$30 MOTHERBOARD?! – Can it game?

[Emily Young]

When buying a motherboard, less is often more. But just how much can you save by buying the CHEAPEST option available?

 

 

Buy the ECS A55F on Amazon: http://geni.us/0UjCTG

 

Buy an ASUS ROG STRIX B250G LGA-1151 motherboard instead
Amazon: http://geni.us/ayCqrP
Newegg: http://geni.us/AjA7tY

 

Buy an ASUS PRIME B350 AM4 motherboard instead:
Amazon: http://geni.us/kaXmP
Newegg: http://geni.us/oUAnaBz

 

Edited June 28, 2017 by GabenJr
Cleaned up product links

[TVwazhere]

I dont want to be THAT guy, but it's actually $40...

[Emily Young]

Just now, TVwazhere said:

I dont want to be THAT guy, but it's actually $40...

It is now. It was $29 when we got it - We pointed that out early on in the video.  Supply and demand, these guys aren't being manufactured anymore.

[minibois]

Shoutout to the editor that inserted earrape at 2:06. Always gotta be on your toes with these LTT videos ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[TVwazhere]

1 minute ago, GabenJr said:

It is now. It was $29 when we got it - We pointed that out early on in the video.  Supply and demand, these guys aren't being manufactured anymore.

I just rewatched and saw the annotation flash

Touche good sir. I will put my pitchfork away

[King_of_Oz]

Noice.

[Scruffy90]

So cringeworth >.<

[3 Lions]

Now Nicky V has gone can LU become the new LMG comedy character?

[Emily Young]

Just now, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

Now Nicky V has gone can LU become the new LMG comedy character?

You are literally the only person I have seen ask for this.

 

Clearly, you are not Adam Jensen.

[3 Lions]

Just now, GabenJr said:

You are literally the only person I have seen ask for this.

It's an honor to do so  

[KenjiUmino]

not sure if silly video or if i missed the point. 

 

until now i thought that when someone gives the advice to "just get the cheapest board" it would not have to be mentioned that the person giving advice is talking about the cheapest board for a given CPU.

 

it is not really a surprise that any half decent cpu of today is running circles around this fm1 system ... but the board might not have anything to do with it. 

 

when i clicked the video i thought i'd see something like "how bad is this cheap mainboard compared to other boards for this platform" ... you know ... ECS vs asrock, asus, msi, gigabyte ... 

 

by the way, i had a few ECS boards and really wasn't all that happy with them ... and that was back when asrock made cheap green pcb OEM looking mainboards while ECS already had black or purple PCB and whatnot ... but optics isn't everything

[Keudn]

Maybe I was just lucky, but I got this board a couple months ago for $23, I feel like LTT could have found something better for cheaper if they looked harder and longer

[yathis]

How can I take this guy seriously?

[AshleyAshes]

1 hour ago, GabenJr said:

It is now. It was $29 when we got it - We pointed that out early on in the video.  Supply and demand, these guys aren't being manufactured anymore.

I take this video as you personally making fun of my Llano A8-3870K box,

[Guest]

2 hours ago, GabenJr said:

When buying a motherboard, less is often more. But just how much can you save by buying the CHEAPEST option available?

 

 

Buy the ECS A55F on Amazon: http://geni.us/0UjCTG

 

Buy an ASUS ROG STRIX B250G LGA-1151 motherboard instead
Amazon: http://geni.us/ayCqrP
Newegg: http://geni.us/AjA7tY

 

Buy an ASUS PRIME B350 AM4 motherboard instead:
Amazon: http://geni.us/kaXmP
Newegg: http://geni.us/oUAnaBz

 

the level of GPU bottlenecking in this video physically pains me

[adamantiumxt]

47 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

I take this video as you personally making fun of my Llano A8-3870K box,

Thank you, finally someone who shares my annoyance. These recent videos on that CPU generation aren't done well. My budget PC from 2012 runs on the same socket. At the time for £40 (about $52) I got a motherboard with a better chipset, 6x sata 6gbit, a few PCIe slots and a PCI slot, 4 USB 3.0 ports, and USB 3.0 headers, a good uefi bios, automatic overclocking, some special energy saving chip, dvi, 8-channel audio etc. Also, I run an A8 3870K which is the actual best cpu it supports, overclocked from 3 to 3.5ghz. Someone find me an up-to-date motherboard with those features for that price.

[AshleyAshes]

1 minute ago, adamantiumxt said:

Thank you, finally someone who shares my annoyance. These recent videos on that CPU generation aren't done well. My budget PC from 2012 runs on the same socket. At the time for £40 (about $52) I got a motherboard with a better chipset, 6x sata 6gbit, a few PCIe slots and a PCI slot, 4 USB 3.0 ports, and USB 3.0 headers, a good uefi bios, automatic overclocking, some special energy saving chip, dvi, 8-channel audio etc. Also, I run an A8 3870K which is the actual best cpu it supports, overclocked from 3 to 3.5ghz. Someone find me an up-to-date motherboard with those features for that price.

