GIGABYTE B365M DS3H (LGA1151/Intel/Micro ATX/USB 3.1 Gen 1 (USB3.0) Type A/DDR4/Motherboard)

Don't expect flashing lights and dancing girls, but with six SATA ports and USB 3.1 onboard, this is a nice base for a system. The onboard video is currently supporting two 24" monitors, and I will eventually get around to trying the third output to see if three is supported "out of the box".It works flawlessly with Linux Mint 20, and there are plenty of case fan plugs to make sure your system stays cool. With four dimm sockets, I have 48GB of RAM installed and I never have to make it struggle. The onboard M2 socket is convenient, and allows for up to seven drives (unless one of the SATA ports is disabled from use of the M2 slot — I haven't experimented with that many yet).The onboard Gigabit ethernet works great.There are fancier boards that cost a lot more money, many of which only support a couple of DIMMs or a couple of drives (perhaps because they're focused on blinkin' lights). For my needs, this was a very affordable board that made a good foundation for my system.===========================Edit: The board is still working great, but I did discover one flaw that will likely be common in this form factor: when a nice video card is installed (in my case a GTX 1650) it covers one of the other PCI-E slots, leaving only one for expansion. Also worth noting, that one slot is right against one of the fans of the graphics card. If it wasn't a very low profile WiFi/Bluetooth card, I would worry about the airflow.Bottom line on that, my next build may be a full size tower just to be able to upgrade more things on the board. It's not that the onboard sound isn't good — it is — but if I wanted, for example, 5.1 or 7.1 sound, I would probably have to go the USB route.

The media could not be loaded. MY BUILD:Motherboard: Gigabyte 365M ($75 new on amazon)CPU: I3 9100F ($71 new on amazon)GPU: Zotac 1060 6GB (on ebay used for $150)RAM: Oloy DDR4 8x2gb ($52 new on amazon and they look great for cheap DDR4)STORAGE: Kingston 240gb m.2 ($29 new on Amazon)CASE: CoolerMaster QL300 ($50 new on Amazon)PSU: Thermaltake white 500WThis awesome little motherboard was easy to install. I was a little worried because I saw quite a few reviews that mentioned having to update the bios for 9th gen CPUs to work but my board was ready to go. I installed windows off of a USB drive with the ISO file you can get for free from the windows website. I had to make 0 tweaks from the bios in order to get windows to begin install. I would say from power on to booting into windows took between 7-10 minutes. In my room while browsing or watching youtube this computer barely has to use its fans. While playing warzone the Intel stock cooler gets loud HOWEVER the Zotac 1060 stays quiet and the case fan does too. For my first budget build I love this. I bench marked it against my friends 6th gen i5 6400T 1060 build and it matches (surpassed it in a few) it in most if not all games. I would definitely recommend this build/motherboard to anyone would like to try a cheap reliable PC build.

This board has worked perfectly for a long time. I originally bought this because it was very cheap, and had good features. This board has many features boards of this price normally don't have. For the price, I would not expect 6 SATA ports, and one NVME port, but this little board has just that! there are other things as well, like TPM connections, RGB headers, a parallel port header, serial, USB 2.0 and 3.0, etc. The bios is also surprisingly good for the price. cheap boards usually have a bad bios, but this bios utility is surprisingly good. This board is currently being used in a NAS, because I trust it to be able to work 24/7 without issues. It has been going for about 3 months without any sudden power downs or other problems.One thing to note, is this board may boot-loop if you hold power to turn off the system, and instantly turn it back on. You may have to press the reset button on your case to fix that.Overall, I would recommend this for anyone who wants a reliable budget board for their system.

Bought this for its 6 sata ports to run a cheap home file server. Coupled it with a G5400 without any issues. One star docked because the SATA-0 port can't be used at the same time as an M.2 SATA or NVME drive (seems like using the M.2 port takes the SATA-0 port out of commission). I ended up using 6 sata drives.