ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: A ton of features for the money. Truly you cannot go wrong with this board. I love the manual buttons to clear cmos off the back the digital error reporting etc etc.

- Yes a lot of the '555' stuff may be "marketing" but if you are not crazy tech savy this is a life save when trying to setup packet priority and port forwarding.

Cons: As someone said the software will become a drag if your not to familiar with how to force applications out. Not trying to recognize other products but I've had good luck removing them with 'revo uninstaller'

Overall Review: Works great, very nice layout enough room to actually put the ram in and still be able to hook everything else up. The only thing I wish is the upper motherboard mounts were about 1/3 of an inch down. In my case I had to get out my fancy flexible screw driver!

I7- 3770
Gskill Extreme 4 Z77
32 gigs Gskill Ares

Pros: Nicely built and packaged board. Most popular 1155 on Newegg

Cons: The PCIe slots on this particular board are faulty (Win7 Ultimate installed). I used three video cards to test. My main card is a MSI 660ti, which wouldn't boot on PCIe#1 as soon as I install nvidia driver (many different versions tried, same result). It can boot on PCIe#2 but the display driver crashes constantly in Win7. I had much better luck with a Gigabyte 660ti but the card benchmarks less than 50% what it should be. The same story goes with a MSI GTX275. All three cards perform normally in other computers. I tried resetting BIOS etc. with no luck. I finally replaces the Asrock board with an ASUS. Everything else being exactly the same, the ASUS installation was a breeze and the system performs with no issue.

Overall Review: I didn't not try to get a replacement from Asrock because I lost confidence in this particular model after the issues I had. Therefore I cannot comment on Asrock service. This is my first and probably last Asrock board. I will stay with ASUS in the future.