It doesn’t seem it’s as simple as it was when I was looking at building gens back. I’d rather not have to spend £700 (I’m in the UK, so everything is already more expensive) to get a very good board.
It seems many mid and high end boards have pcie issues, especially with the newest m.2 memory. Not enough lanes and/or using 1 slot slows all the others, even if not using the newest memory.
A bunch of boards with bad VRM setups acting as secondary heaters that lower performance.
It seems ASUS, the old solid choice with good software is now an issue for various reasons.
Maybe ASROCK aren’t trash anymore or are pushing their boards more
It’s seems gigabyte software is still an issue as well as the boards with many complaints.
MSI highly mixed opinions
Motherboard pricing is ridiculous we know, but I was wondering if there was anything that was truly all around good without spending so much and I couldn’t find information about this.
(My personal situation is I won’t be overclocking, I just want to run a good solid PC that will last me a decent amount of time with good parts and software to go with. So things like audio matter, whereas is not often mentioned.)
Unsure if there are things to look out for I’m missing and even then don’t know how to know if I’m choosing wrong and which boards have which issues bar a few cases.
I have an ASUS RPG STRIX z790-e wifi and it’s awesome. Clocks the 14900k at 6.2 for the pcores, and 4.8 for the ecores, dynamically boosts.
Has intel drivers for GNA and DTT, which allow for application optimization in the 14th gen, which gets 10-15% more performance in supported games (quite limited right now, but not on the game manufacturers to support - intel is actively adding games).
Great board, excellent support. Also supports non-standard memory configurations - I’m running 4 channel 128gb (4x32gb DDR5) and it’s 100% stable, which is hard to come by.