Pros: Quiet, Well designed, Great airflow. Great thermal dissipation. Comes with the 2nd best thermal compound pre-applied (the only better compound is the Tuniq TX-2, dont waste your money buying thermal compound, IT COMES PRE APPLIED=) Its not a compound PAD, its the actual grease itself protected by a plastic guard.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: To the guy below me 'Jeff' First of all, lots of other reviewers have expressed concerns about the size of the fan- This is your first clue that this is a large HSF unit. Also the documentation that comes with the HSF unit EXPLAINS how to turn the heatsink fan around, (you can rotate it 90, 180, or 270 degrees!) All you have to do is take out the screw, and flip it around! You guys need to read and do your research before you give products a bad review just because it wasnt specifically designed for your motherboard.. this is why they added the ability to rotate it. Great product! dont listen to the bad reviews about "it doesnt fit with my memory" 95% of the time, you'll be fine, so long as you are intelligent enough to take out a screw, and rotate a peice of aluminium 90 degrees.

Pros: Fast, Cheap, Great heat spreaders, Shiny, Seems to run well. ** Works well at 2.28v **

Cons: I bought this memory for a Foxconn a7vmx-k motherboard ((** FOXCONN DOES NOT SUPPORT OCZ MEMORY, LOOK ELSEWHERE IF YOU OWN A FOXCONN**)) and i have had many issues trying to get this memory to run. It seems stable now, but it took me a while to get it running. Note-- I am using a dual core processor and ddr 800 is the maximum supported by dual core AMD processors (this is 1066 ram). I ended up getting it stable @ 475mhz, 4-4-4-12 1t, which was my goal anyway (yay). ************ If you are using an athlon x2 dual core processor with this memory with the same intentions that i had, take it 1 step at a time and you wont have any problems. ************ This memory is detected as 667mhz if you are NOT using an SLI capable motherboard!<-- this is not a con but i couldnt fit it below in other thoughts *grin*. All you need to do is manually set the speed to 1066 in bios and it will work fine for you.

Overall Review: AMD USERS READ THIS--!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you own an AMD chipset (790gx 780g 780v 790fx) you will recieve "SPD is missing byte 23 or 25" at boot up. This is NOT an error, it is simply caused by the fact that OCZ (as well as many other high end manufacturers) uses 2 tables. The motherboard is looking for 3 tables, and reports this error if the 3rd table can not be seen. *This does NOT effect functionality, stability, speed, performance, or compatibility in any way, it is simply annoying to push f1 at startup* **This can be avoided by visiting the OCZ forums, they posted a patch that will flash your ram to use a 3rd table, and thus alleviating the issue. *** Alternatively you can just disable the 'halt on error' in your bios and it wont bother you. *** this might be present in other chipsets Once more, this does NOT affect performance, stability, speed, compatibility, or functionality in any way

Pros: I'm not sure. 22" I guess, but I'd want at least a dual setup. I'm thinking about buying it, but the cons have me concerned.

Cons: People are experiencing problems after a while. From what I read here it seems that something is of low quality on the circuit in this screen.

Overall Review: I'd be willing to bet it has something to do with overheating power-related components. My first guess would be capacitors. 2 people with similar problems that could be related to faulty components = automatic 2 star deduction. Hint: Hanns-G If you fix the circuit I'll buy it for $20 more. That pays for most of the parts. What's the deal, yo?

