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Every mech­a­nism has a base that allows it to func­tion at its best. This also applies to com­put­er tech­nol­o­gy. With weak sys­tem soft­ware, for exam­ple, it will not be pos­si­ble to play at all. Yes, work is not always com­fort­able. Here are the best moth­er­boards of 2022 that will keep your PCs and lap­tops run­ning fast and smooth­ly.

Top 10 rating according to KP

1. MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Edge WIFI motherboard

Stur­dy moth­er­board that is sup­port­ed on mul­ti­ple proces­sors. The mod­el has a good build qual­i­ty. In the kit you will also find two Wi-Fi anten­nas, which obvi­ous­ly will not be super­flu­ous. On all the main ele­ments — mas­sive radi­a­tors. This board has great over­clock­ing poten­tial and all mod­ern fea­tures are avail­able. The cool­ing sys­tem also inspires con­fi­dence.

Characteristics

sock­et	LGA1200
Sup­port­ed proces­sors	Intel 10th Gen Core/Pentium Gold/Celeron
Sup­port for mul­ti-core proces­sors	there is
Chipset	Intel Z490 Express
BIOS	AMI
EFI Sup­port	there is
SLI/Crossfire sup­port	Cross­Fire
Mem­o­ry	DDR4 DIMM, 2133–2933 MHz
Num­ber of mem­o­ry slots	four
Dual chan­nel sup­port	there is
Max­i­mum Mem­o­ry	128 GB
Num­ber of SATA 6Gb/s con­nec­tors	6, RAID: 0, 1, 5, 10 based on Intel Z490
Num­ber of M.2 slots	2
M.2 inter­face type	PCI‑E/SATA 3.0
M.2 slot type	Key M, 2242/ 2260 /2280/ 22110; Key M, 2242/2260/2280
Expan­sion slots	2xPCI‑E x16, 2xPCI‑E x1
PCI Express 3.0 sup­port	there is
Sound	7.1CH, HDA, based on Real­tek ALC1200-VD1
eth­er­net	2.5 Gbps, based on Real­tek RTL8125B-CG
WiFi	802.11ac
Blue­tooth	there is
Avail­abil­i­ty of inter­faces	13 USB, S/PDIF out, HDMI, PS/2 (key­board), PS/2 (mouse)
Con­nec­tors on the rear pan­el	6 USB, 1 USB Type‑C, opti­cal out­put, Dis­play­Port, HDMI, PS/2 (key­board), PS/2 (mouse)
Main pow­er con­nec­tor	24-pin
CPU pow­er con­nec­tor	8‑pin + 4‑pin
Type of cool­ing sys­tem	pas­sive
Extra options	form fac­tor — ATX; there is a play­room; there is a con­nec­tor for con­nect­ing an RGB tape; 3 year war­ran­ty.

Pros and cons

High-qual­i­ty assem­bly, a large num­ber of ports and expan­sion slots

Weak audio sys­tem

2. ASUS PRIME Z490‑A motherboard

This rep­re­sen­ta­tive of our rat­ing also has a lot of advan­tages. The num­ber of slots and con­nec­tors will def­i­nite­ly please users. There is a switch­able back­light. Undoubt­ed advan­tages from the z490 chipset. The moth­er­board has an inter­est­ing appear­ance — snow-white dec­o­ra­tive ele­ments and alu­minum heatsinks on black tex­to­lite. The board is based on the Intel LGA 1200 proces­sor sock­et and sup­ports the 10th gen­er­a­tion Comet Lake‑S CPU.

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3. Motherboard GIGABYTE B550I AORUS PRO AX (rev. 1.0)

This moth­er­board sup­ports PCIe 4.0, which is extreme­ly impor­tant for mod­ern com­po­nents. It is exe­cut­ed very reli­ably, it pro­vides a met­al frame from the front and back sides. Among the plus­es is also a built-in Wi-Fi mod­ule that sup­ports the 802.11ax stan­dard. Users note that the board has good per­for­mance. It can unleash the poten­tial of top-end proces­sors like AMD Ryzen™ 3rd Gen, and appar­ent­ly 4th Gen.

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4. ASRock B550M-HDV motherboard

A mod­el that will attract buy­ers with its cost is not the largest on the mar­ket. It has good over­clock­ing, though with­out VRM heatsinks you should not count on it. Among the plus­es are the pres­ence of two con­nec­tors for 4 usb, as well as sata con­nec­tors on the right, and not on top. This is con­ve­nient for those who use large graph­ics cards.

