Pros: It's running very stable, has a lot of sata slots, enough pci slots, it's easy to find updates, easy to install bios updates, good fan support, nice monitoring utilities. Able to run software to keep cpu cool and use less power when idling. USB works nicely and plenty of sockets.

Cons: had to choose a slower memory speed, no overclocking abilities, the audio volume was so low I had to buy a $20 add in card (at least there's enough slots) my older pata drives would not work reliably - had to buy a $30 pata to sata and run as sata drives (but this is working well).

Overall Review: my goal was to upgrade a win2k older pentium single core system w/o reinstalling. This I was able to do (but it was tricky) and so my highly customized, 100's of installed programs, all now run faster, some even use both cores. I have 3 monitors, so I added 2 pci vid cards and also use the on board. Other mobo's wouldn't pass my disk torture tests, this did.