Pros: Runs rated timings at 1600 MHz with 1.55 V on eVGA X58.

Cons: I paid the "early adopter tax" and the price has come down considerably.

Overall Review: Does exactly what it says it will do, at a great price compared to the competition.

Pros: Supports Sandy Bridge Intel LAN Supports SLI/Xfire Slot layout allows use of a PCI slot with SLI/Xfire 4 SATA 6GB/s ports 4 USB3 ports

Cons: Does NOT work out of the box. Asus website lists BIOS v 0804 as "first release". My board had v 0403 and Windows 7 would not install until the BIOS was updated. Does NOT work correctly with RAM specified in the manual as being on the QVL list for this board. I have 2 sets of G.Skill F3-12800CL9T-6GBNQ and tried using 2 DIMMs from each set for a total of 8GB. The system crashes consistently with all DIMM slots populated. Windows 7 would not install until I removed 2 DIMMs. After install I tried all 4 again. Windows 7 will boot to desktop then completely freeze after about 5 seconds with 4 DIMMs. I had to back off to 4 GB to get a working system. Will NOT reliably run RAM from the QVL list at its rated and qualified speed. The G.Skill is DDR3 1600. The board will frequently back it down to 1333 and say "overclock failed". Windows 7 will not install to SSD from a USB flash drive. I have encountered this on 1 other system. I had to use a DVD instead of a flash drive.

Overall Review: As you can see from the "cons", I had a lot of trouble getting Windows 7 installed. I had to troubleshoot BIOS version, install media, and memory configuration. I could have saved time by doing the BIOS first, but the cascade of faults is inexcusable. The product I was shipped was NOT ready for release, and is still not performing as specified since it will not run with 8 GB installed. This goes beyond "early adopter" problems and veers into defective product territory.

Pros: Works at rated speed/timings with Ryzen 3 No issues with 4 DIMMs

Cons: Only ran 3200 with a Ryzen 2700X - probably due to the older memory controller, not any fault in the RAM

Overall Review: I now have 2 kits (4 sticks) of this RAM on an Asus Prime X570-P. I started with a 2700X and 1 kit and could not boot with the RAM at 3600 - had to use 3200. With a new 5800X I only had to select "D.O.C.P." in the UEFI and make sure the DRAM voltage was set to 1.35V and it runs flawlessly at 3600 and the rated timings. I added the second kit and didn't have to change anything. I'll have to try DRAM Calculator to see if I can get this to 4000 or 3800 with a boost to the Infinity Fabric on the CPU.

Pros: Set this up as the boot drive with a Sandy Bridge system using ASRock P67 Extreme6. I have 6850's in XFire and have the Revodrive in the 3rd PCIe x16 slot (4x electrical). I loaded the driver during Windows 7 install and everything has worked as expected. It takes a few seconds to get to the Windows 7 desktop after the BIOS has finished.

Cons: No driver included in package. I had to download it from OCZ's site and put it on a thumb drive.

Overall Review: It's fast. I haven't bothered with benchmarks since I have SSDs in enough other systems to know they are fast. And, according to OCZ, it's not the best idea to completely fill a new SSD with useless data.

Pros: First - DO NOT INSTALL the driver for "Accusys Inc. - Storage - ACS-6xxxx" from Windows update. Details in "Other Thoughts". Supports Sandy Bridge and easily overclocks the K chips Supports SLI/Crossfire 10 total internal SATA ports, 6 of them SATA3 6 USB 3.0 ports, including 2 on a 3.5" front panel Easy setup - hardware and Windows install was flawless EUFI BIOS easy to navigate

Cons: The PCI slots are both next to the PCIe graphics card slots. If you run SLI/Crossfire with dual slot coolers (any fast card anymore uses a dual slot cooler) you have ZERO usable PCI slots. My PCI soundcard still works perfectly - I'm not thrilled about using the onboard sound or buying a new soundcard.

Overall Review: DO NOT INSTALL the driver for "Accusys Inc. - Storage - ACS-6xxxx" from Windows update. This update screws up the onboard LAN and keeps Windows from seeing it at all. I did a system restore and ran updates one by one to isolate the cause. Before the Accusys update, LAN works fine. After Accusys, no LAN at all. A Google search turns up a long list of problems related to this "update". AVOID. At the inital rollout of Sandy Bridge I bought an Asus P67 Pro that was nothing but trouble. The Asus shipped with a shoddy pre-release BIOS and would bluescreen trying to run 4 DIMMs even after a BIOS update. This ASRock is trouble-free and has no problem running 4x4GB DIMMs.

Pros: Reasonable price USB 3 and SATA III Excellent slot layout Runs 200 MHz QPI easily

Cons: Unusual layout for some connectors.

Overall Review: I use this board with an i7 920 for my HTPC that doubles as a gaming system. The slot layout enables the use of 2 GTX260s in SLI, a PCI TV tuner card, and a PCIe sound card. It is not easy to find a good X58 board that lets you use a PCI slot with SLI/XFire. I also have 6 x 2 GB DDR3 1600, mixed OCZ and G.Skill. I manually set the timings for the RAM and it works great. I also have an original eVGA X58 SLI that refuses to recognize all the installed memory with the 3 channels populated (unfortunately, a common X58 problem). I am considering another of these Asrock boards as a replacement.