Pros: Everything. DDR2, AM2 chipset, nforce 590, yeah, its got all the bells and whistles. I can control every little setting in the CMOS for total, total control of the overclocking, or just tell the MB to intelligently and safely overclock on its own, with ASUS N.O.S. Technology! Amazing! A n00b could use it, a 733t could p0wn with it!

Cons: Be sure to read the manual, thats why they send it. This is a new board, with new things that it can do, DONT just install it with the same routine you use on other MBs.

Overall Review: Ion35, you made a mistake. If the LCD says CPU INIT, then the motherboard IS NOT DOA. You have to push the LCD button BEFORE it will post. This actually lets the motherboard have power, its used for maintenencing the MB. IF THERE WERE A PROBLEM, the LCD would not say "CPU INIT", it would tell the error in english (no codes!), THATS THE WHOLE POINT OF THE LCD. Too bad for you, when newegg tests the motherboard out as being good, it will be returned to you at your expense. This is what happens WHEN YOU DONT READ THE MANUAL!

Pros: Bios is stable, perfect SLI placement (has a PCI slot in between the PCI-E slots for a PCI fan, even when SLIing 2 dual-slot graphics cards), descent sound card. Perfect for enthusiasts. Nice onboard LEDs for working in the dark. Useful (and customizable) LCD poster on the back, plenty of USB headers, etc...

Cons: The SATA ports are in the direct path of longer graphics cards. But they do give you SATA connectors for right-angle connections, so they apparently had that in mind. Other than that, it only has one IDE connector. So expect all of your HDDs to be SATA, unless you have less than 2 CD/DVD drives.

Overall Review: To the guy about the audio header complaint: the audio header is on the sound card. If you don't use the Asus sound card, you should have another header on the card you are using. To the guy about onboard WiFi: The WiFi port is simply another USB header. It was apparently intended to be used for WiFi, but not advertised as so. To the guy about the FDD connector: It's at the very bottom of the board, in between the Firewire header and the USB headers.

Pros: Just an update to my first post; I love this board. I've owned this board for about a month and am really starting to delve into the majic. It's very stable and I have had no problems that were caused by the board. I recommend this MB for any AM2 enthusiast person looking for max O'Clocking. If you just want to install your AM2 CPU and leave it at that, then I recommend the ASUS M2N32. My friend has one and loves it as well.

Cons: Still none. Well, maybe the price.

Overall Review: This board is very easy to help with over-clocking of the CPU (mine is cooled with the zalman 9500 and runs steady at 3.0 Mhz), as well as my 7950 GX2. I am waiting for ASUS/NVIDIA to come up with stable drivers and then will go QUAD. The guy (Tilly?) who said that it won't even work with one 7950 is wrong. It works fine and I have had no problems. I have not tried two 7950s...although, if I had another one I would have.

Pros: I'd read so many bad reviews on this board I almost didn't buy it. It went into a new build in an Ultra Tower, Ultra 600w xFinity, x2 4800, 7900 GTO, 4Gig Corsair C4, Mini-Typhoon. Very first try, booted right up, created a smokin RAID 0 on some 10K RPM drives and has been going strong without a hiccup. Temps are in the mid 30's for mobo & low 40's for cpu. Gets my 5 eggs - no question.

Cons: If anything the BIOS is overkill, unless you are a dyed in the wool, major league oc'r.

Overall Review: Would reccomend this board to anyone with the skill to assemble a pc, that's all it took.

Pros: This thing is absolutely gorgeous & can take basically whatever you want to throw at it. Mine POSTed right up with my AMD FX-62, not a single problem although I'll probably update the BIOS anyway. Built-in heatsink is great, enough to really be useful but not so much that it gets in the way of anything. The lights are really helpful when setting up & the board won't let you power-on unless you turn the light switch off so you don't have to worry about frying anything. More features than you'll need but all are still useful. Just an absolutely incredible motherboard in every aspect.

