Gigabyte GA-H61M-DS2

An Micro-ATX board on the LGA1155 socket. Memory support covers 2 DDR4 slots up to 16GB total. Expansion includes 2 M.2 slots and 2 PCIe slots. Pick the board for its socket before anything else — chipset niceties come after. Its $34.47 price tag places it squarely in budget territory.

Use the PlanMyPC system builder to verify it works alongside your other components and to watch live retailer pricing. Support and warranty service run through Gigabyte, with terms that vary by region. Every published spec is tabulated below, and compatibility against your current part list is checked automatically. The category page surfaces comparable models near the same price, which makes shortlisting against this motherboard straightforward.