GIGABYTE B365M DS3H (LGA1151/Intel/Micro ATX/USB 3.1 Gen 1 (USB3.0) Type A/DDR4/Motherboard)

Don't expect flashing lights and dancing girls, but with six SATA ports and USB 3.1 onboard, this is a nice base for a system. The onboard video is currently supporting two 24" monitors, and I will eventually get around to trying the third output to see if three is supported "out of the box". It works flawlessly with Linux Mint 20, and there are plenty of case fan plugs to make sure your system stays cool. With four dimm sockets, I have 48GB of RAM installed and I never have to make it struggle. The onboard M2 socket is convenient, and allows for up to seven drives (unless one of the SATA ports is disabled from use of the M2 slot — I haven't experimented with that many yet). The onboard Gigabit ethernet works great. There are fancier boards that cost a lot more money, many of which only support a couple of DIMMs or a couple of drives (perhaps because they're focused on blinkin' lights). For my needs, this was a very affordable board that made a good foundation for my system. =========================== Edit: The board is still working great, but I did discover one flaw that will likely be common in this form factor: when a nice video card is installed (in my case a GTX 1650) it covers one of the other PCI-E slots, leaving only one for expansion. Also worth noting, that one slot is right against one of the fans of the graphics card. If it wasn't a very low profile WiFi/Bluetooth card, I would worry about the airflow. Bottom line on that, my next build may be a full size tower just to be able to upgrade more things on the board. It's not that the onboard sound isn't good — it is — but if I wanted, for example, 5.1 or 7.1 sound, I would probably have to go the USB route.

took a little over a week to arrive, but i got it preowned from the amazon warehouse so sometimes thats to be expected. I was upgrading from a very old AMD chipset so I was very happy to finally have a halfway functional pc. I had set it up with my new cpu, but it refused to turn on. The gpu fan would spin about 1/10 of a full rotation then the pc would shut down. Frustrated because I knew all my connections were correct, I brought it to a local PC shop just to have them confirm my suspicion that I received a faulty motherboard. After telling me the motherboard was defective, I brought it home and began putting my old PC back together to use in the meantime. Same issue occurred, however. Eventually I came to the conclusion that my old PSU got burned out within seconds of using this motherboard, although I had calculated the new power intake required by my upgrade. After testing the board one final time with the new power supply, suddenly magic happened! it booted on, and brought me to a strange BIOS screen I had never seen before. With a little more effort, I got this bad boy to start working. Now that you have my backstory, here's a FORMAL review. -Has a RGB LED strip built into the board (not sure if it was advertised and i didnt read far enough into it, but it was a pleasant surprise) -Front panel connectors are labeled on the board (rather than needing to look through the whole manual) -Very straightforward BIOS -Great sound card built into the board, way less interference than my last board -Layout makes cable management very simple Great board, very happy I made the purchase. Not sure if I'm the only one that has had this PSU issue happen, but I would recommend having a backup handy just in case!

This board has worked perfectly for a long time. I originally bought this because it was very cheap, and had good features. This board has many features boards of this price normally don't have. For the price, I would not expect 6 SATA ports, and one NVME port, but this little board has just that! there are other things as well, like TPM connections, RGB headers, a parallel port header, serial, USB 2.0 and 3.0, etc. The bios is also surprisingly good for the price. cheap boards usually have a bad bios, but this bios utility is surprisingly good. This board is currently being used in a NAS, because I trust it to be able to work 24/7 without issues. It has been going for about 3 months without any sudden power downs or other problems. One thing to note, is this board may boot-loop if you hold power to turn off the system, and instantly turn it back on. You may have to press the reset button on your case to fix that. Overall, I would recommend this for anyone who wants a reliable budget board for their system.

