Intel BOXDZ77GA70K LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Has everything I was looking for in a motherboard, especially dual LAN . Stable so far, no plans to overclock my 3770, so should be good for years.

Cons: Doesn't fetch beers or put empties away.

Other Thoughts: Nice board, maybe it will catch on.

Pros: 8 SATA ports, Built in WiFi, power and reset buttons on board.

Cons: 3 bad boards in a row. All 3 boards were rev 401. 402 and 500 are out so these are a little old. Came with BIOS 39 and I immediately upgraded to 64. Boards 1 & 3 started out ok and within an hour degraded to the point of not posting. They both eventually hung on POST 92 which is keyboard detection. Tried different keyboards and no keyboard with same results. All parts work fine when I swap in a known good Gigabyte board. Tried different memory & power supply, remove battery, load BIOS defaults etc. Board #2 just gave a memory error beep code right out of the box.

Other Thoughts: I've used lots of intel boards and very rarely have any problems. This model must be a lemon.
SATA ports very difficult to reach in an Antec 300 case.

Pros: For what you get this motherboard is a decent value...

Cons: I had a hard time getting my ram to run at 1600 had to go to the classic non graphical bios screen to get my ram timings entered correctly. The main problem has been system stability... there isn't any. I am running a 3770K with no overclock and good cooling, the other components in my computer are rock solid, but after upgrading to this motherboard I have been getting hard locks in games all the time.

Other Thoughts: First time getting an Intel board and have to say this was a mistake. If you don't have any issues than it would be a good value but honestly spend the extra cash and save yourself the headache...

Pros: Visual Bios looks nice. Normal booting from MBR works.

Cons: A couple cons:

- In the product details, it says "PCI Express 3.0 x16: 2". I bought this mobo thinking I would be able to have crossfire running on two x16 PCIe 3.0 slots, but inspecting my configuration in BIOS shows that both slots are only at x8. So... that detail needs to be fixed on the product specs.

- Recovery jumper is underneath one of the video cards, so I have to pull out that video card to reset my BIOS settings if I happen to somehow disable video inadvertently.

- The aforementioned inadvertent video disabling happens when Legacy or UEFI Boot is disabled (can't remember which one) and seems to be some kind of bug.

- Speaking of UEFI, this does not seem to work well. In linux, I can use efibootmgr to inspect the EFI table, but my settings don't seem to hold during a restart, i.e. the new row in the EFI table points to nothing whereas before rebooting it points to the correct drive/partition/file. This last one might be user error on my part, but a lot of google searching reveals posts concluding that the UEFI support is spotty on this board due to some bugs past the version 0049 firmware where UEFI support issues were supposedly fixed.

Other Thoughts: One thing to keep in mind, it seems that as of 2013 we will soon be able to buy >2TB drives for our personal use, and our normal BIOS will not support partitions over 2TB or total disk usage over ~3.999TB due to storage addressing limitations of classical BIOS architecture. This board may not be viable for much longer if the UEFI support is not improved.

Pros: If you are looking for the perfect companion to the 3770k, look no further. This mobo is fast, reliable, functional, and easy to configure.

Cons: The intel boot jingle is very loud.

Pros: - many ports (USB2/3, eSATA, 1394, dual Ethernet
- nice layout on board, all ports where they should be
- BIOS is easy to use and powerful
- plenty of fan headers
- easily overclocks the Intel "K" series CPUs
- Well documented and drivers easy to install
- BIOS updates are easy to install

Cons: - Expensive
- One of the last motherboards that Intel will make

Other Thoughts: I wanted a board to showcase the i7-3770k and this board certainly does that! It's rock solid reliable and easy to tune and fast!

Pros: Intel board,
8 internal SATA ports (2 are on Marvell Controller)
Onboard HDMI connecor
Back To Bios button

Cons: Buggy / Finiky Bios.
2nd LAN port drops out (see other thoughts).
Doesn't appear to like ad-on RAID cards right now.

DON'T DISABLE LEGACY BOOT IN BIOS - EVEN WITH UEFI ENABLED. If it can't boot with UEFI it will try in legacy mode.

Other Thoughts: Purchased this board from Newegg, shipped on 1-25-2013. The board I received was an AA#401, supposedly the AA#50x boards have been in production since last September. Board I received was BIOS version 039.

I purchased this board to build a Home Media Server for our house (running Mezzmo media server). Paired it with a i7-3770 processor (Mezzmo will do complete transcoding if needed for older media devices). I had read the forums on the Intel site so I knew a few of the issues I could run into.

I updated the BIOS from 039 to 057, then to 059, then to 061 using the F7 BIOS update method, I rebooted and set BIOS to default settings between each upgrade. When the first update (039 to 057) completed the board rebooted, turned on, turned off, back on, back off, back on, back off, and finally back on - Started to get a little worried there, I have never seen a board do this. Updates after that went as expected.

Installed Windows 7 HPE and Norton 360, updated all drivers and made a Hard Drive backup using Acronis.

