Pros: It Boots
It VMWARE Compatible

Cons: Intel needs to UPDATE THE BIOS - .41 is Horrible
BE VERY WEARY on using industry standard plug in cards like LSI and Qlogic. It's a wish and a prayer whether the BIOS will see them or not. Any changes to card layouts or card setting result in having to pull the power plug to let bios reset. Its just horrible. I have 5 of these boards for vsphere lab... GO WITH SUPERMICRO... i regret the money i invested in INTEL

Pros: Intel Brand

Cons: Faulty NIC out of the box. This is truly concerning of Intels REPUTATION as many people are posting issues with this board. THIS BOARD has been in production for over a year and its a SERVER board. GET YOUR ACT together INTEL or I am dropping my loyalty

Pros: Was expecting to have this server completely setup by now on this board. 620W Power Supply gets nothing from it, nolights, no fans powering up, nothing!

Cons: DOA (Dead on Arrival) !! Maybe a case of getting what I paid for?

Other Thoughts: Now ordering another board and waiting on the RMA process through Newegg...

Pros: I'll come back later and change the review after it's running.

Cons: I'd like either Intel or NewEgg to make info about the RAM a bit clearer. Instead of telling you outright what it takes, I had to dig around in the technical documentation on Intel's site.

It *must* use ECC Unbuffered RAM. I also was confused and thought that ECC was optional and purchased Non-ECC Unbuffered RAM... it doesn't work.

Other Thoughts: n/a

Pros: Brand recognition?

Cons: Details suggest ECC ram support but another reviews disagrees. I am now confused but very interested in purchasing this board, assuming it truly supports buffered memory

Pros: See other thoughts

Cons: See other thoughts

Other Thoughts: This board will ONLY work with unbuffered DIMMS. I had to dig around on Intel's site to figure out why I was getting memory errors when my server wouldn't post. This will limit what memory you will be able to use. My system build will just be used as a test server, but if it was a production server; I'd look for a board that supports registered DIMMS.

Pros: Great features, good reliability.

Cons: Intel RAID drivers aren't the most up to date on Intel's website. You need 10.1 or higher of the RST drivers to support 3TB+ drives. If you look up this motherboard on their site it lists the most current version as 10.0.0.1046, yet if you look up the RST drivers independent of the motherboard the most current version is 10.8. If they would have kept their site updated it would have saved me several hours.