GIGABYTE B365M DS3H (LGA1151/Intel/Micro ATX/USB 3.1 Gen 1 (USB3.0) Type A/DDR4/Motherboard), 10.43 x 10.43 x 2.12 inches

Don't expect flashing lights and dancing girls, but with six SATA ports and USB 3.1 onboard, this is a nice base for a system. The onboard video is currently supporting two 24" monitors, and I will eventually get around to trying the third output to see if three is supported "out of the box".It works flawlessly with Linux Mint 20, and there are plenty of case fan plugs to make sure your system stays cool. With four dimm sockets, I have 48GB of RAM installed and I never have to make it struggle. The onboard M2 socket is convenient, and allows for up to seven drives (unless one of the SATA ports is disabled from use of the M2 slot — I haven't experimented with that many yet).The onboard Gigabit ethernet works great.There are fancier boards that cost a lot more money, many of which only support a couple of DIMMs or a couple of drives (perhaps because they're focused on blinkin' lights). For my needs, this was a very affordable board that made a good foundation for my system.===========================Edit: The board is still working great, but I did discover one flaw that will likely be common in this form factor: when a nice video card is installed (in my case a GTX 1650) it covers one of the other PCI-E slots, leaving only one for expansion. Also worth noting, that one slot is right against one of the fans of the graphics card. If it wasn't a very low profile WiFi/Bluetooth card, I would worry about the airflow.Bottom line on that, my next build may be a full size tower just to be able to upgrade more things on the board. It's not that the onboard sound isn't good — it is — but if I wanted, for example, 5.1 or 7.1 sound, I would probably have to go the USB route.

took a little over a week to arrive, but i got it preowned from the amazon warehouse so sometimes thats to be expected. I was upgrading from a very old AMD chipset so I was very happy to finally have a halfway functional pc. I had set it up with my new cpu, but it refused to turn on. The gpu fan would spin about 1/10 of a full rotation then the pc would shut down. Frustrated because I knew all my connections were correct, I brought it to a local PC shop just to have them confirm my suspicion that I received a faulty motherboard. After telling me the motherboard was defective, I brought it home and began putting my old PC back together to use in the meantime. Same issue occurred, however. Eventually I came to the conclusion that my old PSU got burned out within seconds of using this motherboard, although I had calculated the new power intake required by my upgrade. After testing the board one final time with the new power supply, suddenly magic happened! it booted on, and brought me to a strange BIOS screen I had never seen before. With a little more effort, I got this bad boy to start working. Now that you have my backstory, here's a FORMAL review.-Has a RGB LED strip built into the board (not sure if it was advertised and i didnt read far enough into it, but it was a pleasant surprise)-Front panel connectors are labeled on the board (rather than needing to look through the whole manual)-Very straightforward BIOS-Great sound card built into the board, way less interference than my last board-Layout makes cable management very simpleGreat board, very happy I made the purchase. Not sure if I'm the only one that has had this PSU issue happen, but I would recommend having a backup handy just in case!

when i had put my new cpu in and wanted to test if it would actually power on, it didn’t and the whole problem was the motherboard wasn’t updated so i did a q flash and it powered right up.

A very good motherboard overall. As did many others, I encountered the '5 beep' problem. I was able to solve it, so hopefully this helps someone. When you boot up, it will give 5 short beeps. If you look it up, this indicates a 'CPU' error. This motherboard has onboard video outputs, but no onboard video - it depends on the CPU onboard video. However, I bought a CPU (9100F) that has no onboard video, and thus it wouldn't even post (only 5 beeps). I bought an inexpensive video card, installed it, and it works perfectly. I would give it 5 stars except for this very weird oversight - it's nowhere in their documentation, and, in fact, their documentation goes to great length to tell of the HDMI and video output, only vaguely alluding to needing CPU support. Anyhow, good board with 1 weird problem.

The media could not be loaded. MY BUILD:Motherboard: Gigabyte 365M ($75 new on amazon)CPU: I3 9100F ($71 new on amazon)GPU: Zotac 1060 6GB (on ebay used for $150)RAM: Oloy DDR4 8x2gb ($52 new on amazon and they look great for cheap DDR4)STORAGE: Kingston 240gb m.2 ($29 new on Amazon)CASE: CoolerMaster QL300 ($50 new on Amazon)PSU: Thermaltake white 500WThis awesome little motherboard was easy to install. I was a little worried because I saw quite a few reviews that mentioned having to update the bios for 9th gen CPUs to work but my board was ready to go. I installed windows off of a USB drive with the ISO file you can get for free from the windows website. I had to make 0 tweaks from the bios in order to get windows to begin install. I would say from power on to booting into windows took between 7-10 minutes. In my room while browsing or watching youtube this computer barely has to use its fans. While playing warzone the Intel stock cooler gets loud HOWEVER the Zotac 1060 stays quiet and the case fan does too. For my first budget build I love this. I bench marked it against my friends 6th gen i5 6400T 1060 build and it matches (surpassed it in a few) it in most if not all games. I would definitely recommend this build/motherboard to anyone would like to try a cheap reliable PC build.