Pros: #1 This board is very stable, and will allow for some overclocking with a Dual or even Triple core processor. #2 It's tiny, and that means HTPC users will enjoy it. #3 Price #4 Accommodates 6-core Phenom (SORT OF. Read the Cons)

Cons: #1. Overclocking potential is severely limited by the fact that this board has 3 chokes total for the NB/CPU. That's 3 phases that supposedly power a 125w CPU and the NB. No good. If you overclock you'll hate it. #2. You might have issues with initial bios recognizing the 6-core Phenom. #3. The NB gets hot. You'll need to replace the TIM and maybe even replace the heatsink if your case ventilation is less than adequate. #4. Only 4 sata ports. #5. The CLEAR CMOS jumper is in a bad location, and unfortunately it's located right next to the battery. If you have a large video card (like I do) you'll need to remove it before you can clear the CMOS. #6 Layout. The RAM slots are in a terrible location. If you have a large cooler you'll need to rotate it 90 or 270 degrees to avoid contact with memory. Also, the CPU socket is rotated 90 degrees from the norm, which adds further complication. This could pose a problem for less-than mechanically inclined people.

Overall Review: This motherboard seems as if it would be an excellent product for a HTPC or an entry level build. Someone that doesn't overclock isn't going to have any problems. And it's cheap, which means you can build a decent computer around the new Phenom II / Athlon II chips for a low price. Unfortunately the fact that this motherboard uses 3 phases to power the CPU/NB means that it is not going to provide stable "clean" (within tollerance) power to a 95w+ processor. I bought this for use with an Athlon II x2 240. I was able to overclock that Athlon II to around 3.5ghz stable. Most decent boards can bring an Athlon II x2 chip up to 3.9 or 4ghz stable. This is where the power issue should have been evident, but I guess I wasn't paying attention. I really noticed a problem when I upgraded to a Phenom II x6 1055t. The x6 seems stable at stock, but that's not the case. Running LinX with the 6-core results in voltages out of tollerance (due to 3 phase design) and the motherboard shutting do

Pros: It's an excellent little (and I mean tiny) motherboard, with good features, good processor support, and it seems to be solid. The ASRock OC tuner turned out to be a life saver, so I'll put that in the Pros section too. You'll see why I say this in the Cons section.

Cons: This motherboard absolutely refuses to even post when I switch "auto" to "manual" on the multiplier/voltage settings. EVEN If I leave the settings at stock, or underclock. This is a major con because I wanted a cheap overclocking solution. However. This may be a big con but considering the price, the size (HTPC users are gonna love this thing) and the features, well... ASRock OC tuner enabled me to overclock from windows without the need to use BIOS. Normally I wouldn't like this, but it's so easy and it just works.

Overall Review: I recommend this to anyone on a budget looking for a board that will provide stability and features as a step up from AM2. You can use your AM2 chip, this motherboard, and prepare yourself for a new AM2+ or AM3 purchase. The ASRock OC tuner software saved this things life. I would have ripped it to shreds in this review if it wasn't for this 1 little simple tool. Just FYI. Athlon II x2 240 @ 3.64ghz. I am currently running Prime95 (for about another hour) and this Athlon II x2 240 chip is maxing out at 44.6c on air cooling @ 1.525v. Excellent little chip. THANK GD for ASRock OC tuner!!!

Pros: Excellent value. This chip is well worth the $55 I spent on it, and that's including shipping+tax. I currently have mine overclocked to 3.64, and running Prime95. Of course I have the vcore at 1.525v which is probably way too much, but suprisingly this thing is running VERY VERY cool at 42c and I have had prime95 running for about 40 min. I think it's stable, and I'll definitely try for a higher clock. I ran into some problems at 3.72ghz, but I think that was memory related. The system crashed, so I gave the memory a little more voltage and eased up on the timings a bit and then lowered the clock to 3.64 and it seems fine so far. I will try 3.72 again later, and my goal is 3.8.

Cons: Shipping. Be careful!! Mine came in a box with packing peanuts sealed in its little plastic carrier surrounded by black foam. HOWEVER, even though I had all of this protection for the chip, the processor did NOT come tapes (which means I got lucky UPS didn't screw it up and knock it open), and on top of that I STILL had a bent pin!. Luckily it was only 1 pin. Still, be careful.

Overall Review: The only con being shipping, I highly recommend this chip to anyone on a budget that wants an awesome dual core.