ASRock Micro ATX DDR4 Motherboards Z170M PRO4S

All good here. It is a modern board with most features you could need in a mATX board. Four mem slots, plenty usb3, speedy m2 port and great for overclocking. The bios and drivers work flawless. I would have liked display port and built in wifi but for the price this is great board especially if you want to play with overclocking. But for the latter you need a gfx card in one of the pcie slots which I'd believe an overclocking enthusiast would already have.

I bought this board for a mid range 1080p gaming PC for its high end Z170 Intel chipset, support for Intel Skylake (Gen 6) processors, and DDR4-2666MHz RAM support—it also supports SLI in case you'd want to double your graphics cards. I paired this board with an Intel i3-6100 and EVGA Nvidia GTX 970 to get over 60fps on Ultra 1080p on every game I've thrown at it so far on this budget build.

Good board. I needed the Intel 170 Chipset in conjunction with Skylake I5-6400 to leverage the Samsung 950 Pro M2 SSD ( which requires the o-board PCIe SSD PCIe Gen3 x4 M.2 Connector with up to 32Gb/s Data Transfer). I'm running WIN 7 Pro. Getting a setup USB drive bootable with the SSD NVMe drivers was the main challenge after that things were smooth sailing. The board works well and even benchmarked marginally faster than the Gigabyte (GA-H170M-D3H) that I eventually adopted. I abandoned the ASRock only because the Gigabyte offered a needed additional USB3 header and a VGA port (in addition to DVI.) A note on the WIN7 configuration built with screaming fast Samsung 950 Pro in the even faster M2 PCIe slot: This disk offered little performance improvement under regular use. The boot time was a bit slower than with the 850 SATA III SSD and I attribute that to the faster NVMe drivers not loading until AFTER windows loads. Once Windows started the benchamark software (Passmark & ATTO) showed every screaming ounce of power. The ATTO core was better than spec (R/W 2.5/1.5 GB/s) The Passmark score was off the chart (18,000 Disk mark) compared to the other system components. This disparity explains why the overall system only performed marginally better than the same system with the 850 Pro: The 950 Pros is ahead of its time for consumer grade equipment like this board. This board (and the ASRock above) just about max-out with the software that I use (Photoshop, goldwave, firefox, etc.) and which I also used for benchmarking; the 950 Pro did not improve performance markedly. This is not expert analysis, obviously, and I welcome polite comments on how to get better utilization from the 950 Pro.

I'm not sure what other people experienced, but I couldn't even get this thing to POST. That, and the IO shield DOES NOT line up with the board. I know ASRock makes pretty good products, but honestly, I don't recommend this. Even if I got this to work, I found a superior MSI motherboard that was barely more expensive, full ATX, took 64 gigs of ram, the same cpu's, has two way sli on it's pci-e slots, a better IO, and the sort.

First time I got it the RAM slots were bad. So I returned it and got a new one. Second time I got it the sound card was damaged and wouldn’t install the drivers needed for audio output to work via the headphone jack. This isn't my first computer that I built and I have never had to go through this much of a headache with a motherboard. Now I told myself third time is a charm well... I have returned it and asked for a replacement the third time and have been waiting now for a month. DO NOT GET THIS BOARD!

I recently decided to get rid of my dinosaur desktop. My brother is a gamer and very into computers. He researched for me and I decided on this modern board. It had the features I needed in a mATX board. They are four memory slots, plenty and a m2 port. I have had no issues with this board. I would have liked built in wifi but other than that I am satisfied.

The screw holes to mount the motherboard into the case were not well insulated from the rest of the board, placement of multiple screws resulted in the motherboard not powering up, in the end I found one hole were placement of a screw did not short the motherboard

Nice micro ATX from ASRock. Before purchase I was reluctant due to mixed reviews. I did risk and did order it and I am glad I did. I have been using it for several months now and performing great. No problems so far. I did install M2 superfast memory. Be sure to format it right, otherwise your motherboard will not recognize it as startup storage for operating system.

Arrivata in perfetto stato ed in perfetto orario, il prodotto ha presentato fin da subito problemi di stabilitá, tanto da farmi ipotizzare problemi hardware sulla CPU. Anche aggiornando il BIOS, i problemi sono rimasti. Non essendoci soluzioni, ho deciso di restituire il prodotto.

En el titulo dice Asrock Z170 Pro4S. Y en la foto dice Asrock Z170M Pro4S. Muy mal por que una es ATX y la otra microATX. Son modelos diferentes con costos y tamaño diferente. Al final me enviaron la Asrock Z170M Pro4S y yo pensando que era la otra. Fijense para que no la vayan a comprar!.

Vorweg: Ich habe das Produkt sogar aus den Warehouse Deals gekauft - auf der Verpackung klebte ein Zettel vom ASRock Service, der garantierte, dass das Mainboard ohne Probleme läuft. Und das kann ich auch bestätigen: Nach dem Einbau des Prozessors (i5-6600K) wurden die XMP Profile meines RAM Corsair CMK16GX4M1A2666C16 (16 GB, DDR4 2666 @ CL16) problemlos erkannt und automatisch aktiviert. Ansonsten kann ich zu dem Board sagen, dass es soweit stabil läuft und meinem Gigabyte Board in nichts nachsteht. Die Soundchip auf dem Mainboard wurde nicht getestet, da bei mir eine dedizierte Soundkarte zum Einsatz kommt. Er erfüllt also seinen Zweck und dies zu einem guten Preis. Persönlich gefällt mir die UEFI-Oberfläche auch deutlich besser, als die, bei meinem Gigabyte. Aber das ist Geschmackssache. Für den Preis macht man hier nichts falsch.

What can I say about this little gem. I'm not the most tech savey PC builder anymore ( 30 years ago I could build a network or two....) Bought this to go with an intel i5 6600k and 16gb of ddr4 ram. Using a watercooled system. Well, everything went together smoothly, booted up, started Windows and Voila!! Not had an issue yet..... I haven't even started over clocking yet as I get smooth frame rates (GTX970) with Oculus Rift and also running FSX in VR. For the price I don't think you can find a better Micro ATX board out there. Nicely done AsRock.

Exactly as promised