ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Very stable, on my Biostar 770/600 MoBo I could not over clock my hd3870, but on this board I can really push it up with no problems. Also my Phenom 9850 BE topped out at 2.94Ghz @ 1.45v, and no amount over that helped it go faster. On this board I am running at 3.1Ghz @1.4v. AMD list the Max for the Phenom at 1.3v. I did get it running at 3.3Ghz, but needed 1.47v, and it was running at 61C under load AMD lists Max at 65C. Bottom line more overclocking with less Volts. Runs Linux.

Cons: There is not enough space between all 4 PCI-E 16 slots to use 4 double wide video card. Yeah, big deal. after a fresh install of Windows XP, and all the drivers on the included CD, I still have 3 unknown devices in the Device Manager. It did not recognize my 1066 Ram as 1066, nor did it put them in dual channel mode (Ganged). None of these are big cons, but I wanted to mention them.

Overall Review: The drivers do all work, but you have to have SP 2 installed first in XP. Every thing I can test does work, so I don't know how big of a deal the 3 unknown devices are. I am chalking this oddity up to it being a first release product with just released chip sets. Finale settings: Bus speed 214, Multiplier 14.5, CPU 3.1 @ 1.4v, RAM 1140 @ 2.1v, HD3870 840Mhz GPU/2.6Ghz Ram, 2x80gig disk raid 0. All runs great. PS this system is also running Slackware 12.1 Linux!

Pros: 790FX + SB750...not much else to say here. The new southbridge is exactly what the 790FX needed in the first place. I've been able to achieve a 3.2ghz (stable) overclock on my Phenom 9950 by simply upping the multiplier to 16x and raising the voltage to 1.45v. This of course requires ACC to be enabled on all cores at +2%.

Cons: Absolutely refuses to brown my toast in the morning. Have called ASUS tech support concerning the issue.

Overall Review: Suffers from the "clock interrupt not received" at higher frequencies and / or higher FSB. I guess the ACC clock skew only works to a certain point. It's also interesting to note that my (perhaps all, haven't checked) board adds +10mhz to any frequency. So...I'm actually getting 3.21ghz.

Pros: Awesome board no problems installing and I've never had a DOA problem to date. Posted first try nothing i can really say other then this is a great board.

Cons: Not even a con but my own error I read the Manual it told me where to go to O.C. this board seeing that its a diff layout from my last (note to self LOOK AT READ THE DESCRIPTION IT GIVES YOU FOR ALL THE SETTINGS IN BIOS) it took me an hour to find out where it was to O.C. the board when I was staring at it the whole time -.- <--- Idiot

Overall Review: For all those people who have been giving items a bad review I'd say half of them DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING and the other half actually have defective items but hey not everything is perfect. Took me 20min to install MoBo, CPU, Video Card, power cords, and other misc random things and hey guess what? Posted first try no problems. Been Building Rigs since I was 10? little under half my life now ahhhhh good ol 200mhz top of the line CPU days Current RIG: This Board AMD Phenom II 940 Black Edition 2x 2gig G.Skill @1066 MSI R4870 Radeon HD 4870 1GB (will be 2 soon :D) Corsair 1000Watt

Pros: Started the very first time, no issues, lots of features in bios, NB and SB runs cool even at 1.3v (stock 1.2v) 3Gb/s SATA support. AM2+ and AM2 CPU support, (running AM2 right now). If you are using 2 Memory sticks in duel channel, the slots are away from each other, you would think it is an obvious feature but not all boards come that way.

Cons: No fan for passively cooled CPU’s, had to get 2-20mm fans, one on the heat pipe fins and one on the south bridge. Will not run my X2 6400+ BE over 3.360GHz while my old ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe could post @ 3.5GHz and was 3.42 stable. Could be a burring-in issue. Bios is a bit random and takes some time getting used to navigating, it has too many sub menus. Its functional but could be organized better. Takes a while to detect RAID array, my old board took 2 seconds while this one takes 10. Only has 4 fan connectors old mobo had 6. These are not major issues I’m just nitpicking. So only 4 eggs out of 5

Overall Review: To those that wrote you can’t use RAID and normal HD, are WRONG, you must first create your array, then install the OS, then connect additional HD’s. Everything works flawlessly.

Pros: Great Googly Moogly it's got more features than a 30 Plex movie theatre. If you want to overclock here's your board. I do not O.C. but I still found stuff on this board that I want, nae NEED! Good solid feature packed MoBo, what more could you ask ?

Cons: Does not NATIVELY recognize DDR2 1066 as 1066. you have to O.C. to 1066.

Overall Review: OH, and If you want to use 1066, you can only have ONE slot per channel. So, If you want 8GB or more your going to pay for it, OUCH! According to Asus, it's an AMD limitation,,,, Hmmmmm The good news is that if you put 1066 in all 4 slots, it will work as 800.

Pros: upgradabilty, looks nice, easy setup, all the features of this board is a "Pro". - gotta love NewEggs shipping

Cons: none atm.

Overall Review: AMD 5000+, ASUS 790FX, CORSAIR 4GB DDR2 800, Zotac 8800gt amp!(soon to be ATI 4870), Vista x64, Rosewill MidTower, 360GB Seagate Barracuda. (gained 30FPS in CSS with this board over my other ECS board)

Pros: Stable, eSata, 140w, 4 x16 slots, and on and on.....

Cons: None

Overall Review: Sound card can play 2 different sources simultaneously (ie itunes/media player) and send one out the back and the other out the front header. If you install windows with AHCI enabled, your eSata should hot plug like it's supposed to.

Pros: fired up with 0 issues on first attempt. Running 2 (ea) MSI RX3870x2 OC edition Radeon Video Cards (quad) so like the extra gap between the 2 cards for video cooling .. cpu (phenom 9600, despite reviews, price at $104 too good right now) idles at 32 to 36C, video card's from 47 to 52C (by my observation normal for these cards) Vista 64 home premium loaded in 15 minutes, O blue screens, no issues whatsoever.. games seem to run "real time" at highest settings. Everything well laid out for excellent cable management. onboard audio better than my audigy 2, so running with it for now ... straight up 5.9 Vista index..

Cons: my freinds call it my "computer geeks 4x4" ... oh well here's to getting mud on the tires!

Overall Review: System as built , NZXT Apollo Mid Case, With 3 Rosewill blue led 120MM fans, Rosewill crossfire ready 950 watt P/S, Asus M3a79-t Deluxe M/B, OCZ 4 gig pc1066 (2x2), AMD Phenom 9600 quad core cpu, with (2 each) MSI Radeon RX3870x2 Video Cards (Quad GPU's with 2 gig total ddr3 video memory), Arctic Freezer 64 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler, 2x hitachi 500gb 7200rpm hard drive (raid 0 array) 1TB hitachi 7200 rpm HD for media storage, Gateway HD FHD2401 24 in monitor, lite on optical, xeon fan monitor .. all parts from Newegg, delivered well packed with no issues as usual.