ECS Elitegroup Z97-PK

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Pros:

Stock performance, Overclocking potential, Board layout and design, Price, Motherboard manual details and quality, UEFI BIOS design and usability, Quality of included power circuitry, CMOS battery placement

Cons:

Lack of integrated SATAExpress or M.2 ports, Inability to push board to higher than 100MHz base clock

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Last revision on September 21, 2016

Reviewers Liked

Stock performance, Overclocking potential, Board layout and design, Price, Motherboard manual details and quality, UEFI BIOS design and usability, Quality of included power circuitry, CMOS battery placement

Reviewers Didn't Like

Lack of integrated SATAExpress or M.2 ports, Inability to push board to higher than 100MHz base clock

Expert reviews and ratings

With their Z97 product release, ECS seemed to have upped their game with a renewed focus on affordable high-performance motherboards. The Z97-PK motherboard is a shining example of this trend. While it doesn't include a lot of the bells and whistles that...

By PCPer on April 24, 2015

In the end, the Z97-PK isn't a pretty motherboard. While it follows most of my liking from the ECS standard of monochrome colors, the PCB is still brown. I never have liked a brown PCB. However, it's not all about how it physically looks, but sometimes...

By Overclockers Club on December 30, 2014

The ECS Z97-PK Deluxe did exactly what was expected of it, it ran the Intel Anniversary Pentium G3258 flawlessly. Most of the performance in today's systems will be determined by the processor, and the G3258 is a pretty low end processor, with huge...

By Legit Reviews on October 29, 2014

ECS Z97-PK retails at only $79.99 USD which is a very good price for an MATX board that comes with overclocking features. It comes with ECS' EZ Charger for fast USB charging of devices (like your phone). If you're on a budget then this board looks...

By GoldFries on October 21, 2014