Pros: Great features: -bios has endless options like no other microATX boards that I've seen to date. features allow you to setup your system to max performance and can also save numerous full bios setting profiles. -I like the layout and colors of board and looks and fits real nice in my aspire Qpack. -has really nice heat sinks for n/s bridges that allow good passive cooling. -excellent fan control in bios controls noise real nice -power and reset buttons on board come in real handy while testing. -built in bios flasher works perfectly, I recomend getting latest bios version.

Cons: The only things I didnt like: -Short manual, you need some good computer know-how to really get the most out of this board cause the manual just scratches the surface. -no firewire, pci card was cheap but I lost 1 of the 2 slots to this. -only 2 plugs for SATA drives -windows overclocker needs some more work but nice for entry level user. -board should allow you to load RAID drivers, when installing windows, from a thumb-drive, I had to hunt down a floppy drive after I had no success.

Overall Review: I have this board runing a X2 3800+ right out of the box and within 15min had it at 2.4Gh with perfect stability. This is the microATX board to buy for a performance AMD system, you wount be disapointed.