Best budget motherboard for a new build right now?

[David74]

Something I have been researching and wanted a sanity check on.

Real answers from people here are usually more useful than search results.

I am not after the textbook answer - more interested in what people would actually do in practice.

I want to know what the second year of doing this looks like, not just the first week.

What has your experience been?

[IronFist21]

Makes sense to me. Useful to know

[SpinState]

Can't argue with that. Fair enough really.

Legend

[IronQuarry48]

I don't know about that. Could not agree more.

Ha, fair enough

[Rachel_72]

Quick tangential point: while everyone obsesses over the chipset, the actual bottleneck on these entry boards is often M.2 thermal throttling after 20 minutes of sustained writes, so check if the secondary slot has any heatsink before finalising. On the flip side, you could save cash by skipping RGB headers and using a case with built-in lighting, but is that a compromise you'd actually notice in daily use?