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MSI B450-A Pro. Same features as the gaming variant, just £20 cheaper
Gigabyte 890FXA-UD5 (rev 2.0) ... Can not be more happy...
Gigabyte GA-870A-USB3
its my sisters old one. my Biostar AM2+ thingy one had a problem detecting the RAM so had to swap. sister had recently upgraded to a ryzen system so at least it saved me some money.
Im happy she didn't dump it and it was in her drawer of old puter bits.
the sata ports are in a better place too, and not obscured by the GPU so I can plug all six sata in. so that's a bonus.
cant remember how much it was, sister got it 9 years ago.
Gigabyte AX370-Gaming K5-CF
Happy with it.
Biostar TA970 (the 5.0 version I believe, not the newer ones) - as originally recommended to me by Bagnaj97 on this thread, and I decided that the cheapest (if I recall correctly) option sounded perfectly good for my usage.
In hindsight, I do wish I'd chosen a more expensive motherboard just in case I wanted to overclock. Another part of the reason being that it refused to apply XMP profiles, thus meaning any timings had to be set manually (and sitll differed slightly from the timings the XMP profile said the RAM was supposed to support), which I would assume overclocking flexibility may have allowed to work as expected.
In more recent times, it also doesn't seem to be a fan of an eSATA card I bought. I can't help but wonder if parts are slowly failing or it just doesn't like certain things (and whether those certain things the motherboard may have liked if I had bought a more expensive one).
As I've said in other QOTWs recently however, it's only a matter of time until I move to Zen 2, so it's bearable to stick with it as overall I've been happy enough with it to wait for something to catch my eye.
MSI MPG Z390 Gaming Pro Carbon AC. Does everything I need it for
asus maximus xi hero (wifi)
Gigabyte K7 Gaming AX370, with a 1700X. I won't be getting another Gigabyte board any time soon, though. The BIOS experience is meh, overclocking was a pain (and ultimately decided to just give up on it) despite being specifically geared towards it. Also... every time I go to Microcenter, the majority of the motherboards on the returns shelf are Gigabyte, and I just had to exchange an Aorus B450 Pro WIFI board that was DOA.
ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS, does the job and hopefully will do for another few years
ASUS ROG Maximus Hero IX, I picked it for a few reasons - Good for overclocking with some great bios features for that, 2 x M.2 slots, re-enforced pci-e slots, great on-board sound chip, RGB headers, plenty of IO connections... it's really a great board for my gaming rig so no complaints at all, worth the premium for a solid, well featured board in my eyes.
ASUS P8C WS (https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/P8C_WS/). At the time it was more or less my only choice for a Xeon E3 processor.
Very recent upgrade, but it's lovely so far.
Z390i Auros Pro Wifi
Lovely mini itx board
I have the Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro and it is a very good board. I did lot's of research to decide on a "bang for buck" Z390 board and the Aorus Pro was one of the best ones for what I was willing to pay. The normal price was over what I wanted to pay but Aria had a great offer on at the time and I only paid £160 for it plus it included £30 worth of Costa Coffee vouchers. However, it does have one big downside and that is the awful bios. I have been on Asus boards for the past several years and they have argueably the best bios layout going but with massive price increases and declining quality of boards unless you pay silly amounts I jumped ship. Gigabytes bios is so bad that I just can't bring myself to go back into it to do further tweaking of the memory and see if my 9600k will go any higher with the latest bios versions. Aside from the bios I am very happy with the board. It's a quality board and is rock solid stable with no problems at all but this will be my last Gigabyte board unless they massively improve the bios.
MSI Z270 Gaming M7, has three M.2 slots, a decent layout, plenty of fan connections, easy to use BIOS and good overclocking potential. I'm a big fan.
Asus crosshair VII hero
Super happy with it
Gigabyte Z97X-UDH5.
Went from Meh to not happy.
Awful fan control options and Gigabyte has not released a single bios fix for Intel's security vulnerabilities.
