Pros: Quiet

Cons: Literally blew up on me. Sounded like there were firecrackers in my case.

Pros: Everything seems to work as promised in the board. Worked fine on first boot.

Cons: Using Win7 with AHCI made the boot time take about 4 minutes. That is insane. I installed the MB specific drivers and no difference was noticed. I changed it to standard SATA/IDE mode and the boot time increased? Really?? The overall system performance drastically changed as well. Opening any program in AHCI took several seconds. In SATA/IDE mode, it was much faster. All my benchmark results are way low, comparatively. Is it the chipset? I don't know.

Overall Review: I'm using it with 8GB 1333 memory and an AMD Phenom II x2 555 proc. It shouldn't be as slow as it is.