ASUS P8Z77-M LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Good price, supports Ivy, has a PCie 3.0 slot and works, that's always a plus. Highly recommend this for a Intel budget setup.

Cons: None yet. 6 Months and have had no problems

Other Thoughts: I'm running an i5-3570 (3.4 quad-core) with 16 (4x4) Gig's of GSkill DDR3-1600. About to upgrade the video card, but have been running a 4800HD series card.

Pros: well priced
easy install
no issues what soever

Cons: none that i can see

Pros: Good so far

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: I am thinking of putting 2 660s into sli mode but I can't find any information saying that the motherboard can support it. If it can please message me.

Pros: 1. fast
2. easy set up
3. BIOS Safety features
4. easy overclocking and BIOS upgrades

Cons: 1. died after last than a month
2. Bad placement of the pcie1x slot. There is NO way you can mount a pci1x card and a full size video card. I have the EVGA GTX570 and the card takes up both slots space wise. A better option would be to place the slot somewhere else on the board and possibly include an extension cable so that the card could still be mounted at the back of the case and connect to the mobo.
3. not enough Chassis Fan headers
4. had to upgrade the BIOS to stop crashes
5. back plate was a little fidgety, it wouldn't line up quite right with the components of the board and those small metal fins had to be bent slightly to let them pass through

Other Thoughts: This board fit the bill for a microATX build I was switching to. It handles the i7 I put in it very well, no complaints there. No issues with the RAM after figuring out the timings.

This board blazes, there is absolutely NO COMPLAINT about it's speed or stability AFTER you upgrade the BIOS. This is a must, as soon as you have the board, upgrade the BIOS and save yourself any headache with RAM timings or cpu compatability.

My problem like a few others here is that the board died after amount 3 weeks. I had a BSOD 2 days ago and recovered from that with no issue and then today, 4/8/13, I tried to power the system on and it would not POST.

I went through extensive troubleshooting to find out the issue and pinpoint it,e ven though I was fairly certain I already knew it was the board.
1. reseat ram - no effect
2. try known good ram - no effect
3. reset BIOS to defaults via jumper - no effect
4. recover factory BIOS using the onboard flashback function - no effect
5. remove all components (hdd, cdrom, ram, video card, wifi adapter) - no effect
6. remove CPU - no effect
7. tried known working PSU - no effect

This thing simply will NOT post.
I have already submitted an RMA and will be shipping it back tomorrow, 4/9/13. Once I have the new board and run it through some burn in and torture tests I'll update the review and we'll see if the new one lasts more than 3 weeks.
This is my first time venturing into Asus land, I'm normally an EVGA or Gigabyte guy and I hope this is just a fluke and the new board will be flawless.


specs:
Xigmatek GIGAS Series CCC-MD26TA-U02 Silver Aluminum MicroATX Desktop Computer Case

ZALMAN CNPS9500A-LED 92mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler

TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 Dual Band Wireless N900 PCI Express Adapter, 2.4GHz

COOLER MASTER Silent Pro M2 RS620-SPM2E3-US 620W ATX12V V2.3

Intel Core i7-3770 Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor

G.SKILL Ares Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900)

EVGA SuperClocked 012-P3-1572-AR GeForce GTX 570

Win7 Ultimate 64bit

Pros: Just completed a build with this motherboard and had zero problems.

Cons: None

Pros: Easy setup
Onboard raid is a breeze
Decent onboard video with HDMI output
No Bios update required for the Intel i3 2150 CPU
Has 3 fan headers - which is nice

Cons: None really

Other Thoughts: Using as a HTPC with onboard RAID enabled on the 4 3gb SATA ports. No issues with 3 weeks of 24/7 operation; very stable. This board is overkill for what I am using it for, but I had it as an extra along with some other spare parts so I decided to do something productive with it.

With all Asus boards make sure you use the certified memory. I have found that Asus boards are a little on the picky side with respect to this.

Build
Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B memory
950w Zalman Power Supply
Intel i3 2150
Silverstone Granada case
Samsung 840 series 128gb SSD
4 WD30ERAX 'RED' 3 TB drives
A bunch of quiet fans
Pioneer DVD/Blu-Ray burner

Pros: Easy Installation of all parts, solid construction, plenty of features.

Cons: N/A

Pros: love the motherboard.
has all i need.

Cons: it's broken. doesn't power up after about 3 month. Ive never thought motherboard would broke in 3 month. but mine has. Sent it back for RMA and they are sending new one now.

Pros: Easy to build a system using this board

Cons: DVI port doesnt work (problem has been isolated to that), normally would RMA but my client doesnt have time to wait around so I slapped an old graphics card in it and had to send it as is.

It most likely doesnt work because whomever packed my shipment at newegg just threw everything in the box and went as far as to wad up the packing list instead of laying it on top.

Other Thoughts: Running a small business server non stop with zero crashes thus far.

Pros: It works perfectly.

Cons: I don’t think you can actually put in two large GPU for SLI/cross fire in here, say two HD 7870, but I won’t remove an egg because of that.