GIGABYTE GA-Z87X-D3H LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: After having this MB for some time now and replacing the stock CPU fan that came with my I5 4670k to a Cooler Master Hyper Evo. I am LOVING Haswell and if you check out some of the top OC websites you can get this CPU running at 4.4Ghz with temp's at around 65C under load. This MB does indeed allow you to OC with ease and is packed with features you would find on a MB that cost 2x as much. So if you're in the market for an upgrade. You can't go wrong with this MB. I'm not one to upgrade every time a new socket come's out, but Haswell is one great CPU and the haswell refresh will be coming out at the end of this year. So you are very well future proofing yourself if you NEED / Really Want to upgrade to the 1150 socket. It will be around for a while. On top of all that if you buy this MB you will be set for year's to come due to no video card's being able to bottleneck the i5, in fact video card's are now the bottleneck and will be for some time.

Cons: None

Overall Review: This MB will be all you need for year's to come. If you want to upgrade to something that will last. This MB is for you. PS, This is by far the best system I have ever built. Using this MB, i5 4670k, Kingston HyperX Blu 8GB RAM, Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB "Boot Drive and two top played games" , XFX XTR 750 Full Mod PSU Gold Plus, Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler, 2TB Seagate HDD, 320GB Seagate HDD, *Old* ATI HD 6950 2GB Video Card that now run's great. All inside my good old Antec 900.

Pros: Very nice and sleak Bios with multiple setting saves and computer statistics. Great for expert and beginners in overclocking. The special PCV weave of the board makes it very resilient to accidental bending. Overall design looks nice for those going for a steel and blue color scheme.

Cons: Only some very minor problems to consider... Motherboard power port could be in a better spot. The current location causes the power cable to slightly block airflow for large cpu coolers that blow towards the back of the case. Also, the bios screen could stay up longer since it disappears before my monitor even fully starts up.

Overall Review: Make sure large graphics card won't block the second PCIx1 slot if you are using it. My GTX 770 almost made it impossible for me to install my wireless adapter due to it's size.

Pros: I have at least 25 builds to my credit in the last 10 years (friends & family). This my third Gigabyte board for my personal use and is working as advertised. The other two builds 2006 & 2009 are still going strong with daily use. I have had problems with the boards from one of the other big outfits that were short lived and buggy. Watch out for boards with cheap capacitors, the board they will likely die young.These are heavy duty boards. I won't buy anything else at this point.

Cons: Had to RMA the first one I received as it had a bent pin on the CPU socket. Newegg as usual came thru.

Overall Review: I highly recommend that you keep all packaging when you purchase hardware at least until the warranty has expired. This is only common sense.

Pros: does not bend at all when you hold it everything was easy to install works pretty fast has enough ports SATA 6Gb/s

Cons: wish it had one or two more case fan ports, but you can always get the adapters that turn one into three

Pros: Easy to Navigate BIOS options VERY durable Intuitive Layout Worked right out of the box

Cons: Customer service for Gigabyte is slow and a pain Gigabytes gmail login wants offline access to your gmail account - why? SATA ports are in a bad place.

Overall Review: Had to contact support due to a sound issue - which I figured out without the help of Gigabyte because it took them three days to respond - by then I figured out the option I was missing in BIOS. Since Intel left the market for reasons unknown, I decided to go with gigabyte - I was skeptical at first, but now I would not have had it any other way. Board is well made and laid out well - EXCEPT for the SATA connectors - which are located on the side - ackward place for them.

Pros: Came in a fancy box well packed

Cons: To set up raid is difficult because the manual is poorly written, and the board is shipped with an old bios without the right options to set up a raid array on win7. Had to call tech support at Gigabyte. Then when I was putting in a different graphics card the plastic channel housing for the PCI-e 16 came away from the board and I have to RMA it to gigabyte and at my cost of $10 shipping.

Overall Review: Sadly, Gigabyte doesn't seem to be making as good a motherboard as a few years ago.

Pros: have not had any issues. paired this with an i5 4670k, gigabyte 760 windforce, 16 gb of crucial ram, installed into a cm haf 912 easily. i did remove a hd cage for better cable routing due to the length of the graphics card, but I planned on doing that since I'm not going to be using 7 ssd/hdd's. forst time using gigabyte and I'm impressed. this build runs Everquest Landmark alpha @ 66+ fps on high settings w/o any OC. since the game is still in alpha, it is not yet optimized. I can get 45-48 fps on ultra... for any miners out there on default settings you can get 87-88 Mhash/s, if your into that sort of thing.. not very cost effective but you cant game on an ASIC chip.

Cons: none so far. only been assembled about 6 weeks.

Pros: Everything is smooth sailing. Clockings are very good. Easy to setup and adjust.

Cons: I asked a question about getting it to see a gtx 760. First uninstall intel hd graphics if you installed it. Every time i disabled the integrated graphics the card would not work. I could not see anything but black and could never tell if it even booted into windows. I called the GA tech and this is how it worked out. There is a setting for the initial display. Set it to IGFX and leave the integrated graphics on. Boot in. Go to device manager and the card will appear. Install the driver. Go back into bios and disable integrated. Save it and go back into windows. Worked great for me. Thank you GA for a very nice board for the buck. Newegg, always nice dealing with you. This setup just plays with my intensive programs like a toy. My old system would sometimes lag. Extremely happy.