ASRock H270M-ITX/AC LGA1151/ Intel H270/ DDR4/ SATA3&USB3.0/ M.2/ WiFi/ A&2GbE/ Mini-ITX Motherboard

Pros:Since there are too many black/red builds I really wanted to go black/white. This board is one of the few that has good specs and comes in black/white. It does look good inside of my case.- 3 M.2 slots. I will be definitely using them- Wi-Fi built in. I am using it daily and it is stable, no issues. Recently switched to Intel Gb LAN - it works great. Make sure you pick 219v LAN port if dual ports are not needed.- Plenty of SATA III ports- Dr. Debug code screen. I find it helpful- It supports both Skylake and KabyLake (I am using Skylake)- RAM overclock feature worked right away when I switched XMP profile "ON". It now runs my RAM at its maximum 3000Mhz.Cons:- I was really annoyed and frustrated when I was trying to turn it on. It would not boot. It would not even go to BIOS, just pop A2 code and that's it. I tried everything possible: tried another monitor, different HDMI cable, replaced RAM, tried different SATA ports, even returned one board and ordered another one. After spending my whole weekend trying to troubleshoot it, I finally found someone's forum post discussing their new ASRock Z270 SuperCarrier board having the same issue and how he shorted undisclosed pins that say TEST1. I did it and my board actually started booting after I restarted it a few times.- AURA LED light is really dim. I have a huge video card that actually blocks much of that light, so I just turned it off.- Intel Ethernet ports did not seem to work, they finally worked later after I installed fresh Intel drivers.- Windows 7 Pro would not install, even when I used ASRock utility to create a USB boot drive. So I had to dig out my old SATA HDD, copy Windows 7 image to it, connect it to my new computer and install Windows 7. I had to do the same thing for all of the drivers, since I did not have a working CD drive.Other Thoughts: - My build:Intel i7 6700KASRock Z270 Taichi32Gb DDR4 3000 Corsair Vengeance White2 x 512 Samsung 850 PRO SATA III SSDSeasonic SnowSilent 1050W White power supply with custom white BitFenix cablesCorsair 750D Full Tower caseID-Cooling ICEKIMO 120W all-white liquid coolerBitFenix White LED strips (2x30 cm)GALAX GeForce GTX 1080 Hall Of Fame white/aluminumMy serial number 72M0XB027824******************************************************Update: Dec 06, 2017My Wi-Fi was very glitchy at first, updating directly from Intel did nothing. Intel LAN ports also did not work. I tried my luck a few weeks later with a fresh Intel driver update and everything worked fine since then. The board works well, stable and without issues. I had it for about 9 months now, no complaints. Giving it 5 stars again.

When it comes to form and aesthetics, I think AsRock nailed this one down pretty well. The mechanical yin-yang theme in black and white is visually appealing, and has enough bells and whistles that would make most think this board would have been more expensive than it ended up being. You get TEN SATA ports on the board, THREE USB 2.0 headers, which is great if you have front panel ports, an AIO that connects, as well as a power supply that connects. It supports memory very well, and has easy-to-understand ways to overclock the RAM and CPU.The only small complaint I would have is the bright red LED next to the Dr. Debug display that is always on, and cannot be turned off. It's to show which BIOS is in operation, but it's very bright, so will end up just covering it up with some electrical tape or something - not enough of an issue to knock off a star, but I hope they find a way of fixing that in the future.EDIT: One small thing I noticed, and not sure if it's a huge thing or not, but just curious about why AsRock decided to only put two case fan headers on this board, yet have more on the Extreme4. Not only that, but they are both set up really close to the middle of the board, so you end up stringing your fan cables to the middle instead of to the sides/bottom where I think they should have been in the first place.

