Pros: These machines are a great value. They have affordable CPUs, fast hard drives, standard power supplies, and what appear to be quality ASUS motherboards. For the dollars spent, these machines work great. There are four DIMM slots, and the board accepts Kingston Value RAM - the memory that has kind of become my product of choice for upgrading the various machines I service. The machine comes loaded with XP Pro - and it works fine. There are recovery CDs for both XP and Vista. USB ports work great, the DVD ROM drive works great, and the keyboard and mouse seem like quality pieces. I also liked the hard drive mounting arrangement. The board has PCIx video card slot, a standard PCI slot, and couple smaller slots - mini PCIx slots maybe? I don't know what they're called exactly. This machine is well worth it's sales price. Onboard video, onboard sound, onboard NIC all work okay - good for business/dubious for games.

Cons: Becuase this is a business computer, it comes with a PCI expansion card containing a parallel printer port and an old serial port. I can see that somebody would howl if these connections weren't available, but taking up the only available PCI slot with them could be an issue for some people. For example, if you use an old parallel port laserjet and also need to install a firewire adapter, you'd have some trouble. At the same time, putting them on a card means you can pull them out if you don't want or need them.

Overall Review: A deployment package capable of cloning NTFS drives will be necessary for you to manage these machines. My school now owns twelve of these machines. Before the school year ends, we want twenty-eight more.

Pros: The chip is affordable and easy to install. It runs cool. The onboard video system is simple and flexible.

Cons: Based on some of the reviews here, I was hoping for a little more speed. This is the first 1155 build I've done. Most other builds I've done for the last few years were Pentium 775 CPUs. I wouldn't say there's much difference. This CPU performs like a 3.0GHz Pentium 775 CPU. I was hoping the new architecture would deliver more, even at this price point. I'm running XP Pro. I can't imagine a user of Windows 7 being satisfied with this CPU.

Overall Review: I built two machines using these CPUs for my school's band teacher. She will like them, but if I had it to do over again, I'd have spent more and chosen a faster CPU.

Pros: If it ever arrives here, I suspect I'll be happy with it.

Cons: I wonder why is makes sense to ship a product via courier about three quarters of the way here and then pull the product away from that carrier and had the package over to the post office. I'm wishing that there was a huge online competitor who sold not only computer equipment but also apparel, food, shoes, and toys. I wish I could locate such a competitor and possibly direct my business there.

Pros: In my initial review I made an error. I said my Phenom II 965 was running at its stock speed of 4.2GHz. That chip's stock speed is, in fact, 3.4GHz. I don't know why I made that mistake. I'm sorry if my stupidity affected anybody's decision making. I think I wrote that review in the middle of the night. I have found another reason to like this board. New chipset driver and a new Killer Network Driver-only version have made unnecessary the large Killer Network App software that had originally been needed for this board. In my case, the machine was taking day naps and would lock up for 20-30 seconds for no reason. I loaded in these new drivers, and the machine works perfectly again. Happy. It makes me glad that MSI bothered to do some follow up on this product and release some additional Windows 764 drivers. This machine is still a work machine with respectable cpu, value video card, Intel SSD storage, 16GB RAM, USB3, and great sound running Windows 7 Pro 64.

Cons: Killer Network App seems dubious. What was it supposed to accomplish?

Overall Review: I will likely buy another one.

Pros: Used this board to replace an older Gigabyte G31 board with quad core Intel 9505 cpu running at 2.83GHz. This board allowed me to keep my cpu, reach 8GB ram with DDR3, and breathe new life into my work system. I bought a small Crucual SSD to use as a system drive, and this board works well with my PCIx EVGA nVidia 240 video card. NIC works fine, and the sound quality is good enough for listening to music at work. To me, this board represents good value. As configured, it does a reasonable job with Windows 7 64 bit in a business setting.

Cons: I'm not much of a gamer, but the guys I know who are gamers would not be satisfied with this board for running their higher end stuff. If I was buying this unit again, I would look more closely at the memory support list and buy accordingly. This board didn't like the ram I selected for it, and I was forced to scrounge my inventory to find a couple DIMMS it liked.

Overall Review: I am considering another board to replace an even older Gigabyte board I use at home with an e8400 CPU. I think this board, my e8400, and a modest HDMI video card would make a pretty decent home-theater machine.

Pros: Quality power supply, good air flow, sturdy metal, professional appearance, modest footprint. This makes a great case for machines in a professional settings. I've built five machines using this case. All are operating well.

Cons: I can't think of one.