Pros: Bright screen. No bad pixels. Good color depth and contrast. Clean lines. VERY attractive price.

Cons: Poor button placement (on the bottom of the display) with nearly-invisible labels makes the UI very difficult to use.

Pros: Cools magnificently. I have my 2600K at 4.6GHz and the package temp is at a stable 70C. The included thermal compound is likewise first rate, and the built-in fans are nearly silent at 1200 RPM.

Cons: The mounting is AWFUL. The 2-point (!!!) mounting of the main assembly has a flexure axis that means that all the "jiggling" force along that axis is borne by the CPU mount (!!!) and not the mounting bracket. On 1155 boards, the mounting plate arms don't sit flat against the back of the motherboard (there is a built-in center plate that cannot be removed), so tightening them causes the arms and motherboard (!!!) to bend to meet each other. I could hear creaking as I tightened the plate, though I don't appear to have damaged anything. Finally, the mounting hardware attached to the motherboard blocks the arm of the CPU socket lever, so you have to install the CPU first and cannot swap it with the bracket installed. Seriously, this thing is a disaster of mechanical engineering. While it works very well as a heat sink, I'm absolutely terrified of moving my computer with this attached.

Overall Review: Just to add insult to injury: the included screwdriver is a piece of junk; the soft metal stripped almost instantly, leaving filings on my motherboard I had to blow out. Don't use it. It shouldn't even be in the box.

Pros: If you want to buy this for typical gaming use, it's fine. Not particularly notable but it won't annoy you.

Cons: * Dual boot to Linux or other OSes is broken. The firmware fails to honor the UEFI BootOrder variable and instead appears to boot straight through to windows regardless of what it says. The only way to get to alternate boot targets is to enter the EFI shell every time and manually run the boot shim. * The built-in RJ-45 port is not the Intel Z170 ethernet that you'd expect, but this ridiculous "Killer E2400" thing which not only lacks Linux drivers, but even WHQL ones (at least Microsoft was unable to install the driver via detection), forcing you to navigate the ad-ware mess that is the Install DVD just to get your new system online. * The analog audio jacks don't honor the standard color scheme, forcing you to dig out the manual just to plug in your existing speakers. * Performance is pretty poor. Boot to UEFI/OS handoff from power-off is like 13 seconds. Resume from S3 from stimulus to OS entry is ~7 seconds. Those are not good numbers (e.g. they make "wake from network" pretty much impossible because protocols will start timing out before the machine replies).

Overall Review: I had to buy this thing as part of a bundle to get a 6700K. Had I not, I'd absolutely be returning it. Stay away.

Pros: Very high performance card. Clean installation (power jack on the top, not side). Good features (mini-HDMI port is a nice touch). Very attractive price.

Cons: As mentioned, it runs a little hot. In my Antec 300 (case fans on "low") I saw it stabilize at 82C under OCCT's GPU benchmark, and its fans came up to 2500RPM or so (and were therefore quite noticeable, though I wouldn't say "loud"). This is probably because the added ports leave little room for ventilation, only 1/4 of the rear area of the card is used for fan exhaust.

Pros: Very solid construction and very featureful motherboard at a good price. Runs my 2600K at 4.6GHz nearly effortlessly (just three settings changed from defaults) under Windows 7 and Fedora 15.

Cons: As mentioned by someone else: the Win7 installer lacks driver support for some of the advanced features (USB 3.0 and the Marvell SATA2 controller). Asus does not provide a ready-made "driver disk" for the motherboard, so you have to be careful which devices are in use at install time (i.e. don't plug your USB DVD into the USB 3.0 ports). Boot time is depressingly slow: 18s to get through the BIOS POST. Lots of screen flashing during the process, including an incorrect "error" from the Marvell SATA controller telling me that there are no devices connected. The "Autotune OC" option didn't work at all for me. Never came up with a booting configuration at all, and when I stopped the process I noticed it was doing all sorts of crazy things with BCLK instead of just tuning the turbo multiplier. Had to set things up manually (which worked great).

Overall Review: Honestly, a little too featureful. There's a lot of "junk" on this motherboard. Way too many SATA ports across to many different controllers. The "EZ" BIOS has too many gadgets that very few people will use (the "advanced" menu is frankly simpler because I know what the settings do).