Pros: It is windows. It works most of the time, but is far better then anything else out their. Greater then vista in my opinion. Everything just works with Xp. Wish I could say the same for Vista.

Cons: Price. Exspensive for such an old OS. Should be in the 125.00 to 150.00 range.

Pros: Lots of options. Onboard led trouble shooting code is the best. Chipset fan blows hot air onto the back of the video card. Not sure if it is really effecting things but hot air on a video card can't be good.

Cons: Drive issues. Example: I installed the motherboard drivers and after restart got the windows low resources code 12. So my ethernet ports wouldnt work. Read on another review on here that you should just instal the network drivers first before the smbus and storage. So after doing that it worked fine. Not sure if EVGA even knows about this.