EVGA Z370 Micro ATX, LGA 1151, Intel Z370, Dual Band WiFi AC, SATA 6Gb/s, USB 3.0, mATX, Intel Motherboard 121-KS-E375-KR

If you are looking for a board that is very good or excelling at every single aspect. Than look no more.This board is price/performance king especially if you find it at the 130-150$. And very very good at 170-180$.Lets go into highlights, what is different on this;->There is no fancy stupid plastic cover for the ports instead, there is a cover which is connected to the VRM heatsinks, operating as a heat spreader and looking very good.->There is Digital code display for bootup error cods.->Extra power supply input doe PCI-E slots, placed terrific.->Very good heatsinks for the VRM and chipset, not fancy but very big surface area.->Metal eched pci-e and memory slots are standard for high grade and on this as well.->3 M.2 slots, 2 for nvme. Take care SATA port limitations when in use.->Bios reset button on backplate!!!->More than enough 8+3 phase VRM for reasonable overclocks. It means for with little luck, 90% you can get the same overclocking result with this board like the most expensive kings, azimuts, godlike etc named ridiculously priced motherboards...->Tests show very very good memory bandwith with overclocking.->Boxing and materials quality is topnotch!

This board is great, and has some weight to it. Feels very solid and seems to overclock fairly well. My only complaint is how hard it is to setup an NVME SSD. First it disables two of your sata ports, when I read that info on the board I was like okay, then I install everything and boot up the system and it can't see my ssd. It took me about 40mins to figure out the cause of the issue and for some stupid reason I had to switch the drive into legacy mode.... On a system with an 8700k and a brand new fing samsung nvme ssd. The tech support at evga couldn't even figure out what settings in the bios would make it work in non legacy mode.

This is the 4th z370 motherboard I've purchased so I'm able to compare the z370 Classified K board with the Asus Maximus X Apex, Asus Prime Z370-A, and the Gigabyte Aorus z370 Gaming 7.So far the board has been functional and stable. The 8086k I'm using with it is working, the 32gb 4x8gb DDR4-3200 cl16 Dominator memory is working with the XMP profile enabled, all stress tests pass. I could try my G.Skill RAM with the Samsung B-Dies but I don't see much point. When I stress test the CPU I noticed the CPU temps were 5c higher with XMP enabled. Otherwise the temps are good, at stock speeds the CPU isn't being overvolted, you know.... like what I'd see on an Asus board with MCE Disabled.Obviously this EVGA board isn't going to be in the same league as the Apex but it's not really even comparable to the Gigabyte z370 Gaming 7 board either. Since the normal pricetag of this board is the same as the Gigabyte Aorus z370 Gaming 7, you think it would be. The biggest bonus you're getting with this board is EVGA's customer service which you hopefully will never need to use. For the normal price, I think EVGA could offer a lot more.The Classified K is on par, or slightly above the Prime Z370-A/Strix at best but the EVGA board comes with a couple bonus features like dual LAN and the handy LED debug reader. You also get a dual BIOS. The VRM's on the EVGA board are a little bit better than what you'd see in the Strix and the Prime Z370-A, and they are on par with the Fatil1ty K6/Extreme4, but they are not even close to being in the same league as the Gigabyte Gaming 7 board. The look and feel of the Classified K is similar to what you'd see and feel on the Prime Z370-A. The VRM cooling blocks aren't a whole lot better. The BIOS/UEFI has less options that what I'd see on my Prime Z370-A motherboard.Don't get me wrong though, I'd pick this EVGA board over the Strix-E or the Prime Z370-A if I had to but it's really not much better than those boards. At least for the price EVGA is charging it should come with 3x full sized M.2 slots, RGB, Top Tier VRM's and a beefier heatsink.I was looking at buying an MSI z390 or a Gigabyte z390 motherboard, since the Maximus XI line cheaped out on the VRM's, but the $100 pricetag on Cyber Monday was too good to pass up. I have the 8086k that I'm giving to my brother for Christmas so he can run run his 144hz display EVGA's legendary customer service is the reason I pulled the trigger here. If I would have paid $220 for this then I would have felt cheated. However for $99 this board is a steal.EVGA needs to go back to making boards like the x79 Dark, x299 Dark, X58 3-Way SLI, or any of those old Sandy Bridge- Nehalem quality boards.

One of the best budget Z370 motherboard on the market. It is designed for cable management with its 90-degree angle pins. It has an optional 4-pin for the CPU in case you need the extra power and an extra 6 pin PCI-E in case your GPU needs the extra power. Although it only has 2 Dimm slots, that's all I use, that might be a deal breaker for some people. It also comes with a wifi + Bluetooth chip that does not come with any instructions on how to install, but it's kind of self-explanatory. Which means the parts just go where they are supposed to go, it only fits one way. It is recommended to install the wifi chip before installing the motherboard in the case, the reason is that your case might not have enough clearance to screw the screw into the nut on the other side for the bracket. The wifi chip is just as fast as ethernet, I got 70 downloads and 6 uploads on both of them.

Great motherboard, BUT, why on earth did they decide to put the front connector and HD audio connectors at 90 degrees instead of pointing up like every other motherboard ever? The case I put this in had a top mount PSU making the connectors rub against the bottom of the case. Time will tell if this is an issue but I really don't understand their reasoning. The main 24 pin power at 90, is perfect. Makes it easy to hide the cable.

If you're looking for something that's going to get the job done, and do it well while looking stealthy, and just plain good, this is your motherboard. It's got overclocking features, like LED post status, power and reset buttons on board, lots of fan headers, two BIOSes you can switch between using a physical switch on the board itself, good onboard audio, etc. What it doesn't have is RGB and that's prefectly fine by me personally. I overclocked my i7-8086k to 5.1GHz without issue at all using a Cryorig R1 ultimate, idles at 27-30 and Cinebench runs brought it up to about 57.

Awesome m/b. However, as stated if using an i9 cpu, bios have to be upgraded.