ASUS H87I-PLUS LGA 1150 Intel H87 Mini ITX Motherboard

So far, I've been very impressed with this board. I used this to run a Hyper-V server / NAS, and it works well for this application. This was the first time I had worked with a mini-ITX board, and it's amazing the amount of features that can be included on such a tiny board. It's a steal of a price to boot.The major reasons I purchased this board was the name brand (Asus is known for making quality components), the plethora of SATA ports (I needed at least 5, and this has 6), and some kind of built in graphics (so that I wouldn't have to buy an add-on video card). It's important to note that in order to use the "on-board" graphics (if they even qualify as such), is to purchase a CPU with Intel integrated graphics. If you're going for a Xeon processor, like I did, you will need to look for the models that end in a 5 or a 6 (I used a Xeon E3-1226 v3, which is a lower end Xeon processor that performs about as well as a low-end Core i7 for a fraction of the price).The only gripe I have about this board is the face-plate. It took a good amount of pressure to get it to click into my case, and the foamy-type padding on the back meant I had to apply a little more pressure than I was comfortable with to get all the screw holes to line up. But, that's a very minor complaint, and thus far it doesn't seem to be causing any issues.This board might not be the one you want if you're looking to overclock or attach a ton of expansion cards as you typically would do in a gaming rig (there's only 1 PCI slot after all), but for a home server or media PC, it's a great little mobo.

I bought this because after a bit more than a year, my  ASRock Z87E-ITX Motherboard  stopped working. That one is a good board, and sometimes boards fail, but even with an existing warranty it's impossible to get a computer up and running in a timely fashion without buying something new.I've had good experience with ASUS boards in the past and currently have one on another computer and it's working well. This particular one is a much lower end board and I didn't have high expectations, but the performance I got out of it, as corroborated by benchmarks, was as good as with the ASRock. It was measurably better but about even in real life use.The board lacks some features and has a few that are surprising for a board in this price range. The number of SATA connectors is high for a board this cheap, but it lacks any eSATA connectors. Fortunately, it costs only about four dollars to get an  eSATA Slot Plate Bracket  such as the one in the link. Even though there are enough headers for most things, there were surprisingly few (2) fan headers. With one for the CPU, that left one more for either the power supply fan or either of the case fans. ASUS has good software for controlling fans, but it won't work without using fan headers.I hadn't noticed before that ASUS gives no way of disabling the blinking power light when the computer is asleep, and it wasn't an issue on other computers. But I use this one in a bedroom. If you couple that with the limited ability to control fan noise based on cooling needs, you end up with something bright and loud. With mini-ITX cases, swapping out fans may not be an option given the limited space.Overall, it's a good board for the money, even if it didn't meet my needs as well as I would have hoped. There is a newer version, which is the  ASUS H97I-PLUS , that addresses some of my issues. It adds another fan header. It loses two SATA connectors, but with an M.2 socket, and the decreased likelihood of having many drives on such a small computer, that might not be such a problem. If I were to buy a new SSD, I'd get an M.3 not to save space, but to free up slots. The only compromise I'd see having with the newer board from ASUS is that I'd have to disable or reverse the leads on the power LED. But there's enough to let me know when the computer is on that I could live with that.The ASRock board was definitely a better board, but is also far more expensive. It comes down to what features you need. The ASUS H97I-PLUS board is similarly priced to this one, and although I haven't used it, it would be a logical choice for many who are looking at this.

I purchased this board for a very low power home lab Hyper-V server. I needed lots of SATA and USB 3.0 ports, and this board delivers on those counts. I set up tiered storage with 6x160GB SSDs and 4x2TB portable laptop drives. Running with an i3-4130T 35W processor, 16GB low voltage RAM and a high-efficiency power supply nets a total power draw of ~30W at idle.One star is removed for a few minor points:1) Network chip is annoying and somewhat obscure. Intel provides official 2012 R2 drivers on their website for this exact chip, yet the installer would not detect it, nor would Windows see the driver as being compatible. I forced the issue and that did work.2) Price. This board is small and low on component counts and only comes with a book, disc, back plate and 2 SATA cables. I think the price is about $35 too high for what I'm getting.3) BIOS update procedure is a bit harder than it needs to be. You can copy the BIOS file to a USB thumb stick or browse the hard drive for the file, but it will not accept it unless you run another program first that renames the file. How stupid is that. Other companies simply provide a Windows executable that you can run with 2 clicks and you're done.4) My USB 3.0 WD 2TB portable drive would not work AT ALL with this board until I updated the BIOS. Whatever happened to standards???UPDATE: 3/31/14Ended up with 2x160GB Intel G2 SSDs for boot mirror (and VMs), 2x240GB Intel G3 SSDs + 2x4TB WD RED for the hybrid array. Storage spaces buffers almost all writes to the SSDs so I needed faster ones to keep up. Also got tired of the USB drives spinning down all the time. The system has been running for 4+ months 24x7 and I've only had one unexplained crash and reboot. It happened during a nightly backup. I have had the WD 3TB USB 3.0 drive used for backups freeze before, but this time it seemed to cause a BSOD. Otherwise everything has been working great.

i7 4790k will NOT work on this board, for anyone interested.

Intel LANオンボードでMini-ITXがASUSで安い！と思ってあまり調べず購入。1UのラックマウントシャーシにDB鯖群向けのESXi鯖として活躍しています。ESXiのインストールを開始するとLANの問題っぽいエラーが出るのでぐぐると、オンボードのI217には対応していないそうで。※インストールディスクイメージにI217用ドライバを入れる方法はググれば出てきます。※そこさえクリアすれば問題なくインストールできると思います。標準では非対応とはいえIntelLANなので、カニさんチップ等よりは安定性は上かと。特に1Uで組む場合はIntelLANカード＋ライザーカードを用意する必要が無いのはメリットです。SATAが多いのでRAID云々抜きにしても汎用性が高いです。本当はLAN LED向けの端子があると嬉しかったんですけど、あまり無い気もするので減点はなしです。

2台目のITXマザーボードとして選びました。（１台目はP8H67-I）正常に動作しています。

種類が少ないうえに価格まで考えるとこれしかなかった。1年使用しているが、今のところトラブルなく安定して使用しています。

安売りだったので、チップセットのリビジョンとBIOSのバージョンが気がかりでしたがC2リビジョン　BIOS1005でした。BIOSは最新が2002なので残念ポイント。USB BIOS Flashbackが搭載されていないのでG1840用ってとこかな。以下のCPUはBIOS2001から対応Core i3-4160Core i3-4160TCore i3-4360TCore i3-4370Core i5-4690KCore i7-4790KPentium G3250Pentium G3250TPentium G3258Pentium G3450TPentium G3460

Amazonでこの前の安かった時に購入。G1830で起動。何ら問題なくWindows10 TPをインストールできました。安いうちに報告できればよかったのですが、しばらくほったらかしにしているうちに値段上がりましたね。肝心のBIOSのバージョンは1005でこれなら安く手に入るG1840でも問題なかったです。まあ中途半端な省エネデスクトップPCを作るつもりだったので、狙い通りの中途半端なものになったということで。しばらくのあいだ、これでWindows10 TPを試用してみます。