In the middle of transferring some media files via a Windows Homegroup connection (about 100GB into it) the LAN connection failed. Had read about the LAN connection dropping out so I went into the BIOS and disabled the 2nd LAN port. I had the cable pluggged into the top port so I had to move it to the bottom port. Everything worked fine after that. Don't know if it is a data size thing or a packet count or what, it didn't drop out originally during the Windows 7 updates.

I am running the board as stock as you can get, aside from running the G-Skill X-Jaw ram at XMP profile 1. I am using the onboard graphics and sound. I did not install the USB 3.0 header or the Bluetooth/Wireless module.

The sole purpose of this build was to be a Media Server with enough horsepower to trancode high definition video on-the-fly. For this purpose the board is working extremely well. The processor scored a 7.7 in WIE and the integrated graphics (Intel HD-4500 on CPU) scored a 6.6 on both.

If you are thinking about getting this board, check out the Intel forums first so you can get an idea about some of the hiccups you may run into.

Pros: It started up for a few hours.

Cons: I bought this motherboard through an Intel promotion through my company.

When I first started up the motherboard my front panel USB 3.0 ports did not function. Even after installing the required USB 3.0 drivers one of the ports still ports failed to recognize any devices. After manually powering off the computer and restarting for the first time my motherboard failed to start. A red light came on and then failed to turn on after subsequent restart attempts. Intel knows this is a problem with their September 2012 batch, I’m really disappointed they haven’t issued a recall. Plus I got contradictory information from separate Intel reps. One denied there being any problems that they know of while another reported the problem to his superiors who responded that they are aware that this is a systemic problem. The correspondences were separated by a period of 2 days.

Intel wanted me to pay $25 on top of a security deposit to get this defective motherboard replaced. Needless to say I will never make the mistake again of buying an Intel board.

Pros: I was able to color-coordinate my build with 4 blue G. Skill Ripjaws-X Dimms and everything just looks so great through my case windows with this board. It really is a nice board and looks really well put together. I like the look and feel of the UEFI BIOS when it works properly. I do love how the Intel Extreme Desktop Board model is listed on one of the heatsinks so you can visibly see it through the window when needing to Google things about it which I'll get to in the Cons section.

Cons: I've given everything 5 Eggs on this build so far but this is where the nice reviews stop. This is the first time I've ever bought a board from any manufacturer other than ASUS and now I know why that is and I'm paying the ultimate price. I only purchased this board instead of the ASUS P8Z77-V Pro just because it was on year-end clearance here at Newegg and it is normally like a $250 board. This board does work but Intel boards are supposed to be known for stability which this board does not support. I read many reviews from different sites about how nice of a package this board is and how it may not be the best Z77 overclocker but that it is stable. I guess it really depends on what features of the board you use and what UEFI BIOS version you are running because my experience thus far has been mixed. I really do want to love this board but when you use both your Intel 6 Gbps ports for an SSD Raid 0 array and then have to use one of the Marvell Controller 6 Gbps ports for your mechanical storage drives then you run into the first set of problems. I'm currently on BIOS 0061 and any time I put any kind of intensive file write load on this drive it just disappears at random. At first I thought I may have got a bad drive which would be a first with me buying WD drives until I searched the Intel forums and found that this issue has been fixed in one BIOS and then bricked again on the newest release. This isn't the only issue I've had. I also have to use a wired USB keyboard to now F2 into the UEFI after this latest BIOS release. I tried turning the legacy boot off and only using UEFI boot which was another wrong move to do because then the board won't boot and you have to use the BIOS jumper to get back into the UEFI to turn legacy boot back on. I've also had one BSOD so far about a thread on a restart. I've also lost functionality of the Intel Desktop Utility software after the BIOS update. The program is still listed and acts like it is going to open up and gather information but after it comes up the spinning icon just does that....spins and never displays any read-outs. I'm seriously thinking about just buying that ASUS board now and throwing this thing in the garbage but I'm going to give Intel another month to release a BIOS update that will fix some of these issues.....HOPEFULLY!

Other Thoughts: I'm just seriously disappointed because everything else in my system runs great! I'm an IT Systems Admin and this desktop PC was supposed to be my dream machine for home to learn how to program in C++ and CUDA on but without stability (which keep in mind Intel boards are supposed to be known for), this isn't going to work out! I'm not EVEN going to worry about the RMA process or an exchange for another one of these boards at all. If it is still doing this nonsense in a month then I will literally just throw it in the dump and get the ASUS board I had originally intended on getting.

Pros: Tons of features, It's Intel

Cons: Visual BIOS, right angled SATA connectors, no official Linux drivers from Intel.

Other Thoughts: Decent board, was not disappointed. Handled some banging around well, has a ton of connections and even a WiFi adapter. I can't speak for the WiFi performance though. Ran Fedora 17 well. Intel boards are always my preference for stability but I did run into a few issues with the visual BIOS and the USB 3.0 controller. Had to flash the BIOS and things seemed to work. The visual BIOS isn't for everyone, I'm not a particular fan of it.

Manufacturer's need to get with the program on Linux support.