Pros: Customer service was *incredible*. Can not stress this enough, they were fantastic.

Cons: DOA... Very cramped for a mATX board. RAM slots were waaayyyy too close to PCIe slot, screw hole was wayyy to close to RAM slots.

Pros: Feature set includes everything I wanted for my home NAS.

Cons: Mine arrived with two non-functional SATA ports (tested hard drives in other ports, worked fine)

Other Thoughts: Submitted RMA, will update when I get a fully functional board

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Robert,

Sorry to hear that the 2 SATA ports are malfunctioned which's due to nature on electronic product, it can happen.
Please update replacement mainboard is working fine.
If you have any technical inquiry, please contact us at http://www.ASRock.com/Support/tsd.asp
We will assist you shortly.

Thank you

ASRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: http://www.ASRock.com/Support/tsd.asp

Pros: Nice overclocking features. Zero problems with the board. Good amount of slots, placement of slots makes installing and working on things easy. Board feels nice and solid.

Cons: A small audio artifact exists with some audio input devices, but it's very minor.

Other Thoughts: I would recommend this board.

Pros: I only use Asrock motherboards. I like the onboard Ethernet driver and many of the other features of the Bios. I like the boards designed for the LGA 1150 CPU. It has solid capacitors. The Anniversary model is my favorite of them all whether it be the ATX or Micro ATX. Has 4 memory slots. I have built 7 using these boards and will continue. Great !!!

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: I would highly recommend these boards.

Pros: Cheap

Cons: You get what you pay for

Other Thoughts: Got this for a media center build I am doing. Hook every thing up prior to testing it. Figured I've got enough stuff from newegg before I don't have to worry. I was wrong. Power system on nothing absolutely nothing the fans turned on so I knew it was getting power. After a day of taking apart a good pc to swap parts I determined it was the M/B. The frustration. Thanks for my other online shopping prime membership got a new M/B less than 24hrs later, and thanks to this being DOA I have a light weight paper weight (the reason for 2 stars instead of one)

Manufacturer Response:

Dear John,

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
Please trouble shoot the mainboard whether the issue is resolved.
• Unplug the ATX power, remove all components from mainboard.
• Remove the mainboard from chassis, place it on mainboard’s box.
• Clear the CMOS.
• Reseat the CPU and heatsink fan.
• Test with single memory module.
• Test with onboard video.
• Connect the monitor.
• Plug the 24 + 4 pins ATX power.
• Connect the chassis power switch to mainboard.
• Turn on the power to check if its post.

If you have any technical support inquiry, please contact us at http://www.ASRock.com/Support/tsd.asp

Thank you

ASRock Support
Tech Support Email: http://www.ASRock.com/Support/tsd.asp

Pros: I tried to find an LGA 1150 motherboard that had good reviews (almost all the motherboards seemed to have over 10% failure rate). I didn't want to go through the troubleshooting and return cycle. I don't have the time. This seemed to be a good bet. It was.

Cons: It does not have as many PCI Express slots as I would have liked.

Pros: - Cheap
- Solid I/O ports
- Decent Motherboard Specific Software

Cons: - The ram port is right above one of the holes you use to fasten the MOBO to the case, I ultimately just had to leave it

Other Thoughts: - Overall I would recommend to anyone who wants a solid but affordable build

Pros: -Small.
-Functional.
-EZ to install.

Cons: -Only has 1 case fan controller, means that all other case fans are going to be directly connected to the PSU (loud) unless you get a controller.

Other Thoughts: -I would recommend this product to those looking for an smaller MOBO for a small build.

Pros: It boots
Enough USB 3.0

Cons: BIOS is terrible
The board is small so my GPU card is overlapping on the connectors for my case led, which I cant connect because of that

Other Thoughts: Good for low budget, would have still pick something else

Pros: -Works
-Cheap
-supports 4th gen cpu

Cons: -Broke under 2 months. One day pc just stops turning on. Tested everyother parts on my other motherboard and confirmed that it is indeed the motherboard.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear ASRock Valued Customer Yuchen C.,

We appreciate you taking the time in providing your feedback on the H97M Anniversary.
And we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
For this issue, we provide the following suggestions for you to check your system firstly.
1. Please refer to user manual page 17 to do clear CMOS to try again.
User Manual link: http://asrock.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com/Manual/H97M%20Anniversary.pdf
2. Re-install CPU, PSU and memory modules for testing.
3. If you had installed add-on VGA card, please remove the additional VGA card and output display signal from onboard graphics for verifying.
4. Please only install necessary devices including CPU and one stick memory module to check if system is able to boot up.
5. If possible, please change another CPU, memory or PSU to clarify it.

If you have any technical support inquiry, please contact us at http://www.ASRock.com/Support/tsd.asp
Thank you very much!

Have a nice day
ASRock TSD