Pros: The pros of the mb would have been: Solid cap capacitors, HDMI and video chipset for multimedia, price point, MSI build quality.

Cons: Repeated blue screen and reboots. No matter what I did I could not get this computer to run for more that 4 hours before it would blue screen and reboot. I tried changing memory and cpu to no avail.

Overall Review: To start I have been building systems from scratch since 1996. I am a computer programmer and network engineer. I have been doing this for a very long time. The system I build for my wife is thus: - AMD Athlon II X4 635 - 2GB Muskin DDR3 memory chips giving me 4GB Total - Power supply is a Antec 450w unit - connected to an APC from the start I have spent way to many frustrating hours trying to troubleshoot this MB. I have reinstalled everything from scracth, installed the latest drivers and dumped the logs to see what was going on. I can confirm that it is the motherboard because I have setup a new computer with the exact same components except the MB is a Biostar 880. I am having no problems with this setup. I also find it curious that this motherboard seems to be the European equivalent to the model they sold in the US. Just saying. I would like MSI to own up to this faulty/defective motherboard and replace it with one that works.

Pros: There are no pros since they did not work.

Cons: Both cards I purchased were bad. Kept dropping off the network every 3 seconds. Created a lot of errors on the network when they were trying to work and they never connected at Gigabit speeds when they did connect. I tried multiple systems and multiple OS's. No Joy.

Overall Review: based on the other peoples reviews I thought I would try them. At the very least I would have 100mbit speeds. I was very, very wrong. Run away from these cards. They are junk.