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GSTARR
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Hey guys,

 

       I will have to buy a new motherboard, and figured I ought to wait for 14th gen intel to come out. Buying such a new cpu will stress my budget, and I will definitely be buying a mid to low tier motherboard.

 

       I was hoping someone could give a quick run down of who people like in this category and who they are wary of. Asrock for instance used to be a laughing stock, but I watched the Asus video from Jazytwocents where he said he would seriously consider going with asrock over asus - so I have no idea where the market is anymore and dont want to assume the big guys like MSI, ASUS, Gigabyte, and EVGA are still top quality products, especially in the budget range...

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9 minutes ago, GSTARR said:

Hey guys,

 

       I will have to buy a new motherboard, and figured I ought to wait for 14th gen intel to come out. Buying such a new cpu will stress my budget, and I will definitely be buying a mid to low tier motherboard.

 

       I was hoping someone could give a quick run down of who people like in this category and who they are wary of. Asrock for instance used to be a laughing stock, but I watched the Asus video from Jazytwocents where he said he would seriously consider going with asrock over asus - so I have no idea where the market is anymore and dont want to assume the big guys like MSI, ASUS, Gigabyte, and EVGA are still top quality products, especially in the budget range...

asrock is good for mid range mobos. There lga 1700 offerings are a bit overpriced in my opinion for a mid range product. 

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On 10/4/2023 at 2:00 PM, GSTARR said:

I will have to buy a new motherboard, and figured I ought to wait for 14th gen intel to come out. Buying such a new cpu will stress my budget, and I will definitely be buying a mid to low tier motherboard.

Gigabyte and ASRock tend to have the cheapest options. Both still have reliable products.

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You have to compare specific models rather than brands. All of the manufacturers have had good motherboards, and they all have for a while (the best Z170 board, for instance, is the Z170M OC Formula from ASRock, the best Z97 board is the Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SOC Force LN2, the best Z390 board is the ASUS Maximus XI Apex, the best Z590 board is the EVGA Z590 Dark, and MSI had the best AM4 board with the B550 Unify-X), and they all have had some pretty terrible motherboards. Even within the same price range you can have boards that are mediocre and boards that are good (B660M PG Riptide is an amazing board for the price, while something like the H670 PG Riptide is mediocre at best for the same money). 

 

The only thing the brand should really tell you about a board is who's RMA department you'd have to deal with and what their BIOS is going to look like. For the quality of the motherboard it's basically meaningless. 

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For me I've been running a number of Z170 and AM4 board from gigabyte and only ever had one issue. (In the UK) The RMA for that went smoothly and the replacement still runs in a friends media/steam(streaming) PC 

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