Pros: Loaded with advanced features to enhance remote manageablity and security. This message on the DQ67SW Motherboard is in response to “fl0w’s” Dell PCIe Raid controller issue. The Dell PERC 6/i RAID controller is proprietary as is most of Dell’s PC devices. Your RAID device is only compatible with a Dell PC. Here is an excerpt of page 16 of your device’s manual: NOTE: Windows XP and Windows Vista are supported with a PERC 6 controller only when the controller is installed in a Dell Precision workstation. The DQ67SW has on-board Rapid Storage Technology and is fully capable of handling RAID configurations without an add-on card. You rated an outstanding motherboard only 1-egg for the wrong reasons. After all, it is you who's not following guidelines for your add-on card. Just a reminder; your first line of assistance when troubleshooting an issue is the product manual.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: Operator errors should'nt affect ratings.

Pros: - Rock solid - Great manageability & security features I purchased this board for my home workstation primarily because it offered Intel's vPro technology and an integrated TPM. The physical layout of the board offered no hurdles while I was building my system, and the BIOS setup was a breeze. I've been running this board constantly since I installed it about 4 months ago without any major issues.

Cons: - Too few USB 3.0 ports - DVI strangeness - Backplate/shield doesn't fit the DisplayPort The motherboard includes just two USB 3.0 ports on the back panel... That's it. No USB 3.0 internal headers at all. I have encountered some minor issues: My secondary display, which is plugged into the DVI-D port, sometimes displays incorrectly, with the desktop extending slightly below the bottom edge of the display (otherwise, the image fits perfectly on the display). I've used both of my displays with three other computers, and none of them have exhibited a similar behavior. Finally, the DisplayPort doesn't quite fit the IO backplate (shield) that came with my motherboard. Not a big deal, but it will require some finessing when I'm ready to use the DisplayPort.

Overall Review: Despite my complaint about the lack of USB 3.0 ports, I haven't actually had a chance to use a USB 3.0 enabled device with this motherboard. I've read about other people experiencing issues, but can't substantiate any of those claims. If you're not interested in the vPro and TPM features of this motherboard, buy something else. The DQ67SW is aimed at business markets. Without much/any overclocking support or advanced graphics features like SLI, this motherboard doesn't make for a very good enthusiast product.

Pros: Good solid motherboard, lots of connectors, great price.

Cons: Would not let me manually set my RAM settings. I purchased nicer 7-7-7-21 RAM, but this motherboard reports it as 9-something. If I try and manually setup the RAM I can only adjust the voltage. This is the second Intel MB I've used that won't let me control the RAM settings. Why offer a manual config option if it doesn't work?

Overall Review: This is a great motherboard, especially for the price. Before buying I was concerned because I read a review saying there was a bug in the Intel video driver and you could not run 2 DVI monitors. I'm pleased to report that it works great. I'm running 2 monitors connected to the 2 DVI jacks with my desktop extended across the two displays.

Pros: This board is awesome it has a lot of nice features one of them is the fast boot I'm running a SSD with that feature on and loads Win7-Pro 64 from pushing the power-on to the desktop in less than 20 seconds. Also has USB-3 and SATA-3 which I'm not using righty now.

Cons: I do not see any, the insatallation was flawless and simple, bios update was a flash.

Overall Review: I'm use an Inwin case BK623, SMALL mATX Intel SSD 80 GB 320 Serie 8GB Ram 1333 Mhz Dual 27" ASUS Monitor Intel i7-2600

Pros: Love Intel's quality and reliability.

Cons: This board/chip set seems divided by video support, not all 1155 processors are supported. BEFORE completing this purchase go to Intel's support site and check the compatibility chart. Make sure the processor is supported by this board!

Overall Review: Dropped one egg for Intel's part the other for Newegg's. After using Newegg exclusively for several years this has been my only unpleasant experience.

Pros: On-board TPM is pretty much the reason you'd be considering this board, and it does do its thing. I've bought an encrypted hard drive, and am using the Embassy app to tie it to the TPM, and works great. This cryptographically binds the hard drive to the TPM on the motherboard - so if/when you throw the hard drive away, nobody will be able to extract anything off of it.

Cons: Getting strangeness when trying to use VMware Player 5 with this board: I can't get the VMware Tools to install into any VM (tried WinXP, Win Vista, Win 7, Ubuntu). Fails with a VMware Player "certificate server error." Have swapped out CPU, drives, memory, and get the problem no matter what, so am concluding it is something strange with this board. Do not have that problem on another PC (which has an ASUS motherboard).

Overall Review: Am not certain the VMware problem is caused by the motherboard, but have tried everything I can think of, and noting works. Also looked for advice on VMware support site, and nothing suggested has worked so far.

Pros: I bought this board because it explicitly states that it supports VT-d, it is one of a very few that do

Cons: First one was DOA. Got a RMA replacement, the second one was also DOA. At some point I have to just stop wasting $15 to ship these boards back. I got a gigabyte instead, booted up first time like it should.

Pros: Stable and solid. Running Win 7 64bit. Using this mobo for a surveillance dvr. It's been great. This CPU N82E16819115071 This Raid Controller N82E16816103230 This memory N82E16820231417 This chassis N82E16811165288

Cons: none