Pros: no drivers worked right out of the box

Cons: none

Pros: Some information about the why's of the board. I bought this board for a freenas build. The board has 16 gig of ecc memory that's on their memory list. freenas has been running now (and well) for about 2 months w/o an issue. The other day - all nics went south - filed a ticket with ixsystems just to let them know. Last night I figured why not re-install another os just to verify that the system is ok - bought a ssd drive and threw it in. - the first time I turned the machine on - the sata cable actually shorted (started smoking) and may have fried the drive. I'm rma'ing the board and when I get it back it will sit in the dust pile of never to be used equipment again. it's really too bad it seems like it's such a good board.

Cons: - sata cables that short out. - ipmi works most of the time but there are no status indicators. - all ide channels now are non functional. I have tried multiple drives in multiple ide channels - and changed the cable to non-supplied good known working cables. no drives are functional in the machine now.

Overall Review: I have had machines going back to the 80's. I deal with hundreds of servers daily if I found a machine with electrical issues like this I would pull all of them.

Pros: drivers are simple and device is simple

Cons: will cause windows 7 to bsod within 10-20 minutes of use.

Pros: Everything worked right out of the box

Cons: Comcast is a pain to deal with