Pros: Nice board, nice features for the price

Cons: The BIOS is factory overclocked and seems DOA on first boot

Overall Review: As with other reviews here, the first board was DOA, at least seems to be...but it was not. After emailing ASRock tech support, they sent back test procedure with beep sound sequence (btw, not found in the manual). I was able to boot to EFI BIOS and it showed my i5 2500K 3.3Ghz CPU was overclock to 4.8Ghz. After loading BIOS defaults, everything booted up fine. FYI: If you order this board, you need to clear the CMOS first

Pros: This board was just OK until a recent 2.10 bios update. all I can say is WOW... Everything is responsive and blazing fast. Before the bios update the SATA controller was stuck at active UDMA 5 mode. Runs at UDMA 6 now :)

Cons: N/A

Overall Review: I purchased this board from micro center for $50 bucks off with the purchase of a core i5 CPU. so the board ended up costing me around 50 bucks. what a deal!

Pros: start up right at the beginning, and let it ran for 72hrs straight non stop then I shut it down, re-start again and runs it till today. Win7 ult 64x, no problems at all. Fit nicely in my HTPC, yet wish that it supports crossfire or SLI

Cons: easy installation, user friendly. Low temperature board, idle at 32c and load at 55c ; OC to 4.0 GHz still runs like a champ !I play World of warcrafts, grandtheft auto, battlefield bad company never got stalled or shut down.

Overall Review: Would buy again for my second rig just wait a bit for the price to drop. My rig now: Intel i3 2120 ; 8 Gb g skill ripjaws ; XFX ATI Radeon HD 6850; LIAN-LI PC-C33 case; 2 Samsung spinpoint sata 3, 32 mb cache at raid 0 controller; Pioneer blue ray internal drive and Rosewill wireless adapter, card reader.

Pros: OC was a synch and the UEFI was very nice. Easy to hook everything up and spacious. I LOVE IT

Cons: no problems yet ::crosses fingers::

Overall Review: i2500k OC'd @ 4.5 (hyper212 plus HSF) 4x2 Gskill 1866 4gb ASRock Z68 Pro3-M XFX black edition 650watt PSU XFX Radeon HD 6970 GPU

Pros: very nice looking motherboard worked out of the box. Very nice UEFI.

Cons: None Yet

Pros: A lot of features for the price and most importantly, pins for 3 bios/motherboard controllable fans (2x3 pin, 1 4-pin).

Cons: Random power cycles at default settings so I got a replacement board. Tested/swapped everything (CPU, PSU, Mobo, RAM, HD, OS) and could not get the system to go stable. System with replacement board is now stable at stock settings but becomes unstable at any over-clock configurations. Strange random power-cycles and freezes. I've already spent ~$11 to send the bad one back so I didn't want to spend anymore. Something odd that I discovered when manually adjusting the setting was the high difference/fluctuation in voltage. A manually adjusted 1.15v setting shows up (on all monitoring software) over 1.3~1.4v. Voltage peaks to 1.5v with turbo enabled and at times, would freeze/BSOD while doing simple task such as opening applications. NOTE: No other settings were adjusted other than changing the cpu voltage from AUTO to MANUAL. :-/ Strangely enough, stock setting works just fine and reports exactly within specs.

Overall Review: Mobo came with bios 1.3. i5-2500k. OCZ 550w PSU. G.Skills Ripjaws X 4x4.

Pros: This is the first ASRock motherboard I have ever bought and i was not disappointed. i chose it over the gigabyte mATX Z68 motherboard because it has 3 3-pin power connectors for fans. since the silverstone htpc case i bought came with 3 3-pin 120 mm fans, it made sense. This motherboard was one of the easiest boards i have ever setup.

Cons: So far none.

Overall Review: Im using this board with an i3-2100, 8 Gb G-skill DDR3 -1600, Radeon 6570, and OCZ Solid 3 60 Gb SSD. Windows 7 64-bit starts up in 20 sec. Just perfect for a HTPC.

Pros: EFI bios is great, barely a blip in the boot up process and supports 3TB drives out of the box. Updating the bios using EZFlash was quick and easy. Correctly determined my low volt ram xmp settings. So far rock solid. Same day response to an email Tech Support question from Asrock.

Cons: The sata and some I/O headers seem a bit weak. Any little tug on a sata cable and the header flexes with it. Not a huge deal but makes you wonder about overall build quality. This is a pretty basic no frills board but there's not a lot of choice in matx z68 at the moment. No USB3 headers on board, only 2 sata 3 headers and 3 sata 2 means this isn't ideal for a server, but it does the job. CIR header is proprietary, you can't use the Intel CIR receiver available online. Southbridge cooler (and probably MOSFET) attached with a glue/foam type thermal material, I usually redo the thermal paste on new builds but better off not trying with this board.

Overall Review: If this board had 2 more sata3 and 1 more sata2 onboard, usb3 headers and a more stout build quality it would be nearly perfect. Ditch the floppy and lpt printer headers, why are they even on there?