Insertion: This motherboard, and apparently many others, does not allow the simultaneous use of the internal graphics card and a pcie graphics card. Installation of a graphics card in the pcie slot disables the internal card.Review: This motherboard is way better than MSI or EVGA. My first comparable motherboard, made by MSI, I bent the CPU pins. My fault, yes, but paying and paying to get it fixed, and the MSI Z170A still doesn't work when stood vertically. If MSI is not going to fix the motherboard properly, then they should not offer a repair service, whose repeated shipping costs due to their errors quickly surpasses the cost of the motherboard itself. So I bought the most expensive instead -- the EVGA motherboard. It worked without problems, but the physical layout was so difficult. The graphics card smashed all the way to the right, the code indicator under the CD, the list goes on and on. Everything was in that difficult to reach location. And don't forget s-l-o-w. Boot took forever. Not that it was any worse than MSI, but UEFI took as estimated 40 seconds in fast boot mode, before getting to the boot strap loader. Why? It was refusing to boot Debian 8, and I was trying everything, and I disconnected power to the graphics card because it was difficult to remove.... and bad idea... Time to get another motherboard. Compare that to ASRock...ASRock is cheaper than EVGA and/or MSI, plus ASRock is way better. ASRock standard pin ports are more, and positioned much better. Extra support for the PCIE slots which are much easier to deal with, and better looking in general. But this says nothing about what it is like to use. The BIOS (UEFI) is fast... As in lighting fast. To get to UEFI settings requires a quick finger on the keyboard. I never put it into fast boot mode because the instructions say that the UEFI will run so fast that entering the settings again requires a reset of the CMOS. I just clocked it: From CPU power button press, until graphically logged into Debian 8 as root, consumes 19.62 seconds. Yep. ASRock + OS is booted in half the time it takes the others to think about beginning to boot the OS. I always felt it was wrong that motherboards took so long to POST (power on self test (which doesn't test much))... now I know it is.An ASRock UEFI update is a menu option away. That's right. No more complicated, cross your fingers downloading onto a thumb drive and uploading into BIOS, hoping you did it right -- or else. ASRock made the process automatic. The UEFI connects to the web, downloads and installs the proper update for you. No kidding. I am actually unafraid to update the BIOS, as it is only one menu selection away. As for that BIOS switch EGVA has -- I couldn't get it to work on the other setting... no comfort there.The only issue I have found is Debian doesn't like ASRock combined with the CD player. If I do not try to boot the Debian 8 live install CD, there is a way around the issue. Advancement always has issues to historical things, and I too hate CDs. On the plus side, ASRock has no problem booting from thumb drive and M.2 cards. It had an issue automatically booting from SATA when mixed with M.2 cards, but it does work, and the last UEFI update got it functioning automatically now. Therefore, I can verify that ASRock will load boot sectors from PCIE M.2 cards, SATA Rotating Platters, SATA SSDs, and USB Thumb Drives. ASRock rocks.

