Overall Review: - Would recommend / buy again.

Pros: Relatively low price for RAID card

Cons: Set-up instructions not super helpful

Overall Review: My previous review may have been a bit harsh; I finally got it set-up. The only real info contained in the instructions is that you hit CTRL+M to get into the RAID BIOS; that is where I had to configure it. The utility the instructions told me to use was not on the CD; The one that was didn't work. Downloaded the utility in the instructions, still didn't work. I think 3 stars is fair given that the instructions might as well have said 'hit CTRL+M and figure it out yourself'

Overall Review: - I would recommend it / buy it again

Pros: - Almost everything works - I like that the BIOS menu gives you a few seconds to choose a boot drive or whatever, so it's not the typical 'have your trigger finger ready to mash that button' reaction time test if you want to boot a device other than your default. This could be a negative for people trying to boot Windows from an HDD since that takes forever and the extra couple seconds would just make it that much slower. Since I am booting from an SSD the fact that it sits on the BIOS screen for a moment is a plus, or at worse a neutral.

Cons: - Wireless and Bluetooth do not work for Windows 8. Their website has some drivers for Windows 7, and Windows 10, but they skip over 8. (I used the Ethernet driver from Win 7 without issue). I did not buy this board expecting to use it for wireless much, but it is annoying to have it not work regardless. This would be a bigger problem for me if I had bought it specifically expecting to use the wireless 'feature' . - It seems you need to be using Windows 10 to take full advantage of the board, be warned that if you are using an older version of Windows, the board will mostly work, but you won't be able to use all the features. (Wireless, RAID, bridge)

Overall Review: - If you are not using Windows 10, maybe consider getting a different board. I don't have any strong regrets about my purchase, but I probably could have gotten something similar but cheaper without wireless, since that doesn't work anyway. Maybe I can get the wireless working by finding out what the hardware is specifically and manually telling Windows to use that driver, but in terms of plug and play,auto-finding a driver, or even using drivers from the ASRock website, the wireless is dead.

Pros: - Very Fast, Boots Windows 8.1 almost instantly

Cons: - Same Cons as any SSD;

Overall Review: - I am buying another one to do a fresh install, and will use the old one for a Linux boot drive. I am satisfied enough with this drive and its price / performance ratio that I would rather go with a known quantity than experiment with something new. 120 GB is pretty decent for an SSD, but you will probably want to have at least one HDD for data. I tend to use my SSD for the OS and software, and HDD for data.

Pros: -Dual graphics capable (although I am not utilizing this yet, it is cool that it can be paired with a graphics card)

Cons: - Even this paired with a graphics card using dual graphics it might fall short, if you are a hard-core gamer who needs a lot of frames per second and high resolution. I haven't had any problems, but I don't have a good enough monitor to use the 'very high' graphics settings on most games.

Overall Review: - I got this with a NewEgg motherboard/case/etc. kit and am pretty satisified with it and would recommend it