EVGA Z370 FTW, LGA 1151, Intel Z370, HDMI, SATA 6Gb/s, USB 3.1, USB 3.0, ATX, Intel Motherboard

I've been using evga video cards for years, and not long ago I upgraded my wife's computer with the model down from this...and was very impressed. It doesn't have every bell and whistle of the more expensive boards, but rarely do I need most of those, and honestly my computer needs to work, not give me a light show. but it doe have headers for led lights...which I haven't used so cant say how well the work.This is probably going to be my mb brand till I find a good reason to change, very solid and I have no complaints with it.As a side note, the last time I had to call evga support (for a video card) I actually got a person I could not only understand, was a breeze to deal with. Good to know if you need support they are good.

One of the best budget Z370 motherboard on the market. It is designed for cable management with its 90-degree angle pins. It has an optional 4-pin for the CPU in case you need the extra power and an extra 6 pin PCI-E in case your GPU needs the extra power. Although it only has 2 Dimm slots, that's all I use, that might be a deal breaker for some people. It also comes with a wifi + Bluetooth chip that does not come with any instructions on how to install, but it's kind of self-explanatory. Which means the parts just go where they are supposed to go, it only fits one way. It is recommended to install the wifi chip before installing the motherboard in the case, the reason is that your case might not have enough clearance to screw the screw into the nut on the other side for the bracket. The wifi chip is just as fast as ethernet, I got 70 downloads and 6 uploads on both of them.

This board is great, and has some weight to it. Feels very solid and seems to overclock fairly well. My only complaint is how hard it is to setup an NVME SSD. First it disables two of your sata ports, when I read that info on the board I was like okay, then I install everything and boot up the system and it can't see my ssd. It took me about 40mins to figure out the cause of the issue and for some stupid reason I had to switch the drive into legacy mode.... On a system with an 8700k and a brand new fing samsung nvme ssd. The tech support at evga couldn't even figure out what settings in the bios would make it work in non legacy mode.

If you are looking for a board that is very good or excelling at every single aspect. Than look no more.This board is price/performance king especially if you find it at the 130-150$. And very very good at 170-180$.Lets go into highlights, what is different on this;->There is no fancy stupid plastic cover for the ports instead, there is a cover which is connected to the VRM heatsinks, operating as a heat spreader and looking very good.->There is Digital code display for bootup error cods.->Extra power supply input doe PCI-E slots, placed terrific.->Very good heatsinks for the VRM and chipset, not fancy but very big surface area.->Metal eched pci-e and memory slots are standard for high grade and on this as well.->3 M.2 slots, 2 for nvme. Take care SATA port limitations when in use.->Bios reset button on backplate!!!->More than enough 8+3 phase VRM for reasonable overclocks. It means for with little luck, 90% you can get the same overclocking result with this board like the most expensive kings, azimuts, godlike etc named ridiculously priced motherboards...->Tests show very very good memory bandwith with overclocking.->Boxing and materials quality is topnotch!