Pros: It has Thunderbolt! While Thunderbolt may not have a lot of uses yet, I expect that to change, and since I plan on keeping this MB for a while, I figured I should make sure it included all the latest tech. Aside from Thunderbolt, it has all the coolest features you'd expect from ASUS.

Cons: The price is still pretty high. I expect it will come down before long.

Overall Review: While ASUS labelled this a "Pro" board, it really seems to be based on the standard P8Z77-V, no the P8Z77-V PRO. It does have a COM port and TPM connector, like the standard. It does not have the 12 phase power of the pro, or the shielding on the VGA port. It does not have the 2 mid-board Asmedia USB 3 ports that the Pro has. All this makes it Thunderbolt tacked onto the standard board, not the Pro board. The only things they added that makes it more like the Pro board are the Q-shield and the USB2/eSata back plate, which were just accessories easily thrown in the box.

Pros: + You can tell the quality of this motherboard as soon as you open the box. (It's Shiny.) + Board came with all appropriate hardware & accessories, and fit into a Cooler Master HAF 912 case easily. I had enough fan connectors (and in the correct spots, no less!) to hook every fan in my case up without having to use splitters or another controller device. + It looks & feels very solid. It's also fairly heavy -- you can tell they used quality parts in its construction. This board also has more ports than you can shake a stick at. + The driver disc is not bloatware, but actually has some useful utilities (eg temp monitors, extensive fan controls, simple overclocking). One may also control all of these features (and then some!) through the nice UEFI bios. + This board is also very stable & consistent, has not acted flaky yet. I have an i5 3570k overclocked to 4.3 ghz on air, and this board seems to handle that with no problem. (Your mileage may vary -- I'm new to overclocking. If you know what you're doing, I'm sure you'll do better than this.) + Speaking of CPU coolers, the designers put the RAM slots as close to the motherboard's edge as possible, so you'll be able to install even the most ridiculous cooler onto this board. (I used a Noctua, and that thing only sat over two DIMM slots, and cleared them with no problems.)

Cons: - I think the designers let a goldfish choose the SATA port placement. Pointing them to the front makes it far more difficult to insert SATA cables properly, plus one has to route the cable into a weird shape. Bleh. - Manual is horrible! ASUS, if you're going to build an awesome board, please don't be cheap about hiring translators for the manual. I hate having features on a device which I'm unsure how to use, due to the extreme vagueness of the documentation.

Overall Review: This was my fifth PC build. I feel like this board is a very good value, and wouldn't hesitate to use another ASUS board in the future. I did purchase this board elsewhere on special for around $180 at the launch of Ivy Bridge. Parts I used for this build: intel i5 3570k cpu ASUS P8Z77-V PRO mobo Noctua NH-D14 cpu cooler 2x evga 8800 gts g92 512's mushkin 120gb ssd seagate 2 tb hdd corsair psu 16 gigs corsair ram

Pros: Asus quality build, reliability. I like their web site for updates, etc.

Cons: Box should include common errors in setup such as (or at least have tech support tell you when you call and board will not post); use USB 2 not USB 3 for wired keyboard and mouse. Use regular VGA output instead of digital or HDMI until you have it up and running with correct drivers etc. These above two tips, which I goggled, after hours with tech support and trying to RMA this board, as far as I know they still have none in stock since I have been trying to RMA for over 2 months.

Overall Review: Need more hands on experience and communication. All I was told did not help with the problem which was the two issues above, usb 2 port and needing to set up using regular VGA output. (see cons)

Pros: I bought this with an I7-3770 and 16GB of G.Skill Trident X DDR3 2400. It also came with 8GB of Patriot Viper DDR3 1600. The board has a good number of USB3 connectors on the back and a 20 pin connector which I connected a USB3 card reader to. It also comes with an add-in WiFi adapter. I have had no reliability issues so far. The board also will accept different size RAM modules, in pairs, so I added in the 2 free sticks for 24GB, and it runs great. I have not gotten into overclocking yet, and may not, because I primarily use the system for photo and video processing.

Cons: The only con is that the PCIe-16 slot is at the bottom of the board, and if you use a mid-tower case with a bottom mounted PSU, you will not be able to mount a double width video card. Possibly another con for a serious gamer is that there is not another PCIe-16 slot for an SLI setup. Those are the only reasons it lost an egg.

Pros: This motherboard was the easies build I've ever done. Works perfect. I like the fact that it has a native thunderbolt port. I haven't used it yet, but plan to...

Cons: The thunderbolt port didn't line up perfectly with the I/O plate, whereas everything else did. I hope the cable will go in and out without too much effort.

Overall Review: This dual channel board with a 3770K at 3.5Ghz puts my 1366 triple channel i7 920 board to shame. I wanted the x79 quad channel board but decided against it when I found out that Intel doesn't natively support PCIe 3.0 (on the x79), and Nvidia nerfs it to 2.0.

Pros: Plenty features, wireless LAN, onboard video, thunderbolt

Cons: CON #1: When using a thunderbolt capable screen such as the Apple Thunderbolt 27" -- it won't turn on until the computer is in Windows. Therefor you won't be able to adjust any BIOS settings without hooking up a secondary non-thunderbolt screen. You won't be able to see any boot errors either, and 9 out of 10 consumers with a (Apple) thunderbolt display will simply think it's not functioning at all. This eliminates the whole point of having 1 thunderbolt capable monitor. CON #2: When using a Thunderbolt monitor, the on-board video is automatically used. The only way to use a discrete graphics card is by using Lucid Virtu -- which is as of July 2012 very unstable for popular games such as Battlefield 3. When using the discrete GPU with Lucid, the Nvidia and ATI manager (and any other application) will think you're NOT using the GPU card and therefor you won't be able to adjust fan settings or do any temperature monitoring on the GPU.

Overall Review: An update is needed (fast) which should allow the thunderbolt display to function outside of Windows, and the discrete graphics card should be more operable or at least visible by other applications when it's in use for gaming through Lucid Virtu.

Pros: Was great while it worked...

Cons: Died after about 3 weeks with no cause in a new system.. No post beep (i have a speaker installed and i know it works) All fans spin CPU fan included and the motherboard lights up. The computer starts and shuts down with the power button... None of the motherboard outputs work. I reset everything in the computer (including CPU and battery) and looked at all the connections.. It did the same thing with everything out even the cpu and the battery.. There is no doubt it is my motherboard something is causing it to not go through the post..

Overall Review: This is very frustrating a new motherboard should not die within the first month on use. I hope i can create a case and get it returned through Newegg that's what i am doing next.. i have 5 days wish me luck...

Pros: - Got it in 2013, and still running great! - Easy to buy - Easy to install

Cons: - Mine is 6 years old, and can't fully keep up with current gaming/video streaming.