Pros: -Compact, stylish
-Nice IPS screen with minimal backlight glow and decent colours

Cons: -Power problem appears quickly and causes start-up issues, it is now a stylish and flat brick

Other Thoughts: I purchased this on December 17th for my wife's 40th birthday, as she had an aging laptop from another brand. She has since used it possibly 8 times since then, mostly to watch videos and some light web surfing. Yesterday she informed me that the unit unexpectedly turned off and she had some difficulty turning it on. After me intervening and getting it back up and running it was fine. This morning the same issue, but this time it could not complete a system restore point to get it back up. It also now only shows the white LED next to the camera when I try to turn it on, and about 60% of the time I can see the backlight on the display glowing, but no response. I have since tried a system restore from the actual BIOS screen (which really just invokes Windows restore) and it gets to a point of system restore, says "preparing Drivers etc..." and then just goes black again. This is the second, and now likely last Lenovo product I will buy. My first laptop (an Ideapad y500) is decent enough, but suffers from a weird "right speaker loud, left speaker quiet" issue, and now this. So far, I'm very unhappy. I wish I had heeded my wife's advice which was "Just return it, don't waste your money."

Pros: - Dual graphics with both Crossfire and SLI supported
- 3 full length PCI-E slots
- Good audio foundation
- Good BIOS
- M.2 slot for storage
- Nice looking board with no extraneous LEDs
- No real layout compromises for medium/small form factor setups

Cons: - Board is a bit more flexible than competitions' boards
- Fan control seems a bit strange
- One of my PCI-E slot clips broke (not my fault)

Other Thoughts: This is a fully featured board for a decent price. The only other board that compares in features is the Asus Maximus VIII Gene, but that board is nearly $100.00 more expensive. Both this and the Asus board are two of the only Micro ATX Z170 boards that support both Crossfire and SLI, and have a fully featured set of PCI-E slots. All 16x "length" (ie. full length) PCI-E slots support Crossfire, so you can use the first slot for the first GPU, and the third one can support a second AMD based GPU. For SLI you have to use the first and second full length slots due to PCI-E lane limitations.

The BIOS is well laid out, with my only issue being that you have to press F6 to get into the fully featured, advanced BIOS setup options. Another neat option is to hook the board up to a network and update the BIOS over the internet without an O/S, which is also very nice. The fan headers can all be run with PWM or voltage control for 3 and 4-pin fans and can be custom set to ramp up based on silent, standard, or performance options, as well as a custom option that allows you to set various fan speeds based on a temperature monitor. For me, I set my two front fans on a chassis header at 60%. My only issue with this, is once in a while you boot up, and the fan control doesn't seem to work, and the fans are static at 100%. I will further look into why this is happening by testing 4-pin PWM fans in place of the 3-pins that I'm currently using.

In terms of aesthetics, the board is attractive, with a black PCB, copper coloured heatsinks, and a shroud over the I/O area. I also like that there are really no LEDs to interfere with my chosen colour scheme of blue and orange/copper. This is a very good board, my only real quality complaints are that it is more flexible than major competitors, and my second PCI-E full length slot suffered a broken clip, even though I made sure it was open when I inserted my second GPU. If I have any further issues, I will edit this review after a few months. But, ultimately, I would recommend this board for a micro-ATX Z170 based platform.

In addition, there have been complaints about installing Windows 7, but the issue is that Intel doesn't put USB3 compatible components in the 100-level chipset for Windows 7 (x85 or x64), so you have to go to the following page where there is a utility that can slipstream the USB3 drivers into a Windows 7 image to install it efficiently on this board. The page is here: http://asrock.com/microsite/Win7Install/index.html