Question Building a light use PC for family, need LGA 1700 motherboard suggestion with 4 RAM slots ?

[LordPM]

Building a light use (browsing, movies, music and such) for the family. Got a 12400f intel processor with a 2070 oc video card and 32GB for DDR4 3600 so far. I need a motherboard suggestion please. Someone suggested an ASRock B660M Pro RS Micro ATX LGA1700 but i can't get one around here. Is there something that would work for this kind of build that would be reliable with 4 RAM slots, but not too expansive considering what this will be used for? I had found an MSI PRO B760M-P DDR4 LGA 1700, but reading the reviews it seems like a hit or miss as far as defects goes. Anyone got any experience with it or any other suggestions?

Thank you very much gentlemen.

 

[Lutfij]

Yeah that board is fine, you can look at any B660 chipsetted motherboard but please look for motherboard's with a good VRM design. The B760 MSI board you've linked is lacking any VRM heatsinks.

but i can't get one around here
Where is here? Noticed the extension on your Newegg URL. You're in Canada? Perhaps pass on your budget for your motherboard purchase, your location and your preferred site for purchase and the community could chime in with suggestions.

Does your board need to be matx in form factor or you landed on matx boards since they cost lower than an atx board?

 

[Misgar]

If you intend to do any extreme XMP overclocking, I suggest leaving two of the four DIMM slots empty. In many scenarios, two DIMMs run faster than four DIMMs with XMP enabled.

If you must fill all four DIMM slots to achieve 128GB say, it's advisable to buy a single kit of four matched DIMMs, not two pairs of potentially unmatched DIMMs.

If finances dictate you can only afford two DIMMs at the outset, don't be surprised if you have stability problems when you add a second pair of DIMMs at a later date, especially with high XMP settings.

 

[LordPM]

If you intend to do any extreme XMP overclocking, I suggest leaving two of the four DIMM slots empty. In many scenarios, two DIMMs run faster than four DIMMs with XMP enabled.

If you must fill all four DIMM slots to achieve 128GB say, it's advisable to buy a single kit of four matched DIMMs, not two pairs of potentially unmatched DIMMs.

If finances dictate you can only afford two DIMMs at the outset, don't be surprised if you have stability problems when you add a second pair of DIMMs at a later date, especially with high XMP settings.

Oh no XMP what so ever. This is only so the kids can watch their stuff and listen to music and the wife can do wife stuff on it. My gaming pc is the one under going though the extreme treatment

 

[LordPM]

Yeah that board is fine, you can look at any B660 chipsetted motherboard but please look for motherboard's with a good VRM design. The B760 MSI board you've linked is lacking any VRM heatsinks.

but i can't get one around here
Where is here? Noticed the extension on your Newegg URL. You're in Canada? Perhaps pass on your budget for your motherboard purchase, your location and your preferred site for purchase and the community could chime in with suggestions.

Does your board need to be matx in form factor or you landed on matx boards since they cost lower than an atx board?

Was solely based on price since the pc is mostly gonna be idle or doing virtually nothing (youtube, spotify, chrome, maybe some microsoft office works).
If a board isn't twice the price and is ATX and a much better option it's alright for me.
Yes i am in canada. Some of the boards have limited supplies here sadly.
Thanks for the quick reply.