EVGA Z87 Stinger miniITX - LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Mini ITX Motherboard with Brand New GUI BIOS (111-HW-E872-KR)

Pros: Fast, fast, FAST, especially when paired with a Haswell i7 4770 CPU, 16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum RAM, a nice Corsair H100i CPU cooler (or a eVGA Hadron Hydro case/radiator combo, along with an eVGA Titan GPU w/Hydrocopper waterblock... nice, clean, tight-fit... but I found that the pump/reservoir combo included with the eVGA Hadron Hydro watercooling kit is a little questionable, in terms of quality and providing sufficient output for BOTH a CPU and a GPU... but I digress...) and a nice NVIDIA GPU... and it fits beautifully in nearly ANY itty-bitty ITX case. Oh, and it fits pretty good in most mITX, ATX, eATX, or, (insert your favorite letter of the alphabet)-ATX case you can imagine.

Cons: Older BIOS was BAD, BAD, BAD... I'd go as far as to call it the epitome of evil-doing and baby-hating, for being so temperamental and uncooperative with virtually any non-completely-mainstream hardware/semi-aggressive settings.

Overall Review: In the more recently-released MB's, or those that have been updated with the newer v1.08 BIOS, the updated BIOS is OUTSTANDING (x3), fixing many of the (lack of)compatibility and (weedtodddid)configuration issues. Aesthetically, this board looks beautiful and can be dressed-up/easily adjusted to match nearly any setup, with it's black/red color scheme. Performance-wise, when paired with the standard-issue Z87-compatible performance-oriented hardware, it can keep up with, and/or surprise you, in comparison with it's mITX/ATX/eATX brethren. Just don't expect it to be outperforming that one dude's X79, Socket 2011 eleventeen-core, quad-SLI giga-rig, jam-packed in a custom Frigidaire icebox, lit-up like the Griswold Family's house on National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation...

Pros: Easy to install.

Cons: No customer service for me on this one. No matter what I say they will not listen to me.

Overall Review: When I received the product it would only acknowledge one stick of ram (8 gig). I am using two sticks (16 gig total). I called customer service and they told me that it was the ram. I could accept that. Thank Goodness the ram company (G.Skill) sent me another stick of ram with no questions asked. I received the new stick of ram in a matter of a couple of days - installed it all once again and its the Same problem with the motherboard. I called again and went through it again. They told me it was the ram and I explained how it wasn't. They finally offered me an RMA. I paid a fee so that I could have one shipped to me before shipping back to them. This way I am not out of a MB. I send it back just like I was asked to send it back. 2-3 weeks ago. I received a message from fedex that they had received it. I get an email today stating: "Product was received with bent pins in the CPU socket. The CPU socket protector was installed when received. RMA notes have no mention of the product coming back to us in this condition. EVGA only will be able to accept your product for warranty if the product returns undamaged and in factory condition as indicated here - www.evga.com/warranty. The amount is due to repair the unit at a discounted price if you choose as we are unable to accept this product in as-is for RMA."

This is where my problem is. They are now wanting me to pay $71 to have something repaired that they can't prove that it wasn't already that way. This is not my first rodeo. You can keep the MB and my extra $220+ to get it shipped here. After paying $500 for a board that I will not even use because I will not do business with companies like this. I rather eat it then use it. So EVGA you just lost a customer with your video card and your MotherBoard forever. To be that dis-repectful to me on the phone is just not professional. This is the first bad comment I have ever had to make on any company EVER. I just could not let this one go.