Pros: Easy Easy EASY to overclock. If you screw up the board automatically does a double boot and knocks your cpu FSB down to it's original speed. Don't let the P31 Northbridge scare you...it's just as quick as the P35 and,due to the ICH7 Southbridge, it's a bit more stable. If you can deal with "only" having 4 onboard USB ports and 4 SATA ports then this board is perfect. Popped in my E4400 and lowered the Multiplier to 9 and upped the FSB to 333 and had a 3.0Ghz chip. The Driver disk was a dream to use, I usually hate the driver disks packed with anything, but Gigabyte does a great job. I can't stress enough how great this thing it overclocks, the MIT (Gigabyte overclocking menu) is easy to use but it's very flexible. I thought the Layout was very effective and easy to use. It's a nice skinny board and easy to drop into almost any mid-atx case.

Cons: Only two DDR2 slots, but if you don't plan to use a 64-bit OS, then two sticks of one gig sticks will work just fine. One PATA port. I'd recommend an all SATA set up anyway and 4 SATAs are fine. Wish The board was covered in Solid State Capacitors like Gigabytes higher end board, but it is meant to be a budget motherboard so what can you expect.

Overall Review: Trying to get this board approved to be used for gaming machine's for my companies Cafe Platform, but that pesky start up screen with bios options it killing that idea. If Gigabyte offered a BIOS without those options we can order the 1000+ boards we need, because it fits the bill in every way. It's fast, stable, reliable, easy to install and configure.

Pros: Cheap. Performs as expected. Lots of BIOS options. Everything needed for most computer builds. Packaged materials and manuals are very good.

Cons: Has tons of OC options in Bios, but without adequate northbridge cooling, this board is an OC no-go. I OC'd a e6750 to 3.0 Ghz (375 mhz FSB) and it ran Prime95 for 24 hours. But when I powered down and put my finger on the northbridge heatsink, it was very warm, uncomfortable to the touch. Also, I installed the OS (Win Vista) BEFORE checking the BIOS thinking auto settings would be okay until I got the OS loaded. After running CPU-Z I noticed that it was running at 2.331 Ghz, and the cpu core voltage was 1.45! Back to the Bios where the auto settings dictated max factory recomended voltage, and a FSB multiplier of only 7. Switching to manual mode and entering correct factory specs fixed the problem, but it would be nicer if AUTO settings put in the factory defaults.

Overall Review: The box will not work as a mouse pad. I thought I had a bad mouse, but it turns out that the funny reflective surface of a Gigabyte box renders the box completly useless when trying to use it as an optical mouse pad. Fortunately, I was able to use the box from my ATI Saphire Video card to operate my optical mouse. All in all though, I think this is a great bang for the buck board with good performance for non-overclocking.

Pros: First off Newegg has best shipping in the business. This board was very easy install and supports all nextgen processors. Vista installed without a hitch in less than 20 min.

Cons: None so far

Overall Review: Buy quality you get quality.

Pros: I bought thus to run an E2140. It arrived with the F1 BIOS. This BIOS is a real problem. CPU would not run at 2.4Ghz. If you restarted the computer it would shut down. I would have to press power on several times to get it to boot and it revert to default CPU speed. The CPU runs at 3.0GHz in my 965P-S3 board. Problem was solved by flashing to F3 BIOS. This becomes a good stable board with the F3 BIOS.

Cons: F1 BIOS is a disaster.

Overall Review: This board with F3 BIOS seems faster a 965P board even though it uses an ICH7 Southbridge. The P31 chipset seems pretty good. It becomes an excellent Gigabyte motherboard with the F3 BIOS.

Pros: UPDATE - Got my e2200 to 3.6Ghz stable! I use this board as a another gamer rig for my g/f. I have a 3870, this, e2200@3.6, 2gig 1066 ram, 160gig HD, this machine flys. In most games she is getting frames almost as high as my rig(rampage,2x3870,4gig 1200mhz, q6600@3.87)

Cons: Overclocking to 3.6 was not easy, it took alot of manipulation of the voltages and FSB. Make sure you have good ram and you will be OCing like crazy! Now overclocking the proc to 3 ghz, that was a breeze, a beginner could do it with ease. For a cheap mobo like this, its definitly a winner - I cant believe it hasnt won a customer choice award!!! - IT DESERVES IT! best price/performance out right now

Overall Review: For the reviewer who stated he couldnt get the 1066 ram to run, sometimes you have to boot the mobo with ddr2 800, then manually set your timings and voltages to what your 1066 needs. Then shutdown, pop in the fast memory, and your up and away!! I had to do that with my gskill 1066, but its pretty simple.

Pros: Price, can run quad-core in the future, is OCing my little E2140 to 2.6 happily as we speak and has SOME solid-state caps at least. I only can relate my own experiences so I cant really comparison it with higher end boards that I dont own, but I've had absolutely no problems with it. Sound is excellent to my non-discerning ears at least. I like having 3 pci slots - I sometimes will need them (I do some serial programming and need 2 for multi-serial adapters I use). I also like that it still has the old 9pin serial port. So many have done away with it and left nothing in its place. It's like the floppy connector - it may not see any use, but dont pitch it without a good reason!

Cons: I do wish it had 4 mem slots. I dont lower my rating because I had the specs going in and knew the tradeoffs. But I've got 2 1-gig 800 sticks and, though I dont anticipate needing more anytime soon, I know if I do I'll have to chuck those and replace them. Not a big con because I knew it going in so I wont lower the rating.

Overall Review: Paired it with 2 AData 800MHz 1 gig sticks and bumped fsb to 333. Letting MB auto-choose the voltage, though I understand I could probably lower it somewhat manually and help temps more - but it's not too hot as is and it's stable so I'm content. Bios is pretty friendly for someone who's pretty technically astute but not a guru at oc-ing.

Pros: Great board.Does EXACTLY what I want it to do.I am having no problems whatsoever.I'll post a new review regarding this board if something goes wrong,but...

Cons: You must be kidding,right?

Overall Review: My configuration (try not to laugh):this board,a E6550,2*2GB Kingston DDR2,Ultra 600W PSU,2* Lite-ON sata LH-20A1S dvd burners,Koutech IO-RCM620 card reader,ASUS EN8500GT 256M video card,500gb Seagate HD,arctic cooling freezer 7 pro cpu HSF,arctic silver for the cpu/hsf all mounted in a Tagan/Aplus CS Monolize 2 case with two 12 cm fans to help the 25 cm one. It's not much,but it serves my purposes just fine.

Pros: Great board! One thing that really stood out is that it feels really solid. This thing could take a bullet! Ok...maybe just a BB :P Placement of everything is good too. Easy to get to everything although I would recommend plugging in the 4-in power before you put on your CPU fan. There are no plugs hidden next to the PCI Express x16 like on some boards. Supports FSB1333! Good price for the quality, features, layout and number of slots. I put a Core 2 Duo E8400 in it and this thing is fast!

Cons: Nothing yet (fingers crossed)