Pros: lasted for 6 months, worked flawlessly until late december, excelent overclocking features as long as you stay within your limits, worked straight out of the box for my first build

Cons: in december i recieved frequent crashes i had figured it was the power supply but the fan for the northbridge chipset fried, it took me awhile to figure out what was the problem, luckily i have a case with a side window and i noticed that the chipset fan was no longer running, i replaced it with a zalman northbridge cooler which worked great for a few days until all my pci slots fried along with the motherboard accepting cd/dvd drives, which isnt all that great

Overall Review: ill RMA the mobo to MSI considering it has a 3 year warranty and see what the results are