Pros: Have had no problems setting up board with Intel E6750 processor and Geil Ultra ddr2 800mhz memory 2X1GB (the orange heatspeaders). It fired up perfectly, although timings were 5-5-5-12. That was easily fixed in the bios. I loaded Windows XP SP2 in 14 minutes on raid 0 harddrives, WD 160GB 8mb cache.The onboard video is not bad for everyday things but it is not for hard gaming.Includes esata bracket which worked well. The onboard audio does not sound bad either. Front panel audio connections on my Cooler Master Glite case hooked up easily to the onboard audio. I am also using sata optical drives by lite-on. One is lightscribe dvd burner and the other is a dvd rom drive. They seem to be alot faster than the ide optical drives. 4 usb ports on back panel and 4 usb headers =12 ports! System runs very cool, cpu at 71 degrees and the case at 100 degrees after 3 hours of being used. Using intel cpu cooler and antec 550 watt power supply with no problems.

Cons: No Cons yet!

Overall Review: It would have been nice for gigabyte to include a 1394/usb header as well to use some of the internal ports. Newegg delivered fast as always. Great job Newegg!!

Pros: 12 USB ports. 3 Firewire ports. 4 RAM slots. 6 SATA ports w/ RAID. Gb LAN. HD Audio. PCIe 16X and 4X. Quad core capable. Immediately compatible with Windows Vista. Over-clocking options.

Cons: The Aux Fan power connector and Front Panel Audio connectors are in a bad spot for small cases. (No that bad really) Just make sure you hook these up before installing anything that would obstruct access.

Overall Review: After going through a nightmare with the Abit Fatal1ty F-190HD board, I had this board shipped next day and had it completely installed and drivers loaded in less than an hour. (After over 6 hours with the Fatal1ty, resulting in a horribly unstable system). Everything is running rock solid now. Incredibly painless install! I HIGHLY recommend this!

Pros: This is the Intel m-atx cube tinkerer's dream motherboard. Tons of voltage and clock settings in the bios as well as an automatic voltage regulator setting that makes overclocking easy. Paired up with an E2160 Allendale and I've overclocked 3.2 Ghz on stock cooling. Love the solid capacitors and ferrite core chokes.

Cons: Nothing big. The system fan header is between the cpu and the atx connectors making it hard to get to in my m-atx cube case. No free shipping or mail in rebates I guess is the only other gripe?

Overall Review: Loving it!

Pros: All the drivers I needed were available either through Giga-byte.com or Intel.com or Asus.com. Got it up quickly.

Cons: Had to do some research to find an x64 dirver for the 8111B NIC. None available on the Giga-byte.com site.

Overall Review: Found a driver through Google for the Realtek 8111B NIC. The Asus P5ND2 driver brought the NIC right up. I also pulled down the current Intel Matrix Storage Manager from the Intel site instead of using the Gigabyte driver. Running two Raid 1's on the Gigabyte with no issues. This is my first time back to Gigabyte since the Server 2000 days when the I had major compatibility issues. Looks like in this case, they have the right stuff.

Pros: Lots and lots of onboard connectors for USB and firewire. Powerful. 6 SATA ports. Solid Vista 64-bit drivers. Blue PCB is pretty. BIOS is very tweakable. BIOS Is update able via USB drive (seems minor, but it's nice).

Cons: My first board had a defective LAN port. It seems obvious now (no lights w/ Cat5e plugged in, not visible in Vista- no unknown devices, no network). The main puzzling thing (that I should have recognized) was that the Onboard LAN option (enable/disable) was completely missing from the BIOS, and the Network Cable Test option was "grayed out". I spent quite a bit of time troubleshooting it before I figured it out.

Overall Review: Newegg got me the replacement quickly (overnight via UPS Ground) and compensated me in full for the defective mobo, so I'm an extremely happy camper. I'd definitely buy this board from again.

Pros: Many features, many connections. Overclocking in the BIOS was an absolute breeze. Very attractive mobo as well, for those that have cases you can see into.

Cons: None that I can think of. This was the first computer I've built, and the first one I've overclocked, and it couldn't have been easier.

Overall Review: OCed a Q6600 to 2.7 with this, no problem. Sooo easy with the BIOS tweaker settings. Heat was the only limiting factor, which makes sense, given that we're running a quad in a very restrictive case, with the stock heat sink no less. If you're looking to overclock a micro ATX setup, this is the board for you. If you're just building a regular, non-intensive daily driver, get a cheaper board.

Pros: This motherboard has everything you need in a MicroATX form factor. I haven't tried overclocking, but it runs rock solid at standard settings.

Cons: The BIOS it shipped with was incompatible with the Intel Core2Duo E6850. It read it wrong and caused lots of problems. Once I updated the BIOS (which was super easy with their QBIOS thing) it worked great.

Overall Review: Just make sure you grab the latest BIOS if you have the latest CPUs. Also, "Ctrl-F1" in the BIOS enables all of the options (such as RAM timings)... otherwise some are hidden. Who knows why they do it this way, but keep that in mind.

Pros: Super Motherboard and even has RAID 10. Cpu Overclocking is excellent. The Best micro ATX motherboard period... Its worth the price. Made with super high quality components. Even comes with 2 external eSATA with power connector which will occupy 1 slot on your case but super cool because you can use the external eSATA drives as part of the internal RAID system with support for up to 8 hd's. I have 2 of the older but incredible Raptor 36gb 10,000 Striped in RAID 0 and an 500GB storage drive all in a uATX case. Using 6750 oc to 3.2ghz with 2900pro oc to 700/900 and case temp maxes out at 35 degrees and 15K 3d05, 8000 3d06 all in a micro ATX case. Has 1 fault!!!!

Cons: Very Limited Memory (RAM) overclocking. You cannot adjust the timing of the ram u use. I am stuck with what the MB wants to use. The are only 2 options for Overclocking RAM, Option 1 and Option 2 with absolutely NO EXPLANATION as to what the differences are between the 2. You can select Turbo or Extreme for memory settings but thats the limit to you're overclocking ability. I'm OCing the 800mhz ram to 960 mhz and the MB automatically sets timing to 4,4,4,12 in extreme mode which is great but I want more control, or at least the ability to control my ram timings.

Overall Review: Overall Excellent for the price. The Extra Durable is 100% real. Capacitors and transistors are industrial grade and this is hands down the BEST built micro ATX board out right now. Apart from not being able to manually set the ram timings this board is perfect.