Pros: As below

Cons: As below

Overall Review: Please beware you should opt for a 'pin type' CPU cooler for this board. A CPU cooler with an X-shaped mobo backplate is not optimal because there are some small circuits on the back of the mobo in the way of a CPU cooler backplate sitting flush against the back of the mobo. See the photo above of the BACK of the mobo, under the CPU area, and you will see the little circuits on one side that are in the way of a backplate. I still used my CPU cooler backplate, but it didn't fit snuggly.

Pros: It's small

Cons: Where to start? It does not remember bios settings Any slight jostle - such as plugging a USB into the rear panel - causes a reboot. Boot mngr may or may not be present at that point. Does not play well with WHS. Drives are accounted for in all places but the OS Driver disk features an empty menu. It's pathetic. If you install from the directory, drivers are installed but unavailible.

Overall Review: Worst. Motherboard. Ever. Actually, scratch board and start with fu.. In the 30 or so computers I have asssembled, I have never seen anything close to how awful this board is. I am annoyed that I had to give this excrement a single star. It didn't earn it. Don't do it!!!!

Pros: - 6 sata ports - 8 total USB ports on back + 4 more with headers - Wifi on board

Cons: - RAM compatibility on this board is terrible. Make sure the RAM you buy can handle Command Rate timing of 1T because the BIOS is locked at that setting and not accessible to change it. - Does not follow Intel spec. Overvolts on load instead of droops. LLC enabled by default? Not sure as the option isn't available in the BIOS. - Lack of VTT voltage options in BIOS limits overclock ability (I believe it's locked at 1.12) - Limited vcore and vdimm options.

Overall Review: I'd say don't get this board if you're planning on overclocking, but if that's the case, there are much cheaper boards you can buy. BIOS on this isn't very good and Zotac's terrible about support in terms of updates. I've pointed these issues out to Zotac reps and was told that they're not interested in updating the BIOS on this board. Not even the simple Command Rate fix.

Pros: Wireless N @ 2.4Ghz USB 3.0 eSATA 6x SATA Ports 16x PCIe Port

Cons: Wireless N @ 2.4Ghz - It really should be dual-band 2.4/5.8Ghz for HTPC use. System Fan not thermally controlled it seems as it spins at 100% CPU Fan seems to be at the max even at idle. Not really possible to undervolt CPU to run it cooler and quieter.

Overall Review: I think in the future revision of their board Zotac should implement three features: 1. Use dual-band WiFi card 2. Supply external WiFi antennas that you can move far away from the computer similar to what ASUS bundles with M4A88T-I Deluxe. Equipment around my HTPC prevents it from sending signal back to my router. I ended up using Linksys USB dual-band adapter. 3. Add internal USB 3.0 connectors so that I can connect USB 3.0 to the front of the case. 4. Add options in the BIOS to undervolt CPU.

Pros: Small size, yet packs a ton of features. 6 SATA ports makes it a great compliment to Lian Li's PC-Q08. Right now I am overclocked at 150 base clock which I am also doing at -0.100 voltage, which brings me to my biggest con so far...

Cons: ...voltage control isn't that great. I have a Xeon L3426 which is currently at 1.000V (around there, I cannot verify this in Linux because lm-sensors cannot detect any sensors on this board). I believe this CPU should probably be at a far lower voltage than this, but I knew I was getting into some weird territory with this build. I am going to email Zotac about it, perhaps they'll incorporate better voltage controls (automatic or otherwise) into a BIOS update? (I'm not holding my breath).

Overall Review: At 150 base clock I am running at 2.1GHz on a chip that originally ran at 1.86GHz. This was absolutely no problem at all, and I am currently still on the stock heatsink. Nothing gets overly warm, and the only real con I can think of so far is the voltage controls. If you get a "normal" processor you shouldn't have this problem. I'm happy with this purchase so far. Everything else appears to work except USB3.0 which I haven't been able to test.

Pros: BIOS Setup is easy, memory speed/timings determined accurately. Tweaking allowed up to 22x CPU speed. CPU type and speed (unlocked) also determined accurately with tweaking allowed. Wireless N WIFI working at 100% running Ubuntu 10.04 by default. I3 video at DVI port working perfectly

Cons: MC connectors for wireless radio were difficult to attach with my big hands and poor eyesight. Venus type backplate required manually removing some knockouts and alignment with motherboard was skewed ever so slightlly in more than one direction. The port connectors did fit through the holes but didn't have much tolerence for the connectors to easily plug in, such as the HDMI and USB connectors. I believe the sma connectors for the radio which just made it through the backplate were preventing a more perfect aligment of the board to backplate.

Overall Review: Running I3 -550 2.93ghz processor at 3.1ghz (140x in bios) Gskill 2x4gb 1333 pc10600 1.5volt memory Ubuntu 10.04 64bit Linux Wireless N ethernet All work perfectly out of the box 1st time.

Pros: I love the amount of ports on this board. It has just about everything I need, and some I don't. Installation is easy, and I haven't had any problems, except...

Cons: I bought this because it supported 1333 RAM, which I thought was great. As it turns out, either the RAM I bought is sketchy, or the board is sketchy. Let me describe: I bought this RAM: Patriot Gamer 2 Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model PGD38G1333ELK (full name in case Newegg removes it one day) thinking it would be a perfect fit. I booted up and immediately had graphics artifacts. Thinking it was a seating problem, I reseated my RAM and CPU. Problems went away on boot, but I couldn't boot my Win7 DVD. After a little while of swapping memory around and hoping I didn't have a faulty CPU, I took out 1 stick of memory. The problems went away immediately. Ok, so I install Windows thinking it might have been some other form of problem. I put the other stick back in and I get the same graphics artifacts. I swap the sticks, try both individually in both slots, and the machine boots perfectly. (See other thoughts for more)...

Overall Review: As soon as I have both in, I can't boot any more! I force the RAM speed down to 1067 and now the system is awesome again. I have all 8GB running and Windows detects it all. I heard some other people had issues with this board, and that the memory wasn't fully tested when making this. Which is a shame, because it's an otherwise awesome board. tl;dr: 2x4GB DDR3 1333 memory doesn't work unless you underclock to 1067. Might be able to tweak the timing and voltage to get it to work with 1333, but it's fine at 1067.

Pros: Lots of features, small footprint.

Cons: none

Overall Review: Installed this board with a i3 Intel 560 coupled with a SSD in a small enclosure to use as a HTPC. The combo Rocks! No problems at all, the combo runs cool and flawlessly. Haven't tried it with Blu-Ray yet