Pros: If you arent ready to do a full upgrade, then i suggest this board. it worked okay for me. i am now about to get my 2900pro and see how well it works with the "4x" pci-e16.

Cons: having issues with running multiple hdds on the sata ports. i may need to possibly update the bios to fix this issue.

Overall Review: wished there was a firmware update to push pci-e16 port to atleast 8x

Pros: This mobo was easy to install right out of the box. I got this and a e4400 cpu for around 180 bux. After some tweaking on the stock OEM fan I've OC'd this badboy to 3.0ghz from 2.0ghz which is a 50% oc on some cheapo ddr 400 @ Cas3. You simply cant beat the amount of features and what you get overall for the price. Id use this mobo again for any of my friends on a tight budget looking for a great option to later to upgrade.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: Don't be foold about the PCIx 4x test show its just as fast as 16x go do your research.

Pros: If it had worked would have made a good tide me over board.

Cons: DOA, PCIe is only 4x, Very akward positions of ide connectors and power connectors.

Pros: After the first one i got came with a bad heat sync connector i rma'd it outstanding customer svc on neweggs part

Cons: none

Overall Review: great for the person who wants to have the option between using their old agp card or getting a pci-e latter

Pros: great price, agp and pci-e!

Cons: none so far

Overall Review: worked the first time with no problems

Pros: None

Cons: Board does not run Q6600 quad core as advertised.Only runs if processor and memory are UNDERCLOCKED BELOW RATED SPEEDS.

Pros: Upgraded 4 systems in one day using this board. Price. Extremely easy install. Effortless overclock of C2D E4400 to 2.66GHz @ stock voltage on all 4 systems. No compatibility issues with any of the hardware used on this board. Allowed re-use of AGP cards that were still quite adequate, with a future path to PCI-E available without having to upgrade mobo at the same time. On-board sound is quite good. Mature mobo drivers. C2Q compatible. AGP 8x/PCI-E. DDR or DDR2. Systems have been very stable. I'm really pleased with this mobo, while not an enthusiast level product, it meets it's intended purpose and then some. As always, well packed and quick service from Newegg.

Cons: Documentation was adequate, but a little on the sparse side for "the average Joe". Only one case fan header. Location of the floppy header is quite a stretch for the average mid-tower ATX case. Only 2 DIMM sockets (for either DDR or DDR2) limits you to a max of 2GB of either type of RAM. SATA is only 1.5Gbps (not that big of a deal though). PCI-E slot is a physical x16, but only an electrical x4 (DX10 mid-upper to high level graphics card will result in approximately 5-15% decrease in performance). Really insignificant cons for the price and what this product is intended for.

Overall Review: Recently purchased 4 of these to upgrade wife's and kids' PCs. Decided to go with 2GB Corsair DDR2-675 and E4400 on all of them. All using previous AGP cards (1 VisionTek X1950 Pro, 1 ATI X1600 Pro and 2 Sapphire X800 XLs). Upgraded 2 Athlon XP 2600+/nForce 2 (Chaintech 7NJL1) based rigs that only required a boot of XP into safe mode to uninstall the nVidia drivers and detect new hardware. Other 2 systems were an Intel 848P/Celeron 3.0GHz (QDI P2PE/800 Pro) and Intel 845/P4 2.53GHz (Asus P4PE), both required a repair install of XP, as they would not boot past AGP440.sys in any mode. Everyone is happy with their "new" systems, as am I (<$250 per system for mobo/CPU/RAM for a very competent PC that games rather well for the kids with the X1950 and X800s, and makes short work of everything my wife throws at hers).

Pros: Met my goals of supporting legacy elements. Fail-safe BIOS that does not require disconnecting the the CMOS battery to reset to default. Saved me many time as I messed with the BIOS (see below).

Cons: Unstable- intermittently will simply totally freeze. Sometimes reboots on its own. Many of the BIOS settings are arcane. Asked ASRock for explanation of just one (HD Strength) they told me to read the manual which says nothing. Rate their customer support a zero!

Overall Review: The lack of an explanation for every BIOS option is very bad. I could spend years trying different combinations and would probably break something. To me this is a major drawback.