Pros: Barring high end games, this incredibly cheap mobo offers everything you need. It even overclocked a E7300 from 2.6 to 3.2 Ghz without touching voltages. This is a 20% overclock, system is stable as rock, all temperatures in the thirties C. I am impressed. I built this PC for my parents so I didn't care about DDR3 and I needed an integrated video card to save $. The videocard is quite awesome, it plays all movies smoothly and it can even crack a few low end games. It will handle everything my parents can throw at it. It has a PCI express slot good enough for a 150-200$ range video card, should someone else need that. Detected all timings and clocks at once and installed everything like a charm. Ran some stress tests with everest and sandra just to convince myself everything is solid.

Cons: No DDR3, but that;s not really a con, because people on such a budget wouldn't buy DDR3 anyway. No PCI express 16x2, but then again, those people won't buy expensive new cards anyway.

Overall Review: For folks that just need a fast processor for a responsive system for everyday browsing and chat and email this is the perfect mobo. It supports even quad core2 and overclocks easily. Northbridge and southbridge have really small heatsinks but my fingers told me they don't get that hot even under full load, so that's fine. I absolutely love this little thing.

Pros: it's zalman and it's blue like ever led in my PC. Haven't seen rust on my copper parts after 6 weeks, but may be it's too soon.

Cons: I had to drain the system to do some changes. This stuff does NOT blend well with distilled water. There were blue particles all over my hoses and in my water blocks. F1k it, i don't want to clock my miniature nort bridge block. I refilled with distilled water only.

Overall Review: It looked well blended when I first mixed it and even 6 weeks later when I was watching it run through the tubes. But when drained i saw particles. Also the nice blue color quickly fades away, prolly koz the stuff just glues to my tubes and blocks.

Pros: I'm not gona repeat everything the others already said. Let me just say, if you think setting this unit up is difficult or confusing, then there is just no hope for you, and you really should not leave product reviews anywhere. But yeah, unit looks good, heavy, runs cools, and enough features for 99% of folks. Sound quality can be good IF (read below)

Cons: The only issue I have with the unit is the quality of the amplifier. IT INTRODUCES A LOT OF NOISE! With the gain set to (-3db) and nothing playing, there is audible hiss from the tweeters. The music comes out super flat, dynamic range is almost completely destroyed. You just hear earbleeding highs and no depth in the mids. However turning the gain all the way down to (-10db) cured both problems. Hissing disapeared from tweeters, and you can now hear a lot of detail from the mids, and the dynamic range is quite alright.

Overall Review: So the unit can still make pretty good sound. I am very picky about sound, and I am driving RTi A7 towers with this unit and I do like the sound if the gain is turned down very low. YOU CAN STILL GO PRETTY LOUD! You just have to turn the knob on the volume to like 70. But now the music comes pure and clean and the speakers sound warm and dynamic range is not compromised. I bought a second one of these recently (for 135) even though I was aware of the limitations on the amp, because for that price you really can't beat it, and you can't expect a high quality amp inside anyway. We are lucky that at least when you keep the gains down the quality is pretty good..

Pros: As everyone said, the cabinet is fantastic. I don't think more needs to be said about this. Unique Klipsch sound. Soft and buttery, not bright at all. My first horn speaker and it's pleasant.

Cons: I am not going to name the other brands of speakers that I own and I am comparing this against, so people don't think I am a fanboy and promoting some other brand, but these speakers leave a lot to be desired in the are of detail. If you have had a good speaker you will notice right away. In all areas, mids and highs, the sound is a little blurry, muddy, foggy, whatever you wana call it. Just listen to acoustic instrument solo side by side with another speaker. Some of the contrast between the strings of a guitar, or the keys of piano, is lost when listening to these. If the best speakers you have ever owned was a $50 logitec 5.1, then yes, you will think these are clear and sound nice. But if you judge by the retail price of these, they should compete with high end speakers, and they do not. They just smooth out some of the detail that my other speakers have.

Overall Review: I am not bashing the speaker, I am going to keep them because they make the room so pretty. I bought the center too. I guess it all depends on where you come from. But if you already have high end speakers and look for something different, beware because these just don't have good detail.

Pros: Looks and feels nice and expensive. Heavy. Temps are cool, but in all honesty they were cool with the stock fan too.

Cons: That scheisse fan controller is some ugly scheisse, and you HAVE to use it, no choice. Without it the fan is loud as hell. I spend a lot of time in cable management, and taking this outside, and sticking it to my pretty case was horrible. Had to hide it somehow. They should have used the same 4 pin connector as the original CPU fan, so the mobo can control it. Now its ugly and the mobo cannot control it.

Overall Review: Bracket was easy to install too. Taking 1 egg only because you can't use it without the damg ugly controller.

Pros: Sound not much better than my motherboard. But I had a high end motherboard. Although its supposed to have the same realtec garbage inside. Anywho, sound is decent, I haven't heard better sounding PC, but I haven't heard that many to start with.

Cons: expensive.

Overall Review: Looks gorgeous, and thats important for me. My PC is as pretty as a girl when u open it. All components are black or metal and cable management is perfect.