Pros: Don't pay attention to the others complaining about heat from CPU - judging from the pictures, they have changed the heatsink. I received one noticably larger than the one shown on Aopens web, so the company must have addressed it. Running 28 C. Fast and silent board.

Cons: Headers for items + no connectors = needless suffering. No connector included for lpt port, firewire, serial (but headers on the board for all three) Also, the small size of the board puts the header for floppy disk in bad location under pci card.

Overall Review: NewEgg Legendary Service - Try to beat this one - I placed order for MB,memory,processor at 7:30 PM eastern, ship overnight, and paid the extra 2.00 rush, thinking I had missed the deadline and would get it in two days. Not with NewEgg. It was at my doorstep at 9:00AM the next day!!

Pros: everthing onboard, so it fits nicely in a sff case (antec aria). great mobo for a media center pc.

Cons: even with the newer heat sink, pentium M 740 (1.73GHz, 533MHz fsb) runs ~50deg C when idle and ~80deg C under sustained heavy load. however, the processor docu claims it can run ~100deg C without damage, so i guess it's ok.

Overall Review: although the processor runs at ~50deg C, my case temp has never gotten above 32deg C. having everything onboard helps with potential airflow problems in a sff case.

Pros: Lots of features for a mATX board. Perfect board for a home server - low power usage, fast, supports plenty of drives, dual GBE ports, odds are you have DDR1 or DDR2 laying around for it.

Cons: No major cons if you put some time into the board. The fan on the heatsink looks somewhat cheap. I may replace mine, but only out of paranoia, not actual experience. The heatsink itself had noticable grooves on the bottom (ok, noticable to an overclocker) and was very slightly concave. Took a fair amount of lapping to fix it, but I can imagine this helps temps a few degrees.

Overall Review: Received my board ~1 month ago, and it did have the new (larger) heatsink. I may make a shroud for the heatsink that fits over the sides (top part), forcing air to enter from the bottom and cross more of the HS. As-is, I'd imagine that air only moves across the very top of the HS, while the heat is at the bottom. If anything, this should really help temps.

Pros: Both Dothan AND Banias support!!! DVI and YPbPr HDTV Output! DDR and DDR2 support! SATA and SATA2 support! PCIe x16 and x1 slot! Serial, Parallel, USB, Firewire ports via headers (some people wish they put ports, but headers work for me)

Cons: Picky about DDR ram, must be DDR333 (PC2700), anything else is flakey. CPU Placement a bit odd (quite near the front of the board, could cause issues in some circumstances)

Overall Review: I had the MSI board also listed on the egg, I ended up having to exchange it for this board, due to the lack of Banias support on their part, and boy am I glad that I did! This board is great, and supports all of the current Pentium M processors I have thrown at it. DDR support is a little flakey, but thats a chipset limitation apparently, use DDR2 and you'll be golden.

Comments: I had a completely bad experience with this motherboard. I paired it with a 1.6GHz Dothan, and it kept changing the clock rate to 2.1GHz, which combined with the weak proprietary cooler included with the board, caused severe instability and may have damaged the CPU. A BIOS update had no effect on this problem. The warranty is void for overclocked CPUs so I had to eat that loss, but for the board, Newegg's return process was quite painless :)

Comments: This motherboard simply is not worth the money. First of all, the stock cooler isn't large enough to even cool a 27w Pentium M; what's worse, you can't use another heatsink (even those designed for Pentium 4's) because the holes for the heatsink are in nonstandard locations. On top of that, I had to RMA my board because it was faulty; AOpen's contractors in CA simply returned my motherboard after holding onto it for two weeks, with no explaination whatsoever. You can't get in touch with an engineer when you call them (and they don't have an 800 number.) I'll prob'ly never buy from AOpen again.

Comments: The idea is great but an unusual CPU model and bad heatsink makes the board unusable. I bought a regular MB and a HD graphical card instead.

Comments: First board I got was DOA, just got my replacement and it didn't work as well as I hoped for. The CPU is running hot and you can not use any other fans since mounting is custom.