Buying a pricier motherboard for more FPS
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What it does
Spending more on a higher-end motherboard expecting the games to run at a higher frame rate.
The honest verdict
Graded placebo. A motherboard does not render frames — it connects the parts that do. Two boards with the same CPU, RAM, and GPU produce the same FPS. …
Compy won't recommend it. If you're curious anyway: change one thing at a time, measure it on your own rig, and revert unless it's clearly better — that loop is exactly what Compy is built around.
The full graded entry
The rest of this write-up — the specifics behind the grade — ships inside the app. The Blackbook publishes its verdicts here — the full write-ups stay in the book, on your rig, next to your own measurements.
The Compy Blackbook holds 191 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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