MACHINIST LGA 1150 Motherboard, H81 Micro ATX Intel 4th Gen Gaming Motherboard for Desktop PC Support 1333/1600MHz DDR3 Dual Channel Max 16G, i3 i5 i7/Xeon E3 V3 Processor, NGFF M.2, SATA 3 H81M-PRO

OK, alot of bashing this Mobo, but I went for it.. I have an I7 4790 4th gen CPU out of a Optiplex SFF, so case swap you know is next to impossible and too much proprietary nonsense on the dell mobo. Hence the swap out. Now no instructions in the machinist luxury mobo box but ASUS pin out for the case header it is the same layout usually and basically the same pin out for mobos of this era. if you know what you are doing no issue what so ever. Secondly.. speaking it is a normal ATX size board had the usual psu plugs and I installed a Maxsun 730 GPU in the board slot no issues at all everything went smooth. Now the kicker the board arrived and looked like it was used before (no shrink wrap, box tape cut, and static bag seal broken) or someone had went for it and gave up and sent it back (works fine). IDK but read the description for the CPU socket and look at the gen (4th gen 1150 socket) and go to intel and research the information given and you will get your list of compatible CPUs. The build turned out great and as far as FPS its great with mid range games with High settings and AAA games at low settings normal set up for a budget build. I would buy it again. Just my take on the board cheap and works fine.

I am frustrated that I had no paperwork to go off of. Luckily I had experience building computers before and was able to get everything plugged in. HDMI port doesn’t work, VGA port doesn't work, 2 of the 4 SATA. ports are not functional. All around bad motherboard and I would just recommend that you look elsewhere for motherboards. This was just a temporary fix for an issue I had with my old motherboard and it still works (with limited storage) but the headache of getting this set up over 3 hours is not worth it and made me want to pull my hair out. Stay away!

This motherboard is good for the price, I used it to upgrade a dell Optiplex pc that had a older i5 in it.ProsThe board booted and installed from my USB loader without any bios updating.It is a DDR3 motherboard that features a NVME slot.ConsIts a ddr3 motherboard. its only as fast as it is. It works fine as an Office PC but wouldn't recommend for gaming or intensive computing.Motherboard did not include a Cmos battery. I had a spare from my other system.

Really good cheap motherboard, I never heard of Machinist before buying, but I took the risk and ended up with a really good board for the money, It has 32 GBs of RAM of which I use 16, It fit in my case without issue, and it looks cool though the glass side panel of my case, it also has enough USB ports for what I do, in fact I found it hard to make use of all of them because there's so many. Would recommend for budget gaming system.

Bought this board to "cheaply" replace a board that got hit by lightning and keep my 2700k alive because it works fine for everyday office use and lite gaming.There are things to like about the board, the small form factor, the extra PCIx slot above the video card on a board this small was a plus and I actually needed it. Everything seemed to work right out of the box except when making it a win11 machine because 10 will be unsupported this year. I was also pleased to get it to boot off of an nvme and not have to use a 3.5 ssd.No information for bios, drivers or support anywhere on the manufacturer website. Understandable because this is older tech and outdated in a reality. While I was able to get it to Windows 11, I have been building PCs for a while and it stumped me while troubleshooting for about an hour.I would not recommend this for anyone who is new to PC building, you should be buying something newer anyhow and it was not super easy to figure out. The thing that ended up being the problem was the onboard network card is not windows 11 compatible and caused BSOD as soon as it was plugged it.I was able to buy a network card for the pcie slot above the video card and all is well. The only other thing is watch out for memory buy some decent ram as the first sticks I bought here where a very cheap brand and it would not run above 1333. Again not easy at all to find support or documentation.Corei7 2700k, 16gb ram, gtx960 yes super old specs but I didn't want to throw it away. It will now be repurposed for storage and some media center duties.

My son's venerable i7 MB died. In its 2015 heyday, this was a top of the line i7PC. I thought it would be a waste to dump the CPU and RAM because technology waits for no one. I saw this MB and despite what the negative reviews said, I and decided to give it a shot, if it is bad, I can always return it. Put it all back together, and it booted fine. However, I noticed in the the 16GB (8x8) RAM was only reading 4GB and it did not recognize the sata III hard drive. I swapped the 16GB DDR3 ram with another set from another manufacturer I had laying from another dead computer , tried again and this time the MB recognized the full 16GB of Ram. Ok, so there is a RAMM compatibility issue. I swapped the SSD port to port 2 and then it recognized the drive. Hmmm, bad IDE 3.0 port? No. There are four jumpers on the MB that configure the MB to use the M.2 SSD slot, but you lose one of the SATA 3 ports in doing so. The MB comes factory configured for one M.2 SSD and one regular SATA III drive. Yes, you can download the user manual from the link on the amazon item, but it sucks because the user manual does not mention anything about the SATA configuration. The configuring information is actually spelled out at the bottom of the Amazon item description Amazon, where all the manufacturer's marketing hype is usually posted. Very stupid place for it I may add. Aside from the lousy documentation, the MB appears to be solid has given this PC a new life on a budget. We'll see how it holds up in the next few months.

Well packaged, installation was straight forward. Be prepared there is no owners manual, drivers were a old program download then upgrade. I had an old M2 SSD took me a while to figure out to move the jumpers.