When you first learn how to build a PC, everything can seem super complicated, but one of the most confusing things you’ll come across is motherboard sizing. Depending on the type of case you’ve bought for your build (and what kind of hardware you want to put in your computer in general) you can have a ton of different size options. Below I’ll go through all of the main modern motherboard iterations and what they mean.
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