Pros: The only HPTX Form Factor board currently made = Largest Dual CPU Motherboard ever made. Ever. Overclocking Single or Dual Quad or Hex Xeon's 7 Full Length PCIe Slots, 4 @ 16x 48 GB Max RAM The only overclocking dual CPU board currently made.

Cons: HPTX Form Factor = Largest Dual CPU Motherboard ever made. Ever.

Overall Review: If your case doesnt hold a HPTX board then get your Dremel Tool out of the closet......like I did, because you are going to need it. It's that simple. The motherboard box can double as an extra piece of luggage with the addition of a handle and some black spray paint.

Pros: Most likely a great motherboard at stock clock. Lots of USB Ports

Cons: OVERCLOCKERS: YOU'VE BEEN WARNED. Absolutely NO protection in the BIOS for over-current from mild overclocks. I overclocked my i7-860 to a petty 3.6 GHz. As soon as I put a load on all the cores, the CPU actually draws more watts than the motherboard is capable of delivering, regardless of PSU wattage used. So what does the BIOS do to prevent this and protect the motherboard? Absolutely NOTHING. Result? FIRE (FLAMES) SHOOTING out of the Dr.MOS Power Phase heatsink when trying to startup. A motherboard 4th of July show in April, ONLY when it was placed under a full CPU load.

Overall Review: This is a P55 budget board issue not isolated to just MSI budget P55 boards but others as well. It was however, corrected by ASRock in their P55 mATX board with a simple BIOS update. How do I know this? Toms Hardware site has an article about "The Perils of Overclocking a P55 Motherboard". I wish I would have read it sooner. LOL Newegg rocks as usual.

Pros: Orange is the new black and MSI is the new ASUS (as far as features and quality is concerned) without the ASUS cost and learning curve of it's mind numbing BIOS. It powered on out of the box.<br>It has a very simple BIOS that anyone can understand.<br>Loaded with USB3 ports.<br>M.2 card slot onboard.<br>Huge bang for the buck.

Cons: None

Overall Review: MSI builds great value priced feature rich motherboards that work and keep on working year after year. I have a MSI Socket 775 motherboard from 5+ years ago and it still works like new. It's powered on 24 hours a day.......every day.

Pros: 32 Glorious Cores. Small footprint compared to the SR-X. It booted fine the first time and the 21st time with 2 Xeon 2687W's and 64 GB RAM installed. This thing boots OSX Mountain Lion in less than 3 seconds on a SSD. I can't really complain about anything after I witnessed that, so I give it 5 stars. LOL

Cons: Fan headers on board have the voltage intentionally lowered making all fans extra quiet, even when set to high in the BIOS. Why? BIOS is mind numbing with tons of server board terms that make my brain ache.

Overall Review: ASUS needs to drop kick the Server BIOS and replace it with a UEFI BIOS like the P9X79 WS Revo's and let us control our own fan speeds from that BIOS.

Pros: In reference to my last review, the PCIe video power cables have a distinct order that they have to be plugged into the PSU. You can plug them in the wrong order and you won't get the power you need for the watt sucking video cards and your computer will shut off if the video cards are benchmarked. My motherboards USB controller also got knocked out on reboot and stayed like that. Only clearing the RTC on the board fixed it. Resetting the BIOS did nothing.

Cons: This PSU is not idiot proof because the 8 pin and 6 pin PCIe video cables BOTH have 8 pin connectors to the PSU.

Pros: All the PCIe slots The 8 RAM slots The Dual Intel LANs The UEFI BIOS Its overclock ability Its relatively small size (Not "XL" sized)

Cons: The price I guess, but you get what you pay for.

Overall Review: 21,500+ Geekbench 64 score with a 3930K @ 4.8 GHz, running 64 GB of 1333 GHz RAM. 13.8 CPU score on Cinebench 11.5 with same specs above. Corsair H80 Cooled