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ASUS Z170-A MOBO

1 The mobo has all the usb and connection ports in a logical place to connect them to the Tower case.
2 The mobo with the correct updated bios will support gen 6 or gen 7 intel processor. I ran a gen 6 G4400 pentium no problem. WIth the i7-7700 gen 7 I needed the updated 3504 BIOS. You need the gen 6 cpu to get the mobo started with an OS to update the bios. Even though ASUS brags about a EZ-bios update function it needs an additional card to mount to the motherboard to do it. The card does not exist. More vaporware. This can add a cost of up to $100 for a startup gen 6 CPU. Once the motherboard was hooked up, I installed windows 7 pro 64, windows 8.1 Pro 64 and win 10 Pro 64. The motherboard easily took the install of the operating systems. The only problems were letting microsoft install drivers that crashed the OS. Once I turned off driver updates and succesfully downloaded the numerous drivers from ASUS, the mobo works well.
3. The mobo is really fast, but the OC feature is too fast to install windows 10 and too fast to run windows 7 and 8. I had to set the overclock mode to energy saving for windows 7 and 8. Even in enrgy saving mode it screams. Overall, I only give it four outof five stars, because it does not have the advertised ez bios feature and i had to get another cpu to get it set up.Read full review

Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned