Pros: This is the only 'high-end' asus board that works with my premium corsair ram, twin2x2048-6400-C3DF. I had the deluxe M2N32-SLI and had all kinds of errors. simple check on corsairmemory.com and you can see...it's a gorgeous board, like the deluxe, but works with my ram!!! (been building systems 15+ years an ASUS is the best by far, and this board doesn't disappoint me)

Cons: hard to find! newegg was the only place I could find it. it would be nice to know up front from motherboard side the memory that works...asus tech was wonderful helping me out (my memory is fine, just cas 3 the board can't handle)

Overall Review: nice high-end system. I used for video editing/compression. could replace AMD64 x2 5200 cpu i have with FX and turn into gaming box (geforce 8800 gtx 768 card in it) that's why it's a diverse board. also the dynamic overclocking is nifty, though I prefer stable to a small % gain in speed, so i go conservative, just SLI on the memory.

Pros: it's fast...darn fast if you can manually tune things

Cons: it dies in days not even taxed...UNDERclocked.

Overall Review: you have to overclock your board to get the 1111 mhz for AMD nvidia 590 boards, at least; a corsair tech said it could be underclocked and use 3-4-3-9 timings (like their other model) and creep up the 800 mhz a little. less than a week at 860 mhz with 3-4-3-9 timings and the memory died...keep in mind, the 3-4-3-9 doesn't overclock the ram, it just tells the cpu the # of cycles to expect various row/column ops. so i was UNDERclocking it (and this was at the advice of the manufacturer). I'm getting it replaced, but I would recommend the 2nd round of the pc6400C3DF, 800mhz ddr2 and 3-4-3-9 is it's natural state. though, i don't like that all these 'settings' require 2.4v for ram. is that too high? my originals of that pair died, too, in a day (it was DOA practically). oh replacement 'guaranteed in 10 bus days or less'. took > 25 bus days and eventually they wouldn't take calls (10+ min hold time), no email reply and made no apologies come the end when I JUST got the memory tue

Pros: Excellent options--internal SATA 1/2 drive up to 750GB. 3 external USB ports (one for flash 'copy'), esata port, etc. easy to setup, has ftp, web 'server', print server, etc. I don't have it on a complete gigabit network so I can't verify the performance yet. put a 500gb hitatchi sata2 in and 400gb usb hitachi pata and have a 900tb filer nice client backup software (PC -> NAS)

Cons: backup software for PCs (clients) is only client driven. It'd be very nice to iniitate and schedule and monitor backups via online mgmt tool (like the NSLU2)

Overall Review: I compared this vs Buffalo Linkstation Pro 500 (comes with drive) and even with a sale of about $xxx, I took this option which came up to 560 (had print server, etc)