ASUS H81M-K LGA 1150 Intel H81 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 uATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Fast shipping Nice basic MB for a customer build that needed a good, fast basic home office PC, and this fit the bill.

Cons: None

Overall Review: So I stuck an Intel Pentium 3ghz, and 4 gigs DDR3 RAM, and a 120 GB SSD, and a ASUS DVD drive on it, and it's all powered by an Antec 500 watt PSU, and loaded Windows 7 64 bit home edition on it, and this sucker starts up in 9 seconds flat, and apps fly open, and the new PC runs fast, and smooth and quiet. This is a good, simple, basic MB for a basic home PC, and I have had no issue with it yet.

Pros: Accepts LGA 1150 Intel CPU's (4th gen) Has built in Mounts perfect into the Rosewill Mini ATX Case I also purchased Has two slots for DDR3 memory Has one PCI Express x16 slot and two PCI Express x1 slots for other peripherals such as a WiFi card Two SATA 3Gb/s and two SATA 6Gb/s inputs Ouputs include DVI port and VGA port (but can only use one or the other) Two USB 3.0 ports on the back Analog audio ports are great! Still included RJ-45 port (great if you don't have WiFi) Asus quality build BIOS is easy to use Does NOT get hot at all, temperature stays pretty cool (for a Mobo)

Cons: Did not have HDMI output, but not really a con for this price. No stars taken away because you get what you pay for.

Overall Review: Bought for an HTPC build. It's economical and it does the job. Used an i3 Intel CPU and it does HD video flawlessly. Not going to play games so don't need high end graphics card. I did include a graphics card (EVGA GeForce 210) for HDMI out display. Overall, I've used ASUS motherboards for a long time now in my PC builds and they've all worked flawless till this day. This mobo is no exception. If you need a simple HTPC where you're NOT going to play high end graphic games, I'd highly recommend this mobo. It streams and plays HD videos flawless and gets the job done for an economical price.

Pros: Cheap Easy to work on UEFI bios is nice.

Cons: None really

Overall Review: I wanted to build a cheap basic pc for 7 year old nephew who wants to surf the internet and play Minecraft, this was ideal, paired it with cheap Haswell cpu and single stick of PC 1600 ram and an old 7850 and voila. Can't go wrong.

Pros: -User firendly BIOS -OK color scheme -warranty

Cons: None so far

Overall Review: -4 RAM slots would be nice, since they tend to die.

Pros: Cheap .... hmmm, that's it

Cons: Came with a whole row of bend CPU pins Still uses old style capacitors (not a really a con, but what year is this?)

Overall Review: My biggest grief with this board is that it came with a whole row (15 or so) of CPU pins that were bent upwards. Not sure how you could do that, maybe it got snagged by the guy doing QA. Who knows!? This board replaced the exact same board model from a computer that had died after only 6 months of use. I was trying to do a favour for someone to fix this and I wanted it done asap. Good thing I didn't have my second coffee yet, so my hands were somewhat steady and I could push the pins down carefully. Normally this would (and SHOULD) be an RMA, but I know how hard it is to convince the whole 'bend cpu pins' issue and I just didn't have the time. I have not had the time with this board yet to experience the NIC issues that everyone seems to complain about, but considering that one board is dead and another got bad pins, then this is NOT the board you want if you care about quality.

Pros: Cheap. Versatile. Good budget board, I suppose. I like the ASUS BIOS setup.

Cons: CPU fan header was dead out of the box. Simple fix, I swapped it to the sole case fan header, but annoying. Don't really need any other case fans running, as it's a tiny setup in a mid-tower case, but it's just an annoyance.

Pros: Affordable. ASUS generally means quality. Pretty basic feature set but that's to be expected at this price range.

Cons: Only 2 SATA III connections and 2 SATA II connections - I feel like most haswell boards these days are all SATA III - but I'm not taking an egg for that. NIC issue that so many reviews talked about was present on my board. This is sort of ridiculous, does ASUS even test their products anymore?

Overall Review: Came as part of a DIY bundle, building this up for a relative who only needs a very basic system. If it weren't for the NIC issue, it would have been perfect. After a BIOS update and driver update, it looks like the NIC has been stable so far in my testings, ran a simple ping test for about 5 hours and no packets were dropped. Since this appeared to fix the issue I'm still willing to give it 4 eggs but I can't say it inspires a lot of confidence.

Pros: Good if your a grandma that was just introduced to computers and likes to play solitaire......and refuses to learn email or internet!

Cons: As mentioned in other reviews the integrated network is FLAKY. You see reviews and provided it isnt every review, bite the bullet and take a chance to get a good one especially with a cheaper product. But I bought 2 of these and both have the same issue so as others have done, so Ive splashed out and bought 2 PCIe NICs at 15 bucks a piece.....

Overall Review: Yes, the network here is fine. When these boards have the network issue, other pcs are fine. So I figure that at my very reasonable rate of $60/hr troubleshooting and technical fees, ASUS owe me about 150 bucks! Please send me a check in the mail. Im not interested in your text book monkey replies I see all over this site. Good thing this hardware is now OUT of STOCK. Maybe Newegg took a hint.......