Asus Micro ATX DDR4 LGA 1151 Motherboards

I bought this board to upgrade from a 5Gen Core i5/16GB DDR2 rig with a Gigabyte Z87 board. My job requires me to work with many large (>100GB) 64-bit Win10 virtual machines, and my Core i5 machine was thrashing too much. With this board and 6Gen Core i7 16GB DDR4, the difference is huge. Some tweaking was required - the delivered BIOS version 3401 had VT-X for hardware VM support but it was disabled with no way in the UEFI to enable it. Upgrading to BIOS v3601 fixed this and gives much more granularity over other CPU settings. BIOS flashing using the UEFI EZ-Flash tool was simple and straightforward. The MB has only 4 SATA ports. I need 6, so I ordered an IO Crest 4-port SATA III PCIe 2.0 x2 controller, SI-PEX40064 and also a JacobsParts USB 3.0 Front Panel Expansion Bay to take advantage of the 20-pin MB header. This was my first ASUS board in many years. I'm very pleased with the results and would readily buy it again.

Easy installation and bios set up had no issues low power consumption board runs fatal frame 5 off of the boards integrated graphics I found this out after I realized my msi 2060 graphics card was faulty I was like well how is this graphic intensive game playing if my computer is telling me my GPU is not connected 😂 I'd still recommend getting a GPU for any board but yeah this is made of good stuff you'll need a wifi adapter unless you buy the higher priced model though

Mine came clean and pristine and it is working like a champ in a rig that I built. It's solid and I loved the diagnosis it came up with even before I'd put an OS onto the rig. Once it's wired up all the ways it tracked everything that i'd put on it was really great. The board was clearly marked and the information pamphlet made it easy to connect up everything. So I'd highly recommend this for anyone that wants to build a budget rig. And it says right in the title that it's for DDR4 RAM, and the sticks I bought are working perfectly in it.

This was a HUGE waste of money. Board arrived with dead USB headers, no drivers disk (as advertised and SATA cables from 1997 you could beat a TREE to death with. Updated BIOS! Yes, right not at all. I have spent 9 hours trying to salvage this piece of junk with no luck. This is the last time I purchase used goods from AMAZON... ever Buy at your own risk. 1\10