MoBo: Gigabyte UD5H

[JoeB361]

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4139#ov    Average price: £150
This being my first gaming PC, I haven't got anything to compare this motherboard to.
That being said, it's handled everything I've thrown at it perfectly. Really easy to insert and take hardware out, lots of mSATA connectors.
Really easy to update the BIOS, I had no troubles doing it my first time.
It has protection against pretty much everything (humidity, voltage, temperature, power failure etc), so it's nice knowing that it will be pretty much impossible for me to mess this up

Had some issues with RAM and other things, which were handled fine. When RAM was seated bad it did a certain number of beeps, and it also includes an LED screen for debug codes, which I'm sure will come in really useful.

The bios screen has two options:
3D: Which puts up a 3d model of the motherboard, you click on the relevant parts you want to change.
Advanced: Which displays speeds, frequencies etc in pure numbers, and is easier to change.

I haven't overclocked yet, but am fairly certain this board will be perfect for it.

All things considered, I would highly recommend this motherboard to anyone looking for an upgrade
Not found a single thing wrong with this board yet, and its coped fine with all the broken parts of my pc xD