Decent, no frills, uATX 1700 recommendations.

[Halon]

I’m in the market for a solid LGA 1700 uATX board, with the intention of running an i5-13500 with 32GB of unremarkable DDR4-3200 and a 650W EVGA PSU I have here. What I need:

• 4 DIMM slots, as that’s how many sticks of RAM I have.
• Power regulation fit for driving the latter CPU, with the option of playing with PL2 to get it to work at peak for longer than stock would call for.
• Two M.2 slots would be nice. I don’t care much about interface speed for the secondary disk.
• Decent quality. Good VRM implementation, solid BIOS, and generally unfussy. If it hasn’t been implicated in various recent motherboard maker dumbassery I’ll be a happy camper.
• An 16x PCIe slot, and ideally a 4x slot two spaces beneath it. My graphics needs won’t prevent me from using it at that spacing.
• Bluetooth/wifi would be nice.

I’m not sold on or poisoned against any vendor besides maybe Biostar. Let me know what you think, and thank you.

 

[kirbyrj]

I've used the MSI B660M Mortar DDR4 board, and it was excellent. I've seen them sub $150 at Amazon.

 

[Halon]

Thank you! That looks like exactly what I was hoping for.

 

[kirbyrj]

Another one that was slightly cheaper was the Gigabyte B660m aorus pro ax. Newegg was running a special for $109.

They both have decent VRMs.