Pros: This MB has a lot of room for expandability and is practically obsolescence-proof (at least for many years). The technology on this board is outstanding. (2) SATA 6Gb/s, (2) USB 3.0, 1394 Firewire, support of eSATA (via two extra on-board SATA ports), (2) 10/100/1,000 Ethernet and S/PDIF Opticl and Coaxil.

Cons: Should have supported FireWire 800. ASUS should have mentioned that the SATA 6.0Gb/s ports did not support RAID.

Overall Review: I was surprised at how easily everything installed. It has been over 6 years since I built a custom machine and my system booted flawlessly the first time. Haven't tested the OC settings as of yet, but will get into that soon. The options look promising.

Pros: Reads all the cards I need it to and has external hookup for SATA which is handy. Has audio port for cases that don't have front headphone hookup.

Cons: Cables are confusing. CF port doesn't have a bottom support so if you miss the guides, you will lose your CF card in you case and have to go in after it. Transferring files is SLOW.

Overall Review: I bought this after my old 12-in-1 USB card reader kicked the bucket. Tested transferring a 585MB video file off a 60MB/s UDMA CF card and it only transferred at 3.15MB/s. Copied the same file with the same card using one of the motherboard USB slots and got a transfer rate of 33MB/s. 1/10th the speed of other USB ports is unacceptable. I never thought about it transferring slower than my 5 year old card reader. Do not buy this unless you want to transfer files slower than you already do. I haven't tried to return this item as of yet, but I will be doing so soon.

Pros: None

Cons: This card was bundled with a SansDigital TR5M+ I bought. This card has given me nothing but problems. First, it is poorly supported in Linux (not supported since kernel 2.8 and I am running 3.4). I tried for a solid week to get the card to work in Linux with no success. I finally gave up on Linux and though I would try it on my Windows 7 system. The first time I booted up the card's manager booted and recognized my drives. I setup a RAID 5 and got into Windows. I then installed their web management tool and restarted my computer which then gave me a BSOD. After fixing this issue I finally got into Windows. I looked at the web management tool and it said 28 hours to initialize the array.... no surprise considering 5TB.

Overall Review: FOUR DAYS and multiple rebuilds later (with the stupid thing crashing and beeping at me every few hours) I was able to access my drive but it wasn't long before it failed. I checked all of my disks (All are Segate Barracuda 7200, not green drives) and everything was fine. The web management software refused to load and had to be reinstalled twice. The little bit of time the card did work, transfer speeds were less than 100Mb/s. I finally gave up and bought another card.

Pros: This case works great for my HTPC. It is a little larger than I anticipated but that is really my fault for not paying close enough attention. My second HTPC case will be the same model but the shorter version. The case is a bit cramped for space, but you come to expect that from a micro-ATX case. Since it has three fans in the case the manufacturer was smart enough to include a molex to 3 pin fan power cable since most micro-ATX board don't have enough fan power connectors built in.

Cons: The mounting of the HDD is a bit awkward and difficult to get to.

Pros: Board works great and has all the plugs I need.

Cons: The board is not supported in Linux therefore I cannot get the HDMI port to work for my HTPC.

Overall Review: Overall a great board for the price. I should have looked into it more to find out about it not being supported in Linux. Intel should have wider support for Linux.

Pros: Fast, easy to install, didn't have any issues with it.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Using this in a HTPC to run XBMCbuntu.