It's a lot of mother board for the price, even though I paid nearly 30 dollars more than it's current price -I got it for $219 Dec 14, 2017, Current price is $189 January 17 2018. I wont waste your time with the details. You can read that else where. You want to know, or what you should be asking is,
This Board will probably satisfy 99% of buyers with the small exception of IT guys, corporations, or maybe or PC specialist who require multiple CPU on a single MB or features that 99% of us don't need or know about.
We can get all techincal and sound like smart asses, but the reality is that this mother board really is the sweat spot between offering "EVERYTHING" and Price. Sure you can debate other MB but trying to find MB for this price and these features will be splitting hairs. Multi GPU, M2, 6x USB 3.1 Gen1 (SuperSpeed USB) , Turbo U.2 Triple Turbo M2 water cooling pump fan support, M2 Shields VR BOOST VR READY ETC ETC, it's hard to beat. Seriously.
And to top it all off...it's all usable and all practical.
1- How many GPU can you REALLY actually fit? - 2 huge cards, or 3 smaller cards. It is a legitimate 3 GPU motherboard. I'm currently using Zotac GTX 1070 Extreme AMP ( known as the worlds larges GPU) You will not be able to fit three of the Zotacs 1070 amp extreme. But you will be able to fit two, using the bottom PCI slot. Case and GPU limited what I can use. However, if your running anything small than the Zotac gtx 1070 AMP Extreme, then you'll be able to run two with out an issue and three depending on your tower. For gaming nowadays, a single gtx 1070 or 1080 is sufficient to run anything at max resolution. The only time you'll need a multi GPU is to run multiple projectors and screen at the same time.
2- Is it stable-Yes. I haven't updated anything for bios. don't care to either. I can OC any portion of the motherboard from the BIOS to pump out powered to anything I have hooked up.
Pros-
The little OC button on the board allows you OC directly from the board.
The little button on the rear allows you to clear what ever issues you had with OC and return it to factory form. A huge plus
Motherboard offers a reading of every slot so you can essentially trouble shoot what ever issues you're having
You can do a diagantostic type of OVERCLOCKING. Basically the mtoher baord will find the best OC setting for youre setting
Comes with a few usleful OC software to make life easy on you
You can change the lights to a few different colors
The PCI slots will hold the heaviest GPU you can find for some like myself, we need it. I had my last Motherboard fail on me because of this very same issue.
The motherboard is well built, well THOUGHT OUT! AND FUTURE PROOF FOR AT LEAST 5 YEAR FROM NOW. for $220 at 5 years, that's $44 a year, $3.66 a month, which breaks down to a whopping 0.12 cents a day. If I can get this board to run 2.5 years with no issues, I'm a happy camper.
Cons
For some reason it was a pain trying to get the i7 6700k with the memory set up that I have to run smoothly on the board. Maybe cause I used a preexisting SSD to reinstall windows, but what ever the case, I had a lot shut downs, crashes and blue screen. I'm not sure if what I did solved the issues, but I reduced my speeds down to 4.8 ghz and 3000 mhz for memory and that seemed to do the trick. I suspect, i may need a clean copy of windows 10 on a new SSD
OC can be a pain if you don't know what your doing, luckily they offer a great manual that's detailed on their site.. you have to do a lot of fine tunning if you venture deep into the software of bios to OC and what not. Eventually I gave up and just used to dial to run it at 4.8 and used Memory Extreme. Saved and called it a day.
| Processor | pentium |
|---|---|
| RAM | DDR4 |
| Memory Speed | 2133 MHz |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 2 |