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5. Supermicro X9DRi‑F motherboard

Users admire the pow­er of this moth­er­board. It is able to pro­vide almost max­i­mum per­for­mance. In the favor­able direc­tion, the mod­el is dis­tin­guished by two proces­sors and avail­able com­po­nents. There are many mem­o­ry slots, and its max­i­mum amount is 512 GB. How­ev­er, there are also repul­sive moments: the device is one of the most expen­sive on the mar­ket.

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6. Motherboard Colorful C.A68M-BTC YV14

An afford­able moth­er­board with a set of nec­es­sary qual­i­ties. With it, you can watch movies in good res­o­lu­tion and play games, though not very demand­ing. The com­pact dimen­sions of the mod­el give you the oppor­tu­ni­ty to choose any case — a full-fledged com­put­er case or a minia­ture one designed for a microATX sys­tem.

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7. Motherboard Biostar IH61MF-Q5

This option is also among the avail­able. The spec­i­fi­ca­tions state that the moth­er­board sup­ports a RAM clock speed of 1600 MHz, which is con­sid­ered an advan­tage for many users. It is suit­able for sev­er­al proces­sors — in par­tic­u­lar, the Intel® core ™ i3-3220 and i5-3570k, whose own­ers often refuse the mod­el, doubt­ing its com­pat­i­bil­i­ty.

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8. Motherboard Esonic H61FEL‑U

Many com­put­er own­ers con­sid­er this option as a replace­ment for a failed moth­er­board. There is noth­ing to be sur­prised at — it is rel­a­tive­ly cheap, has a min­i­mum set of nec­es­sary char­ac­ter­is­tics and is com­pat­i­ble with a large num­ber of proces­sors. It works, judg­ing by user reviews, with­out com­plaints — this is the most impor­tant thing.

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9. Motherboard Advantech AIMB-782QG2-00A1E

Serv­er moth­er­board with pow­er­ful fea­tures. It sup­ports work on proces­sors — Intel 2nd, 3rd Core i7 / i5 / i3. Can work with sev­er­al at once. The mod­el is dis­tin­guished by build qual­i­ty and reli­a­bil­i­ty of all mate­ri­als. The pack­age bun­dle will also pleas­ant­ly sur­prise you, in addi­tion to the board itself, you will find here — 2 SATA cables, 1 SATA pow­er cable and a cov­er for the rear ports of the case.

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10. Intel DP43BF motherboard

Our rat­ing is com­plet­ed by one of the most dis­cussed moth­er­boards on the net. It is avail­able, there is sup­port for the old sock­et. In addi­tion, we should not for­get about the man­u­fac­tur­er — Intel boards are dis­tin­guished by sta­ble oper­a­tion. Despite the price, there are qual­i­ty com­po­nents and great sound. The cable reach­es any­where and at the same time does not inter­fere with the video card and oth­er details. Also here are all device dri­vers and any doc­u­men­ta­tion.

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How to choose a motherboard

The moth­er­board is a very spe­cif­ic thing. You can’t buy the first one you see. How to choose the right com­po­nent so impor­tant for a PC, told pro­gram­mer Dani­il Kosya­gin. He draws atten­tion to the fol­low­ing fea­tures.

Compatibility

The moth­er­board will not work on a com­put­er that it is not com­pat­i­ble with. There­fore, here, first of all, every­thing depends on the sock­et — it must be the same as that of the proces­sor in order for the instal­la­tion to become pos­si­ble. The sock­et is fre­quent­ly updat­ed, so for smooth oper­a­tion it is bet­ter to take devices with the lat­est. There are two man­u­fac­tur­ers of proces­sors for com­put­ers — AMD and Intel. So many sock­ets. The most mod­ern ones for Intel are 1151, 1151-v2, 2066, for AMD — AM4, TR4. But here you can’t keep track of the time, it’s bet­ter to check with the sell­ers — they can sug­gest new­er and more suit­able options for you. And don’t for­get to check the com­pat­i­bil­i­ty with the proces­sor before buy­ing a board, usu­al­ly such things are indi­cat­ed.

