easily get you in the 6-figures price-range.

Answer 2

This is an incomplete question. The motherboard must be compatible with the CPU, so the best FM2 socket motherboard would not fit an i7-3770k or other LGA 1155 socket CPU.



But once you pick a processor, search the socket in the motherboards section on Newegg.com and arrange by best rating, the customers there are generally very computer savvy.



So you know which terminology to look for, look for the the mobo with the most:

-PCI 3.0 slots (these are for high end video cards)

-SATA III (6.0gbps) slots (these are so you do not bottleneck performance from high end SSDs)

-Support of 2400+ RAM (the number of slots is not as important as the RAM speed it supports, the best motherboards will support speeds of 2400+, which is expensive RAM but by the sounds of it you probably don't care)

Answer 3

-_- Seriously? why don't you pay MSI or Gigabyte personally to make a legend signature motherboard for yourself? since you already said that you don't care what it costs, just pay 'em couple of thousand $ and i'm sure they'll be glad to make one for you.