Pros: This Atom board along with a Fortron Source APFC power supply, pair of the Kingston 1gb (2gb ddr2 533 kit) and XP pro. Its doing audio transcoding work for radio, while also doing net server, and several other jobs simultaneously. The onboard VIA sound chip makes a great score on RightMark Audio Analyzer--you can set 44.1, 24bit (MUSIC!!) as native rate, runs lagless, and its worth the entire price of this motherboard. The onboard Lan isn't a problem at all (up the buffer figures and disable windows power saving of net and usb), doing quite a nice job at 80,000kbps without loading up the CPU. Uptime so far is about a week, totally stable while taking a beating 24/7, and its effortless because the CPU average is just 5%. Amazed! That's much more stable than a maxed out Phenom board. Now, this doesn't get warm at all, but its ready for summer by some of the quiet Coolermaster fans pushing air into the case. Industrial quality server makes no noise and saves energy?

Cons: Cons? Well, I would have appreciated 2 PCI ports instead of just one, so please add a MATX size to the lineup. ;) And, with the amazing quality of this board (plus bonus high end lagless audio included onboard), you guys are really in for some high expectations from the rest of your product line.

Overall Review: I shut off the Intel XD bit feature to put the memory into 32 bit mode for simplicity with 2gb ram. I also set the video to a fixed memory pool amount. And, I used a figure of 145 for the speed feature for 1.75GHz because 8% up is within published "normal" spec for Atom. OH, and also locked the ram speed in at 533, 4-4-4-10 (conservative, but throughput is like dual channel so it gets the onboard video up to speed). Do move the USB/PS2 power rear jumper to "on" position. I also turned off the CPU power saver and temp features (because I just used a quiet slow fan at side of case). As for hard drives, I should have used Western Digital AAK* series, especially their IDE (70MB/s), but maybe next time. I didn't know when I bought this board that it has a micro-timer, making it a multi-tasking wonder, and none of the onboard is reliant on CPU speed. A very fast Atom? What were you thinking with that? I love it!! ECS suddenly raised the bar, and not discreetly.

Pros: So, this little easy bake oven works great if you have an "open" wireless in decent temperatures and if you don't intend to turn up the power settings to the advertised figure. It works great out of the box, with the factory settings for giving away internet to a modestly sized area. But, there are some caveats for other applications.

Cons: If you engage WPA2/WPA plus AES/Tkip, this non-ventilated wonder will get hot and disconnect. If you turn the power settings to "24dbi" from the menu, this non-ventilated wonder will get hot and disconnect. It has neither diversity nor mimo, so you need a large collinear or other physically large size antenna, because, otherwise, the allegedly impressive range is stopped at the first obstacle, and once again you get disconnect. Common WiFi "drops on large files" error, if when also used with security enabled, which is yet another excuse for it to get hot and disconnect. Throughput speed is worse than an old Link$ys WRT, so this EnGenius can bring your office network down to an all time record for slow.

Overall Review: Lack of documentation for where this unit does NOT work earned EnGenius a 1 egg rating (an "F"). Normal home networking, with security engaged, is where its performance is. . . unfortunate. Nevertheless, if you intend to "give away" internet to its coverage area, well that application probably won't overheat the unit.

Pros: I have a quiet case fan, which seems enough to let it run all 4 cores at over 2.2ghz, nonstop if needed. It took a settings fiddling and a fine cord, but that gigabit port hauls 130~140 megabytes per second. Came back from a long trip, and yeah, web server and file server still happily running. Boots in 5 seconds to a cheap ssd, and there's 3 more ports for a big raid array--really good!!!

Cons: Utterly baffling gamer-oriented bios on a server board, takes extra time for proofing/testing during initial setup. Short PCI-e port--there's a lack of variety on good expansion cards to fit that; so, try shopping it before purchase. There's no gpu assisted Encoding for HEVC H265 file types in the drivers even though the hardware is capable.

Overall Review: Memory is one Gskill F3-1866C11S-8GRSL 1866MHz 11-11-11-32 As in low voltage ram with higher latency for reliability. This is a really reliable combination. Picking a ram chip is easy--just don't buy the gamer-ram. It doesn't do anything slower than an e8600; although, it picks and chooses what tasks it wants to do as fast as an i5. Anything involving the sata and ethernet ports goes really fast, so it makes for a very nice server. It does most things faster than a laptop. Overall, I'd say it provides a brisk experience. The ethernet port is not only faster than intel/broadcom, but also more irregular--I had to look up all of the driver options and flip a few: "auto disable gigabit" disable, "energy efficient ethernet" disable, "interrupt moderation" disable, "allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" uncheck. But, the "green ethernet" feature is good Enabled. And, you probably want a new cord, and either not much length or bigger gauge. Or, to use it with a thin old long cord (such as built into the wall where you can't change it), you can use a low priced little gigabit switch as a buffer (letting the switch deal with that old cord). I did that. Still got ~135 megabytes per second. Despite the needy Ethernet port, I sure am glad for its very high speed.

Pros: Fits a Full size power supply for long lasting power. Comes with an excellent fan that is even nicer if you relocate it to inside the front fan bay (as somewhat mentioned in the directions). Can fit 1 ssd for boot and a 3 hard drives for storage (two hard drives upside down across the top, plus one hard drive and an ssd sideways on the left). Possibly theft resistant because it doesn't look like a computer. Makes a decent mini-server. Ventilation seems good.

Cons: It is necessary to put the fan in the front panel, to decrease sound, and make room for power cables. Power supply install directions may be wrong, because it could go fan-side up to cool the hard drives. Front panel module is from a nicer case, so this involves one spiral-type loop for the cables to fit well. Inconvenient, sideways and upside down hard drive mounts require individual power cables to reach.

Overall Review: Except for the novel appearance and maybe the absence of sound, you probably don't need an ITX (and its higher priced mini ram) for taking up even MORE space. This is not the fault of the manufacturer. They did list the size specs, which I ignored. This shape and size of box fits nowhere. Make no plans to hide it, because you can't. I do like the appearance and silence.

Pros: It is very stable and no trouble at all. Also, no random wireless drops. It runs DD-WRT easily. It can be competitive for wireless range if set atop a tall bookshelf or on a wall-shelf; and, also see cons. The onboard CPU is VERY fast, so it can do the AES and routing tasks at optimal speed. That is a great bonus that I had not expected when I purchased it.

Cons: Not a good performance for range; however, with a more ideal (much higher) placement it isn't bad.

Overall Review: I've got a pair of these and I do like them. There was momentarily some trouble with the range; however, I got some shelves like you'd set a little clock or other item for display, up high enough to position the wireless router for better range. Then I had to get sound Ethernet couplers because my cords were too short. That is not necessarily bad news! The good news is that, after that little bit of effort, the wireless situation has covered just as much area as the older high power system it replaced, I've good good steady throughput at very fast speeds, and it is completely stable. After that bit of placement hijinks, the usual throughput is 90% of a 100 megabit connection. I wish I had bought the slightly more expensive version that has the removable antennas, removed them, and put on some 19" antennas. One such system, still upon a high shelf, could do what it takes two of these to do. I already had the long cable in place, so my experience, this time, was really no trouble at all.

Pros: Better audio quality than most upgrade sound cards, and a lot easier to use.

Cons: The range is slightly less than 20 feet. Not sure if that is a pro or a con.

Overall Review: This device is very enjoyable. You'd hook it up to a phone charger and a stereo. Presto then your music collection aboard your phone plays on your stereo. Also, your phone can adjust the volume, like a remote.