Cons: Took me awhile to figure out why I couldn't power-on my system (explained above) because it's not in the manual but is extremely to find on the ASUS website. Not a real "Con" at all, just the worst thing that happened to me.

Overall Review: Please stop giving the board bad reviews because you don't know what your doing or you got a dead board, it's not fair & confuses potential buyers. Dead components happen, it's not cool but it happens, NewEgg will help you through it if you happen to get a bad board & ASUS has a great RMA policy. This board now ships with BIOS ver. 0116 which is compatible with the FX-62 & 5200+. I will never buy a non-ASUS motherboard ever again, 10 eggs!

Pros: Works with latest CPU from AMD (FX-62) and dual 7950GTs in SLI. The LED's on the board (NICE!) can be turned on permanently in the BIOS to give the mobo an awesome look in a windowed case. Lots of SATA ports. On/off/reset/clear CMOS buttons on the board. 3 PCI slots and 2 PCI-E X16 slots. Spoke to an ASUS tech BEFORE purchasing and he really helped, and took the time to answer questions. Tons of BIOS options to tweek everything possible.

Cons: The heatpipes do not touch/cool all of the power blocks near the CPU-only some.

Overall Review: I was skeptical about getting this mobo due to complaints of getting bad boards and having to RMA it. I bought one and it worked flawlessly right out of the box-no issues. The first time it boots up it asks you to setup the time/date. It is not an error. The price is very reasonable-this board is a lot cheaper here on NEWEGG than at the local tech store. I would recommend getting only SATA hard drives and SATA optical drives so you can install this mobo with no ribbon cables whatsoever(the mobo supports upgrading the BIOS through a USB device-NO FLOPPY NEEDED!). Allows for a super clean looking install. I have this mobo with an AMD FX-62, 2Gs of CORSAIR XMS2 DDR2 800 memory, dual BFG 7950GTs in SLI, dual WD SATA HDs, and a SATA DVD writer from Plxus-all installed first try. Beautiful board!

Pros: Lights up , comes with a decent sound card for gaming, works fine with my amd am2 3500. Best socket am2 board out there as of 8/11/06 =), had no trouble with motherboard detecting my ram as well.

Cons: None, im not going to complain about the price because I wanted the best am2 board there is.

Overall Review: If your looking for the Best Sli socket am2 board avaible look no further! There is also a pci slot above the first pci-express bus so you can put a sound card there when you have an SLi setup going on.Lcd was cool as well but the board had no trouble starting up the first time so I didnt really need to use it.

Pros: This is a great AMD motherboard, albeit a little higher priced than some. Seems very well assembled and is feature rich for the enthusiast. Lights up very nicely and has many overclocking features. Layout of the board accommodates enthusiast parts like a Zalman CNPS9700 CPU cooler and two GeForce 8800 GTX cards. Although this board debuted in the fall of 2006, it still remains a premium AMD board.

Cons: The rear panel is slightly flimsy, not unlike the rear panel on my P4P 800 SE. No other cons to speak of. However, I must add that ASUS technical support is not very helpful. After multiple telephone calls regarding processor compatibility (see below), I received inconsistent answers and a genuine lack of knowledge regarding product features. Although my experience with ASUS products both past and present has been great, I recommend thorough research and making sure you know what you are doing prior to purchase.

Overall Review: I performed a lot of online research on the pros and cons of this board before purchase. My primary concern was compatibility between the native bios on the board and the relatively new AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ processor that I also purchased. In order for the board to recognize the 6400+, bios version 0702 must be installed on the board. Version 0702 was released on July 10, 2007. If you look at the first four digits of the serial number of the motherboard, you can tell when it was produced and thus have an idea of which bios version it ships with. My board began with "0708", meaning it was produced in August of 2007, and it DID have the 0702 bios on it. This is key, because if you're building a system and the bios is older than 0702 (and you're using a newer chip like the 6400+), your only choice is to send it to ASUS for a bios chip upgrade or install a lower end processor to boot the board and then flash the bios.