My dear friends,
If you want to buy an assembled desktop which is much better than a branded one you might go for good branded motherboards like Gigabyte, Asus, MSI, Intel, etc.
Whatever be the company of the Motherboard make sure to see whether the ports are directly soldered to the motherboard or not. These days we use a lot of ports. Most common is the USB port. You may also need PS2 ports, HDMI ports, VGA port for displays, RS232 (serial) ports, LAN or ethernet port, parallel ports, etc. Those who are high end gamers will look for Graphics Card ports (in AGP slot, PCI slot whatever). Whatever be your port requirements it is recommended to have ports which are not directly soldered to the mainboard (motherboard). This is because if you use a lot of periphrals like USB hard drives or pen drives, your ports after some monthes or years may malfunction. Now, if the ports are soldered you have to remove the soldering and again solder a new port. This is a quite hilarious task. On the other hand if your ports are not soldered direcly to the mainboard you can directly replace the port cards be it in PCI slot or other slots. The task will be much easier.
My motherboard from 2001 does not have any ports soldered to the mainboard except for a keyboard port which is an older AT-type older than PS2. All my ports like VGA, PS2(mouse), RS232(mouse), USB, Audio ports, etc. are in the form of port cards attached behind the cabinet of my CPU case. My USB ports were USB 1.1 with a very low speed. So, I added a new USB 2.0 card in PCI slot. It contains 4 USB 2.0 and 1 USB 3.0. Another PCI slot contains my ATI RADEON 9200 graphics card 128 MB. I also have 1 more empty PCI slot.
If you want to buy an assembled desktop which is much better than a branded one you might go for good branded motherboards like Gigabyte, Asus, MSI, Intel, etc.
Whatever be the company of the Motherboard make sure to see whether the ports are directly soldered to the motherboard or not. These days we use a lot of ports. Most common is the USB port. You may also need PS2 ports, HDMI ports, VGA port for displays, RS232 (serial) ports, LAN or ethernet port, parallel ports, etc. Those who are high end gamers will look for Graphics Card ports (in AGP slot, PCI slot whatever). Whatever be your port requirements it is recommended to have ports which are not directly soldered to the mainboard (motherboard). This is because if you use a lot of periphrals like USB hard drives or pen drives, your ports after some monthes or years may malfunction. Now, if the ports are soldered you have to remove the soldering and again solder a new port. This is a quite hilarious task. On the other hand if your ports are not soldered direcly to the mainboard you can directly replace the port cards be it in PCI slot or other slots. The task will be much easier.
My motherboard from 2001 does not have any ports soldered to the mainboard except for a keyboard port which is an older AT-type older than PS2. All my ports like VGA, PS2(mouse), RS232(mouse), USB, Audio ports, etc. are in the form of port cards attached behind the cabinet of my CPU case. My USB ports were USB 1.1 with a very low speed. So, I added a new USB 2.0 card in PCI slot. It contains 4 USB 2.0 and 1 USB 3.0. Another PCI slot contains my ATI RADEON 9200 graphics card 128 MB. I also have 1 more empty PCI slot.
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