ASRock Z75 Pro3 LGA 1155 Intel Z75 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Works great! Love the over clocking software and BIOS that comes on the board. Looks pretty cool and can take a bit of a beating.

Cons: Sé of the driver software is redundant and outdated. Not to mention every single driver wants me to install Norton but I don't want Norton! Only software I found useful was the oc/ temp monitoring program

Other Thoughts: Great overall motherboard. And a great price

Pros: Price
Features

Cons: Those outdated, useless PCI slots. Not removing any eggs as it's a preference.

Other Thoughts: Most of the software bundle is outdated. As far as those ultra fast usb/lan/blah blah blah, most of the times are a hype. In my experience, none of that stuff works and it's just fancy words. In reference to another buyer, the PCI-express lanes work at x16 and x4 accordingly. No worries though, because they are all like that, unless your're buying a more expensive M/B with newer chipsets.

Pros: If I get the chance I would purchase Asrock again.
Comes with cool software and utilities to boost your PC.
Fast and easy to install drivers.
Has PCI slots for older cards. Has another PCI express for dual GPUs.

Cons: None Yet.

Other Thoughts: Im not sure how the speeds on the PCI express slots work so I cant tell you whether this would be a good board for SLI of Crossfire.

Pros: Price to Features ratio, strong performance

Cons: Died within approximately six months

Other Thoughts: Purchased this for my wife as a Christmas gift (built her a new system). We were both very happy with the performance of this mobo, up until last night when it literally died with no warning. Did all the usual checks, power supply, memory and video cards all good. Even swapped out the PS just to make sure, and it's the mobo. Completely dead, will not power up at all. Not a happy man, that's the shortest I've ever had a mobo last, and I've bought some really cheap stinkers in the past.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear ASRock Customer

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. Sorry to hear that the mainboard has malfunctioned after 6 months of use which’s due to nature of electronic product, it can happen.
Please trouble shooting the mainboard for below steps with known good components;
Turn the power off.
Remove all components (CPU, memory, VGA, HDD/SSD, USB devices, etc.)
Clear the CMOS
Reseat the CPU and heatsink fan as well
Reconnect power supply with 24 pins + 8 or 4 pins ATX power to the mainboard
Plug the computer case’s power switch to mainboard's front panel power header and try again.
If you have any technical questions please contact us at http://www.ASRock.com/support/tsd.asp. We can assist you shortly.


Thank you

ASRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@ASRockamerica.com

Pros: I love this motherboard!! It's super fast, reliable, and extremely op-operative!

Cons: Lack of PCI 1x

Other Thoughts: Although i got this motherboard 3-4 months ago, it still keeps up with the highest-of-end games (BF3, Arma 2 and 3, exe...) It's easy to install drivers allow you to take FULL advantage of the 5XLAN, 5XMemory, And 5XUSB speed! Best one so far! Just needs more PCI 1x slots :/

Pros: Its a cheap z75 board. So far has worked as expected unless you're overclocking.

Cons: This board has vary cheap VRM's making overvolting an cpu hard. Going past 1.25Vcore will result in the VRM's overheating and make your overclock go back to stock clocks.

Other Thoughts: If I knew about the overclocking issues I would of paid more for a board that would allow me to get 1.45Vcore with a good 4.8GHz OC on my 2600k.

For now I'm forced to run at 4.3GHz @ 1.25V.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear ASRock Customer

We sincerely apologize that you having difficulty with overclocking. The mainboard has overclocking function. However, overclocking could damage the components as well as mainboard which depend on user’s knowledge, experience and adopted components. Thus, we are not recommended for overclocking. If you have any technical questions or warranty issues in the future please contact us at http://www.ASRock.com/support/tsd.asp. We can assist you shortly.

Thank you

ASRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@ASRockamerica.com

Pros: Does what I need it to do, and it was cheap. Can't beat that.

Cons: It's impossible to read the installation guide it comes with. My entire build could have been a lot easier if I was provided with better directions.

Other Thoughts: All in all, I'm happy with it. For the price, you can't beat it.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear ASRock Customer

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. Mainboard provides quick installation guide and user manual along with the package. In addition, please visit for both user manual and quick installation guide at link "http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z75%20Pro3/?cat=Manual ".
If you have any technical questions please contact us at http://www.ASRock.com/support/tsd.asp. We can assist you shortly.


Thank you

ASRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@ASRockamerica.com

Pros: Design is top notch, specs are incredible, more options then I will use(dehumidifier mode!:), software bundle looks awesome, havent installed yet, layout is very accessible, Docs are spot on.

Cons: None yet. My only fault is my own as I had intended on using a "old" DVD player that has the ATA interface only, which this and most MB's no longer support. It's an 8 dollar part, which I just ordered, but it sure is hard to install Window without it.

Other Thoughts: I expect to use this computer for almost 5 years as is . I3-3220/8GB pc-1600, 120gb ssd, 1GB pci-x 3.0 basic video.

Pros: Easy to install, nice fit, Good for the price

Cons: customer service is lacking. So many adjustments you can make on your BIOS, if you knew what you were doing. I just keep all my settings on Auto and just adjust the CPU voltage to overclock. No recomendations on settings of the board.

Pros: Everything I needed with a little bit extra. Lots of ports, SATA III, reasonable price tag, works perfectly!

Pleased that the product is holding up to some abuse and I liked the low price!

Cons: This motherboard could have better placement of the SATA inputs. My big rear end graphics card makes the SATA III's hard to access and the other SATA II's look like they would have the same problem if I had cards in the PCI 2.0 slots.