You're building an AM5 system and you don't need four RAM slots or three M.2 bays. You need a board that takes your Ryzen 7000, 8000, or 9000 chip, runs 128GB of DDR5, and gets you online without hunting for a Wi-Fi dongle. The GIGABYTE B840M EAGLE does exactly that. Micro-ATX form factor. Two DDR5 DIMM slots with EXPO and XMP support. PCIe 4.0 x16 for your GPU. Two M.2 SSD connectors. Four SATA ports. 2.5GbE LAN on board. Wi-Fi 6E built in. HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4 for display output. Realtek audio with up to 7.1-channel support. If you're putting together a compact build or a home office PC that just needs to work without the extra slots you'll never fill, this is the board. Plug in your components. Boot up. Done
| brand | GIGABYTE |
| model | B840M EAGLE |
| socket | AMD AM5 |
| chipset | AMD B840 |
| form_factor | Micro-ATX |
| memory_slots | 2x DDR5 DIMM |
| max_memory | 128GB |
| memory_support | DDR5 4400-7600 MT/s (O.C.), EXPO, XMP |
| pci_express_slots | 1x PCIe 4.0 x16 (CPU), 1x PCIe 3.0 x4 (chipset) |
| m2_slots | 2 |
| sata_ports | 4 |
| lan | Realtek 2.5GbE |
| wireless | Wi-Fi 6E |
| video_output | HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4 |
| audio | Realtek HD Audio, 2/4/5.1/7.1-channel |
