Joined on 03/12/03
excellent in all areas

Pros: Booted first time. Good bios. No problems whatsoever!
Cons: SATA ports are a bit out of the way. Runs hot, but then all 780i boards do.
Overall Review: 780i, ati 3870, e6750, 2gb 1066 // after THREE (count em) x38/x48 boards died on me, evga saves the day. They will always have me as a customer.
cpu init

Pros: Its good if it works?
Cons: CPU INIT. CPU INIT. CPU INIT. This is all I ever saw of my brand new expensive motherboard. It goes without saying the cpu itself is fine and works perfectly.
Overall Review: Newegg was excellent with the RMA. Never hesitate to buy from here. 5 eggs for newegg, 1 egg for asus. Wait, can I give negative eggs? This is my 3rd dead -formula board, the first two were x38s.
very fast, mobo auto-detected 1066

Pros: looks sweet! mobo (p45 maximus II) auto-detected 1066 and SPD!!!!! Did not have to touch a thing in the bios! very, super easy! This is UNLIKE my other 1066 sticks, corsair dominators.. which defaulted to like 800 6-6-7-20.. yea ok.
Cons: for some reason the board didn't like me putting in all 4 at once. Didn't boot. Took 2 out, booted. Added one, booted. Added another, problem solved.
Overall Review: hey, for this cheap, can't go wrong.
great overall board

Pros: I haven't owned this board for long so I can't say much for long-term stability, but so far this thing works as advertised. I'm really impressed with all the bios options, it booted up first shot, raid 0/raid 1 is RIDICULOUSLY easy to setup - there are two sata ports marked for it. You just click an option in the bios, done. No raid drivers, nothing. Good memory support, the x-fi sounds good, and its the best looking board ive ever seen. (The x48 rampage extreme will soon change that.)
Cons: Price. X48 boards cost about as much (or less), but I don't know of one that presents this feature set. The only thing this lacks is the dual pci-e 16, otherwise we're basically talking about the same hardware. So if you're buying on extras definitely get this.
Overall Review: You know what, its probably my video card, but it deserves a mention. My 9800 gtx in cod4 has to be underclocked to not artifact every so often. Didn't happen with my 790i. Compatibility problem or bad timing? Dunno.
Plenty of power

Pros: Plenty of connectors, stable power, one of the highest rated power supplies on the market
Cons: not modular.. seriously, if this thing was modular, best ever.
great

Pros: nicest ram ive ever owned..
Cons: cheaper to buy fan separately than get the kit