Pros: Fastest consumer SSD currently on the market (to my knowledge) High capacity, especially for SSD. Am able to use as boot device with X79 chipset. (not officially supported, see other thoughts)

Cons: Price, although I got a sweet black friday deal. Can be tricky to boot if not familiar with MBR/UEFI. (see other thoughts)

Overall Review: I read a lot of conflicting information about this drive and boot compatibility with my system. I have a Asus Sabertooth X79 motherboard. According to Intel, only Z97 and X99 chipsets are support booting to NVMe drives. This almost made me not purchase this drive. However, I did some searching and found users on different forums claiming they had gotten the drive to boot using X79 boards, and I even found two posts claiming success with exact board I own, using the latest mid-2014 bios update. So, I took a chance, updated my bios, and ordered the drive. Once I received the drive, I struggled to get the drive to boot. I could see the drive listed in my BIOS, and the Windows 10 installer could see it, partition it, and format it. I could also boot to another drive, and access the new drive in Windows. However, when I attempted installing Windows 10 on the drive, after the first reboot i would get a blue screen with a 0xc000000e error code. I tried all of the classic startup fixes, but nothing would work. However, I refused to give up, so I did some more research and found the solution. In short, I had to recreate my Windows 10 flash drive using Rufus, and select "GPT partition scheme for UEFI computer." The problem was my bios supports UEFI GPT and legacy MBR boot devices, but the Intel 750 PCIe will only boot with UEFI GPT. Most importantly, it seems the Windows 10 installer will configure the drive with a UEFI GPT partition ONLY when the Windows 10 flash drive itself is booted using UEFI GPT! The reason I could not get the Intel 750 to boot initially is that the Windows installer was partitioning the drive with MBR, which will not work with this drive. I cannot guarantee success with every X79 board, but I can vouch for the Asus Sabertooth X79, and since every Asus X79 board shares the same bios, I would imagine other X79 boards from Asus will also work. However, I would check the motherboard manual and make sure you have an available PCIe 3.0 x4, x8, or x16 slot.

Pros: With the latest BIOS revision (F22), the board works great. It fully supports my i7 6850K, 32GB of DDR4 3000, Intel 750 series NVMe SSD, etc. If It had been that way out of the box this would be the end of my review.

Cons: This board shipped with an older BIOS that did not support Broadwell-E CPUs. That was problematic because this board lacks Gigabyte's Q-Flash *PLUS* feature. The board has Q-Flash, but NOT Q-Flash *PLUS*. Q-Flash allows you to update the BIOS from the BIOS menu, but Q-Flash *PLUS* allows you to update the BIOS even with no CPU or RAM installed.

Overall Review: When I initially installed this board, it would not display video, and rebooted every 15 seconds. Through troubleshooting and research, I discovered the BIOS compatibility problem. I had two options: Temporarily install a CPU supported by the older BIOS to facilitate a BIOS update, or RMA the board to Gigabyte to have them update the BIOS. Option one was a no-go as I didn't happen to have a i7 5820K, 5930K, or 5960X CPU. (I was upgrading from a x79 system.) To make a long story short, I RMA'd the board to Gigabyte and was without the board 4 weeks for simple BIOS update. So far, the board works fine with the updated BIOS, but if you are shopping for a board for a Broadwell-E based system, I would AVOID THIS BOARD unless you have a 5820K, 5930K, or 5960X CPU on hand, OR feel like going through the Gigabyte RMA process. Consider a different Gigabyte board with Q-Flash *PLUS* or a different brand altogether.