Pros: Supports 5000 ryzen out of the box. ECC udimm support 2.5gbe onboard Good iommu support Pcie x 16 slot has x8 x4 x4 mode for bifurcation risers Boots fine headless Decent pcie and m2 connectivity off the chipset Big vrm heatsink Cheap and cheerful White pcb is well done and attractive

Cons: Weak vrm, probably a bad fit for high wattage CPU or overclocking. No 10gigabit USB No Wi-Fi m2 slot Built in audio is not good

Overall Review: Great budget board for my use as an inexpensive homelab server. With a Ryzen apu and bifurcation riser I was able to fit 3 nvme drives and a connectx3 dual 40gbe nic, all at full bandwidth direct to CPU Boots headless without without drama. It seems like such a little thing, but soo many consumer motherboards will have a fit if no monitor or keyboard are present. The lack of usb 10gigabit and thunderbolt is a bummer. It's a cheap and cheerful little workhorse.

Pros: Quick, impressive endurance, excellent random performance, best in class latency.

Cons: Price per GB, availability, future support, power.

Overall Review: The performance and endurance is out of this world. Great as a cache in a Nas, zfs metadata/slog/l2arc dev. Really though, these excel at database workloads. The downside: no low power states for laptop use, capacity per $ is terrible compared to even enterprise ssd, and Intel abandoned the technology leaving a lot of uncertainty. Optane is an impressive technology, I would have loved to see where scaling production could have taken it.