I like the fact it has top 1x slot. if I ever upgrade. I need boards that have the top 1x slot for my sound card. dont like having sound cards under gpu, due to heat. bad enough the daughter board for my card sits two slot under my 2nd gpu. have to admit though. seems azrock board post faster then gigabyte boards.

LGA 1151 pin-layout doesn't seem all that different from the LGA 1150.

I like the fact it has top 1x slot. if I ever upgrade. I need boards that have the top 1x slot for my sound card. dont like having sound cards under gpu, due to heat. bad enough the daughter board for my card sits two slot under my 2nd gpu. have to admit though. seems azrock board post faster then gigabyte boards.

And have a ton more glitches and absolutely nightmarish support. I've been dealing with ASRock's support for well over a month now and I still haven't received a replacement BIOS chip for my defective one, it was defective out of the box. That is unless you count a damaged one they sent me, after my initial few weeks of waiting, which was literally covered in dirt and had its pins bent horizontally so they couldn't just be bent forward or backward. They also refused to take any the bug reports I gave seriously and basically did nothing about them even though they are serious problems. This is my first ASRock board in what must be over a decade, and it'll be my last for this decade. I should have bought from Gigabyte or Asus.