A very good motherboard overall. As did many others, I encountered the '5 beep' problem. I was able to solve it, so hopefully this helps someone. When you boot up, it will give 5 short beeps. If you look it up, this indicates a 'CPU' error. This motherboard has onboard video outputs, but no onboard video - it depends on the CPU onboard video. However, I bought a CPU (9100F) that has no onboard video, and thus it wouldn't even post (only 5 beeps). I bought an inexpensive video card, installed it, and it works perfectly. I would give it 5 stars except for this very weird oversight - it's nowhere in their documentation, and, in fact, their documentation goes to great length to tell of the HDMI and video output, only vaguely alluding to needing CPU support. Anyhow, good board with 1 weird problem.

The price on this MOBO is hard to resist. The quality is that of a much more expensive board. The board is good now for 8th and 9th gen CPU's. Everything a clearly marked on the board itself. The instructions included is a far cry from the Intel instructions provided for my prior Intel DH77EB board build about 7 years ago. In fact I used by prior board instructions as a reference. Things like when to install the I/O shield are left out that catch 1st time builders. The diagrams given by Intel on how to install a CPU were golden and lacking for this board. But I guess with YouTube to the rescue, no worries there. Overall this is a solid board. Having 4 ram slots was a must for future expansion. Being able to handle 8th and 9th Gen CPU's is great for future scalability. Sure you can go out and spend more on a board but why? Why not save on this one a use that money saved for other PC components? I included my "Golden CPU install instructions" in attached image Fig1 and an installed Intel I3-9100F in a Rosewill PC case.

I bought this for a mid-tower upgrade after getting good results with Gigabyte's similar low-cost H310M A2. To put any 9Gen fears to rest, this board works perfectly out of the box with Intel's 9th Gen Core i5 9400f. This contradicts one of the reviews and one of the "Answered questions" (written in Spanish) claiming the opposite. Gigabyte's BIOS update page says that the initial BIOS version F1 wasn't 9Gen compatible, but my delivered board had BIOS version F5. The revision number etched on my board says 1.0, so it's unlikely that any boards were delivered without 9Gen compatibility. The B365 DS3H has six SATA connectors, correcting a problem with the H310 A2 which had only four. One of these still shares a bandwidth lane with the M.2 connector, but I didn't use this in my build. Another corrected H310 A2 problem: The B365 DS3H has two system fan connectors instead of one, in addition to the CPU fan connector. All fan connectors are four-pin. I used the board with 16GB DDR4 in two Corsair Vengeance sticks. Everything works, and I haven't even had to upgrade the BIOS. Highly recommended.

Installation went very smooth and the board performs well! I do not do a lot of gaming, well, none actually, but it cooks for all other tasks including video editing. It does have a very small footprint which is smaller then most microATX motherboards. The depth of the board from rear panel connector edge is about 1.5 inches shorter and about 3/4 inch narrower in width. From Gigabyte website: Micro ATX Form Factor; 22.6cm x 20.5cm (‪8.89"‬ x 8.07") Oh, this is a very big thing, it does support GEN 9 processors right out of the box. The BIOS version is F5! The last motherboard I tried (different manufacturer) said it supported GEN 9 but it did not have updated BIOS! I do suggest you download the manual before starting since they only have a very brief guide with none of the connectors ID'd. All-in-all, this is a very impressive LITTLE board!

Had a motherboard that bricked, and I ordered this as a replacement, it arrived quickly but it did not work, meaning it did not post, so I looked on the reviews here on amazon and saw many people with similar issues just stating get a replacement or to do a bios update to the motherboard, I waited for the replacement that I asked and still the same issue. For some reason this motherboard states it supports 9th gen and 8th gen intel CPUs but 9th gen intel CPUs require you to update the motherboard when it states on the box that it's already preconfigured to use the 9th gen Intel CPUs but apparently there are two versions of these motherboards: one updated and one not updated which just causes headaches because tech support could not help me and just left me waiting 2 hours on hold for a rep from gigabyte who never showed on the phone line. I have some hardware and software knowledge but took me some late 4 hours in the night to get the bios update done because I did not have an 8th gen cpu it could use out of the box. And people have stated they have gotten replacements that still don't have the update like what happened to me. Otherwise it's great budget motherboard. I'm all up and running but the experience to get there was awful. Never again. For an emergency replacement I'll just go second hand market with people that at least I'll know if they can help or not.