ASUSP10S WS ATX DDR4 LGA 1151 Motherboard

I was really nervous about purchasing this board cause of all the bad reviews, but I have had absolutely no problems with mine. This was my first build and it booted up on the first try. Im using this as a headless server so I can not comment on the audio issues that seem to be so common in some of the other reviews. I don't need the audio which is why I ultimately decided to give this board a chance. The bios is absolutely beautiful and gives you a bit of information about the board such as fan speed and cpu temp. I can confirm that Centos linux works on this board flawlessly. So, unless your really skeptical about the audio issues mentioned in other review, definitely give this board a shot.

Like another reviewer here, I've got garbled sounding audio that I'm unable to fix.I'm running Gentoo Linux 4.9.1, and playing directly to either optical out or speaker out with the same garbled sounding results.I've just updated to the most recent bios version ("0901"), and I can confirm the audio issue persists even with the latest bios.I've also noticed that the audio issues extend even to usb audio devices. Perhaps there is a general problem with this hardware's latency predictability in general?Edit: in addition to the audio issues, this motherboard takes a very long time to even get to the screen which prompts for the UEFI Bios settings, making any reboot (especially just to try to fiddle with UEFI Bios settings) fairly painful.Edit 2: I've gone and tested the audio in Windows 10. Using the automatically installed Realtek High Definition Audio 6.0.1.7997 along with Intel Management Engine Interface 11.6.0.1032, the audio is still crackly and distorted.I also tried downgrading to the latest drivers from the ASUS support page as of 2017-01-12, (MEI 11.0.0.1157, Audio called 6.0.1.7727 by download page, but installer says 6.0.1.7661).The unfortunately, the Audio driver downgrade didn't appeared to work initially: the installer said it would uninstall, reboot, auto start install, reboot. However, after the first reboot, no install auto started & the audio driver shown in device manager was the latest one automatically installed by windows. Trying to install the driver again ended up uninstalling the driver again.Reboot this time got me an installer for the audio driver on login. Only difference might have been waiting longer after boot before logging in.Audio driver reports version 6.0.1.7661 in device manager.And the audio output still crackles and pops!Frankly, hardware requiring special downgraded drivers is extremely shady in the first place, and I've already spent more time than I should fighting with this hardware (especially with the monstrous reboot time). I'll be replacing it, and trying my best to get my money back for this defective motherboard.Update 2017-06-27:I went through the RMA process with the manufacturer. The board was returned to me some time ago, but I've just now gotten the hardware together to retest.The board they returned to me exhibits the same corrupted sound (I'm now using windows 10 on this system). There is also noticeable mouse lag, as if there are pauses where the system is unresponsive. It seems like there is some deeper issue that just manifests in audio, possibly something to do with hardware interrupt reliability and hardware timer reliability. Something is still seriously wrong with this motherboard.

I've been using this board daily since mid-July, 2016 through today, Jan. 30, 2017. The summary version is while this board is solid for things that do work, I spent way too much time trying to get basic features of this board functional and will choose less integrated boards in the future.I don't have the RAM-based post problems (code 26), though I did with a previous set of DIMMs. I don't like that the RAM only clips on one side of the DIMM; on two occasions when trying different modules, I've had only one of them seated properly and had to push on the unclipped end to get it seated properly.As was was mentioned in other reviews, the POST process is slow, even with fastboot enabled. Easily >10 seconds from power-button to bios menu or windows bootloader.In windows 10 pro (non-insider updates), the audio crackles and drops; I've tried multiple different driver versions and combinations of versions for the realtek audio driver, intel ME, and network drivers. I've done some DPC latency tracing using the windows performance analyzer (xperf) and Ndis.sys is often high on the list, even at low network activity, but lacking significant experience reading etl traces, it could be anything causing this driver to misbehave. It affects both the onboard and all offboard audio sinks I've tried, including PCIe and USB adapters. I've tried fresh windows 10 installs to see if it is some additional windows component I install, but it doesn't help. I've since given up on getting audio working in a reasonable way as I don't need it.I purchased a  14-1 pin TPM module  separately for bitlocker and secure boot, both of which appear to function properly (CSM-disabled).The other core components I use with this board are an i5-6600, 2x crucial 8GB CT8G4DFS824A, samsung 850 evo ~500GB, with integrated graphics. My workload is mostly Visual Studio and test VMs (hyper-v).Edit, 2017/02/11: Ended up replacing with an asus z170-a after I tried a few different GPUs; both the K2200 and the gtx970 would both cause IRQ storming though the gtx460 worked. Besides fixing the audio and GPU problems, I got compatibility with a lot of PCIe boards that weren't working with the p10s ws, including my hardware raid controller.

Great MB. Paired with a Xeon E3-1225. Works great. Performance has been top-notch with no frill additions. Put in 64Gb of RAM.Works great with this RAM:CRUCIAL TECHNOLOGY 16GBx2 32GB Kit, DDR4 2133 MT/s DIMM 288 (CT2K16G4DFD8213)Do NOT buy RDIMM. I made the mistake of not reading that part. This MB requires UDIMM.Built in Audio is nothing to write home about. Not using for graphics so can't speak to that. I use this for a workstation running about a dozen virtual machines at one time. Never misses a beat with Xeon E3-1225, 64GB memory, and SSD's. Use SSHD for backups.

I’ve never had so many issues with a MOBO in my life. The first board didn’t allow for any graphics output, constantly citing a “D6” error code (display console not detected) with onboard VGA LED illuminating. It fails to detect IGFX and fails to detect a GPU in any PCIE slot. After RMA, it still does not detect IGFX and GPUs are only detected from the 4th PCIE slot... what a joke... The purpose of this board was to use integrated graphics for a file system until I was able to quad-core SLI.... neither of which appear to be viable.