Pros: Installed Linux Mint 17.2 without a hitch. Both the open-source and catalyst graphics drivers worked out of the box without any issues. The closed source installed without a problem and installed Catalyst version 15.20. I saw significant speed increase over the open-source drivers. The only thing I haven't tried yet is the Ethernet port since I use a USB 802.11N adapter. (No overclocking)

Cons: So far I've seen none during run time. I'm running Phoronix tests to stress it. I will say that when building this machine, I was very particulate about the hardware. Many of the FM+ motherboards are very RAM picky. If you don't you'll have lots of stability and performance issues. Check the RAM compatibility list. I tend to by RAM that is at least one step faster than what I expect to run it at. This gives the RAM some breathing room if any of the RAM sticks have some performance issues. I bought DDR3 2400 and I'm only running it at 2133.

Overall Review: Many people said that GPU drivers were an issue in Linux. That was then an this is now. Now that AMD has released the drivers for 15.7 ( 2015-05-17) Linux support is a reality

Pros: My BNT-1500 (aka Black Knight) did very well for the four years I used it. I supported my whole home LAN with one. That consisted of 1 switch, 1 low power pc, 1 high power server, 1 VOIP Router, and a cable model. With a little bit of research, I was able to integrate it with NUT (Network UPS Tools) for linux.

Cons: Now the bad news... when my BNT-1500 was getting up in age (the four year mark), I would wake up some mornings and have to reset the UPS and restart all connected devices. Also about this same time, I started having power supplies fail across multiple machines. I took the UPS out the equation, those issues went away. There was no alerts on the UPS at all.

Pros: ECC RAM Support! Lots(6) of SATAIII (6Gb) ports Well supported in Linux. Rock solid after BIOS update

Cons: Had to flash the initial BIOS/UEFI to get stability. After I updated BIOS from the out of the box version, it has been rock solid. Second (black) PCIe 2.0 x16 is really just a PCe 2.0. x4 bus with a x16 physical connector. This can be very misleading. Doesn't really effect me, but with people doing SLI/Crossfire, that could be a big issue.

Overall Review: I love that ASUS enables the ECC support in there AMD FX processors. More vendors should. I can't comment on the audio since I don't use it. I use this as a server.

Pros: Great number of core per price. ECC RAM support! (With supported motherboard) IOMMU Support for direct access to hardware for virtualized guests.

Cons: Stock fan is loud but I don't care since it is in my basement.

Overall Review: I use this for my home virtualization server. I use it with Ubuntu Linux and Virtualbox setup. It works great. Never have any heating or stability issues after I updated the firmware in my motherboard (Mobo's fault). It run the three VMs I need well: pfSense box (1 core), a file, media, plex VM (3 cores), and a legacy ubuntu server (1 core) without issue. I also run Linux software RAID 5, 1, and soon LVM - Parity. I never see the CPU get congested. Never have any issues with it that aren't my fault. I would recommend this for an entry level workstation, low-end home visualization server, or low / mid level gaming machine.

Pros: Works great out of the box. Great weight too it. The multimedia keys works without any configuration in Linux Mint 17. The LED back lights work as expected. The keys have a nice movement too them. They also aren't loud which is important for a father that has sleeping infant in it.

Cons: One con I did find is that the keyboard didn't work with my D-Link DKVM-4 (circa 1999) with USB->PS/2 converter. Since the KVM is so old, I didn't take an egg. I could also be the convert's fault too.

Overall Review: One thing I did find that bit of getting used to is that the keys are slightly smaller than you standard IBM keyboard. It's not horrible but it is noticeable.

Pros: I was happily surprised at this USB wireless. I bought this for a cash strapped friend who needed to connect an old computer (P4-1.3G/30GB-5400RPM/640MB RDRAM). I also installed a PCI Rosewill USB2.0 card (Item#: N82E16815166014) to give the machine USB2.0. I was worried that the minimal resources of this machine would cause the software / hardware to be very flaky. That was not the case. It has proven to hold solid connections to a 802.11G access point. I was getting 4/4 signal bars though 2 walls and 15'.

Cons: The only two things I can critique the hardware on is two minor things. It doesn't use the native Windows XP wireless interface. It uses it own custom software. I know many wireless cards do this. I don't like this because it confuses many users between the two management consoles. The second is it would have been nice to give a short (3') USB extension cable. It would get the huge antenna out of the way of the tangle of wires in the back of the computer. It would probably also improve reception to being aware from a huge source of EM.

Overall Review: There was no 'N' access points around to test with. Thus I can't give any comment of it performance/stability there.