ASUS M2R32-MVP AM2+/AM2 AMD 580X CrossFire ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Great compatibility with vista 64bit.

Cons: The below setup is recommended by ATI as per there Vista 64bit lab. You may be able to use other setups but this one is the certified configuration that ATI provided me. The person below that had the speed problems may need to follow these steps to fix the problems he is having. Before I contacted ATI for tech support my average restart time was 1hr long. After the fix restarts are under 2min max. System setup: AMD FX62 processer, ASUS M2R32-MVP motherboard, ATI x1950 Uber edition crossfire graphics cards, Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty sound card, 2x WD Raptor-X 150g hard drives, and 4 gigs DDR2 800 OCZ crossfire certified memory. Running Vista Ultimate 64bit OEM.

Overall Review: If you are going to use the SATA raid with windows vista 64bit there are some things you will need to do. 1.) The ATI raid driver wants the hard drives set to “master” :::[:] 2.) 2nd you will need to flash the bios. You can get that update from Asus direct. The update will allow for the 580x AMD crossfire speed increase. The bios will need the update for the ATI raid driver to work correctly. 3.) Install the ATI raid driver that came with the board. The vista 64bit update actually will not work as fast. *This configuration is for a raid 0 setup. With 2x WD Raptor-X drives. OR 1x WD Raptor-X setup as AHCI* ----------------- CAUTION***Please refer to your owner’s manual on updating your bios; if done incorrectly you may damage the board.***CAUTION

Pros: Highly stable, overclocking features are off the charts. Came with BIOS 0804 which supported my AMD X2 6000+ processor. It DOES support Creative X-Fi sound cards with no problems.

Cons: Northbridge heatsink is positioned too close to the video card. Board itself is not black. lol

Overall Review: Some guy posted a review stating that this board has issues with Creative sound cards. I myself have had this running for over 4 days straight full of numerous software installs, disk defragments, BIOS tweaks, restarts and Creative X-Fi software tweaks and still no problems. I don't know what happened with his build but I think maybe he should learn to disable the onboard sound through the BIOS before spewing nonsense. Most computer build problems are through human error and not hardware and/or software faults. =)

Pros: Great Mobo for serious overclockers! I have a new 65nm Brisbane core X-2 3600 processor and OCZ DDR2 6400 Platinum Revision 2 memory. Bus speed is at 255 mhz, and the board auto detects the voltages required for overclock. It does this accurately (I know, I did it manually just to make sure it was doing it right). Very, Very Stable. Used it in my friends computer too, OC'ed there as well and rock solid stable.

Cons: The case plate (the one with the holes that allow all plugs to be plugged into motherboard) was cheap, and on both builds was a pain. Other than that, typical ASUS dependability all around. Excellent product!

Overall Review: For those who say this product doesn't work with the new Brisbane core processors, that is because they use odd core multipliers, and the bios version the board shipped with doesn't support the odd multipliers (this is a return to old school stuff for AMD- 9.5, 10.5, 11.5 and so on) this is how you get the odd clocks (1.9 Ghz, 2.1 Ghz, 2.3 Ghz and so on). Once the bios are updated, Windows Vista goes right in, but until then I had the same symptoms that many of you have posted. Shame on all of you for lowering this product's rating out of your own laziness... especially those of you who put your understanding at 4 or 5.

Pros: Solid and Stable. Easy to overclock. Great Tools. This is my first Asus board and I recommended(Have only used Abit or DFI MB's before)but keep in mind that there is not better option for the 580 chip.

Cons: No heatpipes and not wifi. Is not an upscale board.

Overall Review: Waiting for the new 790 chipset MB's to come out and got down on price before I get one. This board will serve me well for the next year or so until next upgrade since I won't be paying $300 for a motherboard.

Pros: I have owned this motherboard for about 7 months have have had nearly zero problems with it. Worked perfectly with all of my hardware, installed easily, and have never had a hiccup. Overclocking was very easy with 6000+, and you really can't argue with the price.

Cons: NB heatsink is a tad close to the first PCIE slot, and when I borrowed my friends 2 3870s and ran them in crossfire, it did heat up and cause system restarts. Onboard audio does give a slight hum due to EMI, but most onboards I have had have the same issue. Also ASUS update for the BIOS sucks, corrupted my XP install, so had to reinstall windows.

Overall Review: If you can't OC your 6000/6400+ past 3.4ish, it is not due to the mobo, the CPUs have a clock speed ceiling and it is very difficult to exceed 3.4. ASUS M2R32-MVP, AMD Athlon X2 6000+, Sapphire HD 2600XT, 2 GB Patriot Extreme DDR2 800 RAM, 120 GB Seagate Barracuda, 320 GB WD Caviar, 600 Watt Rosewill PSU

Pros: Crossfire 580x, lots of expansion, ASUS, Easy to install and very reliable.

Cons: Won't let me overclock my Athlon X2 6400+ past 14%. It won't even let me use my unlocked multiplier, which was the reason i bought the black edition processor. PCI 1.1 (but i knew that). Shaky vista drivers

Overall Review: It's a good buy if you want to save money, but i would buy an AM2+ MOB for better expandability. If you only want to use PCI 1.1 and don't want the full power of a Phenom (and let's face it, why would you) then its a great board. Has KNOWN compatibility issues with black edition athlon overclocking.

Pros: This is a good motherboard with good overclocking features and also has the ability to save certain overclocking profiles.

Cons: This MB only gets 4 stars with me becuase certain areas by the heat sink gets too close to the video card and not to mention that its has one less ATAPI port

Overall Review: Asus again continues to make quality products despite their awful customer service.

Pros: Good board layout, ati crossfire, external sata. Sound is also pretty good for onboard, one of the better ones.

Cons: Bios Bios Bios!!! Running a 5000 black x2 (unlocked), can't adjust cpu voltage with out it crashing, will not let my 1066 ram run at those speeds 800 is it. #1 pci slot does not work, * Does not seem to run well at all with Soundblaster products once so ever.

Overall Review: Bios has good features. To bad its to buggy for them to work correctly. I know your thinking Bios update? Well lets just say the updated bios's out are even worse then the stock bios. Mine came with ver. 904 To bad the bios really killed this 1, has potential other wise. Could of been a 4 or 5 star. Sad