Oh, well, no, I was half teasing.  The FM1 board for it died but I kept the CPU though I got a new board for it 6 months ago just to use as a test kit basically.   I was joking since that particular writer, I've known since before I first built the FM1 where it was used in my first dedicated HTPC build.

[vong]

Couldn't stand more than 3mins of this video. Linus needs to stop trying to entertain and just do a review.

[Murphistic]

I liked the information about n-key rollover. However, I'm a bit confused, because I used to hear angry beeps when I smashed to many keys at once on my old notebook which had internally PS/2 keyboards.

[yathis]

47 minutes ago, vong said:

Couldn't stand more than 3mins of this video. Linus needs to stop trying to entertain and just do a review.

Yeah he tries too hard to entertain. He needs to go to acting school in Vancouver.

 

I dont like it one bit.

[KenjiUmino]

26 minutes ago, Murphistic said:

I liked the information about n-key rollover. However, I'm a bit confused, because I used to hear angry beeps when I smashed to many keys at once on my old notebook which had internally PS/2 keyboards.

linus sort of touched on that in the video but didn't explain it in depth - here's what i learned so far: the PS/2 interface itself is capable of NKRO among other nifty things - BUT - the keyboards made for PS/2 are not taking advantage of this capability and did only allow so many keys to be pressed at the same time because of how their matrices were designed and whatnot. the amount of keys a keyboard would register before signaling an error (the angry beeps) differed widely between brands and models.

 

my first keyboard was the legendary IBM model M and was VERY limited in this department.

i loved to type on this board but it sucked at gaming. 

 

i then used and abused a bunch of cherry keyboards and a truckload of cheap no name boards over the years  and all of them had different limitations on how many and wich keys could be pressed together ... (sometimes the limitations were really game breaking - try to play a late 90's racing game with the default button mapping when you can not press 2 cursor keys at the same time - accelerating while steering? fuggedaboutid!)

[Princess Luna]

Well duuuh I have always built my personal computer this way, get the cheapest motherboard there is since it doesn't matter and throw the latest locked mainstream i7 on it.

 

Done, awesome high end gaming rig for much better pricing than going overclocking hobbyist like.

[Murphistic]

32 minutes ago, KenjiUmino said:

linus sort of touched on that in the video but didn't explain it in depth - here's what i learned so far: the PS/2 interface itself is capable of NKRO among other nifty things - BUT - the keyboards made for PS/2 are not taking advantage of this capability and did only allow so many keys to be pressed at the same time because of how their matrices were designed and whatnot. the amount of keys a keyboard would register before signaling an error (the angry beeps) differed widely between brands and models.

 

my first keyboard was the legendary IBM model M and was VERY limited in this department.

i loved to type on this board but it sucked at gaming. 

 

i then used and abused a bunch of cherry keyboards and a truckload of cheap no name boards over the years  and all of them had different limitations on how many and wich keys could be pressed together ... (sometimes the limitations were really game breaking - try to play a late 90's racing game with the default button mapping when you can not press 2 cursor keys at the same time - accelerating while steering? fuggedaboutid!)

Since I posted my comment I checked Wikipedia, so I'm now professional in this area  . The wiki article mentioned, that USB HID actually supports NKRO, but not during the boot (boot protocol vs. report protocol). So it seems, that the Reddit comment in the video was partially wrong, because as you wrote, the keyboard controller has to support this feature and it can work with both USB and PS/2.

 

It's interesting to see your comment, I think this is the first time ever somebody had encountered an issue with the Model M keyboard. Unfortunately, I couldn't experience it myself, so I have no own opinion. My first keyboard was a standard keyboard for a Siemens-Nixdorf PC with Pentium processor, which also had PS/2 connection and as I remember it couldn't handle too much multiple keystrokes.

 

So it seems as for everything in IT, we can say: "It depends"

[Tsuki]

im sorry, i simply couldnt watch this video.  i dont mind the thumbnails, and i dont mind a lot of the cringy shit you guys do. but this is was fucking rediculous, far too over the top and like you're trying to pander to preteens. remember adults actually watch your videos too. i used to send videos to people to help them understand basic concepts, because they were factual, informative, professional, and amusing, not just dry content. ive stop doing that. the content is no longer professional, not funny, barely informative. ive seen videos made by 13 year olds(your apparent target audience) that are more professional than this crap.

this is the first time ive actually considered unsubscribing.

[Zodiark1593]

That gangster Linus... 

 

No,  just no... 

 

Kill it with fire... 

 

Edit: On the second thought, can Linus impersonate an Italian Mobster?