Pros: 4 SATA plus PATA New Generation Atom D510

Cons: None noted here FYI - While I haven't had any issues, you must plug in speakers to hear beep codes! Have a feeling that's why there's so many DOA reports with these. That and ATX12V is required to be connected.

Overall Review: Using these boards for NAS builds at work, combined with Chenbro case, 4GB RAM, 8GB PATA SSD, 4 2TB drives (RAID 10) & Ubuntu Server (using Webmin for management). On some of these, we are also running VMWare on top of Ubuntu with a Win7Pro virtual machine to handle Windows-only software for camera recordings. Capabilities of this little board as a NAS are so far beyond anything you can buy off-the-shelf that it's unreal. We are currently developing scripts to convert nightly recordings to DVD .ISO's as well as enforce 90-day retention policy. It's great that a <$1200 NAS can handle all this without missing a beat!!

Pros: Awesome little board everything i needed in a small format!!!

Cons: no PCIe or dvi on mainboard but not needed for my application.

Overall Review: I purchased this board with the intent of using 2x1gig ddr2 800 ram sticks however upon installing both sticks the board would not post it would power up and run a few seconds then reboot and continue in this cycle however when removing one of the sticks (either or) it would boot up and post fine is this a bios issue are the ram slots set up for dual channel only??? this is frustrating!!

Pros: 4 sata ports onboard

Cons: None

Overall Review: FreeBSD 8.0 seems to recognize all the hardware... I'm running 1 IDE boot disk and 4 SATA disks. This is the best board to get if you want an Atom-based NAS as far as I can tell...

Pros: Worked perfectly out-of-the-box. Has just about any port type you might want, except DVI/HDMI. Has separate disk controller for 2 extra SATA drives (4 total) plus IDE. Manual is very clear and is written in gramatically correct English. The CPU fan is very quiet, and is normally off or running very slowly. BIOS options are clear and easy to navigate. Ubuntu 10.04 runs with default install with no problems.

Cons: Front panel connections for Audio and USB are at rear of board. No on-board buzzer, so BIOS beep codes are sent to the audio output.

Overall Review: I got this board to replace a dead Shuttle K45 with 1.8 Ghz Celeron. I am running Ubuntu 10.04. This board costs a few $ more than similar boards. I chose it because of the great revews. I am using it for NAS, backup (backuppc), and media server (mediatomb). Backuppc and mediatomb run faster and with less CPU utilization than on the Celeron, due to the dual core. mpstat shows Mediatomb/ffmpeg use about 20% of total CPU capacity when transcoding MP4/h.264 video. Here is my system configuration: -Rosewill RS-MI-01 BK case -2 x Kingston KVR800D2N5/1G RAM -2 WD 1TB Caviar Green SATA HDD -No optical drive. The board booted from my USB DVD drive with no problems.

Pros: Dual Bios, small (well of course!), high quality build, dual DDR2 slots, simple layout.

Cons: CPU fan is tiny...too tiny...but that is an easy fix!

Overall Review: Love the board so far. Oh, and there are OC options...

Pros: 4x SATA. Low power consumption. Works as advertised. Perfect for my Windows Home Server.

Cons: SATA raid and AHCI functionality appears to require a BIOS update. Took a few minutes to find a way to update the BIOS without a floppy (couldn't easily do it from in Windows like with my Intel boards). Still don't have RAID up yet as I'm waiting on some additional drives, so I can't comment, but the performance on single drives seems normal. Realtec NIC required driver updates (in box Windows x64 drivers were terrible). Easy to locate the good drivers. I really would have liked an E-SATA. I have no need for an IDE or parallel port. Seems like an odd combination, but for the money, I can't complain. Fan on CPU is terribly loud, perhaps even a bad berring. Disappointing considering the Atom D510 can probably run without a fan at all (I'm not yet willing to chance it). But it's inside a case now, so it isn't the loudest thing in the room anymore.

Overall Review: Meh. Works as advertised. I wish someone else would come up with a better 4x SATA Atom board for under $100.

Pros: This gigabyte is the best board Ive used yet. It playes my dvd`s ripped to my external hard drive, pluss all of my divix movies. I use it as a media center. Encodes video twice as fast as the previous atom n330 board did. With windows 7 home, the media center is super smooth. Using a watt meter (Killawatt) It uses 24 watts at idle and less than 30 watts at full cpu load. Putting the pc to sleep uses 2.4 watts. It playes 720p video without a problem.

Cons: It wont play newer pc games well, buts thats to be expected. It does play my older game. Wish it had a pcie slot insted of a pci slot.

Overall Review: Makes a great media center platform. I havent tried 1080p videos but I really dont have any.

Pros: In theory... great for a low power NAS solution.

Cons: Ordered first board, received it connected it, powered it on, and all I got were the CPU fan, 2 case fans and my drives spinning. No video, no lights on my keyboard. RMA'd. Received a new one. Same Deal. :( Going to send back for refund.