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Ugly motherboards with 99% of desired featureset: Somewhat almost reasonable prices. Pretty motherboards with 110% of desired featureset: Insert Fresh Kidney a

Ugly motherboards with 99% of desired featureset: Somewhat almost reasonable prices. Pretty motherboards with 110% of desired featureset: Insert Fresh Kidney and/or Lung

Semaphor 4y ago
I feel like nowadays you pay extra for your board not to have Gamer-RGB
- doikor 4y ago
  It is the same for cases. Often the model with a solid side panel (no window) now costs more.
  - Semaphor 4y ago
    IME it’s more that the ugly ones with a window or mesh go on sale all the time :/
  - helf 4y ago
    That's why I still use a ~15 year old Supermicro server chassis with desktop foot kit on it lol. I've upgraded the innards 2 or 3 times so far. Has 8 hotswap bays, tons of room. no fucking RGB or "windows" or any of that bullshit. I just built an i9-13900K replaced the LGA1366 2P board in it. It's an astounding performance bump, to mildly put it lol. I plan on using this chassis with this setup for probably another 5-10 years before upgrading again.
    - csdvrx 4y ago
      > Has 8 hotswap bays, tons of room refs?
      - helf 4y ago
        going forward I will either be using ReFS or ZFS. It will depend on what OS I decide to leave on this new build.
        csdvrx 4y ago
        No I mean, thanks for the brand, but what's the precise model? Supermicro what?
        helf 4y ago
        OH! Omg. I read that as ReFS and not “reference” lol. Case I’m using is a SC743TQ-1200B-SQ I love it. I have 6 more of them that I use for various things (3 are dedicated to my plex cluster).
- cesarb 4y ago
  The board having Gamer-RGB should not be a problem as long as you can disable it on the BIOS. It would be like any other "extra" hardware your board has that you don't use (for instance, extra headers for front panel USB ports you don't have, or more SATA ports than you need). The case having a transparent side panel, on the other hand...
kitsunesoba 4y ago
My biggest gripe with most lowend-to-midrange motherboards is that they practically always have disappointing rear I/O, which is ridiculous to me particularly on mATX/ATX boards, because part of the point of having a desktop instead of a laptop is to have a ton of ports and little to no need for hubs/docks/etc. So I tend to end up buying something on the higher end even if I'm not using all the board's features. My current tower uses an ASUS ProArt X570 Creator.

Ugly motherboards with 99% of desired featureset: Somewhat almost reasonable prices. Pretty motherboards with 110% of desired featureset: Insert Fresh Kidney and/or Lung

Semaphor 4y ago

I feel like nowadays you pay extra for your board not to have Gamer-RGB

doikor 4y ago
It is the same for cases. Often the model with a solid side panel (no window) now costs more.
- Semaphor 4y ago
  IME it’s more that the ugly ones with a window or mesh go on sale all the time :/
- helf 4y ago
  That's why I still use a ~15 year old Supermicro server chassis with desktop foot kit on it lol. I've upgraded the innards 2 or 3 times so far. Has 8 hotswap bays, tons of room. no fucking RGB or "windows" or any of that bullshit. I just built an i9-13900K replaced the LGA1366 2P board in it. It's an astounding performance bump, to mildly put it lol. I plan on using this chassis with this setup for probably another 5-10 years before upgrading again.
  - csdvrx 4y ago
    > Has 8 hotswap bays, tons of room refs?
    - helf 4y ago
      going forward I will either be using ReFS or ZFS. It will depend on what OS I decide to leave on this new build.
      - csdvrx 4y ago
        No I mean, thanks for the brand, but what's the precise model? Supermicro what?
        helf 4y ago
        OH! Omg. I read that as ReFS and not “reference” lol. Case I’m using is a SC743TQ-1200B-SQ I love it. I have 6 more of them that I use for various things (3 are dedicated to my plex cluster).
cesarb 4y ago
The board having Gamer-RGB should not be a problem as long as you can disable it on the BIOS. It would be like any other "extra" hardware your board has that you don't use (for instance, extra headers for front panel USB ports you don't have, or more SATA ports than you need). The case having a transparent side panel, on the other hand...

kitsunesoba 4y ago

My biggest gripe with most lowend-to-midrange motherboards is that they practically always have disappointing rear I/O, which is ridiculous to me particularly on mATX/ATX boards, because part of the point of having a desktop instead of a laptop is to have a ton of ports and little to no need for hubs/docks/etc. So I tend to end up buying something on the higher end even if I'm not using all the board's features. My current tower uses an ASUS ProArt X570 Creator.