This is a fantastic board value overall. It's featureset is robust and its build is solid, quite unlike the fragile boards of only a few years ago.That said, the new (M.2A/M.2B) sockets for NVMe SSDs are extremely tricky to install. It literally took me two weeks to get this board working. Here's why:The first thing to note is the size of the screws needed to do this. The first photo above shows the reverse side (M.2B) socket without the M.2 thermal pad installed. Note the scale of the screw compared to the index finger. It's small. You practically need a sewing-machine/cellphone sized phillips-head screwdriver to drive it. The second thing is that the manual is extremely unclear. One M.2 connector is on the front of the board hidden under a PCH heatsink module (see second photo). You have to remove it to install the SSD, and latch down your SSD NVMe board between the micro-sized standoff and the micro-sized screw. On my board, these were stuck together to the point where I initially didn't realize that they came apart. The manual says nothing about the standoff/mount point; you have to figure this out for yourself (and use a small pliers along with the even smaller screwdriver).The other M.2B connector is on the back of the board, but the manual puts a "(Note) The connector is on the back of the motherboard" just under the instructions for the M.2A connector. The way it is supposed to work is that the front side M.2A SSD gets cooled by the fan, while the back side M.2B SSD gets cooled by the thermal pad. This isn't made clear anywhere in the manual though. You have to just figure it out implicitly from the instructions.Finally, there are the drivers and support. I fully admit that this is partially my fault for not having a BluRay/DVD player handy to read the included CD. I just assumed that Gigabyte would have the correct drivers readily available on their website, as every other manufacturer does. But this assumption was wrong. They don't.This means that even if you set up RAID correctly for your board, if you fail to use the slipstream drivers only available on the CD you get with this board, the OS will fail to recognize it. Thinking I had a lemon, I spent two weeks trying to get support from Gigabyte's overloaded tech support. (You can wait 5 hours on hold or 5 days waiting for an online web response -- your choice.) But good news, after trying to install the Gigabyte drivers from their website and fiddling around with everything else, they sent me a copy of the correct drivers, and the thing worked like a charm.Admittedly, none of this will be an issue if you aren't trying to install RAID on your SSDs, or have a BlueRay/DVD handy, but if you are doing both those things for maximum performance -- fair warning.I have not gotten to the point of even considering any kind of overclocking. At this point I'm a bit too gun shy. But otherwise it's a beautiful board, clean, modern, and durable - especially for the price. In terms of "stars" that's what really matters, despite my poor unboxing experience.