I ordered this from Amazon Warehouse where it indicated the item was used and bonus material was missing.
What I received was a brand new motherboard with all bonus material included in a distressed box.
So consider this an Amazon Warehouse hit.
These ship with BIOS 4.40 (newest is 4.5 as of this review), but the BIOS is new enough to support all 8th and 9th gen CPUs up to the 9900ks and 9100F.
This is a basic board with slightly below average VRMs. I tried a 9900k in it that is known to hold 5.2 no problem in another board, but this board stalled at 4.9 before the VRMs overheated at 1.3v. But that wasn't why I bought it. It is a lower tier board really not meant for major overclocking and higher voltages. I tested a 9900ks I have which runs at 5ghz @ ~1.2v no problem and it handled it just fine.
My build was with a 9100f which this board could handle very easy.
Installation was straight forward. I paired it with a set of Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200 XMP memory (2x8GB), and it worked instantly and flawlessly and passed an overnight memtest run no problem.
A few cons:
No RGB header
Only one mid and top fan aux connector
No cooling on the VRMs
chipset heatsink runs right up against the M.2 devices installed in the lower part of the board
Overall, for the price, (~79USD), it does what I need and built out just fine and passed all stress tests (Memtest, CB15, CB20, TimeSpy)
5/5
| RAM | 64 GB DDR4 |
|---|---|
| Memory Speed | 2133 MHz |
| Wireless Type | 801.11ac |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 2 |
