ASRock Micro ATX DDR3 1066 LGA 1150 Motherboard H81M-HDS

Great inexpensive motherboard. Bought this for my daughter's gaming PC and it works wonderfully. ASRock makes great boards.

Great little mobo for my G3258, and with the newest BIOS update, you can even overclock! I have my pentium sitting at 4.0ghz at stock voltage on the stock fan, temps don't go above 65C during a stress test. Only has one PCI lane that is 2.0, but whatever. Well featured for the price, BIOS is easy to navigate.

First off let me start by saying I want this review to be as honest as possible. This was the first motherboard I ever bought for my first pc build. I did not know what I was looking for in a motherboard besides weather or not it would fit my cpu gpu and amount of ram. This motherboard worked quite well. But.. Their was many defects. First and foremost the motherboard only read on stick out of my two sticks of ram. Which totaled up yo 16GB. Sometimes when booting the screen would flicker and become how can I say deformed in a way. On a few occasions I would leave my pc on at night and would wake up it would be off for whatever reason. Not in sleep mode but just off this could have been a fault of my own. I always had to boot up my pc two times before using it. If I booted it the first time the pc would boot up but would not load certain windows effects like aero and would not match the resolution of my display. Or that I had already set. So I would have to reboot again just for it to match the desired resolution. I sent Asrock customer service an email through their website about my issue with my motherboards I got no response. Overall I guess this is a good motherboard if it did not have all the issues. But take that part of this review with a grain of salt. This was my first board. I am happy I purchased it only because I know more about building pcs and it gave me a chance to return it and buy another and better board with hopefully no defects like this one had. I must say that although this is my first and only Asrock product it will however be my last. Because of the issues and lack of customer support I will not be purchasing anything from this company again. You get what you pay for and by being cheap I got a motherboard that had defects. Which could have happened with anything no matter the price but you get what you pay for.

I would have loved to spout off on which features I liked and which I didn't like, but I never even got to see them. This motherboard was dead on arrival. I tried it out in two different rigs, just to make sure. There's nothing more to say, really.I understand that not every product will be perfect, and occasionally there will be a few duds in the bunch. That's just one of the pitfalls of mass production. However, I also believe that future customers have a right to know which products have a higher potential to be duds than others. That is why this product gets a one star. This is a warning to future customers, just so they know what they may be getting into.

I bought this motherboard last year and liked it so much I bought a second when upgrading another PC.It's a solid board and perfect for gaming on the go. With the right case you can take this anywhere.I went on a trip from Dallas to Vancouver and back and the PC is still rocking out fine.All that to say, it's a great foundation for a great PC.I'll continue to look to ASRock when I need future upgrades.

Died within 6 months

I would give this 5 stars but there were a few road bumps. Overall, a good purchase for the price.Pros:-Economical-Easy to setup-Lots of Features-Practically worked out of the boxCons:-Weary about the support. Website says dealers get 1 year. Where does that leave the rest of us? Very foggy on the RMA/Warranty process. Hopefully, I will never have to use it.-Some of the drivers were outdated on the CD they shipped; not really a con as it's best practice to download latest driver's from the web.Overall, a good buy. Bought 4 of these and would probably buy again.

This is a good low priced motherboard, there were no problems that would bring it below a 5 star rating. It has click bios which is very user friendly, but sometimes you have to unplug the mouse and plug it back in for it to see it.Im mostly using it for 3d rendering so I have an i5 with the HD 4600 graphics, and I tested it on some games like crysis 2 and it ran just fine.I would consider buying again.