Halon
Gawd
- Joined
- Aug 13, 2004
- Messages
- 859
I’m in the market for a solid LGA 1700 uATX board, with the intention of running an i5-13500 with 32GB of unremarkable DDR4-3200 and a 650W EVGA PSU I have here. What I need:
- 4 DIMM slots, as that’s how many sticks of RAM I have.
- Power regulation fit for driving the latter CPU, with the option of playing with PL2 to get it to work at peak for longer than stock would call for.
- Two M.2 slots would be nice. I don’t care much about interface speed for the secondary disk.
- Decent quality. Good VRM implementation, solid BIOS, and generally unfussy. If it hasn’t been implicated in various recent motherboard maker dumbassery I’ll be a happy camper.
- An 16x PCIe slot, and ideally a 4x slot two spaces beneath it. My graphics needs won’t prevent me from using it at that spacing.
- Bluetooth/wifi would be nice.