BIOSTAR PT880 Pro-A7C LGA 775 VIA PT880 PRO ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Motherboard booted right away, no problems, the BIOS was easy to use along with the overclock features.

Cons: The PCI-E x16 slot that the board comes with is not a PCI X16 slot. It is an x4 slot in disguise as an x16. This has brought me no end of grief, while trying to figure out why my video card kept crashing in games. Within windows everything operated fine however.

Overall Review: I just wish it was more apparent that the X16 slot on this board was not a "true" PCI-E x16

Pros: This board truely is the transition from New to Old technology with the ability to either have DDR-2 533 or DDR 400, AGP or PCI-E. This board is like the Jeep Of cars, its rugged and can hadle ALOT, Gret BIOS, easy instructions Great board layout, went in without a hitch, BIOS features are great tons of settings and easily layed out.

Cons: NONE

Overall Review: 1st time Newegg customer, now I will go NOWHERE ELSE

Pros: support for DDR and DDR2 Memory

Cons: Would freeze on start up giving me 2 short beeps sometimes. Would work sometimes and freeze. Mother board got fried when a power outage occurred, the computer was completely off when power outage occurred

Pros: Everything you need to gradually upgrade a budget PC into something worth having.

Cons: With the case I got, the IDE cables were atrociously long and got in the way of putting the drive in.

Overall Review: The board is definitely sturdy. While putting the large heatsink on, I felt like I was going to break the board with the amount of pressure, but it didn't even show the slightest signs of stress.

Pros: Cheap, nice layout, good option for someone not ready to do a full upgrade as it uses both old and new tech. One of the few mobo that supports socket 775 and DDR memory. Also supports DDR2533 and both PCI-E4x and 8xAGP.

Cons: This board uses a "PCI-Extreme" slot which will accomodate a full size pci-e 16x card but will run at 4x which is no better then 8xAGP. Not good for gamers as this is a serious bottleneck.

Pros: agp and pci express (pci quirky, check other thoughts).

Cons: sound is alittle odd, when playing music on windows media player, and i open another program ittt ssstttaaarrrtttsss ttttoooo gggooo llliiikkkeee ttthhhhiiisss. kind of annoying. and the overclocker for it, once it goes up 2 Mhz it crashes (pentium 4 630). i cant click the overvoltage button either. i forgot the first time when i was installing windows, since i had a sata hdd, had to change it in bios from raid to ide. putting boot up/bios password on disables most of the bios options.

Overall Review: manual says "certified cards" (for pci extreme) are: asus x300se asus x550ge asus 5900 elsa x850 elsa x55 elsa 6200 elsa 6600 elsa x700 pro elsa 6600gt gigabyte x700 gigabyte x800 msi x800xl msi 5750 msi x600 nvidia 7800gt nvidia 7800gtx winfast 6800gt im pretty sure thats not MOST pci cards....im gonna try an x1600, hope it works. on box it says gigabit lan, not 10/100

Pros: It eventually worked.

Cons: The first mobo I got was DOA. No video was displayed. I hooked the speaker up, but it made no POST signals. I returned it to Newegg, and they sent me a replacement within a decent timeframe. The second mobo I got came with a corrupt BIOS. It required a floppy diskette to boot from, and since I didn't have a floppy drive, I had to go out and buy one. Why couldn't it just use the optical drive I had installed? Well, after flashing the BIOS, things seemed to work well. It might not sound like much hassle overall, but for me, it was. I spent way more time than I should have because of the problems with this mobo. Proceed at your own risk.

Pros: The Color is Nice

Cons: 1st Board Came defective (CPU Fan header and Memory slot). I rma'd it and newegg sent a brand new replacement board. The next one sent was even worse (Bad CPU fan header..again and No boot at all) I tested all my components in my spare computer and it is definately the board. Also, Biostar has no tech support whatsoever it was really embarassing called 2 seperate days and literally got the same tech who barely spoke english and had absolutely no in depth knowledge of his own product.