Pros: Great little board, does everything as advertised. I paired it with a Athlon II X2 240. Installed 32 bit Ubuntu Linux, and everything works out of the box except wi-fi. If you google "launchpad bug #162671", post #50 explains how to make it work. Once I found that, wi-fi was up and running within minutes. I have not had any USB issues; I'm using a USB mouse, keyboard, remote, and sometimes flashdrive. No problems at all.

Cons: The vt6656 driver is not included in the default Ubuntu kernel, it needs to be manually installed. I have read that the driver does not support WPA, but I have not verified this, I am using WEP.

Overall Review: The GPU runs at about 60 degrees Celsius when it's not doing anything, and gets up to 75 degrees when I'm watching TV. That's probably more a function of having no case fan than the motherboard, but it's worth a mention.

Pros: Linux driver provided by manufacturer. Very small size. If it were any smaller, I don't think you would be able to remove it from the USB port once plugged in. I'm completely amazed that something this small almost works.

Cons: Almost works. Speeds topped out at 10Mbps, no where near the advertised 150 Mbps, and that's when it was working. Which wasn't often. Most of the time, connection was lagging out, dropping, etc. Two days was all I could bear.

Overall Review: Newegg customer service was excellent with this issue. If I was ever in a situation where I had a voting ballot in my hand, and one of the choices was Newegg, I would vote for Newegg. I wouldn't matter who else was on the ballot, or what I was voting for. Best online customer service, mayor, president, whatever. I'd vote for Newegg.

Pros: It comes close to being a nice board. Besides the problem with the heatsink, everything is fine. Some of the other reviews mention fan noise. I find the fan to be very, very quiet. I guess it depends what you're comparing it to. I'm comparing it to a regular computer. If you're comparing it to a fanless system, then I can see why you would think it's not quiet. Unfortunately, I can't give it more than a 1 egg rating because of the heatsink issue.

Cons: Overheating. Temps of at least 83 degrees under load, which lead to system crashing. The stock heatsink is made of three parts. There's a large heatsink that bridges the Hudson M1 and the APU and provides thermal mass to both. For each of the two chips, there is a smaller piece that sits between the chip and the large heatsink, which is attached to the heatsink with three screws in a triangular pattern. There were two problems: 1) There was not enough thermal goop between the smaller thermal conductors and the larger heatsink. I would estimate the contact area to be 10 cm^2; my estimate of the area the thermal goop covered is 0.25 cm^2. 2) When I removed the three screws in a triangular pattern holding the smaller thermal conductor for the APU to the bottom of the main heatsink, I saw that one had stripped out the threads in the heatsink. So it was held on by two screws, both on the same side. I'm sure that this loose coupling led to the excessive temps that I saw.

Overall Review: Temps dropped about 10 degrees after adding more thermal goop. I'll still be exchanging it though, since I'm sure that if the heatsink didn't have a stripped hole and everything could be properly fastened together, my temps would be even lower. I would not reccommend buying this board unless you're willing to remove the heatsink and apply an appropriate amount of thermal goop before you use it.

Pros: No more of that pesky data to worry about.

Cons: My 500Gb WD drive crapped out after about 6 months of use. I needed an immediate replacement, so I bought this drive while the 500Gb went through the RMA process. Now with less than three months use, this drive has crapped out on me.

Overall Review: I've been using WD drives for over 15 years and never had a problem before. After losing all my data twice in the last 3 months with two different WD drives, I'm done with WD.

Pros: Small case, inexpensive. It does fit a Zotac GF8200 and a stock AMD cpu heatsink and fan, although barely. Nice looking case.

Cons: Nowhere to put a case fan, so things tend to run a little on the warm side. I actually had to bend the power supply up a tad in order to fit the cpu heatsink and fan underneath it. With the Zotac board I mentioned above, about half of the fan is under the power supply and half of the fan is exposed. The half that is under the power supply is literally touching it, there is zero clearance. Luckily the fixed part of the fan makes contact first, so the blades do not rub.

Overall Review: Given the heat/space constraints, this case is probably better suited for an Atom, but it does work with a Zotac/AM3 combo.

Pros: This is a good basic monitor. I do NOT use it for gaming (i.e. call of duty), so I will not offer an opinion on how games look on it. However, I find that it is a good basic functional monitor for work/internet. I am not saying it is not a good gaming monitor, only that I do not use it for that so I can not offer an opinion on that.

Cons: Wobbly stand.

Overall Review: The last review is also mine, but some information was mistakenly included in it that would lead one to believe that I recommend it for gaming, which I did not.