Board Software

ASRock has a really simple idea of what software is installed onto your PC via the driver disk. They really do it the way I feel it should be for all boards; a couple tools, one of which offers access to more and the ability to update any and all related software that might have been provided by other means. There's no forced Google install; it's an option. Norton? You can have that too, but only if you want it. This approach minimizes software bloat for sure. The one tool that is installed by default is ASRock's Restart-to-UEFI, which proves so useful during system set-up that I really dislike boards that do not offer something similar. There is also a CFOS-based XFastLAN tool, but its small size makes grabbing screenshots of it and showing them here quite difficult. It'll manage LAN traffic for you, and you can remove it if you like.