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

 

[mv2devnull]

I just buy the cheapest, which has all the features I want.

Cheaper is a bonus, but more importantly one that I can get when I want a board. A "perfect" is no use, if it is not available.
On the features, I probably want a bit more than I will actually ever need.

 

[biostud]

Cheaper is a bonus, but more importantly one that I can get when I want a board. A "perfect" is no use, if it is not available.
On the features, I probably want a bit more than I will actually ever need.

Yeah I bought the X99 fatal1ty because it both had an eSATA port and nvme PCIe 3.0 x4, but in the 11 years I had it I never bought a nvme drive

 

[igor_kavinski]

The perfect mobo would be modular and so easy to work with, it would be like a 5 year old playing with Legos. Just attach, click in place and run. No tiny connector or levers or latches in hard to reach places. And absolutely no heatsinks. For the love of all that is holy, NO large uwieldy heatsinks.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Yeah I bought the X99 fatal1ty because it both had an eSATA port and nvme PCIe 3.0 x4, but in the 11 years I had it I never bought a nvme drive

I had a laptop with an eSata port and probably had a mobo too in that era (Z77 I think). Bought an eSata enclosure. But because there were no SSDs at the time (or weren't affordable), I had to use an HDD in it. And I was paranoid about the HDD crashing or the partition table crapping out. So used it simply as an external backup drive and only occasionally at that. Didn't experiment. I still have the enclosure. Laptop I sold long ago. Motherboard is almost useless now. Sucks when standards die.

 

[biostud]

I had a laptop with an eSata port and probably had a mobo too in that era (Z77 I think). Bought an eSata enclosure. But because there were no SSDs at the time (or weren't affordable), I had to use an HDD in it. And I was paranoid about the HDD crashing or the partition table crapping out. So used it simply as an external backup drive and only occasionally at that. Didn't experiment. I still have the enclosure. Laptop I sold long ago. Motherboard is almost useless now. Sucks when standards die.

I had a laptop with an eSATA so I had an enclosure, before buying the X99. I still have it somewhere.