Best Motherboards 2022 for Gaming, by Socket and Chipset

[Admin]

Here are the best motherboards for Intel and AMD’s recent processors. These boards offer great features and overclocking performance.

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[hotaru251]

Gigabyte X570 Aorus Ultra

Best Mid-Priced X570 Motherboard

I'd argue the MSI X570S Edge max wifi is better.

basically only thing Aorus wins in is: 1more pcie x1 slot, dual bios (most people wont need it as flashback fixes msot peoples issues) & ECC RAM (i dont think msi one does but could be wrong here? but again most ppl wont care about)

Edge Max has more highspeed pcie x16 slots, more faster usb slots, and supports aptX (audio over bluetooth) & higher ram OC (on ryzen not really important to most)

 

[SirRichfit]

The Asus ROG Maximus XIII Hero in my opinion is top choice for Z590 custom water cooling as well as the top Z590 motherboard. EKWB makes a beautiful block for it and installation is a breeze even for beginners. Built my first custom PC with it a few months ago and I'm in love

 

[shady28]

Have a hard time with this list, seems like it is put together based on paper specs and price comparison, not actual experience.

On the Intel side, it's well known by enthusiasts at this point that ASRock and Gigabyte lost the motherboard war on Alder Lake. ASRock with bad VRM design on all but the highest end boards, Gigabyte with DDR5 issues and buggy BIOS. MSI and Asus "won" this round, yet you have a Gigabyte as #1 for Z690.

You can see this on motherboard prices as of Sep 2022. Discounts are normal at this point, but ASRock and Gigabyte are dirt cheap, with things like the Aorus Elite AX for $199 down from $289 MSRP, and you can get ASRock Z690s for ~$150.

Meanwhile an Asus Z690-Prime TUF is $279, down from $289, and the MSI Z690-A Pro Wifi - MSI's low end Z690 - is $215, down from $239.

In other words, MSI and Asus have the best Z690 motherboards. Enough people know this now that the level of discount is reflecting it. This is another garbage list from Tom's.

 

[ocer9999]

I had nothing but good experiences with the Z690 Taichi, solid VRMs and overclocker.
Sometimes you don't need to have overpriced VRMs to actually have a good overclocking motherboard, more than VRM go to overclocking, like the bios and PCB.

 

[dennphill]

Here are the best motherboards for Intel and AMD’s recent processors. These boards offer great features and overclocking performance.

Best Motherboards 2022 for Gaming, by Socket and Chipset : Read more

Pure drivel so far...been looking for a good next gen mATX AMD board recently and all I see is this crap - one mATX board that is a 'crippled, half-a**ed product' - and that make me think i will stay with my current 5-5600X and Gen4 build from last year....and just maybe buy an Apple Mac next go-around! Disappointed and tired in what ASUS, MSI, ASRock, and others are offering...and these MB manufacturers don't ever seem to understand...or take anything away from...what enthusiast's have purchased or commented on in the past. Prices are really crap compared to utility...China's mostly to blame for all the problems in the chip market, though they are truly worthless and need to be taken down a peg or two. I think Tom's doesn't understand many of us out here are dtill looking for mATX or smaller size cases - decided long, long ago EATX and even ATX are just "too-big crates" to live on my desk...or even beside or behind it. And having just built an RGB (sort of) PC last year, I am P.O.ed that Corsair Memory, a Lian Li box and fans, and an AMD GPU RGBs won't nicley play together. (My fault for not researching this before purchases...but last year - well, mid-2021 was a challenge to buy anything!) Sorry for the screed, but I am as dissapointed in these next-Gen Intel and AMD products and the stuff that goes with them; and mostly I am hopoing for you'all to have a better 2023 than we've had in the past two years. Happy NewYear!

 

[jaquith]

I'm sorry but "Best" means "Best" and not some socially correct version with last year's models and older chipset or some convoluted value rationalization scheme. The current Best LGA 1700 motherboards are: ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Extreme, MSI MEG Z790 Godlike, Gigabyte Z790 AORUS Master, etc top-tier models. It's like arguing what is the best GPU for 2022 is the RTX 4090 series.

