Pros: Everything worked great out of the box. No problems with HDMI or optical audio out. Has two PCI-E x1 slots, which seems to be rare on a uATX board. I needed it for my two tuner cards. No fan on the northbridge = quiet. This board is great for HTPC use with the X4500HD integrated graphics.

Cons: The northbridge heatsink does get hot. You definitely need good airflow through the case with this board.

Pros: Styling fits in with other home theater components. Has great airflow through the case thanks to the 3 fans (1 intake, 2 exhaust). The power supply is isolated from the rest of the case, so temperatures are kept low. It's tiny! Read the unstructions and you'll be okay installing things.

Cons: The included remote control is next to worthless. Half the time the receiver doesn't pick up the signal, and the other half of the time it picks up too many signals. This means you hit the channel up button in Media Center and it doesn't do anything. You hit it again and it goes up 5 channels. The display is bright, even on its dimmest setting, but it is highly configurable. The case is almost too small. My components just fit and it really rook some creative wiring to get everything in there without blocking airflow.

Overall Review: There is plenty of space for another harddrive behind the LCD but no mounting holes for one. I'm not sure why Antec didn't include them. To comment on another review, you don't need to drill out the rivets to remove the harddrive cage. There are two screws and that's it.

Pros: Small (about an inch shorter than my old uATX board) and easy to install. Decent layout, although audio header is at the back of the board. UEFI, lots of options to choose from in the BIOS setup.

Cons: No manual to explain those BIOS choices. The manual only has hardware install instructions. Very slow to POST. Takes 30-45 seconds with only POST screen showing before starting to boot. With an Ivy Bridge and an SSD I was not expecting this.

Pros: Cheap, reliable.

Cons: Once the shrink wrap is off, they're loose. I really wish they had come with some sort of storage system, but I can't really complain for the price.

Pros: Does what it says. Ample SATA power connectors (5). 88% efficient.

Cons: No modular cables, green color that doesn't match anything else, uses old 20+4 ATX power connector instead of standard 24 pin.

Overall Review: Be warned, no power cable is supplied. This was okay with me as I have lots of extras.

Pros: This is the cheapest Ivy Bridge with HD video decoding (HD 2500 GPU onboard). It's fast, it runs cool. Easy to install, although I wish Intel would move away from the current heatsink mounting method. I'm just never sure if it's installed correctly.

Cons: Not really a con of this CPU, but it's pretty lame that Intel didn't include HD2500 video on the lower-end Celeron and Pentium Ivy Bridge CPUs. I really don't need a 3.3GHz CPU in my HTPC.