For me, it's ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WiFi
>>109100413>modern motherboard>appreciatingI couldn't fathom the ideaPic related has been good from my NAS I guess
>wifi
>>109100413Glad I'm not the only motherfucker who thinks motherboards are cool.I admired the GA-990FXA-UD3 Revision 4.
>>109100448that looks like a lot of idle power draw for something that's on 24/7
>>109101256Thing looks like it fucking fucks for workstation use though, I'd edit video on that motherfucker with dual 2011 chips.
>24-,28 PCIe lanesI'll pass
for me, i like some color
>>109101436Based 775 enjoyer, the boards safe from capacitor plague are amazing.
>>109101256It's 200w but with 13 HDDsIt's about maybe 20-30w above a Z590 board with a 10700k>>109101366I think it's killed by any modern desktop i9 in actual usability. Still has the RAM/pcie slots that no desktop board has
>>109100413too expensive only nigs with self-esteem issues rejoice in splurging on premium crap
>>109102120The RGB lighting on gaymen boards is a little ridiculous, but a high end chipset board is based Anon, it's not e-peen, it's just nice to have high end stuff.
>>109100413I have this pos, but at least the quick charge usb c port is convenient.
>>109102240>matte black B650 board with 4 DIMM slots on it and a place to put M.2>posShe's beautiful Anon, you really can't ask for much more.
>>109100413ROG/Asus mobo has a weird problem of very long boot time if you have a lot of external HDD attached to it. That's the only problem I have with them. I've used Asus mobo for my last 3 PC. I think I might change mobo brand for my next PC.
>>109101583yes. the 775 era had a good run.
>>109100413I have it and its the only mobo i ever had problems with, shit has a 30% chance to boot into some weird state where everything is choppy as fuck until i restart
>>109100413Bought the cheapest b850 board i could when I got.my 7800x3d. But now regret not getting an x6 whatever like op as it does more? However it runs very well and has only hit 82c on the cpu in 34c weather with an inadequate air cooler i havent swapped from it yet(3xs from scan)
>>109100413Last board I had was the rog strix one for the lga1200 socket. Forget the name. B450 or b540 looked nice
>>109102910LGA 1200 was Z490/590 or B460/560. Did it look like this?
motherboard with a gun
>>109100413>ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WiFiAh yes one of those amazing boards with split lanes where you get either x16/x0 or x8/x4 and 4 lanes just sort of mysteriously vanish.
>>109101251>42 fucking PCIE lanes with 32 of them for graphics990FX was so based for the money, got to the point in 2016 where the UD3 was a $99 dollar motherboard and it could push a 220w+ CPU all day long, pair that with 16GB of 1866 RAM for $80 and a $160 8350, and you've got a beast computer on a budget until ryzen came and obsoleted it, but you still didn't pay much.>>109103133Kek I remember the faggot ass TSA or customs opened it up to check it and broke the motherfucker
For me it's the MSI X670E Carbon>good PCIe slot spacing>the 2 main slots can run at x8/x8 PCIe 5.0>3rd PCIe slot from chipset>4 m.2 ports (2 CPU, 2 through chipset)>6 SATA ports
ASUS PRIME B650-PLUS that holds my 9800X3D, and I only bought it for the S/PDIF port in the back, otherwise I would've bought something cheaper.If you're buying expensive mobo and not going to overclock RAM (which is the only reason why anyone should buy an expensive mobo) then you're fucking retard.
>>109100448Are those... Colored connectors?! Good God, man!
>>109105273I was willing to accept that this is about the most you can ask for modern motherboards in terms of PCIe slots.Minus the 1x slots and PCI slots it mimicks what was pretty standard for the last ~15 years.Now they are slowing becoming afraid to add that second CPU connected slot even on higher end boards
>>109106580>Now they are slowing becoming afraid to add that second CPU connected slot even on higher end boardsYeah I've noticed as well and it's ass. I hope this mobo doesn't die on me or something, other than that I'm glad I won't have to shop for another one until the DDR6 days, whenever that may be.
