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

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.

Pros: sharp look
awesome bios
bios posting screen is AWESOME, green letters and black background. bios posting screen is as clean as the board looks.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Asus is the ASrock of the united states whereas ASrock is bigger in Europe. Asus is high priced thought and offers same performance as Gigabyte and ASrock, almost went with a Gigabyte and glad I chose this board for my friend's custom built rig.

Pros: Great motherboard

Cons: no 1394/firewire

Other Thoughts: Don't really need 1394; USB 3.0 & SATA are enough

Pros: Cpu graphic support, vga and hdmi, 2 USB 3.0

Cons: Not very reliable (for me)

Other Thoughts: I purchased my first z75 pro3 and it arrived DOA, I went ahead and got another one and it arrived and everything seemed to work great. After about 3 months it just stopped working. No fans, no LED's, No Cpu activity, just nothing. I can say that i am less than happy with this and will not be replacing it with another one. I'm not sure if i am just unlucky or if its a cheap board.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear ASRock Customer

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
Please trouble shoot the mainboard with known good components and power supply.
Remove the mainboard from inside computer to outside. Place the mainboard on top of the empty mainboard’s box.
Check the power outlet, try with another power cord.
Clear the CMOS.
Reinstall the CPU and heatsink fan.
Re-connect the power supply’s 24+8 or 4 pins power.
Connect the computer case’s power switch to mainboard.
Turn the power on to check if it’s get the power.
If you have any technical questions or warranty issues please contact our Tech Support at http://www.ASRock.com/support/tsd.asp. We can assist you shortly.

Thank you

ASRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@ASRockamerica.com

Pros: The board is small, well-priced and has a lot of the 'bells and whistles' that are desired in current computing.

Cons: I've had it for several months now and I can't shake the issues...
The CD refused to read so i couldn't install basic drivers that the board needed to run properly. I downloaded them with a different PC and installed them manually via a thumb drive.

The PC ran painfully slow. For the first couple of weeks, basic search and run operations were WAY slower than they should be. Updating some other drivers and forcing myself to install bloat-ware fixed the speed issue but created another issue... It corrupted my .net framework! ANYTHING that ran via .net framework (3.0 and up if I remember) REFUSED to run. I wound up having to reinstall my OS and start from scratch to fix the issue. This time I didn't install some certain drivers and it fixed the issue and everything ran smoothly. UNTIL... about 1 month into running, I began experiencing odd bluescreens. In particular one that went completely blue and then stated "There is a problem with the motherboard. Please contact the MFG." The PC will run beautifully some days and terribly other days. The one thing that true sticks out to me though, is that the system clock will constantly reset itself to previous times. It might not seem like anything bad but a lot of stuff runs off of your system time. And it's not the MOBO battery. I replaced it. Still having the same problem. The time will actually RESET WHILE THE PC IS RUNNING THE OS! And the time being off from what the correct time is will increase the chance of it blue-screening. Having read through other experiences with their tech support and read through my warranty, I'm not even trying to get it replaced, refunded etc. I'm aggravated that I dropped money on something that had such high ratings and looked VERY promising only to get such a defective piece of hardware. I would NOT recommend this board and DO NOT recommend it to any of my clients.

Other Thoughts: I've replaced everything in my PC with the exception of the PSU.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear ASRock Customer

We sincerely apologize that you having difficulty with mainboard.
For the clock issue, please turn the power off, unplug the ATX power connector.
Remove and reinstall the battery.
Clear the CMOS.
Connect ATX power back, turn the power on to enter BIOS.
Set the UEFI BIOS default, save and exit.
For the blue screen, test with 1 stick memory, try with another known good memory to check if its solved.
If you have any technical questions or warranty issues please contact our Tech Support at http://www.ASRock.com/support/tsd.asp. We can assist you shortly.

Thank you

ASRock SUPPORT
Tech Support Email: user@ASRockamerica.com