**EDIT: 28th of June 2019 - MAY HAVE RECEIVED DEFECTIVE PRODUCT, will be contacting asrock support or amazon if this is the case, WILL UPDATE WHEN TROUBLESHOOTED FURTHER**Purchased on: 21st of November 2018Delivered on: 22nd-24th of November 2018 (I believe it was either the 22nd or 23rd - It was FAST)Seller: Amazon EU S.a.r.LPrice: £50.39You could go for the MSI Z270 which is a similar board in general, however it is a full ATX board and has 4 DIMM slots (where your RAM goes) rather than the 2 on this board.One slight issue is with my CPU cooler bracket (like mine which is: Deepcool Ice Edge Mini V2, for 1150/1/6 - so it had the right bracket. Was in my previous build but wasn't an issue due to ATX mobo).One of the black plastic hook catches for the heat-sink base barely touches my Corsair Vengeance RAM and creates a disturbing vibration, I had to slice away a small part of one side of the bracket and now it's perfect.I also have a Intel Pentium G4560 3.5 GHz (Dual Core) installed into the board along with a AMD Sapphire R9 270X and currently don't have much else to comment about.It's recommended to GET TWO 4 GB sticks rather than ONE 8 GB stick, however I actually only ordered one stick of 8 GB Corsair Vengeance 2400 MHz RAM with this board ONLY to shortly down the line add another of the same model to get dual channel mode.EDIT: 30/05/19 - I did get another 8 GB stick which I received on the 28/12/18, so I now have 16 GB- I replaced the Deepcool CPU Cooler with a BE QUIET! Dark Rock Pro 4 on the 01/04/19 and I love it.If your motherboard only has 2 DIMM slots (where your RAM goes) like the B250M-HDV does, you could use a similar method to me, and just wait it out until you can add another stick down the line, or buy a full ATX board and get AT LEAST TWO sticks of MATCHING RAM if you have 2 or more DIMM slots.My build:Operating System: Windows 10 Pro (64-bit)Case: [Cooler Master Masterbox MB520 (Red/Black)|asin=B07G4KCRRK]PSU: [EVGA 600W W1 80+ White|asin=B01127D0MY]Motherboard: [ASRock B250M-HDV (this review)|https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-reviews/R2EU7VGGGG3YI?asin=B01N9BY912]CPU: [Intel (R) Pentium (R) G4560 3.5GHz (Dual Core)|asin=B01N7U18M1]CPU Cooler: [Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4|asin=B07BY6F8D9]RAM: 2x8 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 (2400 MHz)[ONE STICK of 8 GB Corsair Vengeance 2400 MHz RAM|asin=B01ARHBBPS]GPU: AMD Sapphire Radeon R9 270X OC Edition (2GB)SSD: [Kingston A400 2.5" 240 GB SSD|asin=B01N5IB20Q]HDD: 1 TB Western Digital Blue (WD10EZEX-21WN4A0) (7200 RPM)HDD: 320 GB Western Digital Caviar (WD3200AAJS-57VWA2) (7200 RPM)

Very well priced board that fits well into most cases. I bought it for a budget computer I was building into a Esystems case that was used for a prebuilt Celeron PC that it fit in perfectly. I recently upgraded to a Aerocool Aero 800 which is fits in amazingly. The board is currently holding a Hyper 212 EVO and a Pentium G4560 paired with my GTX 1050. There are no issues with the board and the bios works well. For anyone buying an overclock-able chip go with a board that supports overclocking. The RAM slots are difficult to work out how to use it but you just need to push the RAM in harder than you would be used to.The BIOS has full fan control and support for Kaby Lake processors. There are no current clearance problems,

Motherboard purchased to replace AS Rock Pro4s which got damaged during a lightning storm.Decided to stick with AS Rock again as had 3 years trouble free from old board.This was easy to fit, almost like for like connections. Fitted a new Corsair TX750M power supply at the same time and everything went together ok.Happy to see native support for Samsung 950Pro NVME m.2. drive which was instantly recognised as a drive.Fitted my i5 6600k with mild overclock (very easy to do in BIOS), happy for a bit of future proofing as this will take 7th gen chips as well.Aesthetics were not a concern for me as pc sits tucked away in living room but has a nice black and white colour scheme on board.Overall I'm very satisfied, this motherboard has all the features I needed at a very reasonable price.

This is an excellent motherboard with more features than others of its class. I purchased this to replace a fairly new motherboard that stopped functioning. It has more functionality than the older motherboard - wifi, faster RAM, boot with USB. If there is any improvement I would recommend Asrock, that would be to improve the BIOS. I had an invalid boot entry in my NVRAM I couldn't get rid of. The only way I could delete it is through a UEFI shell in a thumb drive. It would be great to have the functionality to delete invalid boot records. Aside than that, all thumbs up. Asrock is the rising star.

I bought this because of the amount of sata drives it will take - and then nearly broke my back lifting a case with 10 disks in it.Was pleasantly surpised at the 'adult' bios interface and presentation, keeping it not too flashy and menu driven.O/C my Kaby Lake was very easy.Would buy this again.