ABIT NF-M2S AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Runs Fedora 8 with everything supported. Has PCI-e and PCI slots. It's about as good as can be expected for this size and price. Quiet, fast enough, no surprises. CMOS setup has plenty of options to control system components.

Cons: Documentation is lacking, so some of the setup options are mysterious (HT spread spectrum, some kind of security chip that's disabled by default, etc).

Overall Review: I installed 2G patriot stick (N82E16820220088), Athlon 64 X2 3600+ with stock fan (N82E16819103046), Barracuda 7200.10 (N82E16822148140), two PCI gigabit ethernet cards (N82E16833156139), SATA DVD drive (N82E16827135143), and stuffed it all into an Enlight case (N82E16811116024). I'm happy with it so far. Running Fedora 8, using network cards bridge for sniffing and monitoring my network.

Pros: Very Nice Board nice and simple. Very nice Internet Board for movies and surfing the net or work. NFORCE is very nice, Bios Posted immedietly marginable overclock ability. Make sure you get this board with specific use in mind. Not a gamer's board but

Cons: No cons for the purposes and use of this board.

Overall Review: 3800+ 64x2 duo (2.0 ghz) oc'd at 2.6ghz this thing flies with 800mhz ddr2 1xGB ram (2x512mb). If running vista ultimate oc around 2.4.

Pros: All in one business class board which includes video and sound. The graphics are excellent for a business class board and my secretary even noticed that the sound: sounded better than the previous on board sound. Everything was plug and play with Vista and MS Office 2007. I coupled this with an AMD 5000 dual core 65 watt processor and 2 times 1 gig of Kingston KVR800D2K2/2GR memory. This is a BUSINESS CLASS BOARD, and it works perfectly for that reason.

Cons: Wish it had 4 sata ports instead of 2.

Overall Review: If you are setting up a business class computer - THIS IS THE BOARD TO BUY.

Pros: It was cheap.

Cons: Absolute nightmare to install. The audio drivers included, did not work. Requires XP SP1 to even function. The BIOS needed an update, which was not available on Abit's site, nor were the drivers for the onboard devices. Audio drivers included with board actually caused my Windows installation to stop working properly. Required me to boot into safe mode, just to remove them. I've purchased Abit motherboards for my last 3 computers, and have loved them. They dropped the ball with this one.

Overall Review: Now that I actually got everything up and running, i'm sure it will work great, as all my Abit motherboards have.

Pros: All drivers installed fine, no problems so far.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: The onboard video is a lot better than I had thought it would be. I'm running 1 GB of DDR2 800, AMD X2 3800+ and I'm getting 30 FPS constantly running CS:S at 1024 x 768 on medium settings. Awesome.

Pros: Posted on the first try out of the box. Good lay out. Easy to put together. Paired nicely with a AMD X2 4000+ (Brisbane Core) processor and 2 x 512MB WINTEC AMPO PC2-6400 memory. Drivers installed from disk perfectly fine, no need to hunt down other drivers or a BIOS update.

Cons: Nothing comes to mind.

Overall Review: On board graphics offers enough performance for a budget build for my father in law. Excellent combination and zips around Windows XP beautify.

Pros: Fot the price motherboard deos the job. I bought it to run small home server on X2. 2 GB DDR 800mhz + 2 sata drive in stripping.

Cons: Only: 2 Sata ports 2 memory slots 1 Network adapter But hey, what do you want for that price.

Overall Review: If you plan to run RAID on that board, make sure you have FDD around. Also be ready to look for the RAID drivers on the manufactuer's website.

Pros: Built this out for my dad -- worked flawlessly from initial startup. The manual was good (the diagrams were all correct which is something I can't say for some boards I've used before), the video is excellent for onboard, and it has all the bells and whistles you'd expect at a higher pricetag.

Cons: Nothing comes to mind yet.

Overall Review: I was pleased to use sata connections for the HDD and dvd drive but ran into the need to slave an old ide drive that I initially didn't plan on. Jumpered the drive, plugged in the ide port and it worked perfect the first time. Honestly, I had no issues during any part of the build of this pc. This board is nice.