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Chipset

The chipset is anoth­er proces­sor on the moth­er­board that pow­ers the devices con­nect­ed to it. Its choice depends on the tasks that the user sets for him­self. Type, num­ber of inter­faces for con­nect­ing USB, hard dri­ves — these are the points that chipsets dif­fer in. In cheap boards, as a rule, entry-lev­el chipsets. They are suit­able for reg­u­lar home PCs. The inter­me­di­ate lev­el is suit­able for com­put­er game lovers. A high lev­el is an expen­sive moth­er­board with the max­i­mum set of fea­tures. Top mod­els also have a proces­sor over­clock­ing fea­ture, which is an impor­tant fac­tor for many.

Chipsets, like sock­ets, are devel­oped by Intel and AMD. There are mod­ern and very pow­er­ful mod­els, for exam­ple X399 from AMD and X99 / X299 from Intel, there are also those that are sim­pler.

RAM

RAM is one of the most impor­tant things in a PC. The moth­er­board has slots for mem­o­ry mod­ules. Many com­pact mod­els have 2 slots. But it is bet­ter if there are more than 4 or, for exam­ple, 8. How­ev­er, such boards will be larg­er in size. Cur­rent mod­els sup­port DDR4 mem­o­ry, stan­dard DIMM form fac­tor, or com­pact SO-DIMM. Inex­pen­sive options have a max­i­mum mem­o­ry fre­quen­cy of 2400–2666 MHz. For those that are of bet­ter qual­i­ty — 3400–3600 MHz.

Form factor

Here we are talk­ing about the actu­al dimen­sions of the moth­er­board. The main thing is that it fits in the PC case. There are sev­er­al options. E‑ATX — for board size 305 by 330 mm. Often these are very high-qual­i­ty mod­els for top plat­forms — LGA 2011–3 and LGA 2066. True, they will not fit into every case. For pro­fes­sion­al and reg­u­lar PCs, a mod­el with an ATX form fac­tor (305 by 244 mm) is suit­able. Micro-ATX — 244 by 244 mm — a com­pact vari­a­tion, which, how­ev­er, is no worse than large coun­ter­parts. It is some­times even suit­able for play­ing games on the com­put­er. The Mini-ITX for 170mm by 170mm board is designed to assem­ble com­po­nents for a portable desk­top PC. Mini-STX (140 by 140 mm) — for embed­ded sys­tems and com­pact PCs, it will accom­mo­date mem­o­ry mod­ules from lap­tops and exter­nal pow­er sup­plies, but not an exter­nal video card. Per­for­mance will also be lim­it­ed here.

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motherboard firmware

This is the pro­gram that con­trols its func­tions. Many present BIOS firmware — a text and sim­ple menu. Also, some boards today have UEFI firmware, where the inter­face is graph­i­cal and more con­ve­nient.

Connectors

Con­nec­tors on the moth­er­board are need­ed not only for mem­o­ry mod­ules. So, the boards should have stor­age for video cards, the more of them, the bet­ter the per­for­mance in games, for exam­ple. Many mod­ern boards sup­port slots for the lat­est ver­sion of cards — PCI Express 3.0 and 4.0, for a good gam­ing expe­ri­ence, a PCI‑E x16 con­nec­tor is enough. Expan­sion boards can also be con­nect­ed to it. Slots for them should also be on the board, along with a clas­sic slot for boards or addi­tion­al sound cards — PCI‑E x1. Of course, do not for­get about con­nect­ing hard dri­ves. For them, the boards have con­nec­tors — SATA 3. They are also designed for SSD dri­ves and opti­cal wires. SATA Express is an option when such con­nec­tors are allo­cat­ed in a sep­a­rate block. If the moth­er­board has an M.2 inter­face, then the SSD dri­ve can be installed on it using spe­cial mounts, the main thing is not to make a mis­take with the size.

The board must have a suf­fi­cient num­ber of USB, HDMI con­nec­tors to con­nect a com­put­er to a TV or Dic­play­Port to con­nect to mod­ern mon­i­tors. An RJ-45 con­nec­tor is required to con­nect to the Inter­net — Wi-Fi anten­nas are not avail­able on all mod­els.

Other highlights

Also, our inter­locu­tor advis­es to con­sult with experts about the sound of the board — it is desir­able to have an HDA codec, but this is not nec­es­sary. As for the net­work con­nec­tion, for good func­tion­al­i­ty, the data trans­fer rate must be at least 1000 Mbps. It is also impor­tant to choose a pow­er scheme and cool­ing options for your proces­sor — this point should also be dis­cussed with a pro­fes­sion­al.

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