You are examining three motherboards. The three motherboards are as followed: H310A PRO, Gigabyte Z-370, and B450M PRO-4. Of the motherboards you examined, answer the following questions.

Which do you think is the oldest? Why?

Which motherboard best supports old and new technology? Why?

Which motherboard seems to provide the best possibility for expansion? Why?

Which motherboard is most likely the easiest to configure? Why?

Student friend, once the analysis of each of the mother cards has been carried out, I proceed to answer each question objectively.

Which do you think is the oldest? Why?

The oldest board is the H310A PRO, despite having support for eighth generation processors, its limitation in memory support up to 32GB allows us to think that it does not support newer technologies such as 64GB memory usage, which the boards do Gigabyte Z-370 and B450M PRO-4

Which motherboard best supports old and new technology? Why?

The Gigabyte Z-370 board is the one that best supports old and new technologies: Support for 8th Generation Intel® Core ™ i7 processors / Intel® Core ™ i5 processors / Intel® Core ™ i3 processors in the LGA1151 package. At the memory level, it has Support for ECC Un-buffered UDIMM 1Rx8 / 2Rx8 memory modules (operating in non-ECC mode), Support for non-ECC Un-buffered DIMM 1Rx8 / 2Rx8 memory modules and for new technologies Support for Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) memory. Support level LAN Chip Intel® GbE LAN (10/100/1000 Mbit). At the USB level, it has support for both USB 3.1 and USB 2.0 / 1.1 ports

Which motherboard seems to provide the best possibility for expansion? Why?

The Gigabyte Z-370 board is the one that offers the best possibility of expansion: It has 4 x DDR4 DIMM sockets with support for up to 64 GB of system memory, supports from 2133 MHz memory modules up to 4000 MHZ. At the level of expansion sockets it has the following characteristics:

1. 1 x PCI Express x16 to x16 slot (PCIEX16)

2. 2 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x4 (PCIEX4_1, PCIEX4_2)

3. 3 x PCI Express x1 slots

4. (All PCI Express slots conform to PCI Express 3.0 standard)

At the storage interface level, it has the following expansion characteristics that are well above the B450M PRO-4 board.

1. 1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, SATA type 2242/2260/2280/22110 and support PCIe x4 / x2 SSD)

2. 6 x SATA 6Gb / s connector

3. Supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10

Which motherboard is most likely the easiest to configure? Why?

1. Both the Gigabyte Z-370 board and the B450M PRO-4 board are equipped with excellent configuration tools, however I am going to decide in favor The Gigabyte Z-370 board because I consider it to be easier, it has features such as Auto Green BIOS Settings,

Support for Cloud Station, EasyTune, Easy RAID, Fast Boot, Support for Q-Flash and Supports Xpress Install.