I'm really considering just going with a 12th gen, and upgrading in a few years vs. trying to stretch the 13th gen 3-5 years. It's a fool's errand trying to kee

I'm really considering just going with a 12th gen, and upgrading in a few years vs. trying to stretch the 13th gen 3-5 years. It's a fool's errand trying to keep up with everything, and I need to do more research from a price vs. value point of view. What motherboard are you using for your 12th gen? It's honestly been the most difficult part of piecing together my build. It seems like all the decent motherboards are plagued with one or more issues e.g. poor VRMs, poor bios/supporting software [1], NIC disconnects randomly [2], coil whine, etc.. I'll admit, I have only seen benchmarks for DDR5 in regards to games which was not impressive. It's disappoint to see that other applications would only have a greater performance of around 3%. Maybe I will just go with DDR4 then... [1] I have heard Gigabyte boards have a hell of a time getting RBG Fusion 2.0 to work/save settings. [2] I have also read to stay far away from boards with Intel's I225/226 NICs or to get a secondary NIC.