There's a lot of options for which motherboard to choose and it's getting me confused. What would you guys personally recommend for my build?
I want a motherboard that is not too expensive but is not cheap in quality and has no hardware malfunctions.
AM5 motherboards are pretty robustly designed and any will work very well for a 7600X. The best way to be assured of "quality" is to stay with one of the major brands... MSI, Gigabyte, Asrock or Asus. It's pretty rare but any board can develop a malfunction early in it's service life, it's even got a name for it "infant mortality". That's why there are warranties so that's something to look at and they can vary for the same board depending on the international market you're located in.
So the way to pick is based on features that are important to you. Some things I'd look for: Number and type of USB ports on the rear I/O panel, WiFi if you need it or don't mind paying extra for it if you don't, USB Ty C header for front panel if you need it, number and location of M.2 sockets for NVME drives.
Other things to consider: location of USB and SATA headers on the board: it can matter a lot when dressing cable in some of the more compact cases without putting stress on the connections; LAN ports: is 2.5Gb important or is 1Gb adequate (it usually is more than adequate); audio chipset: all boards offer one but some have a better CODEC chip than others if that's important; and location of GPU socket: if your GPU covers up all available expansion slots you won't have one to plug in an add-in card should you require one for your work.
And a last is aesthetics. It may seem unimportant but if you're planning a theme build you'll want the board to fit in.
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