Pros: Great board. Worked from first boot, no issues at all. Hooked straight up to a HDTV via HDMI from the first boot, again no issues at all. Great board for a HTPC.

Cons: The only thing I could possibly find a issue with is the amount of RAM slots. But can expect everything for the cost of the board, and form factor

Overall Review: Used this for a system build for my friend. Specs: AMD Athlon II x2 240 4Gb's of G. Skill DDR2 800 Silverstone 400watt PSU 320GB WD Blue Onboard graphics Rosewill mini atx case Made for a great HTPC.

Pros: Works wonderfully, small, quiet (no fans on board itself). I am using it for a home server, so I did not buy for performance, although poking around in the BIOS looks like its highly configurable for what you pay for.

Cons: The only real con I came across was that the plug for the fan is not configurable via the bios, meaning its all the way on, no throttling on the fan. All in all not a big deal, just wondering how its almost 2010 and things like this aren't standard

Overall Review: Great board, cheap, does the job. Dont expect miracles, but you definitely get a good deal!

Pros: No troubles at all. The 'H' at the end of GA-MA78LM-S2H stands for HDMI - when I bought this board, the GA-MA78LM-S2 was also available without the HDMI port at the same price, so...buy this one :)

Cons: According to the manual and BIOS, you can't use both the onboard DVI and HDMI at the same time; only VGA+DVI -OR- VGA+HDMI. I have not tried this though, and since the monitor for this PC is d-sub only I guess I don't care.

Overall Review: I only bought this board because I had an extra Windsor-core 125W Athlon x2 6000+; the CPU support list for this board explicitly lists that chip. Otherwise I would definitely go with an ati 4200-based board. I still wonder if some 4200-based boards would take that CPU but I didn't want any hassle if it didn't.

Pros: Good layout, stable, lots a features for a Micro ATX board.

Cons: As with all Micro ATX boards, some things are cramped.

Overall Review: This is being used for a basic system, and as such it preforms quite well. It's flexible with both IDE and SATA on-board. The on-board video handles enough to properly run a decent amount of things. Everything is well placed to help with the space. I built this for general use, not gaming. As such, it's holding up well with Windows XP. The on-board video does seem to do well, though I have not tried Windows Vista or 7 on it. Just a heads up, be ready to update the BIOS. it's extremely easy these days, and this board uses a backup BIOS just in case something goes wrong.

Pros: boots so fast coupled with amd XII 240 I can hardly catch the bios in time.Booted first try and every try after that.

Cons: boots too fast- No cons at all does what I bought it for.

Overall Review: antec 500w power,this board,AMD XII 240,2gb kingston 667 ram,8600gt,onboard sound,HP 2009 lcd screen.western digital 320gb hdd.could not be more pleased.

Pros: Gigabyte makes good boards. This one is no exception. Good performance for price with lots of features.

Cons: Bootable USB on this board is completely broken. Even upgraded the BIOS to F7. Tested the media I was booting with on other machines and it's definitely the board's BIOS. Ended up plugging a DVD drive so a SATA port and booting into WinPE to get the WHS installation process rolling. Previous revisions of this board had 6 SATA ports, this one has only 4.

Overall Review: If you don't need to boot from USB or know what you're doing, this is a great board.

Pros: great little board. Has everything you'd need for an HTPC. Very well laid out.

Cons: No 1394. But that's not why I bought it.

Overall Review: Thought it was interesting that there wasn't seperate hookups for ps/2 mouse and keyboard. no worries for me, but just make sure. supports raid. I set this up pretty quickly!

Pros: Lots of internal features. I bought this in building an HTPC for a friend and got kinda jealous while running through the BIOS options. Pretty decent overclocking platform in the BIOS, and a very nice little tool to adjust clock speeds from within the OS, while running Prime. Worked well without any problems at all. That's always a plus.

Cons: Low on peripherals: only 4 internal USB (two pairs), 2 memory slots, and no Firewire. Although I bought this for an HTPC and the lack of stuff I don't really need was part of the reason. Overclocking platform (between BIOS and OS) isn't very intuitive and doesn't provide direct access to several things. Still worked great for my purposes.

Overall Review: Very, very happy for what I got.