How to review a motherboard?

[Speedbird]

Hi

 

I'm gonna build a PC soon and I thought that I should review the motherboard I'm using (Gigabyte F2A88X-HD3). The question is: how do I do it? What should I cover? Should I just do an overview of what's included i the box, should I post some pics about the UEFI? Or should I run some tests too?

 

Thanks.

[Tro]

Watch other mobo reviews from professional reviewers and learn from them

[Enderman]

I'm pretty sure there already are professional reviews of that motherboard.

[ForsakenLive]

Write all you have to say and each topic clearly before shooting, you need to say everything fast smooth and straight up.

Cover what people actually wants to see, included accessories, features that actually matter and make a difference that this board has and most of the others one don't. Read spec sheets and stuff on the gigabyte website and see what they didn't include, many times they skip telling the consumer what controllers they used (example: audio, network), also talk about expansion and description of each lane, gigabyte is always unclear with that; then mention the non-included stuff. Reading stuff on the box that we can get on the website or any other overview videos is bad and boring for your review.

Other important thing is how is the performance on the board regarding voltage regulation, stability and temperatures. Do some tests and show useful results about it, like temps on the board itself, usefulness of the bios when trying to do a proper setup and more.

Keep your video short (4-7 min), and most important, don't even bother doing it if you don't have proper audio, these videos depend mostly of the audio and your voice.

[harrynowl]

accessories, board overview, audio, vrm, heatsinks, chipset, usb, pcie lanes, bios, windows software, overclocking and temperature monitoring (if you find a fm2 apu/board that has it working you get a cookie).

[Speedbird]

Write all you have to say and each topic clearly before shooting, you need to say everything fast smooth and straight up.

Cover what people actually wants to see, included accessories, features that actually matter and make a difference that this board has and most of the others one don't. Read spec sheets and stuff on the gigabyte website and see what they didn't include, many times they skip telling the consumer what controllers they used (example: audio, network), also talk about expansion and description of each lane, gigabyte is always unclear with that; then mention the non-included stuff. Reading stuff on the box that we can get on the website or any other overview videos is bad and boring for your review.

Other important thing is how is the performance on the board regarding voltage regulation, stability and temperatures. Do some tests and show useful results about it, like temps on the board itself, usefulness of the bios when trying to do a proper setup and more.

Keep your video short (4-7 min), and most important, don't even bother doing it if you don't have proper audio, these videos depend mostly of the audio and your voice.

Thanks, but I won't be doing a video, I will just post it to the Member Reviews section. One question, how do I test the voltage regulation?

[ForsakenLive]

Thanks, but I won't be doing a video, I will just post it to the Member Reviews section. One question, how do I test the voltage regulation?

Basically you have to mess around with OC a lot, see if it can deliver specific voltages. Changing stuff from the bios and checking on CPU-Z, but lastly it's all about how accurate can you go.

[Speedbird]

Basically you have to mess around with OC a lot, see if it can deliver specific voltages. Changing stuff from the bios and checking on CPU-Z, but lastly it's all about how accurate can you go.

I will be using a stock cooler, so I probably can't do that.