If all you care about is some baseline metric then find the cheapest chipset that supports whatever CPU and that's it. Also by that metric the cheapest car on earth is the equivalent to a Lamborghini.

 

[PiranhaTech]

I would like some cheaper options, even if it means 1-2 generations ago for CPUs. For example, best motherboard for under $130, best motherboard for under $100, best motherboard for $75. One for each CPU brand if possible.

 

[pinkeye]

Did Matt just give-up when he got to AMD?
Where's an ITX option??

 

[Main_gano]

Even it is not marketed as a product gamers, the Asus Pro Art offer more value for money and more high end features than the Asrock Taichi for less price
RGB is not real vital and 8 Sata Ports are more workstation like, as in times of NVMe as many Sata Drives are seldom to find in a gamers pc
The high power stages may be interesting for hard core overclockers, but for the average gamer what the Pro Art offer is more than sufficient.

 

[razor512]

I wish for x570 they used better chipset heatsinks early on. I currently have the Asus X570-E Strix ( https://rog.asus.com/us/motherboards/rog-strix/rog-strix-x570-e-gaming-model/ ). It uses a fan to blow onto a tiny heatsink where if you remove the cover (took a pic when i first opened it), it becomes clear that they could have easily just made it passively cooled by giving it a larger passive heatsink. The oddthing is that this was a common sight on many motherboards; active cooling but a very tiny heatsink.

 

[Flying-Q]

Where is the entry for AMD mITX?

 

[imppress]

https://www.wired.com/story/gigabyte-motherboard-firmware-backdoor/

Gigabyte motherboards update their software through an exploitable firmware-based backdoor that uses http connections, vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks on insecure wifi and NAS deployment.

If you own or buy one, see whether a patch corrects this security vulnerability.
HTTP? Why? It seems like amateur hour. To the point where it strikes me as the result of gob-smacking incompetence, or deliberate kneecapping. Why? An explanation is called for. Who's head will roll for this?

 

[Kulkiet]

funny part reason to avoid only 2 m.2 and another mobo its plus 2 m.2 slots,,,or only 6 usb ports ,,,who created this list

 

[joeer77]

Remember when you could get motherboards for $50? $100? I would never spend $300 on a mobo.

I always thought ASRock was a cheaper brand. I have no experience with them. Are they solid? My experience is with Gigabyte, MSI and ASUS which have been good to me.

 

[PiranhaTech]

Remember when you could get motherboards for $50? $100? I would never spend $300 on a mobo.

I always thought ASRock was a cheaper brand. I have no experience with them. Are they solid? My experience is with Gigabyte, MSI and ASUS which have been good to me.

ASRock is said to be a good brand.

They used to be part of ASUS as a budget brand, then ASRock went into Pegatron, which got spun off into its own company with ASUS being a major shareholder of Pegatron... whew...

 

[Kaitain Jones]

Can somebody explain to me why the mATX options for newer Ryzen chips are so feeble (in terms of both features and number of boards available)? I can only assume there is no real market for high-end mATX Zen 5 boards, but don't know why this would be.

I have been gaming happily on mATX machines for a decade, but feel like I've hit a wall now that AMD is becoming the clear best option for PC gaming.

 

[thestryker]

Can somebody explain to me why the mATX options for newer Ryzen chips are so feeble (in terms of both features and number of boards available)? I can only assume there is no real market for high-end mATX Zen 5 boards, but don't know why this would be.

I have been gaming happily on mATX machines for a decade, but feel like I've hit a wall now that AMD is becoming the clear best option for PC gaming.

This problem unfortunately isn't limited to AMD. There are very limited options for both AMD and Intel when it comes to mATX. About the best you can hope for anymore is a good quality lower-midrange board. Personally speaking I think it comes down to ITX taking over the small market and the rest of the market looking at ATX. If there were good mATX options that's what I'd have looked at this time, but there aren't so ATX for me.