motherboard recommendation

[scatman98]

i'm looking for a lga1700 ddr5 motherboard which is NIST SP 800-193 compliant within a budget of INR 25000. Any recommendations are welcome. Non wifi and non BT are also cool for my purposes. Purpose is office work with occasional gaming/graphics work.

[AK-47]

Why does it have to be NIST SP 800-193 compliant? This is a hard ask for the budget you are after, and it is unlikely to happen in the space of consumer motherboards. For office and occasional gaming, pretty much any board will do even one that is not certified to that NIST standard.

[j2mcgreg]

Given the recent stability problems Intel has had with it's high end CPUs, are you sure that you want to specify LGA 1700?

[scatman98]

Why does it have to be NIST SP 800-193 compliant? This is a hard ask for the budget you are after, and it is unlikely to happen in the space of consumer motherboards. For office and occasional gaming, pretty much any board will do even one that is not certified to that NIST standard.

sophisticated (boot kits + mitm) attacks are pretty common now. why risk it? even for casual work.

[scatman98]

Given the recent stability problems Intel has had with it's high end CPUs, are you sure that you want to specify LGA 1700?

i'm open to alternate suggestions. i think 12th gen is okay.

[j2mcgreg]

I'd suggest something like this:
GIGABYTE X870 AORUS ELITE WIFI7 AMD AM5 LGA 1718 Motherboard, ATX, DDR5, 4x M.2, PCIe 5.0, USB4, WIFI7, 2.5GbE LAN, EZ-Latch, 5-Year Warranty

[CharlesV]

+1 on j2mcgreg's suggestion. I love gigabyte mobo's and use them all over the place.

My latest build, which runs AMAZINGLY well. ( And has no sign of the dreaded Intel problems btw !)

