Pros: Biggest Pro is that it can do 8x8x8 PCIE, great for a rendering workstation. No RGB is good too. Overclocks really well, able to get the full potential out of my 5950x. Cinebench R20 Multicore is 10900 for me. It is able to handle (4x32GB) 128GB 3600C18 Corsair LPX which isn't on the QVL, I am able to overclock it higher to 3600C16 surprisingly too.

Cons: No 2.5Gbe or 10Gbe. Would be a perfect board if I could get higher throughput to my local NAS over ethernet.

Overall Review: With the 2502 bios that came out the other day my 5950x no longer gets WHEA errors when memory is over 3200mhz. So make sure you update your bios if you plan to run the new 5XXX Series CPU's.

Pros: Working Micro SD card slot, LEDS function.

Cons: USB is not working at all. Drivers for win 7 are installed but no luck.

Overall Review: I replaced my old multi-card reader that ONLY had a working USB with this which ONLY has working media card readers and no USB. Why are card readers bad quality?

Pros: - Reaches its DOCP/XMP Profile and more, was able to get tighter timings then advertised.

Overall Review: Purchased 2 sets (128GB Total) for the 5950x on an X570 Motherboard. It reaches its 3600 CL18 no problem with DOCP/XMP enabled, I switched it to manual and was able to obtain 16-19-19-36 stable. AIDA64 latency benchmarks put it at around 65 ns. Not bad for high capacity dual rank RAM! My kits are 5.49 (Hynix C).

Pros: Extremely fast processor for single and multi threaded workloads.

Cons: The box feels like a big waste of space since there is no cooler in it, it is 95% air but I am guessing they have their reasons for not reducing the size..

Overall Review: This is a rendering workstation in the day and a gaming battlestation in the night. My Cinebench R20 scores are M: 10859, S: 620. Speed tops out at 5.050ghz on two of the cores. (4x32GB) 128GB 3600Mhz CL16 no problem which would have been next to impossible on a 3950X at that speed. D.O.C.P. (XMP) works out of the box, I switched to manual to tighten the timings even more. It stays nice and cool, I don't see over 80c with a waterblock on it. In the fluid simulations I've tested on this it is 3x the speed compared to my old 4790k running at 4.9ghz and for 3D Rendering it just destroys the competition.

Pros: I purchased three of these motherboards thanks to the "16 core/32 thread Xeon monster." blog post pointing out the current price point of the E5-2670's on the used market. Shortly after buying these motherboards they jumped up in price by over $100.

Cons: One of the motherboards came with three bent pins and one missing in one of the CPU sockets which was surprising, I've purchased more than 10 motherboards in the past new and used and they have never had any pin damage, this is a new motherboard so there should be zero reason to already have damage unless it was a refurb but it didn't appear as such. Since newegg has a non-refundable/non-returnable policy on this motherboard I would be left going through ASRock. Instead I decided to look into which pins exactly are damaged and if I really need them. - First off I googled for a LGA2011 pinout, only one showed up with some of the top numbering cutoff it seemed like, and at a resolution of around 900x900px, I uploaded it here too in case anyone should need it [ i.imgur . com / Q5xIYws.jpg ] - Secondly I googled for the pdf datasheet explaining each corresponding pin "Intel Xeon Processor E5-1600/E5-2600/E5-4600 Product Families Datasheet - Volume One May 2012" I used them in conjuncture to map out the pins damaged, I came up with: PIN STATE TYPE MORE DESC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [D54] DAMAGED PCIEX3 PE1A_RX_DP[2] PCIe* Port 1 Signals Receive Data Input [D52] DAMAGED PCIEX3 PE1A_RX_DP[1] PCIe* Port 1 Signals Receive Data Input [E53] BROKEN RSVD Reserved (Not Used) [F52] DAMAGED PCIEX3 PE1A_RX_DN[1] PCIe* Port 1 Signals Receive Data Input I lucked out in regards to the missing pin as it is reserved and not used currently in this processor so I didn't need it, the bent pins all appear to relate to PCIe slot 1, I did my best to bent them into position but not 100% sure if they are all making connection as the bent pins were severely crippled as they were bent over completely backwards kind of like a hairpin; albeit much smaller. Once all was said and done everything powered up fine and has been running solidly for a month, I will avoid using the corresponding PCIe slot just in case though.

Overall Review: Great motherboards, good layout, been excellent for the past month as rendering nodes at 100% CPU usage. Little disappointed in ASRock Q/A for letting one of the boards slip through with missing/bent pins if this was truly a "new" board it should have had no damage, definitely wasn't the shipping that caused it as the box was undamaged and the cpu sockets had the protectors on them still, I happened to luck out in this particular case as the damage to the pins wasn't going to cause many issues. I posted my method of checking if the damage was severe enough for an RMA in case someone in the future is unlucky and falls into my position too and wants to check before sending it back.

Pros: Fits my Antec 900 cooler (just barely), I had to modify one the window case fan holders so that the case would close but that wasn't an issue. Idles at around 42c with a 4670k at 4.0ghz.

Cons: For some reason EVEN when the system is under heavy load (prime 95, BF3) the 120mm fan would still need "help" to start spinning when using the low noise adapter, usually just a slight push and it would get it going. My fix for this was to leave the 140mm fan on the adapter and plug the 120mm fan directly into the mobo (MSI Z87 GD65), no noticeable noise change as its only the 140mm fan that makes most of the noise without the adapter. Not sure why this was happening but wasn't a big deal.

Overall Review: The assembly was more difficult than I was previously used to with my TK V1 cooler that I ran for 6+ years. I almost required a second set of hands when screwing the back plate on but it is manageable.