
Build solid, heavy, durable. Great location for connectors (at least for my artic c8) Everything went together easy. No issues with clips, mechanisms, etc. Looks beautiful. Updated bios before power on, this is a great board, with great features. Very easy to navigate bios, everything worked exactly as it should.

Simple overclocking, complete system control. Bios is not as bad as people make it out to be, and there are plenty of guides available. APP control center makes controlling everything painless. To be honest, it has more features and options than I currently understand how to use.

Nice motherboard. No frills, no blingy RGB. Just what I needed to build a media server, paired up with an Intel Ultra 5 225. The build booted up first try, no problems with memory compatibility like other reviewers have reported. I'm using a Crucial Pro 2 × 16GB kit that ISN'T listed on the QVL, but it works great. Memory is Crucial part # CP2K16G64C32U5B (Newegg part $ N82E16820156450). I love the spring-loaded M.2 quick release pins. No need for a screwdriver or the pivot locking mechanism that MSI has on its other boards. Overall, I very pleased with the motherboard. It's reasonably priced and has a nice feature set. So far it's been rock solid stable being on 24/7.

Spacious enough of a MB that even 'man fingers' can get at most of the plugs and slots. Came with tons of spare parts. Space for 4x SATA drives and 7, yes 7! M.2 drives.


Board is an exceptional value for price and features. Having RAID on board was one of the primary reasons I purchased this board. Bios was a bit awkward to set up raid with data drives and use the m.2 slot for c drive. Finally figured out the correct settings. Now it runs like a dream!

Too many to list. You saw the posting lol.


-Easy to set up. Took about an hour to set everything up and running.

Affordable price Excellent workmanship Stable and easy-to-use BIOS

-Post code is great. Love seeing my cpu temp at all times, but it is a bit bright. -Very hefty in a good way, feels premium, especially the m.2 heatsinks.

- Two LED ARGB light zones. One by the heatsinks and one by the chipset. Can set up different effects using GCC. I wasn't expecting the motherboard to have lights on it. Photos attached show the two zones in white. - Extensive BIOS options. Not sure how to tweak everything for max performance. There are auto tweak settings as well. - Great front panel I/O options. - Easy to install and setup.


Easy to set up and configure