Best Motherboards: Q3 2019

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Best Motherboards: Q3 2019

In the third quarter of 2019, a lot of the buzz in the motherboard market is going to be dominated by the release of the AMD Ryzen 3000 series processors and X570 chipset which brought a lot of features along with it including PCIe 4.0, a lot of Wi-Fi 6 wireless interfaces, and improved componentry to give users the most premium models on an AMD desktop platform for a very long time.

Intel hasn't really released anything very notable since its Z390 chipset debuted so the majority of the picks are based on a trade-off between AMD's Ryzen 3000 series and the Intel 9th generation of desktop processors, with the focus put squarely on the motherboards themselves and not the performance trade-off between the processors.

Our recommendations for motherboards are based entirely on my personal and professional opinion. There are notably a large number of different motherboards across a host of chipsets, so I selected my top four picks based on the four segments, regardless of chipset. From our Best Motherboards Q1 2019 guide, there hasn't been much of a change with two of our picks remaining from our previous list. The biggest addition during Q2 2019 was the introduction of the AMD X570 chipset based on the AM4 socket, and is the first platform to bring PCIe 4.0 to the fold; this guide is revised and updated to reflect that.

For users looking for other options, we've also gone over multiple chipset families as well in the links below.

The AMD X570 Motherboard Overview: Over 35+ Motherboards Analyzed
Intel Z390 Motherboard Overview: 50+ Motherboards Analyzed
Analyzing B450 for AMD Ryzen: A Quick Look at 25+ Motherboards
Analyzing Z370 for Intel's 8th Generation Coffee Lake: A Quick Look at 50+ Motherboards
An AMD Threadripper X399 Motherboard Overview: A Quick Look at Seven Products

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