Pros: You get a sound card and Company of heroes with it. You get to spend a lot of money shipping the DOA ones back to ASUS, which in turn helps to stimulate the economy!!

Cons: This board flat out sucks, after 1 month of ownership, the RMA fairy showed up and took it to ASUS...board ran fine for 7 months, and now dead again...NO POST!!! Sent back to ASUS to get a refurb and board was DOA..THANKS ASUS for wasting my time!! sent back again to get a board that sparked and burnt at optional fan 1 connection--even though nothing was plugged in to it. So ASUS is making me spend more money shipping back and forth--so I just bought a (competing brand motherboard) today and will use the expectant refurb DOA board I get back from ASUS as a GD paperweight--you owe me ASUS for all the shipping charges--I will never buy from you again!!

Overall Review: ASUS should not even build paper airplanes. They made me select at least one egg.

Pros: Lots of pipes

Cons: Heat sink is not compatible with the ASUS Striker II Formula board--it hits the capacitors by the CPU