I love my EVGA boardsEVGA FTW X570SEVGA Z690 ClassifiedEVGA Z790 Dark
>>109100413I don't like that wifi is baked into motherboards now because wifi NIC drivers always have a binary blob or require the use of ndiswrapper and fwcutter. I refuse kernel taint.The FCC should mandate free and open 802.11 drivers and require (which is why the shit is always softmodem-tier) that frequency control is implemented in the radio itself and not in software. RF output filters fucking exist dickheads.
>>109100413>anything asus when (not "if" , "when" )the shit hits the fan remember - you only have yourself to blame.
MAG Z790 Tomahawk, my beloved.
How did we go from professional hardware to boards designed for literal gaymer toddlers? Why do we accept compromised toy hardware like M.2 in a fucking desktop, when the desktop SDD form factor was meant to be U.2?
>>109107204>compromised toy hardware like M.2 in a fucking desktoplolwut?
>>109107240M.2 were originally meant for laptops and their max capacity is limited a lot by not having enough space on the PCB. Desktops were supposed to use U.2 SSDs, those are the same size as SATA SSDs but with the NVMe interface that M.2 uses.
For me it's pic related.
>>109100413Step aside ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WiFi peasant, ASUS PROART X870E-CREATOR WIFI nobleman coming through.Did you know the ASUS PROART X870E-CREATOR WIFI comes with integrated 10G Ethernet?I'll bet you didn't even know this.
>>109107289>Proarta mainboard brand for deviantart furries
>>10910728910G realkek pcie ethernet cards are like 25 bucks now and the USB ones are also coming down
>>109100413MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk MAX WiFiOne of the best boards MSI ever made.
>>109107363I actually had a 10G card in my last build but this way I don't use up a PCI-e slot and don't block the airflow to my graphics card.
>>109107371>One of the best boards MSI ever made.A polished turd is still just a turd.
>>109107204>>109107256Most people are goycattle who use laptops for everything. Another thing to hate about M.2 is its influence on case designs, especially for Mini-ITX. You always have more SATA ports than your case has drive bays.
>>109108144Mini ITX is also for cattle
>>109100413>6 sata ports on a modern platform>solid VRM and PCB layout>2 DIMM slots for better ram layout (any more and you should probably just have a server board and chassis)>6 m.2 slots usable without lane sharing, >4x4 gen 5 bifurcation on the second x8 slot available>gen 4x4 slot on the bottom>65W PD to the front header>2 TB4 ports>decent USB I/O layout>5 gig lan (if you want 10 gig just slap it into the x1 slot above the GPU)>TWO ps/2 ports in 2026>wifi 7>CUDIMM support>regularly on sale for around $450Not even touching on all the fan headers, overclocking toys and shit. The only issue with this board is it's a dead end socket and the CMOS battery is UNDER THE I/O COVER. Fucking MSI. Otherwise this board is a relic for grognards who just want to hook everything to one board. It's great for that shit. You can have 8 goddamned m.2 (or u.2/u.3 via an adapter and backplane) drives hooked up even without using external thunderbolt enclosures. 4 drives (3 gen 5, 1 gen 4) from the CPU if you use an add in card on the second slot, and 4 from the chipset.m.2s. The DMI has access to 8 gen4 lanes so bandwidth isn't too bad even if you hit all of them at once. That, plus 6 sata ports. This board is really solid even if it's >MSI
>>109106580it's because windowlickers don't understand how lanesharing works and treat a secondary PCIe slot hooked up to the CPU like it's "Stealing lanes" Genuinely it became a sticking point to buy boards with shittier layouts and overall lower build quality to avoid a complete non-issue. Mobo manufacturers are now advertising the lack of the ability to switch lanes if you want as a "feature".
>>109101256I run a dell poweredge R620 with something like 500GB of ram with one ssd 3 10g cards with pfsense only using two. I am going to steal the power from the data centers before they can steal it from me!
I have this one
crosshair vi hero. its lasted me a tonne of upgrades and oc's super well. i have 64gb corsair vengeance 3000 ram running at 3600 no issue. i also have a a network card with wifi 6 that im thinking of updating to 7 at my new house, and a pcie to nvme adaptor. also running a 5700xthe only gripe i have with this board is that the fan controller is incompatible with setting the fans to zero through any software means. ive been thinking of getting a OpenFAN Controller for this very reason, but right now my case is cool enough even when gaming that i can just leave the fans all unplugged (4 x 120).
