Pros: After buying this board on a budget upgrade it has proven to be a good deal. No problems whatsoever. Reliable operation, easy install, easy overclock. Simple BIOS flash operation via Windows application. Board layout is easy to work with, and the built quality seems to be above spec. It 'feels' like you are installing a $300 MB, aside from the absence of firewire. Manual documentation is superb. It will take Phenom 4 core processors when I decide to upgrade. Read the chipset stats at AMD. I would buy this board again.

Cons: BIOS will require further tweaking by Biostar. Fan speed simultaneously reported as ~3,000 in BIOS, then 1500 and 1600 in Fan Control and Hardware Monitor respectively. After using VIA chipsets the POST and boot time are noticeably long, but not extreme. Minor nuisances, still merits a 5 egg rating.

Overall Review: Good job Biostar, keep those BIOS updates coming.

Pros: Pretty good low cost board

Cons: HDMI routinely fails to re-initialize sound after the computer wakes up from standby. It is connected to a television, so every time I want to watch a show etc I have to reboot the computer to get the sound working. It's a terrible bug for any HDMI system, even worse on a media PC. I have spent many hours trying to fix it, everything from flashing the bios to trying different drivers, different cable, different monitor, and all possible settings.

Overall Review: If you plan on using this for HDMI sound, find another board.

Pros: Does exactly what it claims to do, silently.

Cons: none

Overall Review: Runs in the low-mid 60 degrees Celcius under load with a case fan blowing on the heat sink. This card is past it's prime, but good for mid-range gaming and home theater.

Pros: It's a good product. Long, clear conversation performace. Range seems good. Buttons are pretty easy to figure out.

Cons: The form factor is wierd. Don't try holding it up with your shoulder. Plus, there is no belt clip for those people who like to walk around gabbing with an ear piece. It would a be a cheap and really popular addition. I like the unique feel of the slender "monolith" shape, but sometimes it will be hard to hold onto for people with really big hands.

Overall Review: This is not a "full featured" phone. but it has CID and the other stuff I need. Hardly anyone uses all of the junk on expensive phones. But then you already knew that because you aren't looking at $200+ phones.

Pros: It's a fast, full featured drive. The case is the good old fashioned big heavy brick, which I like a lot better than these cheesy new ones. Thick metal cases help drives survive, that's a fact. HD tune consistantly returned a 120mbps average transfer rate, with 160+ mbps burst rates. You can't do better with a standard 7200 rpm drive.

Cons: It let my Bald Eagle fly out a window.

Overall Review: I haven't tried Samsung drives in a long time, we have loads of them at work coming out of office desktops and 5-6 years later they are working like new. Very low failure rate compared to other drives shipped in these enterprise desktops. I'm running various stable raid configs on old 160gb Samsung drives. It convinced me that Samsung is serious about quality drives. So far so good. Keep it up Samsung.

Pros: Ok, a follow up review is warranted. After dropping my Linux plans and ridding myself of HDMI problems, the board is performing well under W7 Home Premium 64. HDMI is working beautifully, and working well in all other aspects. Media PC is a go. I would buy another one. The problem was with driver support as stated before, not Gigabyte.

Cons: My wife yells at computers.

Overall Review: If you can't buy American, buy Taiwan. At least they are a democracy.