ASUS Z170M-PLUS LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: I have a white fractal case and a white fractal design newton psu. So this went very nice with it. price is okay.
It works well with a m.2 ssd as your boot drive. I was able to clock it to 4.6 on my i5-6600k

Cons: The io shield is thin bendy flimsy and it will cut you like a knife if you do not watch out for it. The VRM heatsinks do not use screws and the pcb board is flexy bendy. The sound chip is the lower cost ALC 892

Overall Review: I have my own dac so the sound is not a big deal. Should I buy this is the question? I am a newegg exggpert reviewer so I got to give it a test run. Frankly I would go bigger then this ASUS and get the ASUS Maximus gene Viii.

I have owned The maximus gene iv , v , vi , vii ,viii all were my favorite mATX mothers boards.
You are entering higher price with the maximus but all of mine have worked really well.

I will get back to this with a second review as I am giving it to a crazy gaming buddy that plays for hours on end. He will use a 390x on it and maybe a 980 ti.
I used the older 290 and a hd7970 both were good.

Pros: Its simple. There isnt much to this board other than plug and play, meaning there arent a bunch of things that come with this board to make it cluttered. No additional fans, no toaster, aesthetically pleasing to look at too. Setup was pretty simple, but I think maybe its a little too simple. Installed everything pretty quickly...Im not into overclocking much anymore since this runs just as fast as my previous 4770k processor overclocked. My flight simulators run perfectly, but thats not really saying much because they played perfectly before. GTA5 runs pretty good too. Didnt have any issues loading up Windows 10.

Cons: Again, its too simple. There arent many peripherals to go with this. Only 3 SATA cables...what you see above is what you get. If you are thinking of RAID, then keep the number of disks down because the SATA connectors arent ergonomic. Plan on using a big case for this. Also, my Captain 360 doesnt fit as the heat spreaders on the top of the board interfere with the radiator. Im still playing with it, but looks like Im going to have to find another solution here. Could use some more USB ports on the back panel, but a hub works just as well. I have at least 10 things to plug in while flying, its nice to have something directly connected to the board.

Overall Review: Using a 6700k, DDR4 3000 Corsair Vengeance, 2x GTX970 cards, Corsair 760T case.