Gigabyte B460M DS3H (LGA1200/Intel/B460/Micro ATX/M.2/SATA 6Gb/s/USB 3.2 Gen 1/DDR4/Motherboard)

I bought this mother board and just finished building my first computer. It was easier than I thought. Of course i watched a lot of you tube videos. i read the instructions like 10 times to make sure i get the right parts. Well i have to say the onboard music card (or whatever it is) just blows me away. I have my rig hooked up to the high end klipsch pc speakers. I hear things in my music that I don't hear even when I have a head set on. it is a real treat. the instructions were easy to follow as well. It tells you what all ios needed and what all will work. I used a i7 10th gen processor, with corsair water aio cooling system. I also have the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Gaming X 6GB GDDR Dual Fan PCIe 3.0x 16 Graphics GPU as well. using the Western Digital 1TB WD Blue SN550 NVMe Internal SSD - Gen3 x4 PCIe 8Gb/s, M.2 2280, 3D NAND, Up to 2,400 MB/s - WDS100T2B0C with the Corsair RGB PRO 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 2933 (PC4-23400) C16 Desktop Memory - Black (CMW16GX4M2Z2933C16). I was not looking for hard core gaming rig but will play some games. I am using mine mainly for the media part of it. (music, movies, video editing, pic editing etc.) If you are a first time builder i would recommend this as it really offers a lot for the money. the only draw back i found is that it does not have enough USB 3 connectors on the back. I have hubs and i just ordered PCI-E to USB 3.0 7-Port(2x USB-C - 5x USB-A )Expansion Card ,PCI Express USB 3.2 Add In Card , Internal USB3 Hub Converter for Desktop PC host card Su. that way I will have my usb c too.

Needing a motherboard with 10th gen Core processor support and having long used Gigabyte, I gave this product a shot as it was very inexpensive and offered most features I wanted with a logical layout. The price has risen ten bucks since.I use this board with i5-10500. Understand the B460 chipset limits you to DDR4-2666. This is the one functional limitation of this board, but the use of this chipset also permits the attractive pricing. You need a Z490 chipset to support faster memory speeds. Faster memory can help in older games that are not GPU limited on the order of 10%, but that's a fairly minor factor compared to the money involved to go with a proper Z490 board.This board does allow you to mess with the CPU power limits, however. In the case of my 65W i5-10500, I was able to raise the power limit, which permits running all 6 cores at 4.2GHz. At the 65W level you get 3.7GHz when all 6 cores are loaded, so this is a fairly functional advantage. I cannot get the CPU consuming more than 85W regardless of settings, but that may be due to being unable to increase the 6-core turbo's 42x multiplier. The settings are there, but I think you have to have a K series CPU for them to work.There are a lot of other power and clock rate settings in the BIOS which would allow you to effectively overclock K series parts, but without memory speeds beyond 2666MHz I doubt this board could be seen as a good platform for them. Likely the VRM has it limits for overclocking as well. It is great for my turbo-increased i5, although I would use DDR4-3200 if the B460 chipset supported it.Please also understand that there is a Gigabyte Z490 board available for 80-100 bucks more than this product, the Z490 UD. This board also limits you to DDR4-2666 when using i5 CPUs. I suspect it will run DDR4-3200 with an i7, but you have to go MSI or Asus if you want DDR4-3200 with an i5. Which is why I purchased B460M DS3H over the Z490 UD - it does exactly the same thing in practice with my CPU for vastly less money.In summary other than being limited to DDR4-2666 by the B460 chipset this is a very capable board for mainstream or slightly more demanding usages. The layout is very good for mATX, and although I have not used it yet the NVMe M2 support is nice. Overclockers will want a MSI or Asus Z490 board; essentially everyone else can well use this.Configuration:i5-10500 @ 85W/6x4.2GHzArctic Freezer 34 heatsink (60C loaded core temps)2x 16GB Crucial DDR4-2666 CL19Samsung 860EVO 1TB SATA3 SSDEVGA 1060-6GB SSC video cardCorsair HX620 power supplyAntec 300 caseWin 10 Pro 1909

This is my second Gigabyte UD motherboard, the first, a GA-H81M-S2H, came installed in my store bought PC, and I liked Gygabyte's great support and utility software that alowed me to keep my BIOS, drivers and utilities updated from within Windows, also how quickly they answered my questions when I started to upgrade that PC adding an SSD for runing the OS, adding a multi-card reader, upgrading memory to a faster and better brand, adding case fans, etc. So, when I felt it was time for me to build my PC by myself according to my own specs and needs (of course always researching in manufacturers web sites and forums) and within my budget, i decided to go with Gigabyte. This Micro ATX, Model B460M-DS3H, supports 10th generation Intel Core i, with LGA1200 socket, from Core i3 to Core i9 (i'm using Core i5-10400), it has 4 288-pin DDR4 memory slots for up to 128 GB RAM (4 x32GB DIMMs), a PCIex16 slot for the GPU, an NVMe slot for that type od SSD or optane memory, 5 SATA III ports, 5.1 audio out, etc. Installing componentes its easy as every socket, slot and header is fool proofs with marking and guides the prevent wrong insertion. It also features Gigabyte support, and applications for managing many BIOS feature fdrom within Windows, including flashing your BIOS. Its being one month since I finished building my PC with the features I wanted based on this motherboard, which allows gamers, or anyone who knows what he is doing to over clock and manage PMW CPU and case fans sppeds, etc. I recommend this product.

I have to say after using this board after two months I'm quite impressed. I haven't had any issues using this board since I purchased it. I paired a I5 10400f, and a RTX 2060 with this board, and it runs pretty well. If you're working on a budget, or if you don't mind a cap on the memory speed it's a good board to work with. That's how I would sum it up as, however these boards have increased in value for the time being. If you can get one for less than $100 like I did I'd say it'd be definitely worth it.