Pros: i have Had this board for over 3 years and have had very little issues with actual performance and overclocking of the hardware attached. UEFI utility easy to navigate and change settings, bios quick update via usb flash was nice and worked properly when UEFI needed updating. TPM header is nice to have on the board, not necessary but nice. Even tho this board was probably not meant to run with the big dogs, it was able to help me overclock my 8350fx to 4.8ghz and keep it stable.

Cons: ASUS AI Utility, For Pete sake ASUS, this little guy is buggy as hell. VERY Buggy, For instance, the temperature readings, MB TEMP -128 degrees C. WHAT? randomly would show up or the voltage would read improperly for a few seconds such as 12v rail would be a 5.1v for a split second, but the computer would be fine and other software used to read voltages would not show these dips in voltage. not to mention not allow the computer to function if there was an issue with the PSU, which there wasn't, because the same issues happened when a brand new 1200watt PSU replaced the 750watt psu it previously had. so this is primarily and issues with the software communicating with the hardware. Or even worse the hardware is not properly outfitted to relay the proper readings to the software which means me, the consumer is left guessing what is causing the issues.

Overall Review: OBSIDIAN 750D Full-ATX HXi 1200 watt PSU ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 4x 4gb crucial tactical tracer EVGA 1080 GTX SC AMD 8350 FX O.C. 4.8ghz Corsair Hydro Series H110I GTX 280mm water cooler Crucial MX200 500GB SSD Seagate Baracuda 2TB

Pros: ummm it tried?

Cons: Ok so...I did not install the Asus utility at first because i never had much luck using vender software with windows.(Just more Programs running than should be) At first streaming was ok. then i notices online game play was cutting out and i was getting pings around 500+ms. so i dinked around with settings and then it started running ok. 1 week later absolutely horrible internet. so i re-installed, this time with the asus add-on utility. Come to find out that ANT-2 is not working at all not signal whatsoever. ANT-1 was at a stable 80%. My old wi-fi cranked out 1.1mb/s downloads all day. this card barely stayed stable. So i assume its DOA. sending it back because i just ran 60ft of hardline to get things done. Sorry ASUS try harder next time.

Overall Review: From a company that makes great Motherboard one of which i had a built in Wi-fi card. i was expecting better.

Pros: Good mid/high teir card. Small and efficient cooling.

Cons: DLSS is not worth having on for many games at all. Ray tracing is really still a party trick at the moment, I would actually argue that SLI has more support still compared to DLSS or RT in general. Same goes for AMD cards. The card is an LHR card with no noticeable sign of it being that. Having a locked down card is Bull when I have no recourse to tell which card is which. I don't care if you mine, game or develop but I paid for said card, and should be able to use it as I see fit, not have Nvidia or EVGA decide what is better for it's end user.

Overall Review: Buy the card for retail only, buying from scalpers makes you part of a larger issue. I don't enjoy EVGA locking its cards down for mining just as much as I don't like AMD locking down the memory on Radeon products. Also The LHR aspect of the card is only effected by Eth. The other dozen or so profitable coins for GPU's are not effected by LHR cards and at the time of writing this review 70% of the "locked" hashrate is available for ETH on LHR cards.

Pros: I have owned this Mobo for over 5 years, and let me tell you it has stood up to the test of time. im just leaving my final take on the board because its time to upgrade and i would like to leave my thoughts. One processor burnt out it was a 6000+ just bought a replacement ran two cards on the board, a xfx7600gt and currently a 9800 evga. 4gb of crucial blastix mem 800, runs win7 well but i need more speed so im upgrading to the AM99x pro. OC the bejezuz out of everything stood up to the test of time and still looks sharp.

Cons: Little Windows 7 Support, there are plenty of work arounds to get it to work with a 64bit OS of windows7 so in all reality i would say the on board wifi is ok i would buy something faster. and really the placement of the memory could of been better.

Overall Review: If your building a rig on the cheep pick this up, you wont be sorry.