MSI was able to release one for it's H81 series.
While it's aged a bit by now, if MSI can release one for an older and MUCH cheaper board, Gigabyte has no excuses.
A bunch of small issues that slowly pile up.
Asus ROG Maximus XI Hero. Not had a single issue with it.
Asrock Fatal1ty B450.
Asus Crosshair VI Hero. Depending on future prices of Asus and if they go higher. I will likely switch brands. I have my eye on MSi.
Gigabyte Z270-HD3P
Very happy with it!
MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING
I am happy with the motherboard and the only minor downside is the killer network card. It hasn't really caused any issues but feel it is mostly a gimmick so use the driver only package.
I would happily get another MSI motherboard again but would prefer a broadcom or an intel network card.
Asus Z390-E ans very happy with still another Asus product. I have been using their motherboards for years with great success. I had on problem board which they replaced with no hassle. I also have An Asus router which is as stable as it is powerful. They have great products which they continue to update drivers and bios for many years.
My 2nd pc is a Asus Z-87 Deluxe based unit and it is still as stable as ever.
Evga x99 ftw k
Gigabyte z77x-ud3. Still going strong after all these years.
Asus Rampage V Extreme with Intel 5960x, Still going strong.
Next will be an AMD 570 board from Asus, Probably a Strix or whatever high end they have to go with the 12 core 3900x
Z370 ASUS MAXIMUS X HERO. Paired nicely with my 8086K
Gigabyte Aorus Z390 Elite
Perfect over lockable non-sli board, with 2xNVME slots, for my i7 9700k.
Excellent board without a single issue.
Rampage IV Extreme and Rampage IV Gene with modded BIOS's for NVMe/M.2 support. Very happy with them, solid VRM's letting my 1660 V2 and 1680 V2 hold high OC's at 4.7 and 4.5GHz.
Desktop: Z370-G Strix
Home server: Maximus VII Gene (z97)
My current board which I've for the last 3 or 4yrs is the Gigabyte Z87X-D3H. I always thought this would be my last desktop machine but I'm currently toying with the idea of building a new machine based around the Intel i9 cpu.
MSI Tomahawk B450. Decent value mid range option for me.
Currently using X99A MSI Gaming Titanium. But will be moving to a MATX ryzen build on the Asrock X370m Pro 4
Asus Crosshair 6 hero. Awesome board with loads of tweaking. Only let down by 1 M.2 slot so might upgrade to the Crosshair 8 for my ryzen 2 when they are all released.
Gigabyte GA-Z170xp SLI (rev.1.0)
Fitted it myself. Never had cause for complaint.
B350M Mortar.
At the time, GOOD AMD boards were few and far between, especially in the "budget" category. I got lucky and bought one of the better ones. Micro atx form facter is nice too
Asus Z270 TUF Mark 1, and I love it. Plays home to a Core i7 7700K, 32Gb of 3200mhz DDR4, a GTX 1080 Ti, and my very first M.2 drive, the Samsung 960 Pro. Been a solid machine for the 2 years it's been running.
Couldn't Be happier with my Asus ROG Strix X470-F!
Great featureset at its price point, has more expensive-ish looks about it, and looks amazing in my Phanteks P350X dRGB case :3 Plus it's got a decent VRM so whilst it won't be able to handle the Ryzen 9 it will be more than enough for a replacement Ryzen 5 3600X in the coming weeks/months
X470 AORUS GAMING 7 WIFI. Absolutely amazing motherboard couldn't be happier. Do miss the Asus EUFI for sure though, gigabyte's menus in the bios are atrocious. Took me ages to find where CPU Virtualization was and what it was called.
Asrock Z270 Extreme4, loads of features and was great value when I bought it. Been running rock solid and very happy with it
Asus Maximus Hero (none Wifi)
Very happy, except the fan software plays up with my corsair fans on the chassis fans
Asus ROG X370-f Strix and hoperfully ready for Ryzen 3000
Asus P9X79-WS very happy with it and have been for many years, it's never skipped a beat.