>>109108870forgot pic, love this board. its been with me through several moves too
>>109108882>>109108870Solid choice, I had the vii and for whatever reason AMD clamped down on the PCIE 4.0 bios update. It's got a 5950x and 32gigs of 3200 in there, the ram controller on my chip is kind of shit. There was a brief period where you could use the top slot at 4.0 speeds. I'm sure there's some russian somewhere who's re-enabled that microcode somehow.
>>109108892you could rollback to a different bios version, theres a few mega threads on overclockershttps://www.overclock.net/threads/rog-crosshair-vi-overclocking-thread.1624603/that you can find all sorts of 1st party but not officially supported biosesalso i havent seen that image in ages, in hs i absolutely called it a zip disquette ironically
>>109108928I've thought about it but honestly the difference in performance is so negligible unless I slot in a 4090 or higher it's not worth the trouble. That and I finally did a full platform upgrade last fall before everything went to shit. AM4 was so solid, I ran 3 different CPUs of that fucking board.
>>109108892Remember Jaz drives?
>>109108943ah fair enough. i also realised you have the vii so youll need a different thread. honestly im really happy with the board because its got me pretty far. to think im rocking a nearly decade old board with a 5700x and it runs just fine is wild. damn, my psu is like 15 years old at this point too lol. ship of theseus build fr
>>109108954yeah it wasn't until x570 where motherboard manufacturers started overbuilding and adding features to AMD boards again for the first time in fucking forever. The Vi was a decent board, but kind of phoned in from ASUS compared to what they were putting out for the intel platforms at the time. The original launch of ryzen was so risky and AMD was so close to being scrapped for parts, I hazard most of /g/ at this point has forgotten how much of a hail mary it really was. Ryzen and ryzen+ were so shit for gaming but I loved the idea of having 8 haswell cores to fuck around with back then.
Might as well ask here, are ASRock boards still to be avoided for AM5 systems?
>>109108982yeah i had a 1700x as my second cpu. honestly the fact i went for that after being burned by my 8350 "black edition" is kinda wild. that pc is long gone howeveri was working in a pc shop at the time and a lot of people were hesitant to go ryzen, even after several generations "i know intel and its what i trust" and all that. man, those were dark days for pc building (bitcoin miners were complete fuckwits and the rudest people youve ever met). ai is just as bad but at least its not like youd deal with ai customers at a pc shop now
>>109108997yeah instead of miners pulling pic related and posting it on /g/ all the wafer allocation is swallowed up by B2B sales and contracts. Neither are good for having shit to tinker with
>>109100413For me, it's ROG Maximus Z690 Hero(WiFi 6E) LGA 1700(Intel®12th&13th Gen) ATX gaming motherboard(PCIe 5.0,DDR5, 20+1 90A power stages,2.5Gb LAN,Bluetooth V5.2,2x Thunderbolt 4 ports,5xM.2/NVMe SSD,Front panel USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C connector)
>>109108995Assrock everything has always been avoided by the smart consumer and also the dumb consumer who got burned that one time they were stupid enough to buy assrock.
>>109110994Never had an Asrock mobo, are they in fact, "some fuckin hoes"?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEJ7-wEgQjQ
>>109103108It was the b560, and yes. Like that. Now I have >>109102906
>>109109287Gorgeous mobo
>>109100413
>>109112012Kek why B boards gotta be so extra? It's not gonna get you any more speed pham
>>109112258Phamaceuticals
>>109107271>>109107289i have those exact 2 ones. really happy with both and they both work. my x970 extreme4 has shit vrm so a fan was needed to cool it. otheriwse ok. the x870 is nice. i can use 2 pciex4 for 2 ssd's while retaining the 16 gpu lanes. or make it 2x pcie8 if needed. i had to disable usb4 fir it but nobody uses that
>>109100413>WiFi
>>109100413Didn't burn my 9950X3D yet.
