Pros: Windows 10 support practically out of the box. Good drop-in replacement for Z87 or later chipset boards. Loads of SATA connectors, and supports RAID arrays from other Intel RST-based boards. Contrary to an answer to a question posted here, yes, an Intel RST RAID array built on another Intel RST board will work on this one without needing to rebuild the array.

Cons: Mini-PCIe slot has no mounting bracket for cards and may not have worked with a mini-PCIe to Firewire card I bought. A simple 'stable, no overclocking' option was missing; it defaulted to 'turbo' mode for my processor, and the auto-tuning application sped up my CPU by 5% while under-clocking my RAM by 12% for some reason. I had to hand-configure this board to not overclock or underclock anything. SATA RAID will fail if you disable Windows write cache buffer flushing and try to enable write-back caching. Stick with write-through caching and leave write cache buffer flushing enabled.

Overall Review: I needed to cram a lot of computing power into a small desk space. After failing to make a full size ATX system work in a small case, I had to go Micro-ATX while still supporting seven SATA devices, Firewire, a GTX 760 graphics card, and a regular PCIe x1 capture card. I also wanted to build for reliability. This tweaker's board is not suited for a novice builder because the default settings assume you want to overclock things. However, once I got the settings to match the processor and RAM's design specs, the board behaved. Still working on a Firewire solution. I might have to forego Mini-PCIe cards and just go PCIe, which would use the remaining PCIe slot and prevent me from going SLI with graphics cards in the future.

Pros: Works on Asus ROG Maximus VII Gene with its native Mini-PCIe slot, Windows 10 Pro supported natively.

Cons: Does not recognize Sony Mini DV camera connected to 6-pin 1394A port. Camera originally worked on Intel DZ87 board with native 1394A port.

Overall Review: Maybe the included cable was bad? I can't tell without a replacement cable. I made sure to enable mPCIe support on the motherboard, otherwise Windows didn't see the card at all.