Pros: Nearly 50% faster than R5 2600 Great way to minimize bottlenecking of older high-end GPUs where new GPUs are unavailable

Cons: Makes a lot of heat Expensive

Overall Review: Great upgrade from R5 2600, I'm using it with a Gen 1 GTX1080. I saw an average 52% increase across several CPU and GPU benchmarks. Great upgrade from earlier chips, remember to upgrade your BIOS before installing! Keep your old processor until the system boots with the new one.

Pros: Nicely priced 64GB DDR4 4400 kit

Cons: at 1.5V my system only boots at a max of 4066, CL20.

Overall Review: Perhaps more voltage would help, but I'm of the opinion memory ought to work at its advertised timings and voltages.

Pros: CPU Voltages go into the stratosphere for the hardcore OC'er, not to mention the rest of the voltages are adjustable on a drastically large range (both lo and hi for silent, underclocking types). unlinked memory bus lets you specify a mem speed and the BIOS does the math... literally around every corner is a usable BIOS feature.

Cons: I still haven't decided if TRI-Sli is necessary, remounted the board heatsinks with artic silver for a 2-4 degree heat reduction, picked up some stability.

Overall Review: This is the nicest, most fully featured and functional MOBO i've used, ever, bar none, not even close.