ASUS M2N68-VM AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 7050PV HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: High quality board. I needed a micro ATX board that would let me fit 2 PCI cards and my 8800 GTS-512 with its massive heatsink, so this was one of the few options. I'm running a Phenom 9950 @ stock 2.6GHz and I can see no downside to this board only supporting HT 2.0 (2000 GT/s). The HT 3.0 data transfer speeds seem overkill for current hardware standards, but AMD likes to plan ahead.

Cons: No firewire internal or external, but still plenty of USB connections. Onboard sound annoyingly defaults to the HDMI connection, so disable the HDMI sound driver if you aren't using it. Otherwise you'll have no sound every time you restart.

Overall Review: My system: Phenom 9950 @ 2.6GHz, 4 GB PC8500, 8800 GTS-512MB, Vista 32 bit.

Pros: Decent price, good BIOS.

Cons: This board has an FSB with only 2000mt/s. Zotac has a board for the exact same price with 5200mt/s. A 2000mt/s FSB is ok if you're running a single core processor and DDR memory, but it doesn't move nearly enough data to put on the same board with a multi-core processor and DDRII memory. WAY TOO SLOW.

Overall Review: This problem is of course my fault for not truly understanding the importance of my FSB. I tried to upgrade my old system with board because it supported faster memory, a multi-core processor, and PCI-E graphics card; but it is all choked out by the tiny FSB.

Pros: Great onboard video and audio with plenty of output and connectivity options. Easy installation and setup.

Cons: Nothing comes to mind.

Overall Review: Great micro-ATX board if you're looking to build a home theater PC. I bought this board not knowing if it would truly be capable of adequately displaying 1080p material. I was delighted to find out the video output is more than capable of handling all HD movies I could throw at it without a hint of screen tearing or other artifacts. With options for digital and analog video and audio including an HDMI port, several USB ports including motherboard headers, and an external SATA port, there isn't anything more I needed to add to this HTPC build. Board setup was effortless. I turned off the Express Gate as it was unecessary with the board functioning just fine without it. I haven't even looked into the BIOS much as everything was running at the proper clock speeds and timings when the board was first turned on. The most plug and play motherboard I've bought.

Pros: Really nice video drivers, the board works great with linux. Doesn't generate a whole lot of heat, and it offers digital sound. What more could you ask?

Cons: Well, if I have to nit-pick, I don't like where they put the connections for the HD/PWR/Power Switch/etc. It's in a difficult spot when working in a very small case. The other is the fact you need to install Windows to use the "splashtop" function. See other thoughts.

Overall Review: As a linux enthusiast, I can't understand why in order to use the linux-3 second boot splashtop option you need to install Windows. It's absolutely ridiculous. Sigh, but I do like the thought and I hope they keep developing it. Other deal with the splashtop is you need to be running a SATA HD in IDE mode for you to be able to use it. You can also install it on a USB HD or flash drive too, but ASUS says that it slows it down.

Pros: Prettiest little motherboard you'll ever see! lol. It started right up, posted (oh how I love that first beep) and I went directly into the bios setup utility and turned off ExpressGate! Installed Vista with no problems!

Cons: I totally and absolutely hate where they put the IDE port. I used it for the DVD-RW drive. Other than that, the board is AWESOME!

Overall Review: I bought a 450 watt heavy power supply with a 3 year warranty. I know it's a little overkill for this motherboard, but they won't have to worry about overworking it. I've always liked ASUS products! Athlon x2 6000+ 2 x 1 gig RAM Dual Channel setup. (Kingston) HP with Lightscribe burner. Just a 320 gig WD drive. SATA Vista Home Premium 19" WS ASUS Monitor with DVI-D a little TLC.

Pros: This one has not give me one problem since I have purchased it. Very happy with. Excellent cooling

Cons: None

Pros: Not expensive, easy to set up, good performance

Cons: I use the SPDIF out to connect to a Marantz AV receiver. HD Audio Deck (NVidia) software is a little buggy, i.e., it defaults to HDMI mode when computer comes out of hibernation-it must be reset. Thats a known issue...no fix yet.

Overall Review: Great little board for the price...its in one of my secondary boxes (not for work) that I use mostly for personal finance software, internet, email, MP3 stuff. Mainly boaught for its SPDID optical out, onboard video (I don't game play), etc. Vista64, 4gb ram.

Pros: Worked no problem with XP x64 edition. Asus has always performed for me, this is the 4th board I've owned that was Asus. Has PCI-E slot for the game enthusiast, and great integrated video support for basic home media use.

Cons: none

Overall Review: running with AMD Phenon x4 9850 Black Edition 2.5 ghz, 4 gigs of G Skill 1066 ram, EVGA 9800 GTX+ 512mb.