Pros: SATA III and USB 3.0. Few BIOS options to mess with.

Cons: Do not recommend ESET Smart Security.

Overall Review: I accidentally installed ESET Smart Security from INTEL's driver disk that came with the motherboard. I tried to remove it thru Windows 7 remove software option but it still popped up alert boxes. I finally just reinstalled Windows 7 from scratch (this goes fast on an SSD). I got two blue screens of death during the first week of use. I updated the BIOS and it has not occurred since. The BIOS version that came with the board was from 2010 and the new one is 5/23/2011. Had trouble with updating the BIOS. For some reason using Intel's Express BIOS update utility did not work for me. It said it was successful but the BIOS version was unchanged. The next option was to use the F7 key during boot up. The manual says you have to enable F7 in the BIOS setup thru the ADVANCED menu which does not exist on this motherboard. However if you just press the F7 key during boot up you get the screen to update the BIOS. Be sure you have your flash drive with the BIOS binary installed before you boot

Pros: Quiet.

Cons: This card does not support two monitors, one connected via DVI and the other connected via D-Sub. Motherboard is an ASUS P8H67-M PRO running Windows 7 64bit

Pros: Power on button on motherboard allowing testing of motherboard before hooking up to case. Raid easy to set up. No LPT (parallel printer port) or floppy drive port. SuperMicro’s email support was expedient.

Cons: PS/2 port and COM port. Really, in this day and age? One of two USB 2.0 ports on backpanel stopped working. Since there is 1 more and 4 USB 3.0 on backpanel it is not worth returning

Overall Review: I have been building PCs for family and friends for 25 years. Like the reviewer above I also was use to a single beep after POST completed successfully. This motherboard sounded two beeps then paused and did another beep of a different tone. I contacted SuperMicro via email and they replied in less than 24 hours that it had to do with the USB hub. I was getting beep for the USB mouse and another for the USB keyboard and I assume the last beep was for monitor detection. Although two of the memory slots are closer together than the others this is not a problem if you are using just two memory sticks (34 Gigabytes total) as you only use one of these. I used this motherboard as a base for a new server to replace my current one that has been running 24/7 for 13 years. My System: Case: Silverstone SG12B CPU: Intel i3-6100T Memory: 16GB G>Skill Ripjaws DDR4 SSD: Crucial MX300 275 GB SATA III RAID1: 2 Western Digital BLACK SATA III Hard drives Windows 10 Pro. This is my first SuperMicro motherboard and I am sufficiently impressed with the motherboard and SuperMicro support that I will consider them first for my next build. How about a mini ITX with an H170 or Z170 chipset SuperMicro?

Pros: Inexpensive, Quality build.

Cons: Won’t do jumbo packets, legacy ports, No DC power input such as the ASROCK AM1H-ITX board.

Overall Review: Was very disappointed that this motherboard could not do jumbo packets over my home network. My other 3 computers talk to my server via jumbo packets but when I set this board to do the same it crashed my server. Maybe this is a problem with the Ethernet driver but I was running the latest version. I replaced this motherboard and AMD processor with an Intel i3 and ASUS motherboard and jumbo packets work fine now. Could not update the BIOS thru the UEFI interface. However the same file could be used thru ASUS software running in Windows. I don’t know why an old style parallel printer port, PS/2 ports, COM port need to be on today's computers.

Pros: Inexpensive and low power.

Cons: Poor performance.

Overall Review: My setup: Kabini 2.05GHz processor, ASUS AM1I-A motherboard, 16GB of memory and SSD drive. The performance of this AMD processor is very poor. I compared this setup with an Intel NUC D54250WYK with a 4th generation 4 core i5 processor that I have. The benchmarks are for a Java program I wrote: NUC: power 14 – 19 Watts Time: 1:23Min AMD: power 22 – 24 Watts. Time 3:00 Min The price of the two systems was almost identical. If I had known that this was going to be the case I would have bought another NUC. The poor performance and the fact that the AMD system could not use jumbo packets under Windows 7 caused me to replace the processor and motherboard with an Intel i3 and Asus H97I-Plus. Performance was now on par with the NUC and I could use jumbo packets again.

Pros: Easy to work with and good construction. 120 mm fan Support for both an SSD and Hard drive. Plenty of air movement for Intel's 3.3 Ghz SandyBridge.

Cons: Case fan is a three wire and not a 4 wire so fan speed cannot be controlled by the motherboard. Replaced with a 4 wire fan. Power supply is not modular so you have to have room to stuff the unused wires in the case.

Overall Review: I used this case as a bases for a new computer for my wife and am very please with the response and quietness of her computer. Her system: Intel DH67CFB3 Mini ITX motherboard Intel i3-2120 3.3GHz Sandy Bridge G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB DDR3 1333 Memory Intel 510 120GB SATA III SSD Sony Slim CD/DVD Burner Windows 7 64bit