When ASUS fan it should be an eponymous board, but in this price range, the ASUS MB's are really poorly equipped, down to USB 3 missing as almost everything!
I just got so with ASRock (daughter of ASUS and years rather junk) looked around and he became Pro Series carefully the positive reviews and the good equipment on the B75.
You get:
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- 2x USB 3.0 Rear, 1x USB 3.0 for a front controller with 2 Slots (very laudable!)
- 7.1 onboard sound (now no longer a matter of course)
- 1 HDMI Out
- UEFI (with ASUS in the price range only BIOS)
- 4 fan connectors: 1 CPU (of course), 1 CPU fan (3-pin but controlled by the CPU!), Power Fan 3-pin and a 4-pin connector CaseFan (controlled by PWM)
With ASUS you get just an additional fan connector .... great!
- Despite all mATX 4 memory banks (with ASUS only 2)
- DVI connection (is often omitted here, my TFT can no HDMI!)
- Supports PCI-E 3.0
- 2 PCI-E slots and even AMD Crossfire X compatible !!
- 2 SATA 6 ports (1x Intel, 1x external controller)
- 7 SATA 3 connectors
- Good marking of terminals (not all ASUS level but definitely better than before)
- Many tools and drivers here, one does not feel here to buy low budget
- Beautiful presentation of the carton and useful accessories: 1 SATA 3 cables and a red SATA cable 6
- Runs very stable and fast, yet any peripheral is detected easily and also has 24 hour endurance runs with Prime95 has been through the board without crashes.
- Has already been delivered with the latest firmware
CONTRA:
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- Manual rather poor, albeit as a manual to refer (no handout!)
- Fan control by value (0 - 255) regulated only with the CPU, the 4-pin PWM connector can only in increments of 1 - are controlled 10 (where 1 is to me a little too quickly)
CONCLUSION:
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Those looking for a very favorable Socket 1155 board and do not want to do without equipment, makes the B75 Pro3-M nothing wrong. Although the B75 chipset is meant to be used for offices and Office, ASRock speaks of the presentation and features ago the gamers and techies to who want just do a little more with your computer.
I run the whole thing with an i5 3570K, Corsair 8GB DDR3, an AMD HD 6870 and a SATA 2 HDD and Windows 8, including games (GTA 4, Far Cry 3) runs solitary peak!
Nice that ASRock has improved, for a while you could not even recommend the brand his worst enemy, in this case, but absolute value for tip.
EDIT 19:01:13:
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There is a new firmware update to version 1.60 = You can now selectively PCI-E 2.0 u. 3.0 Select.
The motherboard still works just fine.
EDIT 24/12/13:
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The BIOS update 1.90 fixes problems with the "Fast Boot", this lies the computer partially no longer boot. Now does this (for me) again.
