MSI P6NGM-L LGA 775 NVIDIA GeForce7050 / nForce610i Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: I purchased this board for me but, passed it on to my wife. It's a great board, plenty of features. It can overclock easy, I love that. It booted right up, no issues. I'm running a Pentium Core2Duo e4500 and ran my e6320 CPU with no issues at all. I LOVE THE MSI LIVE UP DATE! Currently, using e4500, 2GB DDR2 800 Gskill, Nvidia 6600LE, 160Gb Seagate.

Cons: The following is why I took an Egg from this board: Both USB headers are in the back. it made an upgrade for my wife more time consuming. I had to rearrange the card reader and front usb hub so their cables could reach all the way back. Plus, had to use a 5.25 to 3.5 to make all this happen. The other problem for me was the bottom PCI slot has a capacitor right in the back of it, toward the back of the case.Hence, unable to use it for a USB PCI card. I had to install it right below the Video. Now I'm hoping I won't have to use the third slot, of course it would depend on the shape of card used. These are simple but can really become a problems. Of all the systems I put together I don't remember encountering a problem like this.

Overall Review: This is an overall good solid board, ran it for 72 hours before I installed it in it's case. I currently, have the e4500 Overclocked @ 2.4 and it's solid. It's overclocked with the stock heatsinkfan running between 35 to 42c, the normal rage is suppose to be, according to my googling, 5-60c. Room temperature is between 78 to 82 F. The price and overclocking ability it's what makes this Board great deal and of course it's stability. Just under half a century is all it cost me, not bad at all. The only way I would not recommend this board is if you need all PCI slots, since there is a chance you might not be able to use them for what you intent to. It would all depend on the shape of the PCI card you intent installing on the last bottom slot. One note, a friend has this board with the exact setting and he has it overclocked with a Zalman CNPS 9700 @3.0 @ much lower temperatures, NOT TOO BAD. Hope this helps!

Pros: works fine.

Cons: no cons really but I'm not buying another MSI product.

Overall Review: MSI rebate department is worthless... I submitted a rebate and haven't heard from them in 3 months so I decided to check on it and they told me it was rejected (was never informed) due to the wrong slipped placed(i placed the packaging slip, newegg doesn't place a invoice with it's shipments) I said i can print out the invoice from newegg.com they said no resubmissions after so long.