Question What kind of motherboards do you like?

[Io Magnesso]

Please answer your favorite motherboard
Design, performance, memories, etc.
Any reason is fine.
By the way, I like the GIGABYTE Z690 AORUS Xtreme

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z690-AORUS-XTREME-rev-10

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I don't have one. I have been through a lot of boards over the years. I don't like spending much more than $200 U.S. either. I don't need workstation or serious overclocking features. Hardest thing I do 98% of the time is game. I do like integrated I/O shields, adequate VRMs and cooling.

At the moment all of my boards are Gigabyte and ASRock, with the oldest being a Gigabyte AORUS ELITE B450 from 2018. No issues with any of them. Newest is ASRock B650E PG Riptide WIFI because of the PCIe 5 GPU support at $185. It must be out of production now as neither Amazon or Newegg offer it first party here.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I guess boards just are not sexy anymore? Moving so much onto the CPU responsible? I remember when we would have huge threads about a single board or chipset. Intel, AMD, SiS, VIA, Nvidia, it was the wild west. So many brands - FIC, Abit, Asus, Albatron, Epox, Aopen, DFI, Chaintech, ECS, Shuttle, MSI, Soltek, SOYO, and more.

The IGP was on the board back then. Nforce chipsets were my jam. I built a bunch of systems with the Shuttle MN31N using the Nvidia nForce2 IGP + MCP-T (nForce2-GT)

 

[Io Magnesso]

I guess boards just are not sexy anymore? Moving so much onto the CPU responsible? I remember when we would have huge threads about a single board or chipset. Intel, AMD, SiS, VIA, Nvidia, it was the wild west. So many brands - FIC, Abit, Asus, Albatron, Epox, Aopen, DFI, Chaintech, ECS, Shuttle, MSI, Soltek, SOYO, and more.

The IGP was on the board back then. Nforce chipsets were my jam. I built a bunch of systems with the Shuttle MN31N using the Nvidia nForce2 IGP + MCP-T (nForce2-GT)

AOPEN's motherboard was interesting because there were a lot of interesting things.
Certainly, AOpen was under the umbrella of Acer, and now Acer is releasing PC parts.
I would be happy if acer would release a single motherboard.

 

[Io Magnesso]

I don't have one. I have been through a lot of boards over the years. I don't like spending much more than $200 U.S. either. I don't need workstation or serious overclocking features. Hardest thing I do 98% of the time is game. I do like integrated I/O shields, adequate VRMs and cooling.

At the moment all of my boards are Gigabyte and ASRock, with the oldest being a Gigabyte AORUS ELITE B450 from 2018. No issues with any of them. Newest is ASRock B650E PG Riptide WIFI because of the PCIe 5 GPU support at $185. It must be out of production now as neither Amazon or Newegg offer it first party here.

There was also a mini-ITX motherboard with a ZOTAC DGPU for laptops.

 

[Shmee]

I guess the Meg X570 Ace I have now has pretty good layout, and I like the UEFI design/support. My only complaint really is how the wireless antenna is designed (which I rarely use). My X99 Deluxe is another nice board, but the wireless antenna and also the m.2 placement are a bit odd.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Someone got ASROCK B850-X to boot at DDR5-9000 so I went looking for it and found that the ASROCK B850-X R2.0 was cheaper. Got it to try my luck since the 2DPC B850 Pro RS was disappointing for me and couldn't even manage DDR5-8000.

I've been eyeing this: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B650E-AORUS-STEALTH-ICE

Looks like a fun mobo to play with outside a case but it costs more than double what I paid for the B850-X

 

[biostud]

I just buy the cheapest, which has all the features I want. And apparently ASUS has never hit that spot for me.

For me it was:
Abit AB LX6
DFI Lan party nf2
DFI Lan party nf4
ASrock X99 fatal1ty
ASrock X670E Pro RS