How big of a difference will be between 50~100$ MB and over 350$

[keavlar]

Hey. 

I am curious, 

I am building a ~ sort of a budget pc for video editing. 

Planing to use CPU from 10400 -> 10500 -> 10600k  will be decided latter. 

This Pc will not be for gaming, maybe some SIMS 4 , not more than that. 

So if I get a cheap MB, what I am expecting? 

The cheapest MB is  Asus H510M-K LGA1200 Intel H51

 

So, how bad bottleneck we talk here?

If any at all?! 

 

[Chris Pratt]

A board can't be a "bottleneck". It doesn't work like that. As long as it has the features you need it's generally, fine. Though, there's some mobos that are just pure junk. Independent reviews will tell you that much, though.

 

What you pay more for is better chipsets, better power delivery, better quality, or when you start going really high, built in VRM water cooling and such.

 

For Intel, the main thing you need to pay attention to is the ability to overclock, particularly as it concerns XMP. Many chipset/CPU combos do not let you run XMP, which means you'll be stuck with something.like 2133MHz or 2666MHz RAM. RAM clockspeed tends to not matter as much with Intel, but you still want the ability to run XMP if you want. Because of this, there's certain pairings that don't make sense, as well. For example, there's absolutely no point to getting a K SKU CPU if you don't also get a Z mobo. The only point to the K SKU is overclocking, which you can only do on a Z chipset mobo.

 

You can generally, however, unlock power limits on any Intel CPU, in which case, you'd want to ensure you get a board with really good power delivery and VRMs (i.e. more premium and costly).

 

If you're just getting a bog standard Intel CPU, with no OC potential, you don't want to unlock power limits, and you don't care about XMP, then virtually any board will do, as long as it at least isn't just completely garbage in the first place.

[KaitouX]

6 minutes ago, Chris Pratt said:

A board can't be a "bottleneck". It doesn't work like that. As long as it has the features you need it's generally, fine. Though, there's some mobos that are just pure junk. Independent reviews will tell you that much, though.

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If you're just getting a bog standard Intel CPU, with no OC potential, you don't want to unlock power limits, and you don't care about XMP, then virtually any board will do, as long as it at least isn't just completely garbage in the first place.

Some cheap Intel boards fail to even deliver stock performance of some CPUs with higher TDP, so what you said isn't entirely accurate.

[Freakwise]

Don't get the cheapest...

 

There's is features benefit you will get from higher priced motherboard 

Though there's certainly a point where "diminishing returns" kicks in and that's pretty much vary from person to person...

 

And that board has no heatsink on the vrm which is probably fine, but still no no in my book....

Just saying

[Mason Peterson]

What about when the board doesn't allow memory frequency over 2666 MT/s in this case. B560 at the very least will allow XMP and has no superimposed lock.

[Gohardgrandpa]

The problem with the cheap boards is power delivery. I got an iBuyPower with a i7 9700f and a gigabyte b365m ds3h wifi motherboard and had all kinds of issues with it. 

Wouldn't let the thing boost the clock speed and would power throttle it to lower clock speeds. Had to install a program to manually change that stuff. The board is stripped down, only has 2 system fan headers and looks like shit. 

 

I think the sweet spot for motherboards is $150-$200 depending on what you need. This is the cheapest board I've ever used and I'll never do it again 

[Mister Woof]

I generally go with the $200 range and have been satisfied with em for the most part.