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Hey guys, sometimes I come across these Intel motherboards on eBay, like this one (LGA1156), or this one (LGA775). Are these really made by intel, or are they made by OEM's such as Dell, Toshiba, etc? Also why there is an IDE connector on the LGA775 board and the soldering points for another IDE connector on the left? I think Intel manufactures the PCB's and then the OEM's can choose to solder one or two IDE connectors, same with the PCI/PCI-e slots, I've even seen a couple ones with the soldering points for another USB or VGA connector, or whatever. Also, is it possible to buy boards like these and build a PC? As far as I know, if they are OEM boards, they were made to only support the CPU it was built with. Is this true?

 

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Intel used to make motherboards mainly for the server and workstation market, as far as I know, they don't make mobos any more.

 

IDE was still pretty common, though outdated, in the 775 days. The extra solder points are there probably because this PCB was used for multiple mobo models that maybe did have more IDE connectors. Same goes for PCI, USB, VGA connectors etc.

 

You can still find those boards on the used market, many people say Intel made some of the most reliable and durable boards back when they did. 

I still use a 775 ITX motherboard made by intel, it runs with a C2D E8400 in my NAS :) 

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Intel stopped making Motherboards after the X79 chipset, some of them can be good (ex Skulltrail) but most of them are quite mediocre because they were mainly launch boards.

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13 hours ago, Jonathan Lemmens said:

Intel used to make motherboards mainly for the server and workstation market, as far as I know, they don't make mobos any more.

 

IDE was still pretty common, though outdated, in the 775 days. The extra solder points are there probably because this PCB was used for multiple mobo models that maybe did have more IDE connectors. Same goes for PCI, USB, VGA connectors etc.

 

You can still find those boards on the used market, many people say Intel made some of the most reliable and durable boards back when they did. 

I still use a 775 ITX motherboard made by intel, it runs with a C2D E8400 in my NAS :) 

Yeah, that was my theory for the extra solder points. So, I could buy one of these Intel motherboards for a gaming PC, right? There's no restriction for the CPU?

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4 hours ago, bruny06 said:

Yeah, that was my theory for the extra solder points. So, I could buy one of these Intel motherboards for a gaming PC, right? There's no restriction for the CPU?

On the 775 socket there might be some restrictions, as in quad cores are not supported or 45nm CPU's in general are not supported. On other platforms I have little to no experience with Intel boards so I can't tell.... 

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