You need a board that slots into the case you already have and gives your next CPU room to breathe. Not a flagship. A workhorse that doesn't drop frames when the spreadsheet hits 200 rows and the browser has forty tabs open.
The Gigabyte B860M DS3H WiFi6E does exactly that. Four DDR5 DIMM slots, up to 256 GB, so you're not swapping RAM every time a project grows. The primary PCIe slot runs 5.0 x16 for your GPU or fast NVMe drive. Three additional x16 physical slots (running at x1) give you room for NICs, capture cards, or expansion without hunting for adapters.
Two M.2 slots — one PCIe 5.0, one PCIe 4.0 — keep your boot drive and storage separate. Four SATA ports for the drives you've already got in the drawer. Realtek 2.5 GbE for wired reliability on the office network. Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX211 when you'd rather not run a cable across the floor.
HDMI 2.1 at 4096x2160@60 Hz and two DisplayPort 2.1 outputs at 3840x2160@144 Hz. Triple-display support for the desk setup you've been meaning to sort.
LGA1851 socket. Intel B860 chipset. XMP support up to DDR5-9066 (OC). Straightforward, capable, done.
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| brand | GIGABYTE |
| model | B860M DS3H WIFI6E 2.2 |
| chipset | Intel B860 Express |
| socket | LGA1851 |
| cpu_support | Intel Core Ultra Processors |
| memory_type | DDR5 |
| memory_slots | 4 DIMM |
| max_memory | 256 GB (64 GB per DIMM) |
| memory_speeds | 5600–9066 MT/s (OC) with XMP support |
| pci_express_slots | 1× PCIe 5.0 x16, 3× PCIe 4.0 x1 (physical x16) |
| m2_slots | 2 (1× PCIe 5.0 x4, 1× PCIe 4.0 x4) |
| sata_ports | 4 × SATA 6 Gb/s |
| raid_support | RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 (SATA) |
| lan | Realtek 2.5 GbE |
| wireless | Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX211 |
| video_output | HDMI 2.1, 2× DisplayPort 2.1 |
| max_resolution | 4096x2160@60 Hz (HDMI), 3840x2160@144 Hz (DP) |
| display_support | Up to triple-display |
| usb_ports | 1× USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A, 4× USB 3.2 Gen 1, 7× USB 2.0 |
