Since you are not sure about the 199€ price you stated, the price in Portugal seems to be around 180€ in most stores. I just ordered this MB to go with my i5 8600k and I paid 179€.

Thanks for the review. I took a chance on this board on launch day and haven't been able to install/use it yet since the 8700k I ordered the same day continues to get pushed back by Amazon (I think they're gonna make me wait quite a while since I got it at original price). Good to see you liked it. Makes me more comfortable with it.

Yeah, Coffee Lake availability still is a drama. I'm in the same boat really. But you'll love the board 4 sure!

Such a pity that the Asus Prime x370 AMD motherboard is a pile of crap!,nothing like this Intel quality board... Sent mine back and ordered the Asus Strix x370 Gaming F. Asus in their wisdom are not giving us the "Q" connector anymore, or shorting caps for the CMOS pins....really miss the q connector for easy & quick board removal 🙁

Great review and nice board! Honestly I think this board is well worth those $/€200 you're talking about Hilbert. If I am in search for decent all around Z370 board paired with some 8700K this mobo would be my no.1 choice, no doubt about that. Of course like every other freshly released mobo there are some issues here and there in first BIOS versions but it'll be polished by Asus within a few weeks, few months at most. This mobo has everything I REALLY NEED minus that RGB LED mumbo jumbo I don't, but in this price range and up we can't chose it anymore: every €130 to 150€ and higher priced mobo has some LED raibow stuff attached, at least we a have choice to dim those LEDs or completely turn them off. Just checked prices here expecting something around €250 mark but I was wrong: surprisingly it's around €200 so it's fine as I'm concerned. The only problem here is unavailability of 8700K, all those who claim they have it for sale actually they don't have them on stock but everything can be arranged by the same retailers with these words coming from their mouth: "...well, if you really want it... we could do something about it: add €100 (some of them even asked €150!) on the top of these €470 and it'll be here within few days..." GTFO I say!!! So no Intel for me this time after more than 10 years of mostly Intel builds next high end rig in our house is going to be AMD CPU based... My previous plan to build 8core Ryzen rig for my older son somewere around August or September is on hold atm because my wallet has some other priorities. Fast DDR4 3000 and faster RAMs needed for Ryzen to spread its wings are insanely pricey here so it's another one reason for me to wait a bit more than planed. Guess if I wait a bit more Ryzen "refresh" will come and 4GHz+ freqs will be easy peasy for those + with less heat and less needed voltage. Since my first i7 920 C0 some 9 years ago and broken 4GHz barier now I have mental barier to build anything that could't OC to at least 4GHz with HT enabled lol

There's no point to buy this overpriced mobo, i bought the ASrock Z370 Pro 4 and it has more features for cheaper price (150 euro). for 200 euro this asus doesnt even have 8 sata ports ! Here, check the new Extreme 4 from Asrock as well, 8 sata ports, best performance in class comparable to 500 euro mobos .