Pros: Good performance, good price, EVGA product, small size, current technology.

Cons: No optical digital audio out. Why did they include 1) Documentation is almost non-existant. You get a small manual written in 40 languages. Zero troubleshooting pages, no explanation of error beep codes. 2) Extremely basic BIOS. 3) Layout is very poor. 3a) CPU is about 2 inches east from the standard location on most motherboards, so vent tubes and windows built into cases are not centered on the CPU. Standard heat sinks nearly touch RAM slot no.2; blocked entirely by larger cooling assemblies. 3b) SATA-0, -1, and -3 are blocked completely by moderate to large graphics cards in the x16 2.0 slot. These should be side-accessible like EVGA's X58 board. 3c) You can not operate the southern RAM clips with a medium or large graphics card installed in the x16 2.0 slot. To replace/upgrade/move RAM sticks, you need to completely remove your graphics card so that you can fully open the RAM clips. Very annoying

Overall Review: 4) The provided Faceplate requires very careful examination prior to installation. Many of the metal contacts are intended to rest on top of the port housings, but this is difficult to accomplish during installation. Note: 1-Long, 2-short beep indicates improperly seated graphics card. the same code repeating means improperly or incorrectly seated RAM. Had to find this on the forums, as it isn't included in the manual.

Pros: I effectively bought a brandname motherboard for $62! ($84 up front with bundled software before MIR) only $12 more than the DOA mobo from ECS EG that NewEgg efficiently RMA'd for refund simplistic BIOS actually a good thing i.m.h.o. worked first boot well-placed ports solid DDR3 slots apparrently all solid-state capacitors 8 standoffs instead of the usual 6 but needs a ninth, see below.

Cons: far corner of motherboard with front panel headers has almost no support from standoff placement which makes it awkwardly frightening (for fear of causing hairline fractures of the mobo) to connect HD Audio, USB2.0 or the 2 SATA ports nearest said edge cheap FoxConn socket protector with messily-glued-upon processor installation instructions but socket was undamaged & stickiness didin't get on any components therefore not really a con just an annoyance

Overall Review: this motherboard was purchased for a cheap virtualization build & after a year or two will be relegated to parts, images & chasis evaluation purposes

Pros: Works well, easy set up.

Cons: Manual is useless. BIOS doesn't have any features like wake on time of day or any OC features. Sata ports aren't arranged well, a large video card will cover half of them and if you use sata cables with clips they side with clips face eachother so it is hard to disconnect them.

Overall Review: Don't get me wrong the board itself is a solid performer for it's price range it is very easy to install and set up and everything seems to work well but I miss the ability to toy around with my settings to get all the performance I can out of a asystem. I am just using it for a small HTPC so I shouldn't complain. My Specs. Mobo - EVGA 111-CD-E630-TR CPU - Intel Core i3-530 RAM - OCZ Gold 4GB DDR3 1066 (2x2GB) HDD - WD Caviar Green 500GB SATA HDD ODD - Lite-On 4x BD-ROM Case - Moneual Y601B

Pros: Seems pretty good for a HTPC with the onboard HDMI. With drivers, also outputs HQ audio through HDMI. Most (!) everything works as advertised. LOTS of USB headers if for whatever reason you need a million USB connections.

Cons: Very primitive BIOS. Feels like a BIOS from 10 years ago. Hardly any options. Definitely not for overclockers. No 1394 headers. This surprised me, as I thought it was pretty standard so I didn't even bother checking ahead of time. I guess Firewire is getting outdated, so not a huge con. I don't know what the deal is here, but I can't get my ethernet port to work. In device manager, it says "This device cannot start". I tried to install the drivers that came with the board, but it doesn't have any effect on it. Not sure if this is a hardware fault or bad driver.

Overall Review: Bought this for my HTPC setup. If it weren't for the terrible BIOS and ethernet drivers not working this would be a great board. As it is, it's just a standard board.

Pros: Inexpensive board, worked great right out of the box. Energy efficient. The I3-530 and this board make a great HTPC. Plays blu-ray's great. Tech support gets back to you quickly.

Cons: Zero features in the BIOS. If you put in faster memory (DDR3-1600) it will only run at an IO speed of 533MHz (DDR-1066) and there will be nothing you can do about it. Save you money and buy slow cheap DDR3 memory with the board. Incomplete documentation.

Overall Review: I guess I can't blame EVGA. I took a gamble and bought this board based on inaccurate customer reviews. Other people reviewing this board are referring to the H55 not the H55V. They are totally different. The H55 is an ATX board with tons of cool tweaking features. This however is not that board. The H55V is a very limited, featureless micro-ATX board. What features it does have, it does well. By the way, if you are looking to download drivers and support software from EVGA for this board, they make you create a user account and register your board before you can have any help or support. I made the mistake of sending in my box s/n with the mail-in rebate before registering and now I am hosed. For some reason, my motherboard lacked a serial number. If you are looking for a microATX board with an 1156 CPU and you like to tweak your BIOS settings, avoid the disappointment of this EVGA micro-ATX board and buy a feature rich Gigabyte board.

Pros: Easy to set up<br>Simple and straight forward<br>HDMI out<br>Perfect mobo for my HTPC<br>Supports up to 16 GB of ram

Cons: Doesn't allow for much configuration or OCing, but didn't buy it for that - it's a simple budget board<br>Didn't come with a dozen krispy kremes

Overall Review: I bought this as my HTPC and to eventaully use with a 2nd display as a basic home PC. So far it's been great - no problems to report. <br><br>The quad-core i5's and i7's do not have integrated video and thus will not work with the onboard HDMI. Contrary to what has been said previously, the dual-core i5's (and of course the i3's) will use the onboard HDMI. Just make sure you do your research and know what you want beforehand. <br><br>I'm planning on upgrading to an i7 and a GTX 460 video card in the near future to boost the performance a bit.<br><br>Rosewill Challenger<br>EVGA H55V<br>Intel Core i3 540 3.06 GHz<br>G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB DDR3 1333<br>WD Caviar Black 1 TB<br>Rosewill RV-2 700W <br>New info 6/2016 - I've had this MB for several years and it has served me well. When set up as a dual monitor PC/HTPC, the onboard video didn't deal with the load very well (it's just an i3, so I wasn't expecting much). But, I installed an EVGA GTX 460 and it has been great ever since. <br>My new problem is that it won't let me upgrade to a full 16 GB of RAM. It has been running on 8 GB of G.SKILL Ripjaws Series DDR3 1333 (two 4 GB DIMMs) since I originally built the PC. I purchased an additional 8 GB of the exact same RAM and it won't even boot into the BIOS with all 4 DIMMS installed. Is there any work around for this? <br>The BIOS is bone stock, which is fine. I'm not an overclocker. But to not be able to use the product to it's advertised capacity is pretty unfortunate. I'd prefer to not have to build a new PC just because my motherboard won't do what it is advertised to do.

Pros: -Posts -Plenty of USB

Cons: -Very limited in features

Overall Review: Can't adjust voltages or timings or really anything, but it's worked without any problems for more than 5 years so I won't complain.

Pros: *Overclocking utility *Great EVGA customer Service

Cons: *Broken out of the box *Driver issues with driver CD

Overall Review: We bought this as a gift for my hubby for his bday, and it arrived. Once installed we had issues right away. We called EVGA and they talked us through a testing process and promptly replaced the item, even paid for shipping. Second install is going better though the driver disk is being wonky and the sound is not yet working, but speed is no issue, and once your able to access the internet and DL the drivers online its cake from there.