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Snapshot created on: 20241217_1339
System:
  Kernel: 6.12.8-1-liquorix-amd64 [6.12-10~mx23ahs] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 parameters: audit=0
    intel_pstate=disable amd_pstate=disable BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.12.8-1-liquorix-amd64
    root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.0 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.38 info: xfce4-panel, cairo-dock wm: xfwm v: 4.20.0
    vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: MX-23.5_x64 Libretto September 15  2024 base: Debian
    GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: Z790 AERO G v: -CF serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z790 AERO G v: x.x serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American
    Megatrends LLC. v: F9 date: 09/12/2023
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech K520 serial: <filter> charge: 50% (should be ignored)
    rechargeable: yes status: N/A
  Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse serial: <filter>
    charge: 50% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: N/A
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-14700K bits: 64 type: MST AMCP arch: Raptor Lake gen: core 14
    level: v3 note: check built: 2022+ process: Intel 7 (10nm) family: 6 model-id: 0xB7 (183)
    stepping: 1 microcode: 0x12B
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 20 mt: 8 tpc: 2 st: 12 threads: 28 smt: enabled cache: L1: 1.8 MiB
    desc: d-12x32 KiB, 8x48 KiB; i-8x32 KiB, 12x64 KiB L2: 28 MiB desc: 8x2 MiB, 3x4 MiB L3: 33 MiB
    desc: 1x33 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2908 high: 5500 min/max: 800/3401 boost: enabled scaling:
    driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: ondemand cores: 1: 5500 2: 5500 3: 5500 4: 800 5: 5500 6: 5500
    7: 5187 8: 900 9: 5247 10: 800 11: 4147 12: 800 13: 5166 14: 800 15: 5500 16: 800 17: 4297
    18: 800 19: 800 20: 4300 21: 4300 22: 4301 23: 1000 24: 800 25: 800 26: 800 27: 800 28: 800
    bogomips: 191385
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling mitigation: Clear Register File
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB: conditional; RSB filling;
    PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence; BHI: BHI_DIS_S
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU104 [GeForce RTX 2060] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia v: 535.216.03
    non-free: 530.xx+ status: current (as of 2023-03) arch: Turing code: TUxxx process: TSMC 12nm FF
    built: 2018-22 pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s
    bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1e89 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Logitech Webcam C270 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-8.4:6
    chip-ID: 046d:0825 class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 compositor: xfwm v: 4.20.0 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
    gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 5760x1091 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1525x289mm (60.04x11.38")
    s-diag: 1552mm (61.11")
  Monitor-1: DVI-D-0 pos: primary,top-left res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 82
    size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23") diag: 686mm (27.01") modes: N/A
  Monitor-2: HDMI-0 pos: bottom-r res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 82 size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23")
    diag: 686mm (27.01") modes: N/A
  Monitor-3: HDMI-1 pos: bottom-c res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 82 size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23")
    diag: 686mm (27.01") modes: N/A
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 535.216.03 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060/PCIe/SSE2
    direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 1-8.4:6 v: kernel
    chip-ID: 046d:0825 alternate: snd_soc_avs,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl class-ID: 0102 bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:7a50 serial: <filter> class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU104 HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3
    speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f8 class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: Logitech Webcam C270 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
  API: ALSA v: k6.12.8-1-liquorix-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.6 status: off tools: pw-cat,pw-cli
  Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active tools: pacat,pactl,pavucontrol
Network:
  Device-1: Intel driver: iwlwifi v: kernel modules: wl port: N/A bus-ID: 00:14.3
    chip-ID: 8086:7a70 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Ethernet I225-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: igc v: kernel pcie: gen: 2
    speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: N/A bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:15f3 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-14:8 chip-ID: 8087:0033 class-ID: e001
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter>
  Info: acl-mtu: 1021:4 sco-mtu: 96:6 link-policy: rswitch sniff link-mode: peripheral accept
    service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio, telephony
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 10.92 TiB used: 2 TiB (18.4%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD BLACK SN850X 2000GB
    size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD
    serial: <filter> rev: 620361WD temp: 45.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:1 vendor: Western Digital model: WD BLACK SN850X 2000GB
    size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD
    serial: <filter> rev: 620361WD temp: 46.9 C scheme: MBR
  ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD80EMAZ-00WJTA0
    size: 7.28 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter>
    rev: 3005 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 1.82 TiB size: 1.79 TiB (98.37%) used: 800.17 GiB (43.7%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:3
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 6 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swap/swap
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 31.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 53 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 16%
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2822 libs: 1386 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm
    pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
    2: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bookworm ahs
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/signal-desktop-keyring.gpg] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main
Info:
  Processes: 551 Uptime: 2d 15h 8m wakeups: 105 Memory: 31.17 GiB used: 5.29 GiB (17.0%)
  Init: SysVinit v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0
  alt: 12 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI

[AK-47]

sophisticated (boot kits + mitm) attacks are pretty common now. why risk it? even for casual work.

Do you even know what MITM means? What does that have to do with your motherboard? That NIST publication appears to be just a guideline also.

[AVLinux]

Another vote for Gigabyte stuff! In the past ASUS has also been quite good but it's been a few years.. If you're determined to have Intel CPU, Intel used to make their own Mobos too, my first Quad build had an Intel board and it was bulletproof. I don't know if they are still in the Mobo market or not. I do know they cost more but had better grade electrolytic capacitors (well they said so anyway)..

[Mauser]

Go with Gigabyte based on my personal experience. My first motherboard on my latest build was an ASUS which I had good luck with my last 3 builds but using an ASUS on my 4th build started acting up after 11 months which would cause random hard freezes and after 2 months of diagnostics it completely failed as my computer wouldn't boot up anymore at all which it was out of warranty by then. ASUS quality has dropped so much it like rolling dice. Then I tried MSI which the first one burnt up as soon as I pressed the power button. Got it replaced for free at Best Buy and 2 months later it failed. MSI = lowest quality rubbish! Finally I listened to others to get a Gigabyte motherboard which is still going strong for over 5 years.