GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Price, cool, NO Parallel/Serial ports on the rear panel! Instead it has 8 USB ports. In addition, the rear port panel has optical/coaxial S/PDIF so I can connect it to my Sony reciever via optical when I play my Blu-Ray Disc, Dual Gigabit ethernet ports, Built-in Dolby Home Theater with 6 HD audio ports, 2 x 1394a firewire ports, PS/2 ports for Mouse/Keyboard (I like to use these during the initial install then move to USB wireless...less headaches). In addition, the motherboard has:
8 SATA 3.0 Gb/s and RAID...6 by the Southbridge (RAID 0, 1, 1+0 & 5) and 2 by GIGABYTE SATA2 chipset (RAID0, 1, JBOD). It also comes with a bracket with two eSATA ports and a MOLEX power port so you can immediately support up to 2 eSATA devices.
1 PATA supporting 2 x ATA100 devices.
4 slots supporting up to DDR2 1366+ and 16GB dual channel.
PCI-E 2.0 x16, PCI-E 2.0 x8, Three PCI-E x1, and Two PCI Slots.
4 x onboard USB 2.0 ports, 1 x onboard 1394a

Cons: Some of the GIGABYTE Apps will not install on Vista such as Time Repair.

Overall Review: This is probably the best motherboard I've worked with to date. I'm really starting to like GIGABYTE boards (this is 3rd one in less than 10 months).

Wolfdale E8500 3.16GHz, Kingston HyperX DDR2 1066, EVGA GeForce 9800 GT, WD 500GB SATA 3.0Gb/s & LG Blu-Ray DVD-ROM (w/ Lightscribe and DVD±R DL support) enclosed in Antec Sonata III 500. This rig is very quiet and still runs cool.

Pros: Solid capacitors. Plenty of SATA ports and excellent layout. Easy to install.

Cons: Had some difficulty installing service pack 1 for Vista Ultimate. It was reporting an internal error. It finally installed after a few tries. The system randomly BSOD. It wasn't till I turned off the Gigabyte SATA (JMicron) and everything to started to work without a crash. I believe another poster posted a similar problem with the JMicron SATA chip. Just remember to turn it off if you're not planning to use it.

Overall Review: Get rid of that JMicron.