[SOLVED] What's the point of buying a expensive motherboard for gaming?

Solution
In my experience, cheaping out on a mobo is a bad idea. Expensive motherboards have things that differentiate from cheap ones:

- lighting
- a better BIOS
- more ports, headers, (RGB, fan, etc)
- reliability
- some are equipped with surge protectors
- speedier boot times (by slightly)
- better power efficiency, etc.

There’s a lot of reasons, and depending on your budget I’d recommend anything about $100.
In my experience, cheaping out on a mobo is a bad idea. Expensive motherboards have things that differentiate from cheap ones:

- lighting
- a better BIOS
- more ports, headers, (RGB, fan, etc)
- reliability
- some are equipped with surge protectors
- speedier boot times (by slightly)
- better power efficiency, etc.

There’s a lot of reasons, and depending on your budget I’d recommend anything about $100.
 
Solution
there is a grand canyon of difference and variance between the 'cheapest' and the most expensive boards, and a huge array of options in between.

To *me*, paying $350 for a mainboard because it includes wireless and/ or has a fancy NAME attached to it over a perfectly competent $150-$160 option is ludicrous. Others may live and die at the altar of having enough RGB headers, or, some simply insist on having three M.2 slots, etc...

If shopping for a Z390, I'd look at Asus' Prime boards....unless you truly need something it does not offer.