Pros: -3 year warranty -unlocked -no legacy stuff, this is 2013 -posts BIOS fast, visual BIOS is sleek -nice color scheme, if you care -decent price for 7 series/unlocked -I like Intel's bundled software (minus McAfee AV trial) -Ubuntu 12.04 runs great but kernel must be updated to 3.5.x if running Ivy Bridge graphics. HDMI+audio works great "out of the box"

Cons: -why bother with the old keyboard/mouse port? -wish they included high current USB 2 ports like they have on the Q series -CPU socket very close to RAM socket

Overall Review: very happy with my decision to go with this board. My previous DAW (music workstation) was giving me trouble due to shared IRQ between the built in firewire and graphics/SATA controller. One of those things you find out after you buy and build, and find out you can't change IRQ's these days. Decided to ditch the old PCI interfaces and switched to this board, the thought of no legacy controllers to mess things up attracted me to it, and I was right. dual booting Win7 and Ubuntu 12.04, both running super smooth and responsive without a single issue with drivers or compatability issues. If you plan on running Ubuntu and integrated Ivy Bridge graphics, you must update the Kernel to 3.5.x (easiest way is right thru Synaptic package manager) or you will have kernel lockups. Not sure if I'll ever need to OC this, due to the lack of jazzy pretty heat sinks on the power mosfets I'm not sure why Intel unlocked this board, or what it is even marketed for. Maybe the technology has advanced enough that you dont need all those pretty heat sinks. I'm ready tho with a 3570K CPU. If you plan to use a tall/wide CPU cooler, you may run into clearance issues with the RAM, especially if you use RAM with tall heat spreaders. I am using the Rosewill RCX-ZAIO-92 and it hangs right over the closest RAM socket, although if I installed a 3rd and 4rth RAM stick, it WILL barely fit right under it, ONLY if I install the RAM before the CPU cooler. my setup: DZ45MLK-45K 3570K CPU Rosewill RCX-ZAIO-92 CPU cooler GSkill Ares 1600MHZ CL8 2x4GB (anodized blue matches this board perfectly) Samsung 840 series 120GB SSD WD Black 640GB Rosewill Green series 530W PSU Rosewill 1394a/PCIe adapter w/ VIA chip Win7 x64 Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit Built for mid-level music production, light gaming. working out just fine using integrated HD4000 graphics, not even OC'd

Pros: fast burst speed, 17-30 MB/s read and 7.5 MB/s write speed. comes with a mini ball chain to aid in removal from USB port. Sturdy design. Probably a great drive but...

Cons: took out of package, ran Check Flash 1.16.1 (under Wine in Debian Linux) and ran tests. 12 errors in short pattern test, 15 and still counting in full pattern test. Not acceptable.

Overall Review: Great service from Newegg RMA thats all I need to say. Will be returning for a different brand tho, didn't know it was so hard to find a reliable flash drive these days. 2nd attempt for a music drive for a Sony car unit.

Pros: front panel looks decent. power button has nice feel.

Cons: -dont be fooled by the 0.6 mm it is rediculously flimsy -not sure the front USB 3.0 port is up to speed with the rear motherboard USB 3.0 -I was under the impression from the pics that it had tinted side panel. It is not. Dont like being able to see the hard drive bays and motherboard standby LED (horrid green on mine) ***my hardware is running too warm, there is no support for a front fan, I rigged up a 120mm anyways with basically zip ties and a few swear words. The included rear 80mm doesn't move much air. My Quadro 5000 fits in the case fine but runs from 62C idle to 84C under light load. This is in winter/spring where the ambient is 65-68F... While stress testing my MB actually went into alarm and shut down twice. never happened in my previous case, a generic Rosewill with 2 120mm fans.

Overall Review: I would only recommend this using onboard graphics

Pros: nearly INAUDIBLE fan- so quiet (very good for DAW) plenty of airflow/ runs super cool very stable and accurate voltages still read the same after a year survived many outages and brownouts nice wire sleeves, no short wires

Cons: none whatsoever other than costs a little more than some

Pros: plug and play with intel dp43gag (even tho this board is running them at 1333mhz) running over a year no issues, memtested fine upon install and again a year later

Cons: none.

Overall Review: nice to see that gskill customer support is checking out these reviews. thats what makes a company good.

Pros: owned it 5 or 6 months now powered on 58 days benchmarks a solid 32MBPS read in linux, zero bad sectors and flawless operation, cooler than Hitachi drive, faster boot, faster access, can barely hear the thing run. all around a great hard drive to replace that older laptop drive and you will notice a performance increase if stepping up from a 4200 RPM drive. Buy it, yeah its more expensive than a SATA drive but thats the game with supply/demand and outdated interface

Cons: IDE interface is expensive compared to SATA. dang.

Overall Review: WD drives havent failed me yet. have several old ones laying around with zero bad sectors. Hitachi's failed at 5 yrs old like clockwork, samsungs died in a month or DOA. A maxtor failed and took my MB with it. I have a Toshiba that sounds like its grinding concrete and has hundreds of bad sectors. I only trust WD or seagate from now on

nice packaging and quiet enough to not dispute its name. time will tell