Pros: Great motherboard with an awesome feature set. 8 Sata ports pretty much gives you the ability to make a nice mini server with all different types of RAID configuration. A good on board video card for streaming video and audio to TV and reciever.

Cons: EVGA support not quite so knowledgable. I give the board 5 eggs, but the support 2 eggs. I spent 30-40 minutes on the phone with EVGA's "RAID expert" which then after exhausting his knowledge quickly came to the conclusion that I couldn't set up a RAID 5 with 4 x 1.5TB drives, and a 320GB drive running the OS. OS versions that we tried were Vista Home Premium x86 and Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I then went to my company's system administrator whom sets up RAID's only a daily basis and he had it up and running in less than an hour. EVGA's lame excuse was the MOBO couldn't handle more than 2TB on a logical drive. Which is in somepart true only if you are running the OS on that drive which I wansn't. So much for EVGA having a true RAID master. He was more focused on selling me a RAID card that wasn't at all necessary. Instructions on setting up a RAID on Windows 7 in other thoughts.

Overall Review: In order to setup a RAID on this computer there are several steps that need to be taken prior to even installing an OS. 1. Connect your DVD & HDD that is running the OS only to the RED JMB SATA ports. 2. Connect the rest of the HDD's to the black and blue SATA ports. This will seperate the two different controllers that are on the MOBO. 3. Power up PC and enter the BIOS. 4. Set the DVD drive to boot first and then the Hard Drive to boot second. 5. In boot order make sure to set the HDD running the OS as the first boot in your list. 6. In the Integrated periphials menu set the JMB to enabled, and to IDE. 7. Install Windows 7. 8. Reboot go into bios and in the Integrated Periphials menu set the SATA to RAID. 9. Save changes and exit 10. Enter RAID utility by pressing F10. 11. Select the HDD's that are going to be part of the RAID. 12. Save changes reboot, and login to windows and let the RAID build itself (make sure to select the non-MBR option when in windows)

Pros: This is a follow up review to the one above that I wrote before. See Other thoughts below....

Cons: Driver needed (Nforce HDMI Audio Driver) not included on the main menu of the the EVGA Install Disk using Windows XP x32.

Overall Review: After sending back the RMA'd board and getting the new one, I still had the same issue. I would load a fresh copy of XP, all of the drivers on the included CD, or Evga's and/or Nvidia’s site and still would have "Audio Device on High Definition Audio Bus" drivers not loaded!!! Tried the latest Realtek drivers and flashed the bios as well & still would not fix issue. Turns out the driver that was needed that was NOT included on the CD, or Nvidia's chipset drivers was the Nforce HDMI Audio Driver. I happened to stumble across it, installed it and problem fixed!! Just a heads up to anyone who has this issue with this board using XP. This is a workstation PC, so that is why we are still using XP, and not Vista. Overall great board and performance is just as great! Just wish I didn’t have to go through all the time to find the "missing" driver. Newegg was extremely helpful as usual, and took care of my issue without question. Keep up the great work EVGA & Newegg!!!

Pros: Very solid board. Has tons of the performance options I needed. My old board (a biostar) went bad after four months and took my graphics card (GeForce 8400) with it. No I'm not an intense gamer so I don't need ultra high end graphics. Currently running with dual moniters on DVI and VGA. HDMI option is nice, heard it works great, but do not have the means with which to test it. Lots of SATA connectors that would not interfere with a large graphics card, IDE support, and floppy support. I think 3 or 4 usb headers for expansion is nice to have. The pre install test guide was very useful for me. I like to test my stuff before a total build. Graphics and sound perform well enough for my casual gaming use. I mostly program and do schoolwork on this machine. Overall I have no major complaints.

Cons: One minor complaint is the lack of rear usb ports on the IO panel. My last board had like 6 or 8, but evga had to sacrifice something to have all the Audio/Video out options, which makes it ok by me. Was a little tight in my case, but the case is cheap so not evga's fault. The SATA connectors were a little hard to get plugs into, due to the location, but I managed.

Overall Review: Currently running Core 2 Duo E7200 @ 2.53GHz, 4 GB of Mushkin DDR2 667MHz ram, dual DVD+/-RW SATA drives, 250 GB hard drive, and Vista Business x64 with dual moniters on integrated graphics. System is fast and responsive enough for my uses. This board would make a great base for a HTPC.

Pros: ONBOARD 9300 VIDEO!! HDMI/DVI eVGA BRAND IS THE BEST! Really Like the custom Sata Cables! Makes for a Snug n Secure Fit! eVGA is overall just an AWESOME Brand! I've had there video cards for 5+ years now without one failure. Plays World of Warcraft at medium-custom Settings and COD4 at low-med settings! Great Option for casual to moderate gamers who don't care much for SLI!

Cons: no SLI I guess could be a con if you needed 2 video cards to play your fancy crysis type games at the highest settings

Overall Review: I will be getting a eVGA 9800GTX eventually but for now onboard is good enough from me! Upgrade from a 8600gt I would say. Running 4 gigs of Gskill ram and 2.5ghz duo core processor

Pros: Worked fine out of the box.

Cons: 2 SATA ports not working in Windows Home Server (raid only ports)

Overall Review: I picked this board for a homebrew Windows Home Server box based on the number of provided. WHS wants all drives to be non-raid. 2 of the ports on this board MUST be in raid mode, limiting its advantage over other low-cost boards.

Pros: Turns out the board was not DOA but mismatch with 2 different memory makers that would not let this machine boot. I ordered a different motherboard and when that came in put the chips I had in it and that was DOA, was like no way that could be it. Took memory from a different system and both motherboards booted up. Incompatability with Corsair generic memory and patriot memory. Made both boards look like they were DOA.

Cons: none

Overall Review: The board is working awesome.

Pros: It's EVGA. Great board layout, looks pretty sturdy, I like the solid capacitors. HDMI, onbaord SPDIF (must for me). Just about it... Oh, and it had some nice cables to come with it???

Cons: SOFTWARE!!!! EWWWW... Tried booting with a Pentium D 950, tech support said CPU was fried, which was not true. Then they tried to say that the PSU was fried, which was not true. Ended up spending 200 on an E8500 CPU, same error codes (A0 and E7, both CPU reserve codes). Tried a brand new Antec 850 PSU. Same thing, RMA'd the board and I'm still getting the same error codes. EVGA tech support hasn't helped much at all and I'm very dissapointed considering EVGA is known for their great boards. Come on EVGA, you're killing me.

Overall Review: I would post my system stats here, but I pretty much have two of them in my living room right now. I also had chicken nuggets for lunch today...

Pros: Seems to work perfectly in linux so far (Ubuntu Intrepid, kernel 2.6.27-11). This is my second EVGA motherboard running a MythTV system, the other is an older LGA775 board with the nvidia 7150IGP. My experience with the other in linux has been outstanding and this board had no driver issues either. 4eggs for now, if nothing goes wrong in the next few months then I'll up it to 5.

Cons: not mATX? no 1394? not enough fan power connectors?

Overall Review: I used this to upgrade my main MythTV frontend (running Mythbuntu) since my old motherboard was having issues. I just swapped the old board out for this, booted up and everything worked like nothing had happened (I was already running an Nvidia card so the drivers didn't need to change).