ASRock H87 Pro4 LGA 1150 Intel H87 HDMI USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Same as before. Adequate port selection. Easy enough to install everything. For my non-OC, 1 GPU build, it's working just fine right now.

Cons: ASRock's updating of the drivers on their site, which led to my original SATA/SSD issue.

Overall Review: Writing this as a follow up to share what I learned with the NewEgg community. I had already done what ASRock suggested in their NewEgg response (flash/update BIOS, try different cables and drives) and said so in my original support email to them, so I knew that wasn't it. After speaking with a very helpful phone rep at Samsung, however (my SSD is a 120GB 840 Evo), I discovered that the cause of my problems was a bad Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) driver.

The current version on Intel's site is 12.8.XXX (not sure of the exact number beyond that). On ASRock's site, they had 12.6.XXX, a version that was apparently so bad Intel totally removed it from their site. As soon as I updated to 12.8, my SSD started performing brilliantly.

Conclusion: the board works fine. It fills my needs. Just don't trust ASRock to have the latest drivers on their site - go straight to Intel. Giving 4 stars this time so my two reviews average out.

P.S. I think this will apply to any H87 board, and maybe some Zs as well - not sure.

Pros: Easy to set up right out of the box

Cons: Worked on Intel i3 first try, but did not come with Bios version to run Intel i5, company shipped new version chip, it did not work either.

The i3 seems to work fine for basic office work, does occasionally seem to log me out of cloud software because of connection timeouts.

Overall Review: None