Pros: None so far. Motherboard DOA

Cons: Doesn't Work

Overall Review: Today I received a GA-Z97-HD3 motherboard and new pentium G3258 processor. Newegg sales order 303137478. This was to replace a 5yr old Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R motherboard that the cpu temperature sensor had died on. This is the first time in building over 20 systems over 14 years that I had a system would not boot into the bios screen. When I powered the system up as POST instead of a beep I got a continuous beep with the power shutting down . I did see the keyboard lights flash on power up. The light bar on the back of the motherboard lights after about 4 seconds. The system continues to beep and shuts down at 14 seconds. The system will then continue to power cycle. The beeping is quite rapid – ie approximately 3 beeps per second. What I have done to trouble shoot the system: 1. Swapped power supply - no change 2. Double checked CPU to make sure it was properly seated and aligned - no change 3. Swapped ram with known good ram off the old GA-X58A- - no change 4. Changed new RAM position between 1&3 and 2&4 - no change 5. Removed graphics card and used on board graphics. - no change 6. Unplugged CD/DVD drive power and signal cable - no change 7. Unplugged disk drive power and signal cables - no change 8. Checked +5 & +12volt levels they were 5.09 and 12.26 9.Checked F_Panel – all correct What can I do to confirm what the problem is? There is no explanation of a beep error code. This is extremely frustrating as it is my wife’s computer and my life is not very pleasant right now because of it.

Pros: Works well - Hardware looks good

Cons: 1. How about a flow direction arrow on the fans? There is nothing on the fan or instructions to show air flow direction. I had to turn the fans around after installation to pull air thru the radiator. 2. The installation instructions are minimal and confusing. Check you tube before you install. 3. The software performance is terrible. The software installation installs on boot up (implemented in the startup folder) and takes a total of 40 seconds to initialize after the Windows Home page is up. This is on a system with an i7 8700K overclocked to 5,15GHz. Because the controller software is not included with the hardware you have to go the Thermaltake website to download it.

Overall Review: Go to you tube and watch the 1/2 hour install video - it will save you a lot of time and frustration. Hopefully they will improve the software performance.

Pros: Excellent display - sharp image and color

Cons: After exactly 5 months of usage monitor will only work on HDMI input. All control buttons on bottom of screen other than power on do not work. Unfortunately this system only has DVI video output.

Overall Review: This is the first of three Asus monitors I have that has failed.