@Steve I think you neglected to mention if these were all DDR-4 boards, or some were DDR-5. I have the Gigabyte B660M-DS3H DDR-4. So I was wondering if it was being compared score-wise to boards withh DDR-5.
In the face of some critical adversity, I still always build with Gigabyte boards. Reasoning that they always boot on the first try, and I've never had one fail. In fact, the 16 YO G-31 board still works just fine. Although admittedly I have no shame with regard to equipment, nor is it a match for today's internet or Firefox.
So, I paired the DS3H with an i3-12100 (A real one, not the crippled F model), and a GTX-1660 ti. This leaves me in an awkward situation whereby it's way overkill for home theater, and obviously underwhelming as a gaming PC. I mean you don't really need ray tracing to play DVD rips, do you?
Anyhoo, if the onboard sound card is a good as Gigabyte claims, I may have to give up running my "mixed tapes", on my ancient Sony CD changer, and join the modern world of "playlists".
In its favor, it is a 4 RAM slot board, with RGB no less. (The RGB is pretty much wasted on me though).
I do have a question though, "would anybody in their right mind actually stuff a 13900K in this thing"? I mean really, it doesn't have enough fancy heat sinks, it's too small, and it doesn't have a fierce enough name, ("Dominator", "Intimidator", "Plunderer", et al), to be be emotionally satisfying to a gaming addict. Sorry, I meant "aficionado", or possibly "enthusiast".
