DFI LANPARTY UT NF590 SLI-M2R/G AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Sata ports everywhere, on-board POST identifier, Pheonix BIOS (Tons of options for those who like to customize/overclock/etc), SLI compatible, 6 USB ports, 2 ethernet ports.

Cons: Not a con for me but it does only have 1 IDE. However, one should consider the fact that both hard and optical ATA drives are going to be no more. This board is good if you have sata hard drives and ata optical drives.

Overall Review: I refuse to use any other company's board other than DFI. You can't beat them.

Pros: Quality construction, nice layout, memory available made just for this board.

Both PCIe slots are a full 16x.
Chipset fan is now a nice size all copper heatsink with high speed fan. Basically a clone of the evercool gpu cooler that DFI owners would use instead of the cheap old DFI cooler.

Quality components all around.

Cons: No support from DFI for this board.
Official bios is bugged and beta bios is bugged.
Both are incomplete and missing features.
2 bugged lame bios versions for this board, that's it and no word on a new proper bios.
Official bios is from last July, as are the chipset drivers.
No driver updates since release.

OCZ made memory just for this board, but the bios doesn't know what to do with it.
New support forum is useless and the onboard audio has major EAX problems.
Use a sound card.
Overclocking is poor due to bios flaws.
Random reboots, system shutdowns and stability is horrid at times.

Temp and voltage values not reported accurately.

Wait until a full working bios is out before wasting money on a great board with poor support that makes this a poor choice right now.

Overall Review: Modded Lian-Li PC-75 with window
OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 Platinum DFI Special Dual Channel 2GB Dual Channel Kit
P/N OCZ2P800LP2GK Dual Channel in Orange slots
LanParty UT NF590 SLI-M2R/G AM2 590 SLI MCP
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Windsor 2x1MB L2Cache AM2 Processor
Modded Big Typhoon heatsink
ASUS ATA-66 Double Layer 16X DVD Burner
ASUS ATA-100 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Black case edition
BFG GeForce 8800GTX, BFGR88768GTXOCE
2x Western Digital Raptors 74GB 10,000 RPM Sata 1&2
16MB Cache SATA 150 in Raid 0
2x HITACHI Deskstars 160GB 7200 RPM
8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s in Raid 0 Sata 3&4
Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro Series
WinXP Pro SP2