Pros: IEEE-1394 (Firewire), PCI-E gigabit LAN, dual graphics including Crossfire, Conroe support, 4 DDR2 RAM slots, and on-board 7.1 audio for under $100? Sign me up! Has a 20-pin ATX power connector and 4-pin auxiliary ATX power connector, so you can use an older power supply that doesn't have the more modern 24-pin and/or 8-pin connectors.

Cons: AMI BIOS is terrible; offers few configurable options and very poor overclocking support. You can't adjust your Vcore at *all*. Spotty documentation doesn't have any descriptions of BIOS settings, but lots of info on setting up RAID. Has hard 300 MHz FSB wall, so a terrible overclocking board. Review at vr-zone.com has more details, but what they *don't* tell you is that for CPUs reporting 133 MHz (e.g. the very popular Pentium 805 D) this wall pops up at a mere 150 MHz FSB! Definitely not the board for anyone looking to overclock an 805 D. No rear IEEE-1394 port; you need to use a bracket in a PCI slot. (Not an issue for me since I'm not using the second PCI-E slot.)

Overall Review: Fantastic feature set and price point for anyone looking to run at stock speeds or a mild overclock. Most definitely not an overclocker's board due to low FSB overclock capabilities.

Pros: Easy install. Cheap for my Core 2 6300. Cheap for board with good features. Did not need to update the mobo, recognized Core 2, ram was Corsair, used a leftover video card and was good to go. Took about 70 minutes to install everything into case and boot os. Installed 2 sata drives Raid 0, was a breeze.

Cons: Don't get it for overclocking. ESATA does not work at all on mine. Manual is a joke. Only page useful is the first page of mobo map.

Overall Review: Pretty good for the price and Asrock has a pretty decent rep. Check out the open stock items, I've seen some at dirt cheap prices here w/free shipping.

Pros: Cheap Price, Core 2 duo, CrossFire, PCI-E Gigabit LAN, PCI Firewire, ICH7R (NCQ SATA II 3.0Gb/s, RAID), 20 pin ATX power, DDR2 667 x4, Passive Heatsink, Microsoft WHQL/WLP 3.0 audio

Cons: Only Dual PCI-E 4X for CossFire, Right now only o/c my e6300 7x300MHz max (bios v1.40), Multiplier Locked, 1x PATA

Overall Review: It was work out of the box with my e6300 with bios v1.10 (not o/c), Well for the price i cant complaint :)

Pros: - Great set of features - FireWire incorporated - RAID support - Gigabit Lan - eSATA - 4 DDRII slots up to 4GB - A lot if includded add-on hardware (cables, power wires, etc)

Cons: - no Video included for non gamers users. - Bios is kind of 'basic' - Front panel audio connector is very far from front pannel, my cable was not long enough to get the connector - If you use a PCIExpress x16 video Card, PCIE x1 slot will be unavailable because the card will cover it and there is no other PCIe x1 slot on this MOBO

Overall Review: Great performance with a Core2duo T6420 @2.13GHz, 512x2 Kingston Value RAM and 2 x WD 160GB SATAII in RAID-0 configuration.

Pros: Outstanding feature set, RAID, external SATA, firewire, fairly hassle free layout.

Cons: Board had trouble posting from day one. There might be something to the presence of so many DOA reports here?

Overall Review: From moment one, I Had to perform a little voodoo on it (cycling power at the power supply, hitting reset a few times, etc.) in order to get it to properly POST, other wise it would spin up its fans but produce no video signal. After running ok for a week, I powered it off for the night, came back, powered it on and same result as before - fans spinning up, no BIOS beep codes, and no POST or video signal. I build computers as a side business, so I have lots of spare boards on my build bench as well as power supplies, video cards etc. so I was able to swap out every conceivalbe component and after systematically isolating every possible fail point, I was left with nothing but the motherboard as the culprit. It's really too bad, because the board seemed to possess the features my client wanted at the price he was aiming for. Maybe this was just bad luck, but with so many others complaining of DOA, I maybe should have paid better attention.

Pros: The price is great, and you get so many features -- 4 RAM slots, firewire, etc. I don't overclock, I just want a motherboard that works and this one was highly recommended by computer sites.

Cons: To install XP with a SATA drive you need SATA drivers on a floppy. The stupid thing doesn't come with a floppy! You have to boot from their support CD to make a floppy. BUT you need an already formatted floppy, because the format command "can't be found". Annoying, but oh well. I ended up finding a formatted floppy somewhere and making the driver disk, but XP didn't recognize the HD anyway, had to install it in IDE mode.

Overall Review: The only work around I've found for not being able to find your SATA HD in XP installation is: http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t457699.html Will try it tonight

Pros: Same as before

Cons: OK then. With the help of CPU-Z I discovered that my board is REV:A2 and it is showing not the advertised I945p chipset but the i945G/GZ. I couldn't believe my eyes.I have a call into AsRock for an explanation. So beware and forewarned. Is AsRock trying to cut corners? Bait and switch?

Overall Review: I hope this makes it through the newegg censors. I wish I could post my CPU_Z copy here. Have it posted at OCW (Asrock intel boards)forums

Pros: none on this ocasion

Cons: The one I got was doa. Newegg rma'd it for me and instead of giving it another shot I got an asus p5v-e instead