Pros: I ordered this motherboard instead of others because I saw it had an intel chipset instead of a broadcom one for the Wifi. I've had no end of trouble with broadcom wireless (especially with Linux and annoying with Windows. The motherboard was set up into a beautiful working small footprint computer within hours (with my husband and I building). Wifi worked perfectly with no tweaking. Overclocking ram was very easy to set up - just go into the bios, I overclocked to 2400 with the ram bought for that overclocking speed (which is a nice pricepoint right now). It was also pretty easy to set up Raid0 to dual 740GB SSD via bios - for video encoding this is a good practical portable setup, and of course as advertised it would make a good portable gaming machine also.

Cons: one external fan connector. Not worth reducing an egg as cooling has not been an issue.