MSI MBOX K9N6SGM-V AMD Athlon 64 X2 / Athlon 64 / Sempron AMD Socket AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 /nForce 405 chipset GeForce 6100 Barebone

Pros: This is just what I needed. I built a new PC with this, a 8600gt, 2 gigs of ram, DVD burner with light scribe and a 160 gig hard drive. Works pretty good so far. The case is light and it has great ventilation.

Cons: None.

Pros: The case has a lot of room for all your drives, not hard to fix something in it if I ever need to. Mobo in it is decent for anybody needing a budget replacement system.

Cons: No OC abilities, but no real biggy for me. Other then that I have found nothing wrong with it other then as said below, the door on USB and audioo jacks in front is a little flimsy.. not enough to take the rating down.

Other Thoughts: I replaced the PSU with an old 430 Thermaltake. Running an X2 4000+ with 2 gigs of Wintec AmpX ddr2800 and a WD 250gb hard drive on vista ultimate. Everything I throw at it goes without a hitch, used for a little gaming/video editing.

Pros: Lots of room, strong psu, nice mb, and decent airflow.

Cons: only 1 sata cable and they could have placed the sata ports better, because cards with big heatsinks MIGHT block it(i squeezed them in anyway and it worked), but its a micro ATX board and for the price this is excellent.

Other Thoughts: Would personaly recomend to friends, and family

Pros: Very cheap way to setup a new box. I was originally concerned about power (and in turn stability), but it's running 100% stable with an X2 5400+ and 8800GT.

I thought it looked ugly in the pictures, but it actually looks pretty nice in person, especially with the little strip below the power button lit in blue.

Cons: I would've preferred a newer mobo, like one with gigabit ethernet or a full x16 PCIe for the GPU, but it's running smoothly and quietly.

Pros: Great low end freenas box. put a cheap CPU and a gig of ram in it and it's sitting in the corner headless. Worked so well I bought another for a friend the following week.

Cons: none worth mentioning

Other Thoughts: System is running fine with 6 x 750GB storage drives + 1 x 80GB OS drive along with an Adaptec 3805 raid controller and an Intel Gigabit NIC.

Pros: I bought this for my dad's business over half a year ago mainly for light internet use and it has been great. There has been no issues with the mobo and the case does what it is meant to do.

Cons: I didn't spend much time on it after setting it up and checking up on it once in a while so i'd have to say: none.

Pros: Fast, simple, easy, uncomplicated.

Cons: Case is noisy and rattles until you fill up the bays.

Other Thoughts: Awesome value!

Pros: Decent -looking case. Fairly roomy inside due to mATX MB. Got mine on sale (>95 bucks).Quiet w/ the right fans. Have had and run for over a year w/ no problems so far.

Cons: Not SLI- capable MB. No included card reader. Has side panel vents (that don't quite line up with CPU). Case has kinda flimsy feel to it. Rear fan mesh needs bigger holes/ better air flow.

Other Thoughts: Built this up with a 5000 X2 chip, 2 gigs of Kingston DDR2 800, Samsung DVD writer, WD 320GB SE16, MSI 8600 GT/ OC w/ 256 MB and Vantec card reader. (Oh, and Arctic Cooling fans.) Rock solid WS, esp. w/ XP Pro SP2 on it. Bought it last year to replace an Athlon XP1800 from a few years back, should have bought two. (I'm writing this review on it right now.) It's not my game machine, but for my everyday stuff, using Word and VPN'ing into work, it's been solid as a rock.

Pros: easy to assemble, roomy and most of all it looks cool. so much can be donne with this barebone plenty of 2.5" drive space drivers for vista and xp.

Cons: front jacks/usb access door feels a litle flimsy but seems to stay in place 2 months after assembly. installing audio driver in xp platform can be a slight pain and only cpu and one more fan headder

Other Thoughts: overall a very good buy, one of the best bangs for the money and i always trusted msi for motherboards the power source in this bb has huge fan and is quiet (nearly silent)

Pros: Look at the title. It says it all. I needed to quickly build another system after my 4 yr old AMD Athlon XP 2500+ system died. Ok, well honestly the power supply died. Could have fixed for $20. But spending $250 for a new system seemed like a better idea. Just dont tell the wife. She's under the impression the old system couldn't be saved. I dont know who would have told her that.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Interesting that that system cost about half the price to build than the old one did. All i have left to buy is a video card. Until then the built-in video will do nicely, and is an improvement over the old system