Summary: Bought this motherboard to replace my Foxconn mobo that burnt out. Happy to say it fit in my case - its rather large - and everything is working as expected.
Summary: I decided to RMA the board back to PC Case Gear, but before doing so I inspected the CPU Socket to make sure there was no bent or damaged pins.
Pros: The layout and aesthetics of this board is something I really liked from the very start and looks very smart with the yellow accents.
Cons: All was great for 3 months and then I lost the audio. So I bought a dicreet sound card and ran that for a while, but, being a brand new board it just didn't sit right ...
Summary: Why would anyone buy a signature z87 after this sloppy work?
Pros: Pretty motherboard... The OC Formula does not OC all that well.
Cons: Very bad bios coding, unstable dram volts (higher than bios setting) glitchy vcore settings with offset, very poor LLC implementation... Yeah, the v-probe read point a...
Cons: it went bad immediately after a windows update. Took my computer to geek squad for a diagnostics told me it was killed by my cpu cooler. Asrocks rma service is going t...
Cons: Completely dead after 4 months! Mobo was working great this morning. Went to turn it on in the afternoon and nothing...no power at all! Replaced the PSU and still noth...
Summary: Amazing motherboard. But make sure you have a case that can support this thing. It is pretty big. Love the bios and how easy it is to over clock. Definitely a performer.
Summary: The Barbs for water are 3/8" or 10mm and are fixed, The freedom to use my own barbs would have been a huge plus and I wouldn't have opted for the MIPS block instead.
Pros: This board can really dish out some heavy overclocks.
Cons: The little VRM fan I think is useless. The VRM's stay cool and sturdy under some heavy OCing conditions without the fan or even water.
Pros: Installed a 3770K and 8G 2133 HyperX, Plextor SSD, WD raptor 600G. Board posted first shot, set ram to 2133 XMP. loaded windows 7/64 (115 updates). cool. back to bios ...