This motherboard supports Intel® 4th , New 4th and 5th Generation Core™ i7/i5/i3/Pentium®/Celeron® processors in the LGA1150 package, with iGPU, memory and PCI Express controllers integrated to support onboard graphics output with dedicated chipsets, 2-channel (4 DIMM) DDR3 memory and 16 PCI Express 3.0/2.0 lanes. This provides great graphics performance.
This motherboard supports Intel® 4th , New 4th and 5th Generation Core™ i7/i5/i3/Pentium®/Celeron® processors in the LGA1150 package, with iGPU, memory and PCI Express controllers integrated to support onboard graphics output with dedicated chipsets, 2-channel (4 DIMM) DDR3 memory and 16 PCI Express 3.0/2.0 lanes. This provides great graphics performance.
Had everything that I need or use and even some extras, is really user friendly with the ez xmp and the like available as physical button on the board for people who don't like messing around in the BIOS event thought the BIOS is user friendly as well, has a physical power button on it and AI suite 3 makes thing really easy. although like most Asus hardware you always pay an extra then if it were an other brand but for me the extra dollars were worth it.
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SecureIP Solutions inc. 10/09/14
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I bought this card with a promo and 4690K and my computer rock. Super fast box.
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Simon_L 08/27/14
Just finished a build with an i5 4690K bundle. Excellent compatibility. Running this board with Kingston Hyper X Black 8gb memory. No issues at all.
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Pros Has everything I need, user friendly and great Asus software.
Cons Cost more then other similar motherboards of different brands.
Summary Had everything that I need or use and even some extras, is really user friendly with the ez xmp and the like available as physical button on the board for people who don't like messing around in the BIOS event thought the BIOS is user friendly as well, has a physical power button on it and AI suite 3 makes thing really easy. although like most Asus hardware you always pay an extra then if it were an other brand but for me the extra dollars were worth it.
Pros Excellent MB. Lots of custom tuning available.
Cons NONE
Summary Just finished a build with an i5 4690K bundle. Excellent compatibility. Running this board with Kingston Hyper X Black 8gb memory. No issues at all.
Pros lots of the same features on the higher end boards.
Cons io shield cheaply made,sli bridge is not black, Manual writing is very small and hard to read plus it could of been more indepth
Summary All in all the board is ok being a midrange board. Liked the one click overclocking, but also had the functions to overclock manually. Using a G3258 dual core with this board and have it running at 4.3Ghz from 3.2Ghz. UEFI Bios looks really good and is easy to use. Able to load windows in 9 seconds with fast boot using a old HHD according to windows.
Pros 8 phase vrm. Good bang for buck imo. Solid state Japanese capacitors meaning this is durable.
Cons None. Some say the realtec 892 audio chip is a turnoff but I find no issues with the sound hooked up to my Z5500's.
Summary I wanted Asus due to durability (was sing 2 Asus mobo's that ran 24/7 for almost 360 days a year for 6 years.) Main reason I went with this board is the 8-phase vrm over the 4 and 6 phase on the -k and -c versions. Didn't feel the need to go any higher models. Everything worked as expected when I assembled the build. Upgraded bios and went to OC, nice snazzy UI for easy OC plus a windows utility for OC if you want to keep your system up 24/7 like I do while changing settings on the fly. No issues at all with this board.
Pros -sufficient board quality for what you pay for -clean layout (mostly) -q connector for the front panel
Cons -price (even in a bundle) -a little lean on things included in the case -ports flat -driver madness
Summary You know (mostly) that an Asus board is going to do what it says. In this case however there was some grief with the usb 3 drivers, and after about 45 minutes of searching out why my usb devices were not connecting I wound up discovering that there was an "unknown device" issue, in device manager. I wound up searching out then down loading downloading some drivers from an AMD related site. For an Intel board this isn't good. In fact it is UNFORGIVABLE. The file you may need is: "AMDA00_XPVistaWIN7_8.zip" (google search it)
The bundle deal was ok all things considered but when I opened the box the whole thing screamed "no frills". If you want neat extras don't buy this. # sata cables, a SLI connector and the Q connector for the front panel is all that is in the box with the MB. This with the drivers issue for a +$150 board is, not really living up to my ideas of what you could expect from Asus.
The Q connector is a great idea, that I wish more boards would incorporate. Being able to load up the connector with all the fiddly little front panel connectors mad that portion of the build VERY easy.
As for the sata ports I find that ports facing up from the board are easier for not only the initial build but also for the eventual tweaking. Granted they take more space, but this board isn't that busy in layout. Attaching new drives is going to be a PITA.
This is a satisfactory board, but I might not have bought it (bundle or not) had I known that the kit was so skimpy (even for a budget mid level board), and the drivers issue is unacceptable. I had to put in what I thought was an unnecessary effort to find these in the support forums, when they should have been right up there on the page related to the MB. Not too cool Asus.
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