Pros: The motherboard worked flawlessly and as expected from the beginning which is really important when building. I received the rev 3.3 version of the board. Was able to overclock Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 from 1.8Ghz to 2.16Ghz (I did not need to go higher), temperature increased by 3C. When overclocking, hold the memory speed steady by twiddling the DRAM:CPU multiplier or buy higher speed memory.

Cons: The software utilities from Gigabyte. The only useful ones are @BIOS (could flash successfully) and SATA RAID driver. Recovery express is ok. Easytune, iCool, Norton Internet Security are not useful.

Overall Review: Creating a recovery partition (HPA) takes 1-2 hours.

Pros: Good design.

Cons: The headset I received hummed and clicked while in operation and after a few minutes heated up noticably. LG used to make good headsets, but it looks like this one is manufactured poorly.

Pros: Easy install. The many wires fold nicely. I like the passive circuitry (less chance for failure). All wires and connectors are clearly labeled. It has Azalia and AC97 connectors (Azalia is better).

Cons: The IEEE1394 connectors are individual pins. It will be nice to provide an adaptor that converts to a standard connector.

Pros: It works and is cheap. Has a port on the board that can cable to front panel. Comes with Ulead 5.0 which is a pretty decent video editor (has good mpeg compression).

Cons: None.

Pros: Good value product. It makes a great difference for the user experience. I would never go back to integrated graphics

Cons: None

Overall Review: I am not a gamer, so my requirements are not too stringent.