Instead of upgrading your motherboard you may be able to use your spare PCIe x1 slot
It's true that most often we just use one slot for the video card and there are another two or three empty slots waiting to be used.
Such a slot can easily accept a card that will provide upgraded Wi-Fi, Ethernet ports, extra USB ports, allow mounting on NVMe drives or extra SATA drives, and more.
It's not going to make your CPU faster, but it could mean not having to replace the whole motherboard and matching CPU in the shorter term. I did realise this when I wanted to install a NVMe drive a year back. Mounting a single NVMe drive on my motherboard meant giving up two of my SATA drives (their share the same data lanes), but buying an add-on card could have allowed the mounting of multiple extra NVMe drives without sacrificing my SATA drives.
See https://www.xda-developers.com/pcie-x1-slot-more-useful-than-many-pc-upgrades
#technology #upgrades
It's true that most often we just use one slot for the video card and there are another two or three empty slots waiting to be used.
Such a slot can easily accept a card that will provide upgraded Wi-Fi, Ethernet ports, extra USB ports, allow mounting on NVMe drives or extra SATA drives, and more.
It's not going to make your CPU faster, but it could mean not having to replace the whole motherboard and matching CPU in the shorter term. I did realise this when I wanted to install a NVMe drive a year back. Mounting a single NVMe drive on my motherboard meant giving up two of my SATA drives (their share the same data lanes), but buying an add-on card could have allowed the mounting of multiple extra NVMe drives without sacrificing my SATA drives.
See https://www.xda-developers.com/pcie-x1-slot-more-useful-than-many-pc-upgrades
#technology #upgrades