Gigabyte Aorus AX370 Gaming K7 seems ok so far and was very cheap at the time.
Running a Rampage IV Extreme with a E5 1680 V2 @4.3ghz sub 62C with 32GB DDR3 2400mhz CL 10 T1 (with 32GB more on the way). I have upgraded my processor once from an i7 3930K, increased ram capacity twice, hacked my UEFI to add bootable nvme support via Evo 960, sports of plenty of SATA so I can run: 2x1TB SSDs, 1x4TB SSHD, 3x8TB HDDs, 1x12TB HDD, and a HD-DVD/Bluray disk drive (yeah I still have a slew of HD-DVD disks around in case my digital rips go belly up ;). I honestly couldn't be happier with my motherboard and expect to wait out PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 based CPUs.
Please delete me
Asus RVE and IX Formula, will be upgrading the RVE soon, just waiting on Ryzen releases.
Asrock X399 TaiChi is doing the job for me. Very happy with it.
Gigabyte Z97M-D3H for many, many, years now. Really happy with it. It copes will all the drives I have attached, five in total with two being SSD's. It's probably running 5 days a week, never has heat issues, despite also being used to run a BOINC client.
Rock solid :0)
EVGA X299 Dark. It wasn't really a choice because I won it in a giveaway, but I'm very, very happy with the features and performance - it runs my 7800X at 4.9 without breaking a sweat. The bios is easy to navigate, and the board looks awesome too. The only thing I wish it had was a USB-C internal header for my case. Other than that, it's got all the expansion I need.
I don't know if I'd purchase it with my own money, but that's more because Skylake-X isn't a good value for the money. Having a solid motherboard is important to having a good experience with your custom desktop, and the Dark series is definitely solid.
Still sitting on an ASUS Z97 Pro Gamer, that I have won here in a competition, paired with 16GB G.Skill and i7 5775C. Working with no issues, only now I wish to get a new graphics card and should last for another few years.
MSI-Tomahawk, no real preferences when it comes to motherboards, just has what i need and fits the budget :-)
Gigabyte Z270-HD3P.
It's been a finicky buggy thing, probably the worst modern motherboard I've had or fitted for anyone. Current BIOS isn't too bad but the first year or so was quite irritating.
I'll be going back to either Asus, AsRock or MSI next purchase I think and have done the same with machines I build for others already.
Returns/open box bin at my local Microcenter:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1--0xxUmUWWdA_KsSLjLEq6JJoX_lTSgd/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I34vqtyPkGAFf3k_DzJn7CS0nzYO9Qk-/view?usp=sharing
MSI P67A-GD65 (B3). One of the strongest motherboards years ago, but now it's a must due to presence of PCI slot :)
Gigabyte Auros Pro-Wifi. Very happy with it.
P6T something....
Yup Ryzen 3 begs to play later this summer I know
x99 deluxe II, it does allmost everything, thunderbolt3 etc plus overclocking is great 8c/16t ftw
EVGA x299 micro, I like it.
I have an ASUS ROG Rampage V Edition 10 mobo & I could not be happier :)
I always wanted this mobo & I finally got one last year
Gigabyte Aorus Z390 Ultra: Very happy, amazing board with super feature set and very fast. Only critique is that Dual Bios is NOT easily user selectable but can live with that.
Gigabyte Z390 Designare. Will I use all the ports? Don't care - love it!
GIGABYTE ITX GA-Z77N-WIFI LGA 1155
I bought it in Sep 2016 for 95GBP on Ebay. It was very difficult to find an ITX motherboard for my 2600K with a chipset that could let me overclock. I didn't want to buy a new system, and I had downsized from a Corsair Obsidian 800D to a Dan-Cases A4SFX, so needed a smaller motherboard.
Asus Rampage IV extreme with a i7-3960 but always looking to upgrade.