Good replacement for old motherboard

I use the motherboard for a month now and had some minor problems with it.
When installing the most appropriate price for the bad connection blind striking because it consists of a very thin sheet and its claws turn accordingly in all directions. When I the first time have started the system, the speed of the rotating diligently Intel Pentium G3420 standard fan reading of 0. Either the supplied with the Pentium fan or the motherboard is defective (have no other PC to test the ...) - or is a variant of the following on the Internet often quoted error in ASUS motherboards: [... ]
The UEFI does not seem quite so quick to hand over control to the boot loader as a Lenovo-UEFI does on a Z500 notebook for example. But the latter also offers much less options. The configuration of the boot sequence and the entries in the NVRAM is a bit confusing when ASUS UEFI.
The driver support for Windows 8.1, however, was exemplary, as very timely, as well as Ubuntu and openSUSE can start without difficulty with Secure Boot. Only a certified Fedora 20 Live image hangs at boot.
Overall, the motherboard was a good substitute for a 3 year old model of a complete PC for me. Through my older components will not interfere with the PCI-Express 3.0 support missing also.