ABIT AN-M2HD AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 7050PV HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Great feature set Overclockability

Cons: Bad default settings

Overall Review: I was having major stability problems with this board until I did some research and noticed that there is an issue with the default (Auto) settings for DRAM timing and Voltages. Look up the specs for your RAM and be sure to set the DRAM voltage in the Softmenu to its spec, and adjust the DRAM timings manually as well. This has so far solved all stability issues for me.

Pros: Built in HDMI plenty of headers for usb and firewire.

Cons: Nvidia Drivers for HDMI

Overall Review: I had issues with the HDMI audio stuttering and after going through a lot of drivers, I found that the forceware driver 163.75 finally addressed the issue with it. I'm also having some issues with the board running my Sata HD's in AHCI mode. My drives run faster in IDE mode and excruciatingly slow in AHCI not too sure what the issue is but I will update my review when I find out. Over all its a decent board, aside from the two issues above. My build was in a NSK2480 amd Brisbane 4000+ Scythe Ninja mini. 2 gb corsair xms2 memory.

Pros: So far everything has been steady. I can't be any happier. Good thing about living in southern cali is I get shipping on the next day. All thanks you EGG!!!

Cons: Digital output is too close to the HDMI output. I had to modify my cable for it to fit.

Overall Review: This board will work with any PCI-E 2.0 video card, like 8800GT. Currently running with ATI HD 3850 PCI-E 2.0 and Crysis is very decent. But besure to update the bios using include flash program on the CD because bit does not have their current bios on it's website.

Pros: It has just about everything you could want in a budget mATX MB. Tons of connectors and nice jack pack. Vista looked beautiful with the onboard video and rated 3+ on the Vista system performance tests (video).

Cons: Maybe a bad lot, but I purchased 2 boards at the same time. The first one was DOA... there was a problem with the PCI slots. The second one only lasted about a week with light use and then it totally died.

Overall Review: I DID try that board in another PC with no luck, and putting a new board in fixed the issue, so not sure if it was bad luck or what. AMD X2 4000+, 2GB Wintec DDR2, Vista Premium

Pros: This board has just about everything. The onboard graphics are above what I expected -- I allocated 256M to video and maxed out all of the settings in WoW, and I can't believe the experience! The G.SKILL RAM I purchased works just fine.

Cons: The SATA connectors are a little fragile. The plug for SATA1 came off the board, I'll need to figure out how to rectify that.

Overall Review: I purchased an add-on CPU cooler, which has a 3-prong bracket-clip on the bottom. The onboard CPU socket has only 1 prong, which matches the retail AMD fan. For safety and warranty purposes I stuck with the retail fan, which still keeps it at 41 Celsius.

Pros: Just a great board for a MythTV setup. Two Hauppauge PVR-500s fill out the two PCI slots and you still have the two PCI-E (x1 and x16) slots free for expansions. The best thing this card has going for it from a MythTV standpoint is the onboard NVidia graphics. I bought a similar board from ASUS (ASUS M2A-VM HDMI 690G) and that board's onboard ATI graphics made the system very unstable-- constant crashes.

Cons: The last PCI slot was pretty far down on the board and made it tight to fit my 2nd tuner card into my Antec case (NSK2480). Yeah, that's the biggest complaint I can think of so far...

Overall Review: This may be a slightly skewed review: After all the headaches that ASUS board gave me it was such a great relief to be able to hook this board up and have Mythbuntu 7.10 up and running in less than an hour. As stated in an earlier review I had to start the livecd install in safe graphics mode and then install NVidia's drivers but this is now a trivial process under Mythbuntu.

Pros: Worked almost flawlessly out of the box. With the set up below its a great budget machine and even plays WoW at 20-50fps depending upon area. Price it out..its ridiculous what you get for the low $$$

Cons: Do not install the Windows HD Hotfix. If you do and have no sound, uninstall and then install the latest Realtek HD drivers to get your sound to work.

Overall Review: System spec: 2GB G.Skill, 150GB WD Raptor, Xion 600W SuperNova, Antect 900...waiting on a 8800GT to finish this machine

Pros: Has a lot to offer for such a small price, from many extra ports, to HDMI output, are nice, so if you do not have a card, this has a reasonalby good product for normal computer use.

Cons: The PCI- Ex 16x and the Pci Ex 1x are too close to each other. If you have a bulky card, for a PCI Express card, you will overlap the PCI Ex 1x with the fan.

Overall Review: Would be great, if the PCI Express 16 and the X1 were further apart.