ASUS M3N72-D AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: ASUS did it again! I am extremely happy with my purchase of this board! This is my second ASUS board and both have been most excellent. The 140-Watt CPU support is what I needed for my new AMD Phenom 9850 BE (125 Watt). The overclocking ability is what ASUS boards are known for (ROCKS!). However, I have only slightly used the overclocking features, with fantastic results. The BIOS is well designed and easy to use. The User's Manual included in the box is extremely well written--I like that! The placement of all the I/O connectors are well placed and engineered in my opinion. I like the SATA ports mounted on the side as they leave more clearance for other componenets. These really are not difficult at all to hook up SATA drives in any way for me. Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit version detected most of the devices and the included software bundle installed wonderfully. I like the Express Gate features but still have yet to configure the e-mail funtion. Ingenios!

Cons: Not really any. None for me. I read other users complain of the CD-In port too far away form the drives bay. Easy fix... just move your drives down lower in the case, or buy a longer cable. Otherwise.... the CD In port is only needed for the older CD and DVD optical drives that utilize the older IDE 40-wire ribbon cables. The newer IDE optical compponents like DL-DVD and Blu-Ray can use the Ultra IDE 80-wire ribbon cable (included in the box), or SATA cables which both of these transmit audio signals via the cables so the the CD-In cable isn't needed. This is only needed for use on older optical drives that use the older 40-wire IDE ribbon cables. I have no issues with the PSU power connectors placement either. This board is well laid out and well engineered for my use.

Overall Review: The Hybrid SLI works great with my set up... EVGA (older) Nvidia 7600GS SLI cards (two matched). Once I install the included SLI driveres included on the disk, Vista detects the video SLI cards and installs the SLI easily! Will be upgrading my video SLI slots to the newer 9000 series with the PCI-e 2.0 soon as this board is engineeerd for this. My current set-up: AMD Phenom Quad 9850 BE; This FANTASTIC ASUS M3N72-D MoBo; Antec Earthwatts 650-Watt PSU; 2 x 1 GB PC 8500 Ballistix Crucial memory (2GB total-- and adding more soon); Zalman CNPS 9700 LED CPU cooler; 3 x 320 GB Seagate SATA II HDD; 1 x 320 GB Seagate PATA HDD; a Pioneer 20x DL-DVD SATA Optical Drive; and another Pioneer 20x PATA/IDE DL-DVD optical drive; 2 x EVGA 7600 GS SLI 256MB video cards; 2 x Silenex 80 MM rear case fans; Altec Lansing 2.1 80- watt speaker system; 19" Wide screen LCD monitor; a huge older model Antec case (just huge- about 5 years old now and still gorgeous). This system ROCKS!!!!

Pros: Worked for six months.

Cons: Over the paste few weeks, I been getting random blue screens and errors saying, "System failing to POST" Now, BIOs will not come up.

Overall Review: can someone from Asus help me out, please!?

Pros: affordable am2+ quad w/ 1066 support

Cons: Only supports 1066 memory speed in 4GB (2x2GB) and not 8GB (4x2GB) So if you're looking for 1066 speed in more than 4GB, this board is not for you.

Overall Review: still performs better with 8GB running at DDR2 800 than 4GB running at DDR2 1066 under Vista 64

Pros: Good, stable board so far. Pretty nice bios and bios settings for overclocking. Supports the 9950be out of the box as it's supposed to. The beastly heatsink and fan that the 9950be comes with also fit and installed just fine on this mobo.

Cons: The cons are the reason I am writing this review. I don't won't others to make the same mistake I did, or at least be aware of the following problem I didnt recognize. The main con of this board is obviously it's layout, as others have stated. However, past reviews did not state that the red Sata2 ports are in the way of the newest nvidia cards. The 8800gt I currently have fits (thankfully, phew) but not by much. It has about 1-2 millimeters of clearance before touching the sata ports. Most of the new nvidia cards (9 series and up) are 10.5 inches long. The 8800gt that barely fits is 9 inches long. Therefore, they obviously will not fit. One might could force a card in there cockeyed and force the ports down but I am not gonna try it. So please consider this before buying. Otherwise a good board.

Overall Review: I know, I know. I should have recognized this before I bought it, but I just flat out overlooked this and thought the video cards would sit right over the sata ports. If you are not considering upgrading to the newer, longer nvidia video cards then the cons shouldn't affect you. Overall, it's a good stable board. I just didn't think it was worthy of 5 eggs due to its layout regarding the sata2 ports and other inconveniently placed connectors.

Pros: My works really nice, stable and cool!! running my phenom II 720 @ 3.2 at auto voltage. I did set up the timings manually for the ram memory 1066 2x1GB @ 5,5,5,15,22,2T

Cons: Nothing so far

Overall Review: I can't see so many people complaining about this mobo, for me works great!!!

Pros: This board is one of the better ones I have found. you cant go wrong with asus and I'm glad to see someone finally removed the old ps2 mouse plug.

Cons: If you use SLI with two GTX 280's then don,t expect to use the PCI slots, just no more room left over. also the cards come real close to smashing the USB plugs and power connectors. but they do fit and work great

Pros: This ASUS motherboard is FLAWLESS!!!! WOW, my Vista Ultimate experience rating is now at 5.6!! (up from 4.4 before these hardware updates) but now, with the current upgrades I've completed of adding 2 Corsair Dominator 1GB memory sticks and the brand new 9 series EVGA nVidia 9500GT PCI-e 2.0 SLI at 1GB memory each, for a total of 2GB video memory! More.... I still have not overclocked this system and it totally ROCKS at default settings! Overclocking this will be a complete breeze baby!

Cons: NOTHING! N/A! NONE!

Overall Review: My updated set-up: AMD Phenom Quad 9850 BE; This FANTASTIC ASUS M3N72-D MoBo; Antec Earthwatts 650-Watt PSU; 2 x 1 GB PC 8500 Ballistix Crucial memory sticks, plus 2 x 1 GB Corsair PC 8500 Dominator memory sticks--making 4GB total; Zalman CNPS 9700 LED CPU cooler; 3 x 320 GB Seagate SATA II HDD; 1 x 320 GB Seagate PATA HDD; a Pioneer 20x DL-DVD SATA Optical Drive; and another Pioneer 20x PATA/IDE DL-DVD optical drive; 2 x EVGA 9500 GT SLI 1 GB video cards for a total of 2GB video!; 2 x Silenex 80 MM rear case fans; Altec Lansing 2.1 80- watt speaker system; 19" Wide screen LCD monitor; a huge older model Antec case (just huge- about 5 years old now and still gorgeous). This system ROCKS!!!!

Pros: I love the board. It was very easy to install. The bios installed with out a hitch and the on board graphics is just great. It has so many USB connections on it i get dizzy.

Cons: The only thing i see wrond with the board is how close the PCI-E slots are. When i do the sli connection i will loose the use of my PCI slots because the vid cards take up all the room.

Overall Review: Very stable bios. I have yet to be dissappointed with the proformance i get from asus.