Pros: Great feature set: HDMI, Display Port, DVI, Optical Audio, 1394, eSATA, USB 3.0, SATA 6.0 Gbps, PCIe x16 slot, 4 RAM slots, PWM Fan Control, IR Header Runs rock solid, easy to update BIOS with built in flash utility Runs Windows 7 Ultimate perfectly. Boots in about 15 seconds when the BIOS optimization is used.

Cons: The BIOS is UEFI compliant, but isn't a true EFI BIOS. I don't mind this so much because it works right, but some users may think it's a bit older. Still, using the "General Optimization" option in the BIOS will allow it to POST in about 3 - 5 seconds.

Overall Review: Not mentioned in the description of this board is that it has a Consumer IR Header on the board. If you are building a HTPC, get a case with a built in IR receiver and you will not need to add a separate USB device. I have not tested this with Windows Media Center yet, but I would assume that it should work fine with it. Combine this with good quality PWM fans and you can have a good, low cost, silent HTPC.

Pros: Just the thing for my Windows 7 Media Center build. I combined this with a I5-2500K, 4 GB of Corsair RAM. Moneual 320B case, Seasonic S300 power supply, LG Blu-ray drive, WD 2TB AV disk for movies, and an OCZ Agility 2 60 GB drive for the OS. As with most Intel boards, there is no overclocking, but with the H67 there is little opportunity, and in an HTPC there is little need. The system runs very cool with just the power supply fan and a Scythe Shuriken 100 mm CPU cooler. I am considering a bigger heatsink for the H67 itself, as it gets up to 50 degrees or so. I needed a Micro-ATX board with Firewire for my Sony DVD changer, so that narrowed the field down considerably. This board (like most Intel boards) has an Intel Ethernet controller on-board, which is far more efficient and faster than the (usually RealTek) alternatives. Intel provides a lot of technical information about the board on their web site - much more than most other brands.

Cons: Not much tweakability in the BIOS. It is UEFI compliant (so you can use >2.2 TB disks) but you wouldn't know it from seeing it - ASUS's is much flashier. Doesn't look fancy - no giant heatsinks on the power circuitry or anything.

Overall Review: Intel provides information on how to speed up boot time, but be careful - if you select the wrong option something important might be skipped! I had to hard-reset my BIOS after getting too greedy. Even so, with an SSD boot drive the system cold-boots into Windows in about 15 seconds!

Pros: HD video processing ability with i3 on-chip HD 3000 graphics is amazing. Eats HD video for breakfast. Solid board, no issues whatsoever. Video output beautiful. Runs cool and sips power. The fastest system I've ever put together. SATA III and eSata work wonderfully. Have not had a chance yet to use USB 3.0.

Cons: None whatsoever

Pros: Blue PCB looks nice. Boots Ubuntu live and the windows installer

Cons: Would not boot with all 4 memory slots after troubleshooting channel A is dead on arrival. Sata ports semi functional would not install Windows 7 or Ubuntu. Overall think the H67 chipset is hosed since the is the second dead board with that chipset other was from a different manufacturer.

Pros: - Has a decent video capability for Netflix, Hulu and Windows Media Center 7 - No need for a discrete video card for my HTPC uses. - Plenty of features - HDMI out also plays back audio, so there's no need for extra 3.5mm jack hooked up to a TV.

Cons: I took out one egg because there's some issues with my motherboard audio. For some reason, audio does not play for all apps. During the first windows install, all audio plays except for Flash based contents. I needed audio to play via flash for Hulu. So I reformatted and reinstalled Windows. Now, flash audio plays, but not Windows Media Player. I can take that because I dont need to use Windows Media Player. So, I'm happy now but it's still weird and shouldn't be like that at all.

Overall Review: Here's my HTPC setup in case if you guys want to duplicate my machine: 1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive 1 x G.SKILL NS 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9D-4GBNS 1 x Standard A133 Black USB Wired Optical 800 dpi Mouse 1 x SONY Black SATA DVD-ROM Drive Model DDU1681S-0B - OEM 1 x Intel BOXDH67GDB3 LGA 1155 Intel H67 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard 1 x hec Black 0.7mm Thickness SECC Steel 7K09BBA30FNRX Micro ATX Media Center 300W Power Supply / HTPC Case 1 x HDHomeRun DUAL - High Definition Digital TV Tuner (Network Attached) HDHR3-US (Black) by SiliconDust 1 x Intel Core i3-2100T Sandy Bridge 2.5GHz LGA 1155 35W Dual-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I32100T

Pros: Intel NIC, Intel SATA RAID with SATA III. eSATA ports are available to the RAID BIOS. Easy BIOS upgrade. UEFI support. Plenty of USB ports, with USB 3.0 ports. Board seems reliable and gave me no trouble at all.

Cons: If you have a large video card (I have a GTX 560 Ti), you might not be able to remove or add RAM without taking out the card. The red eSATA port (which functions as a regular internal SATA port) may also be partially blocked by the video card cooling box. A right angle SATA cable should deal with this problem. There are only two fan headers for case fans, so you'll need to use PSU adapters for any additional fans.

Overall Review: I didn't care much about the fact this was a Micro ATX board, just the feature set. I have no expansion cards other than the video card. I might consider adding an audio card later, and there's plenty of room for that. I can't fault them for the cramped space around the x16 slot on a board this small. The board's build quality is excellent and all the cons were trivial to work around with spare hardware I have lying around. I mention them only for others' benefit in planning if they decide to go with this board.

Pros: 2 out of 3 of these boards worked fine.

Cons: Ordered three of these boards for a project that had to be completed by 1/31/13. One failed in the middle of a Windows 7 Pro update immediately following the OS installation. I narrowed the problem down to the motherboard by substituting parts. Because of deadlines, I ordered a replacement motherboard instead of RMA'ing the failed motherboard. Got tied up on the project and waited past 30 days (READ THE FINE PRINT) so now there's no RMA from Newegg (have to deal with Intel).

Overall Review: It's been a long, long time since I've had an Intel motherboard or processor go bad, so I guess, overall, the Intel line is pretty good. I have quite a few computers out in the field built with Intel boards and processors that have been running since 2002 and are still going strong.

Pros: Works stably with FreeNAS. Intel NIC, USB 3. Legacy free.

Cons: It's not as the lowest possible power use as it could have been.

Overall Review: I'm not using this full potential. I barely turn on the video. I don't use audio. Only things I'm using are SATA ports, video (occasionally) and 2 USB. Usually, once it boots, it's running quietly as my NAS server running FreeNAS. It's almost an overkill for FreeNAS, but Intel NIC is I'm after. Firewire, eSATA are bonus when I need them. It's up and running a couple of months with no trouble.