Pros: Great price.

Overall Review: I got it as a second M2 drive to store pictures on. It plays nice with my AS Rock MB and the other M2 (a Mushkin Pilot).

Pros: Nice motherboard with lots of features

Cons: Requires a second 12V cable for the CPU power supply that a lot of power supplies don't come with. I had to wait a couple of days to get another cable. First world problems. I upgraded from an existing AS Rock DDR4 board so I moved my M2 drives over to this one. Installed the new CPU, yada, yada, and I powered it up. Wouldn't post. I checked everything over, nothing wrong. Powered it up again. Still didn't post, but it seemed to be doing something and it wasn't catching on fire, so I cycled power again and waited. Eventually it posted - like it took several minutes - an eternity in electronics time. Apparently, it automatically configures itself. This is the first board I've had that's ever done this. So, I thought I got a DOA at first, but everything turned out fine.

Overall Review: Takes several minutes to post for the first time.

Pros: It works

Overall Review: It works

Pros: Very fast. Runs pretty cool. Haven't really challenged it yet. I can't hear this coil whine people are talking about. I can't even hear the fans. I have a 600W power supply and it isn't having any issues. I usually never buy something this nice, as I'm usually content with the mid-level stuff. I would've probably bought the GTX-960 had it been out yet, but I like knowing my video board won't be outdated for many years to come. And I don't know if anyone has noticed but GPU's are slowly increasing in price. Even the cheap ones.

Cons: Big.

Pros: Strong quality. Decent documentation. Nice software toolset included. Bios is pretty nice, has an autotune feature, that gets your system setup with no fuss. Good price for a Z-97 board.

Cons: Not a full size ATX board. You better be careful plugging in that 24 pin mini-fit jr. or it'll ruin your day.

Pros: Excellent price/performance for an Intel cpu. Low power, runs under 40 degrees with stock cooler. No pins. Before installing video board had the haswell graphics interface at 1080p and it ran windows 8.1 just as fast as the 4830 I had installed previously. Benchmarked 32 bit single core and multi core performance is very high. Just a tad slower than the 300+ dollar i7's. Noticeably faster than my old setup. Old : Phenom II X3 710 ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO Team Vulcan DDR3-1600 2x4GB Sapphire 4830 Rosewill 600W Max 80 plus New: Core i5-4690 Asus Z97-P Team Vulcan DDR3-1600 2x4GB EVGA GTX-970 SSC Rosewill 600W Max 80 plus

Cons: Expensive (but superior) compared to AMD processors.

Overall Review: I was going to buy that X4 860 from somewhere else when they had it for 69.99, but they raised the price before I could actually decide what video bd I wanted to go with it. I'm kinda glad they did, as I decided to go bigger with this processor. At 100 dollars for the 860, this chip is actually a better deal. It uses significantly less power to move significantly more bits. Newegg is always my first choice for tech products.