ASUS Z87M-PLUS DDR3 1600 LGA 1156 Motherboard

For whatever it's worth, I bought this motherboard in 2013 and it's May 4th, 2025. Not a failure in over 12 years even though you couldn't get this motherboard nowadays. It's worked great with all the peripherals I've added; runs an Intel i5 -4430 and 8GB DDR3 memory, and it's still plenty fast, although not as fast as newer systems, but I use my desktop for all the basics. No complaints at all. Not like you will be able to get this motherboard anymore, but here's the long-term review.

Very happy with the board. Was surprised to discover it wouldn't accept my old Soundblaster XtremeGamer card, but that was my fault, I didn't check that part of the specs. It's got a great BIOS, way easier than the non-GUI ones from a decade+ ago :) I've got an i7 4770k and two 8gb sticks of Ripjaws inside, running great. (I returned the other two sticks when I realized 32gb of RAM would be overkill for at least a couple years, for me.)

For the last several years I have worried about motherboards. Out of the last 10, or so, systems I have put together only five of them worked flawlessly from the initial boot. This was another 4-star motherboard so, as I added components to it I thought about how frustrating this was going to be if the MB was bad. Well, the motherboard is fantastic. It booted into Windows 7-64 from the SSD that came from the system is replacing, Everything worked fine. I have an I7 3770K in it OC to 4,2 GHz. I put a Thermaltake Water 2 Pro on it with the two Thermaltake fans and it is pretty quiet, even when stressed 100% CPU. My cooling is fine, ave 23degC on idle with between 45 - 55degC for 100% CPU. If you take your time and build it carefully, this is a great motherboard.

The board is to compressed...not enough fan ports. Decent price i guess... the also the graphics card ports are also to close together

This is a well built, reliable motherboard - except for 1 major issue (enough to take 1 or 2 stars off). The on-board sound is truly awful. I am not an audiophile, I usually just get cheap (<$50) logitech speakers and cheap headphones (<$30) and I can definitely notice the difference in quality. I've put together builds with Gigabyte and MSI motherboards in the $50-60 price range and this is truly the worst sound I have ever seen a motherboard give out. This is unacceptable from a company that makes its own line of sound cards. Yeah... you can always get a cheap $20-30 sound card, but when you have a mATX build, each PCI/PCI-E slot is precious. Even though no one mentioned it here on Amazon, there are a lot of people complaining about the sound at Newegg, so I know I'm not the only one that noticed this. If you enjoy listening to music, this may be a reason to select something else. Such a pity because I am a big fan of Asus otherwise.

Great board. Asus uefi on this board is even nicer than my 990fx Sabertooth model and this one was cheaper. Over clocked a 4670k to 4.2ghz on air cooling very easily.

Using this with the new i7-4790. Would not boot at first. But took advantage of Asus's feature to flash the BIOS with a USB drive, and everything now works great.

I bought this board along with an i7-4770K and some G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3 1333 for my new desktop. It is blazing fast, stable, and overclocks nicely. It caught my eye while I was considering the Z78-PRO because I do not want to pay for the wireless. The only problem I have with the board (and the reason I will probably be returning it) is that the graphics card slot is in the 1st position and my (ginormous) Noctua NH-D14's fan clips touch the back of the graphics card. Get the non-"M" version of the board if you want a big cooler.

LGA１１５０PC作成にあたり、最初アスロックｈ８７、次がアスロックｚ８７と立て続けに購入交換しました。 どちらも交換の理由は、動作が安定しません。 たとえば、メモリ4GBｘ４を取り付けて問題なく起動したのでウィンドウズ７Pro64Bitインストールしてドライバーをすべて当てて再起動かけましたが、ブルーバックでチェックが入り勝手に再起動メモリ16ｇｂが8ｇｂしか認識せず、などトラブルばかりでしたが、友人に相談したら、 ASUSTeK Intel Z87チップセット搭載マザーボード Z87M-PLUS 【MATX】を進められ購入しました。 組み付け、OS、ドライバー、アップデート各種ソフトのインストールと、スムーズに進みました。 O/Cで動作してますが、全く問題なく、ASUSTeKのファンになりました！ 何でも購入を考えるときは、他人の評価や口コミは大事だなぁ～と思いました。 この品は、安くて最高です。 LGA1150にかかわらず、ASUSTeKは好き嫌い無くどのパーツとも相性の問題をクリアーしてくれそうな気がします。