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I've owned an ASRock motherboard for about 4 years now and it still works great. I would highly recommend ASRock's motherboard. Either those, or Asus's motherboards.
This board has all the features important to me personally...plenty of M.2, dual Ether (so no slot or space consuming cards necessary), DTS connect so I can use optical to my receiver without having to hack the driver. Almost wish my current system didn't have a couple more years left in it.
And that graphic on the board has absolutely nothing to do with anything. Like, what's at the center of the big gear? At least they made a gear around the clock battery, though it's not like there's any point to it.