Pros: You really do get a lot of goodies for the price of this MB; lots of SATA connections, 2 wired LAN, built in wireless LAN with a magnetic based antenna (keep this away from your hard disk), tons of cables, along with a decent software package. I actually would have rated this at 4.5 if there was that option and the only reason I’m not giving it a 5 is because it was so hard to get setup. As with all Asus MB's I've owned (and its a high number), this MB is rock steady. There are tons of connections for Hard Disks and fans.

Cons: This MB left the factory a little premature and working around the BIOS glitches was tiring. At first power up the MB did NOTHING; fans came on but no video, no beeps, nothing; it did the same thing with the video card, memory, and processor removed completely. This was not a bad board, the problem was attributed to the slow rotation speed of a 10CM case fan! This was only found after re-assembling of the computer on a workbench where you need no case fans. Asus tech support gave me an RMA for this problem, which tells me they don’t know either. Next problem I encountered was a POST failure for memory (this happened to a lot of people) and I was using memory certified to work with this board! The fix is to install one module, then manually set the timings and voltage for the memory you are using, then you can install the dual channel module and it will work fine. Corsair has an excellent web site, which contains the BIOS settings used to certify their memory with various MBs.

Overall Review: (continued) Next, the sound was horrible (another complaint of a lot of people). This board actually has very good sound if setup properly, just make sure you have the BIOS setting for “Front Panel Support Type” set to HD Audio, not AC97, then install the latest drivers. There is also a problem with the MBs layout; if you use the PCI-E #1 for your video card then you have a “hot spot” since its located right next to the heat fins from the MB chipset. If you use PCI-E #2 and have a large video card…let’s face it, if you are looking at this MB, you are going to have a big video board…then you can no longer use SATA ports 1 and 2. Yes, Asus does give you right angle SATA cables; they still sit too high to properly seat my video board. Hardware installed was AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+, Corsair DDR2 800 (TWIN2X2048-6400C4), EVGA e-GeForce 7950 GX2, standard 610W power supply.

Pros: Extremely stable board for single or dual chip processors. Provided drivers work excellent with 32 Bit and 64 Bit Windows OS. BIOS SATA drive support boots drives with out added drivers. Moderate overclocks are simple. Wireless works flawlessly without slowing the system at startup. VISTA ready. Checks for power problems before damage could occur at startup. Tons of features. AM2 support is excellent.

Cons: Bios does require settings changes - not difficult and well covered in the manual, but could be hard for some. Needs +36 amps at the 12 volt supply.

Overall Review: Neo HE 550 power supply, AM2 Athlon64 X2 4800, two SATA WD2500KS drives, two ASUS Silent EN7600GS 256 PCI-e GDDR2, Two GB. "Balistix" DDR PC2-6400 RAM, Windows XP 64 Bit/ XP 32 Bit/ VISTA RC-1. Runs great in 64 Bit XP. Extremely fast and cool in all uses with moderate fan cooling (three 80 mm. case fans). Only board I've ever owned that offered me zero issues with the heavy software loading I apply. Would be great for any Media System.

Pros: Nice board layout, good overclocking features and stable as of BIOS v302. Plenty of 3-pin fan headers. Decent wireless if you need. Runs rock solid w/auto 10% OC, Memtest 10 passes and 12 Hrs of Prime95 went perfectly.

Cons: Very picky about RAM. Got 2x1GB of GSkill DDR2-800 and wouldn't post at all. Works with 512MB of Corsair ValueSelect DDR2-667 @ 5-5-5-15. Check with Asus's list of known compatible RAM. 1 IDE channel only.

Overall Review: Tried the onboard audio, didn't like the options with it so I went back to my Audigy 2. I've tried Beta BIOS v501 and still couldn't get the GSkill RAM to work. Hopefully they'll expand RAM compatibility as DDR-800 becomes more widely available. Overall another great stable MB by Asus.

Pros: All revisions of this board are Phenom (AM2+) compatible regardless of date of manufacturer, but older revisions may need a BIOS update which can be flashed via USB. Minimum BIOS for Phenom support is 1503.

Cons: none

Pros: This board has many extra features that if you know what you're doing will work out real well. Overclocks really well with the right setup. Nice layout.

Cons: Having some trouble actually through an entire benchmark but I'm sure they'll be a driver fix soon. Did have the same issue with the sound but it was a simple fix.

Overall Review: For " Sweet board that doesn't work. " He was talking about how the board doesn't work wih DDR2 800, wrong. You just have to know what to buy and do your research. There have been some issues with this board but there have also been many forums letting people know about them. If you would have done the research before hand then maybe you wouldn't have run into the problems that you did. I'm running this board with an AMD X2 4000, 2 gigs of C xtreme 6400C4, Asus 7900GT 256mb vid and this thing rocks. Like I said, before you down a product because of something that you didn't do in the first place, read and do your research.

Pros: Very good mobo for the price, nice features like wifi without having to sacrifice a slot for important cards like GPU's, sound, very quite, had a 8An-SLI Deluxe and im happier with this one, both my 7900 GTX 512'2 run very good, got the mobo with a FX 62 and i easily got over 10K in 3DMARK 06 with stock settings on all components, says it supports DDR2 800, but i got it running flawlessly with 2 1 gb PC8000 (both @ 1 ghz) ram, no problems yet, have been gaming a lot, and nothing, reconmend it for any gamer that wants the best from ASUS

Cons: really, nothing, only if the slots where 1 space down because my older mobo fit perfecting in my Enermax CS-718 case and this one is 1 slot up, lacks IDE for either optical drives or HDD, so i went with SATA HDD and used the single IDE slot for my optical drives, but no biggie

Overall Review: this is what I expect from ASUS, good quality for a good price

Pros: Same as review posted previously plus: 1. Current MB also now ship with BIOS 0302 so they don't work fine without a BIOS update. 2. BIOS flashing program is part of er... BIOS. No need to make floppies anymore, flash directly from BIOS menu.

Cons: Same as review posted previously minus the GSkill RAM not working since it's NOT Asus's fault in my case. Read "Other Thoughts."

Overall Review: I dug a little further into numerous forums on the net and found out that some brands/batches of DDR2-800 type RAM was not posting with this board. Turns out that in some cases the DDR2-800 RAM left the factory before the advent of the AM2 socket. Due to that, many of the SPD's on the RAM were programmed in without propper settings for AM2 socket CPUs. My GSkill RAM fell into that category. Contacted GSkill, sent the RAM back (free shipping by the way, so I can't really be mad about GSkill either) and they fixed the ram. Everything is working as it should. So if your AM2 motherboard isn't posting with DDR2-800 RAM from Brand X, try contacting the manufacturer w/the part and serial numbers and they should do the right thing if it is because of the the SPD.

Pros: A first class High Performance Main Board. Easy. Makes a great all-around Desktop that can Game with the best. Last of the AMDs with NVidia chipsets.

Cons: A bit Pricey. Even though it's an ATX board, it's still a big board .. your HDs may interfere with Sata Connection... keep this in mind when selecting a mid size case or be prepared to modify accordingly.

Overall Review: I'm currently running this board with a 6000+ 125w, a single Evga 8600gts, Raid 0, stock cooling, standard 10% OC setting on board - This thing will game anything I can throw at it.