Pros: Does exactly what its supposed to. No bells, no whistles, just plug it in and it figures out what to do. Once Windows 7 was up it decided it needed some drivers and promptly get 'em. System (For Reference Purposes): Running at 4.5Ghz MSI z77a-g45 motherboard 32GB Patriot Viper 3 PVI332G186C0QK Lim. Ed. Memory i7-3770K processor Corsair CWCH100 water cooler (2) 256gb (AGT4-SAT3-256G) SSD RAID-0 Boot Array (4) 1TB Hard Drives in a RAID 5 Backup Array Nvidia Quadro FX-3500 Video Coolermaster CM Stacker Case All Drives are in Vanec MRK-200ST-BK hot swap bays On this motherboard I was out of SATA ports. I threw this card in to run my DVD-ROM and a 7th SATA Drive that I use simply for Drive Images (I'm a big fan of Redundancy).

Cons: None so far

Pros: Fast board with many options. Very fast response from tech support at MSI (although not always useful).

Cons: Had problems reading CF Cards, USB Flash Sticks, and most importantly my Canon Digital Rebel XT camera. After updating BIOS many times, resetting system, even re-installing windows; I think I have found the culprit. There are two settings in the BIOS for USB support (one to either enable or disable USB support, and one for USB 2.0 support). I went into the bios and DISABLED USB 2.0 Support. After I rebooted my camera and other USB devices worked perfectly (although slower, as windows will remind you). This would appear to me to be an incompatibility problem with the BIOS support for USB 2.0 and Windows XP (SP2). I have not tried to disable USB support and enable USB 2.0 support yet, as I was also thinking that the support for USB and USB 2.0 might be at odds with each other.