
- Very easy to install everything from components to a large air cooler - No bending at all with a Noctua NH-D15S - Everything booted up on the first try (265K w/ 64GB G Skill Royal Ram) - Clean, easy to use BIOS

The motherboard works great and POSTED right away. The WiFi speed is actually incredbile - WiFi 6 is a huge upgrade. On 1.5 Gbps Rogers service, I'm getting over 550 Mbps, which is fantastic. Updated the BIOS right away.

Nice board for a solid build.


ALERT! It's 2025 already, and this motherboard will not recognize a GPT-partitioned device as bootable! Once I figured out why I didn't seem to have any bootable drives, I formatted and partitioned my M2 SSD with a MS-DOS partition table, and it was good to go. I bought a pair of 24 GB G.Skill Trident DDR5 DIMMs that are listed on the ASROCK QVL. The CPU is an Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF. I learned that my nice legacy heatsink was incompatible with the heatsink footprint (the 4 holes) on a LGA 1851, so I bought a Noctua NH-D9L and it works great. CPU temp with air cooling is 32-35C. I;ve been a pretty reliable Asus MB user over the years, but this ASROCK unit is getting the job done for me and I have zero regrets for this decision.

-Cheap -Pretty -Lots of connection for all your needs -Nice BIOS -RGB -Works as expected


I got this and some ddr5 8000, cranked it up. "everything" clocked faster than the averages on passmark benchmarks. 300$ cpu ultra 265 by 60,200 points or so... right between 1,300$ AND 1,500$ CPUS 600$ gtx 5070 plain jane d3d'd between $2500 4090 and 5090 plain janes at around 89,000 whatevers. got liquid cooling on cpu and haven't seen over 42c on chip so far. made me happy I saved 1000 dollars on a video card. What I saved in graphics and faster processor speeds this mobo paid for itself 10x over already not even mentioning the electrical savings down the road.