I see a lot of reviews for the Aorus models but not the little Z370P D3. Let's try to fix that: I bought this motherboard as a cheap emergency alternative to a DOA ASRock. The Z370P D3 works just fine, and seems rock solid despite being the entry level product for this line. I don't need any fancy bells and whistles, just some RAM slots, my 970, and my new 8600K. The CPU is absolutely awesome so far, and they have mouse support in the BIOS (nifty!) with a preset option for just keeping all the cores on the max turbo speed (4.3). No BIOS updating needed. For this guy who's too lazy to exhaustively find my peak overclock, and only has a HYPER 212 Evo, that does the trick.
The board isn't overly fancy, but the very subtle orange glow contrasts nicely with all the blue fans in my spaceship of a case. I do wish there were optical audio for my nice converter out like there was on that ASRock, but alas, there are just basic speaker out, line in, and mic in. 4 RAM slots means I can upgrade my 2 4gb sticks to 4x4gb total when RAM prices dip a little bit lower, whenever that is. For now, this is a great basic board for those of you who want an unlocked chip, but don't quite need to do triple SLI and crazy RGB to go full gamer (you never go full gamer). If that's you, this board will probably suit you just fine.
| RAM | DDR4 |
|---|---|
| Memory Speed | 1 GHz |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 2 |
