Cons: (And there are a lot of them)#1 The motherboard is thin, this causes complications with some backplates, I.E the H100i V2, which is junk in its own right but it will get its own review.#2 The I/O panel doesn't play nice with the motherboard, the prongs had to be bent to keep them from jamming into the connections. The Ridiculous cover thing barely fit behind the rear fan, it has no clearance.#3 The second M.2 bay is hidden away behind the south heat sink. I didn't know it had a second slot, but I'm not impressed when something required disassembly to access.#4 Heres were the real fun begins! I I get everything setup, powers on, etc. Sometimes it freezes/blackscreens when trying to enter the UEFI bios (seems to be a trend with UEFI bios as its not the only board that does this on occasion.) Its not an issue, until it happens several times over the course of other issues, and those few seconds turn into minutes, and into lost hours.At first I was impressed with the plethora of options to tinker with, up until the options that actually matter were lost in all of the irrelevant clutter. Onward to booting! I check my boot settings and plug in my UEFI windows 7 USB stick that I have used on several other computers, everything moves along normal, up until I have no KB or mouse support in the windows install. There is no legacy PS/2 input so I can't use my antique keyboard I keep on hand either.Some google fu later, Legacy support was enabled by default but USB simulation also had to be enabled and it wasn't. Ok, that problem is fixed, onward to install right? Nope. Windows tells me I need to install drivers. Ok, let me go back and check options again, because it shouldn't need any special drivers for a generic western digital harddrive (platter).I try changing to regular USB rather than UEFI, nope. I know I need to disable secure boot (what a joke that causes unnecessary grief!) in order to install windows 7, but its greyed out! I can't turn it off. I'm left to hunt around and tinker my way through pages of useless options until I stumble over the way to turn it off. You delete the keys! Would have been nice if turning it off was a direct option and not a beat a round the bush goose chase! Boot override to UEFI windows 7 stick. Nope! Still tells me to go pound sand, no devices to install too! Even though everything is detected in the BIOS. (I know Windows 7 doesn't have native m.2 support but a platter drive should work just fine!)An unknown amount of wasted time trying every possible combination of options to make the piece of trash boot and it won't work. So I break down, rip an old DVD drive from another computer and boot from an antiquated DVD that isn't even service pack one. It works flawlessly, up until the whole system freezes after booting from the hard drive! (I have yet to test if this is the memory or the CPU but I doubt it.)Ok, it froze, so I put the DVD drive back in the other computer, reboot, it pops into windows all fine and dandy, I up the resolution and insert my trusty USB again with all the drivers on it. Physical media is such a drag and its usually out of date from the box anyway. Well, the USB that works on every single other computer on a fresh install... doesn't work on this one. WTF?!?!So now I have to take the DVD drive BACK OUT OF THE OTHER COMPUTER and install drivers from the disc. But wait! It tells me that my operating system is not supported. Excuse me? Windows 7 is officially supported by Microsoft until 2020, why is a company that claims to champion gamers, not supporting the go-to OS of gamers and power users!? No matter, I explore the DVD, and manually install the lan driver, works great and I have internet! Chipset driver seizes up the computer and I have to hard reset, AGAIN!In total, I have wasted around 6-7 hours this evening just trying to get the operating system working on this piece of junk. I always considered ASUS to be a good middle of the road brand but now they are at the bottom of my stinklist right next to corsair and gigabyte. (Gigabyte USB3.0 drivers conflict with audio on my current computer, making it a choice between being heard and understood over VOIP programs or USB 3.0 speeds.) I wish I could give it zero stars because I have a $1,400 computer sitting on the desk that I can't use.I've already had to return too many other junk products to waste more of my time returning ANOTHER PRODUCT. What has happened to tech companies in the last five years!? They seem to be working on a track record of producing junk.PROS:#1 It has a lot of options to play with in the BIOS, probably too many.#2 It has abundant fan connections!#3.... The colors are nice, first M.2 drive is easily accessible and the layout is good, except for the second M.2 drive under one of the heat sinks.