After our list of pros and cons above, I am left with very little to say about the ASRock Fatal1ty H370 Performance motherboard. However, for the past several months I've been lost in DRAM land, playing with my i5-8400 and a Z370 motherboard, exploring everything there is on offer when it comes to enthusiast memory, and the results have already been on these pages or are soon to appear here. Somehow, after all those benchmarks, even with memory clocked to 4000 MHz and the CPU clocked up a bit as well using a BCLK overclock, this ASROCK Fatal1ty H370 Performance motherboard really does seem to live up to its name by offering me more general performance than that Z370 motherboard that shall for now remain nameless. The biggest stand-out test is UL's Time Spy benchmark, where I'm getting scores in the 71xx range, while with the memory-testing motherboard, I was getting 67xx. I have also noticed that this board seems to boot up faster, and while we're talking about two seconds instead of three, that is still somehow FASTER; even in Cinebench does this board do better, and the only thing that has changed is the motherboard. That memory-testing board... I tossed it back into its box and will get it out of my house ASAP. The ASRock H370 Performance takes its place easily.

For the month I spent using this board, it's clear that the ASRock Fatal1ty H370 Performance lives up to its name, and does offer a great level of performance for non-overclocking parts, along with an intelligent slot layout that works within the confines of what Intel's H370 chipset has to offer. I could have tossed up a bunch of benchmarks to show it; I mean, you can, after all, just go through my results on UL's website to see what I scored easily enough for yourself, and other reviewers are sure to post benchmarks anyway, so why would I repeat what they have done already? Yet what I haven't seen them do is to put this board into the hands of the truly intended audience, which I did manage to do by giving this board to my kids. Most of the things that benchmarks show just don't appeal to those users, and what they are looking for is a quality product that isn't hard on the wallet, yet has enough features to meet their needs. The actual performance you get from this board is going to depend on what CPU you have installed, but I would personally recommend Intel's i5-8400 like I put to use here, and if you need the grunt of a GTX1080, you can match one with this board for sure, but a GTX 1060 or the AMD equivalent will do just fine as well. This board isn't meant to be a top-level performer, but really does hold its own against all those Z370 boards if you are using a single VGA and non-K Intel CPU.

There are a few weird things, like the Wi-Fi M.2 slot that is perhaps a bit too far from the rear I/O panel and the LEDs that really aren't that bright, but do glow nicely, and the Polychrome Sync detection could use an update for sure as my supposedly compatible DIMMs were not detected; however, a BIOS update should help with that, and if it doesn't, with such a low price, those things are really me nitpicking and looking for things that aren't quite just right. I hope ASRock gets to work on fixing them right away, for sure, but my kids don't care about that stuff...

Now, I'm left having to sort out which of my kids gets to have this board because let me tell you, they all want it. With that said, congratulations ASRock on a job well done.