Don't expect flashing lights and dancing girls, but with six SATA ports and USB 3.1 onboard, this is a nice base for a system. The onboard video is currently supporting two 24" monitors, and I will eventually get around to trying the third output to see if three is supported "out of the box".
It works flawlessly with Linux Mint 20, and there are plenty of case fan plugs to make sure your system stays cool. With four dimm sockets, I have 48GB of RAM installed and I never have to make it struggle. The onboard M2 socket is convenient, and allows for up to seven drives (unless one of the SATA ports is disabled from use of the M2 slot — I haven't experimented with that many yet).
The onboard Gigabit ethernet works great.
There are fancier boards that cost a lot more money, many of which only support a couple of DIMMs or a couple of drives (perhaps because they're focused on blinkin' lights). For my needs, this was a very affordable board that made a good foundation for my system.
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Edit: The board is still working great, but I did discover one flaw that will likely be common in this form factor: when a nice video card is installed (in my case a GTX 1650) it covers one of the other PCI-E slots, leaving only one for expansion. Also worth noting, that one slot is right against one of the fans of the graphics card. If it wasn't a very low profile WiFi/Bluetooth card, I would worry about the airflow.
Bottom line on that, my next build may be a full size tower just to be able to upgrade more things on the board. It's not that the onboard sound isn't good — it is — but if I wanted, for example, 5.1 or 7.1 sound, I would probably have to go the USB route.
| Processor | 2666 MHz |
|---|---|
| RAM | DDR4 |
| Memory Speed | 2666 MHz |
| Wireless Type | Bluetooth |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 2 |
