Pros: Works wonderfully. There are a few oddities, but it overclocks really well (running at 3.3GHz) and stays cool (35C normally, 50C at peak loads). Running with a Core II Quad 2.4GHz overclocked to FSB412 (1648 equivalent). Passmark rating jumped from 1100 to 1500+ with overclocking, and you can really see/feel the difference with no change in temperature (only slightly bumped the VCore voltage for overclocking). Feels like a very solid platform with tons of features. I like it a lot (upgraded to this board from an MSI board which drove me nuts with random lockups running from the straight BIOS defaults). The intel N/SBridge chipsets I have tried work faster with SATA drives than NVIDIA (almost twice as fast).

Cons: Would not boot into Windows when first got it. Tried a 100 different things and it just refused to work (lot's of blue screens with PAGE_FAULT errors). BIOS Updates didn't help. Finally worked when I just manually set the DRAM speed to what it should have auto-set to (have DDR3-1600 installed). Then it worked great from that point on. Weird ... was the BIOS auto-setting to something faster than that???

Overall Review: The "ASUS Express Gate" is, well, useless. This is a utility that appears BEFORE the normal BIOS startup and is supposed to let you do things like connect to the net. It might be ok if it worked, but I could never make it work during all the trials and tribulations of getting the board to boot Windows. All it did was lock the computer up when I tried to get online with it to search for BIOS updates. So in my mind it failed the only important task it had. Perhaps others will like it more.

Pros: I'm a Dad who wanted to try this computer building himself. ASUS thought this out very well. I built my system for media. It has 192kHz/24bit audio on board that seems to rival my old Creative card on my old system. It also comes with a DSP program SoundMax, you have EQ, Bass management, speaker trim, speaker delay, etc. When I turn this on, it was night & day on sound. Everyone who hears this difference goes, WOW. Another nice feature, is the ASUS Al Booster. I can overclock my Q6600 in Windows, click the speed, reboot, and away we go. If it crashes, it loads the default, and re-starts without a problem. The ASUS UPDATE is slick, load the BIOS on to a flash drive, during POST you go into ASUS EZ FLASH, select the BIOS from the list, and install. Don't forget, I never changed a BIOS in my life till now, this is how well ASUS thought things out for people like me.

Cons: None

Overall Review: NewEgg offereed a combo deal when I purchased, with Corsair 1800 DDR3 - this was listed on the ASUS "qualified vendor list", I stuck with what ASUS recommended - I don't like problems. The complete package comes with everything you can think of - and then some. Final thoughts: 1) DDR3 2) 45nm future processors 3) I really think it's on-board Azalia Codec 192kHz 24bit sound is the best I've heard!

Pros: everything is great! not a single con in the world! you other must have shorted the board or dipped it in water before installing

Cons: being psyched out by negative reviews made me nervous about the purchase

Pros: I'll try to make this short and sweet. Efficient design. Excellent BIOS. Supports my DDR3 1600MHz. Express gate (for instant internet access before booting OS) works with the onboard WiFi @n. Overclocking controlled in OS. Runs 64-bit Vista. Excellent HD audio. 6 SATA ports (but you already knew that). The remote control is a perk I guess. It will turn off the power, access any two applications, go to sleep, and change the performance (AI Gear 3).

Cons: Expensive. I ordered the 92mm Zalman CPU fan to put on the Q6600. It doesn't fit nicely without modifying some of parts, but that's not a fault of the board and I made it work by cutting down some of the extra parts for other chipsets.

Overall Review: The two antennas that come with the board have magnetic bases. Haven't tried the RAID controller. The manual is very well written in english. Comes with 2 optional fans to assist passive cooling (not a CPU fan). This is my first time, but because of this board, I am now a huge ASUS fan.

Pros: Easy to work with layout, dual ethernet cards + wireless (possibly overkill, but pretty sweet). Nice feature for pre-bios post in loading Web Explorer/skype.. Multi-processor compatibility makes it a nice fit for future upgrade.

Cons: FLASH THE BIOS, FLASH THE BIOS, FLASH THE BIOS. I cannot repeat this enough, the mobo is totally unstable until you flash the bios (they have an easy asus-flash program). Get the drivers onto a floppy and FLASH THAT BIOS the first loadup. If you don't, it is prone to randomly not loading and sometimes not responding to keyboard/poweroff commands.

Overall Review: With the bios updated(I just used the latest as of 3/15/08), there are no problems with this mobo. Highly recommended, totally stable and a joy to work with.

Pros: Excellently stability and performance options in BIOS. Layout is nice. It has everything a high-end user would want and more. Another quality ASUS product that I plan to use for at least 4 years.

Cons: The padding on the I/O plate made it hard to seat my motherboard on the tray/mounts in my Silverstone TJ09 case. Had to use a screwdriver and pry off the padding (no big deal). USB, fan socket, and front panel audio plug at bottom of the board was difficult to get to with Crossfire slave card installed in bottom (black) PCIe slot. Those wires have to touch my ATI 3850HD card, which can reach 80C...makes me nervous. These issues are minor. The major issue is with the BIOS. I think ASUS is playing catchup with the BIOS right now to support new DDR3 memory and new CPU's. Default settings in the 601 BIOS that it shipped with did not properly recognize my Patriot 1333Mhz memory. After reading Patriot's specs, I manually edited the voltage and timings for my memory and it works fine. Beware of AI Transaction Booster in the BIOS. It has settings from 1-8, which is misleading. NEVER set it higher than 2 or maybe 3.

Overall Review: Continued from above: I set the Transaction Booster to 4 (middle option) and it rendered my PC a paperweight. BIOS (601) would not post. Monitor wouldn't even get a signal. Had to clear the CMOS and start over. Overall it's a very good board, but the BIOS has a long way to go to catch up with the new memory and CPU's coming on the market. Again if you're an expert (and this is an expert board), then you can tweak it to run rock solid at specs, but you will have to do some tweaking. Also, I would update to the 903 BIOS and then wait a while for another non-beta release.

Pros: Extrem control over every aspect of the system. Makes overclocking to the extreme possible. Full featred with dual Gigabit, 802.11n, native raid, and support for 45nm cpu's. I'm running QX9650 with DDR3 1800 Ram and the mobo is stable at 3.62Ghz with no voltage tweaks. Also has a pre-boot webbrowser in ROM for downloading drivers and such without booting into the OS...very convenient. Plenty of USB2.0 and SATA ports. Excellant cooling heat pipe...system runs very cool and quiet even at 4Ghz!

Cons: The documentation of the BIOS settings is very scant. Most of them are self explanatory, but many are not, and there is no good resource for pinning down what the setting is actually adjusting. The HD-Audio header does not seem to work, but I'm not sure if this is the mobo's fault or a case wiring issue...still troubleshooting. The rear panel HD-Audio is working great.

Overall Review: If you are an extreme overclocker and/or gaming enthusiast you will be very pleased with this mobo, but keep in mind that it is set up for ATI crossfire NOT NVIDIA SLI!

Pros: runs great, for mine everything works, hint=there's alot of drivers for this board. Newest bios update 0903 is pretty good, but a little bugy with there own software. ai tweeker

Cons: x38 is hot! and unstable if it's hot. liquid cooling this (like the maximus) worked for me. Stock was at 45c at idle accordiing to bios at stock speed.

Overall Review: This thiing is great. Very fast, and very stable. 4 gs takes a memory tweak. Use a razor blade with some alcohol to get all there thermal paste off and replace with just some arctic silver 5 and see a modest drop in temps.