ASRock P55 Pro LGA 1156 Intel P55 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: All the features I + a cmos reset buton in the I/o panel but most important this mobo support socket 755 heatsink yes it does I wish I knew that before I bought the 1156 heatsink I bought

Cons: none

Overall Review: easy intall, easy to erase the bios if your overclock it's bad great value for the money

Pros: Cheap for what you get is the definition of bang for the buck. 8+2 phase power. Much better than 4 phase on the P55m. Great features, great OC options in the Bios, able to achieve high OC's with the right chip, everything is in pretty good locations.

Cons: no SLI and only 6 sata, but for the price it's hardly worth complaining about. If you want SLI, go with the P55 extreme. One other con that I noticed others saying, this board isn't a standard width, so it doesn't hit the last row of standoff's plus it's inch or so past the last row that it does hit. So when installing the 24 pin connector make sure you stick your finger or something under the board (nothing sharp drrr) so your board doesn't flex too much and break a trace and even snap!

Overall Review: If you just run a strong single card you will have no issues. GTX285 here, can play any game at any resolution without a hiccup. My I7 860 hit 4.8ghz ON AIR (219x22) with this board (HT off, 4.5ghz HT on). Super Pi 1m of 8.699 seconds. Amazing.

Pros: Nice layout and connectivity. Pumping optical Spdif out into a 7.1 home theater system and DVD sound quality is excellent. Running flawlessly with i5 CPU and OCZ Obsidian DDR 1600 RAM.

Cons: System with Windows 7 kept freezing until the manufacturer's drivers were loaded. Metal knockouts for MBs are never as good as those on retail PCs

Overall Review: Visiontek TV Wonder HD650 Tuner stopped working after a year in my old Compaq SR5010NX. Plugged the tuner in for fun on the ASRock build and the card came right up. PCIe x16 and x1 slots are very close on the Compaq and picked the ASRock as you do not have to put other cards up against a hot graphics card

Pros: Nice build quality; was able to install quickly and picked up the XMP settings for a DD3 1600 kit without a hitch. Working nicely with a Core i5 and single card 4870 setup.

Cons: Most likely this is not the board you are looking for if you plan on doing any amount of overclocking.

Pros: This is a very nice, reasonably priced motherboard with a very nice feature set. Plenty of overclocking options. The i5 coupled with this MB have been stable and fast thus far. No complaints.

Cons: A few more chassis screw holes on the edges of the board would be nice to increase stability of the board, but no big deal.

Pros: Works with a core i5 system build. Works with 20 pin or 24 pin main. Works with 4 pin or 8 pin CPU connector. I installed Windows 7 64 bit ultimate. BIOS has a lot of settings.

Cons: BIOS needs to be updated if you plan to use more than 4 GB RAM. I had to update to version 1.8. Board came with version 1.3. The bios update took about 10 minutes, so not a big deal.

Overall Review: I built a core i5 system system with a 4870 video card and 8 GB of ram. Except for the bios update, everything worked without issue. The sata II connections are sideways, so if you have a smaller case, it might be a good idea to plug in the sata cables prior to mounting in the case. Hindsight is 20/20.

Pros: Gotta love ASRock. No wonder though since they are owned by ASUS(check wikipedia if you don't believe me). No defects on the motherboard or with its use. Booted up on the first try. One of the lower priced P55 boards that actually comes with the ps/2 mouse and keyboard ports. I need those for my KVM switch.

Cons: You have got to be kidding!

Overall Review: Paired with the i5 750 2.66ghz this thing is a beast. Replaced my not so old Phenom II x3 710.

Pros: This board does everything I could ask. Installing my i5-760 was as it should be, completely recognized on first boot up. Ram runs at the correct speed (you have to use the correct dimms and I made sure to only get ddr3 1333 since the i5-760 doesn't say it supports 1600). My Radeon 5770 also is running perfectly on this board.

Cons: I sure don't have any!

Overall Review: I can run BFBC2 on this board with an i5-760, Radeon 5770, 4 Gb ddr3 1333 on a 20 in 1660x900 Hanns-G moniter over an hdmi connection at max settings (with EVERYTHING max) at a steady 60 fps with fraps running... and I haven't oc'd a single component! There's no reason to go buy a board that is any more expensive than this one.