Pros: I built myself a hackintosh with this motherboard. It's well-supported, has a plethora of USB ports, and plenty of SATA ports if you need them.

Cons: What's with the metal covers on the Ethernet ports? Seems a little strange.

Other Thoughts: This is the first computer I've built, and I love having a high-end motherboard at the heart of it.

Pros: Got this board a few hours ago, installed it, booted it, set drive boot priority and booted Windows, windows installed motherboard devices (came from an ASUS P6T Deluxe mobo) and everything worked pretty much perfect so far.

Cons: Motherboard buzzed when moving mouse or opening certain programs, going into bios options, and changing the cpu options to "allow all cores, enable turboboost, enabled hyperthreading, enable cpu thermal monitor" and disabling everything else, eliminated the buzz / squealing / whining noise completely. Gigabyte should fix this, because many people probably do not know how to fix it (I found it by searching google.)

Other Thoughts: Smooth experience. First time Gigabyte buyer, my initial impression is pretty good.

Pros: Running this board with an Intel 980x and 12gb (6x 2gb) G.SKILL PIS PC3-19200 RAM air cooled with a V10 cooler. Overclocked easily to 3.6GHz. Absolutely certain I could go further but haven't spent the time adjusting frquencies and voltages to push it. I originally had the same problem that Ken (posted 4/6 had) but came to realize it was from pushing my BCLK to high. Brought it down a bit and everything is working perfectly. Great board with great features and as always with Gigabyte it is easily overclocked. I've been running Gigabyte boards for my last 3 upgrades (yearly) and haven't had any issues.

Cons: Poor location for SATA connectors. The should have had them standing on the board rather than pointing sideways off the edge of the board. Would have made making SATA connections so much easier. A little patience and time got me past that dilemna. This shouldn't be an item that prevents you from deciding to purchase this board.

Pros: I purchased this motherboard as the foundation for a dual-boot "Hackintosh" and Windows 7 machine. I did extensive research into what motherboards, chipsets, and other hardware were compatible with a vanilla installation of OSX, and this motherboard has not failed me.
It has more options than I know what to do with, and it makes overclocking a breeze. There are extensive instructions available on the internet that will let you overclock a Core i7 to 4.0 Ghz on air-cooling. I run mine at 3.87 Ghz, and have yet to feel it slow.

This thing is SOLID. The PCB is THICK and sturdy and the board just feels like a slab of steel. It's awesome!

Lots of USB ports, and all the other expansion ports one could need.

Cons: A little more expensive than some other boards, but you really do get what you pay for...

Other Thoughts: Buy this board.

Pros: Looks nice. Seems fast. Lots of USB ports.

Cons: Lots. First, the item shipped was defective. It only recognized 4GB out of 6GB of RAM in the BIOS. Windows 7, strangely enough, saw all 6GB, but only 4GB was usable. I verified all my RAM was good. I called Gigabyte and they told me to RMA it. That was almost 2 weeks ago. Newegg received the item last Wednesday (3/31/2010) and as of right this minute (04/06/2010), the item still has a "received" status. I've called Newegg twice (yesterday and today) to find out what's going on and haven't gotten an answer yet other than "it's in inspections."

Oh yeah, the SATA connectors on this MB are in a HORRIBLE spot.

Other Thoughts: I thought Newegg would be better here and I'm disappointed in the turnaround time for the RMA. I'm also disappointed that this motherboard was defective... and after reading all of the similar issues people are having with it, I think I made a mistake by buying it.

Pros: lots of connections, looks good, great software included. lots of extra gear included (cables, jumpers, etc). easy to overclock. Good overall.

Cons: -awkward sata ports, they are stacked sideways, facing opposite directions.
-expansion ports: if you have more than 1 PCI device, and a double sized video card in your PCIe, you're out of luck, because you wont be able to fit it in.
-audio connector is all the way across the board?! why?
-no software for a gadget on your screen to see your temperatures. :(

Pros: User friendly BIOS, Lots of options. Auto settings work almost as well as fine tune. If bad setiings, easy to correct. Able to set Bclk to 195 with "all" settings on auto. (Gskill 1600 RAM, (watch multiplier,this Gskill will max out at 1800))

Cons: Pretty good manual (not great). Have no idea why I would ever use 2 internet connections. IDE connection wasted space. Eliminating it could have freed up PCI slot when using a big GPU. Everything could be cheaper...

Other Thoughts: Had to contact support to find out you have to connect "BOTH" the 24 pin "AND" the 8 pin power supply to work correctly. Maybe "Operator headspace" but couldn't find this anywhere in manual.

Pros: It will run SLI or Crossfire ,but running three big cards is difficult since the last slot covers up everthing and the power supply needs to be in the top to run three big cards in SLI ,but it can be done ,I ran three GTX 280's for a long time.It has 10 SATA ports so you can hook up plenty of harddrives.Lots of overclock features.

Cons: The cards are to close together when running SLI or TRI SLI ,they are sandwhich together,so you need a case with a Fan blowing on the cards.but most motherboards have them this close.

Other Thoughts: I don't see why people complain about the SATA ports ,I like haveing them on the side ,makes it easier for installing your video cards ,you just need a big case.The HAF932 has plenty of room.I never read in the manual that it would run three cards at 16x,16x,8x, It says if you use the third one ,it shares lanes with PCIe2 and will run at 16x,8x,8x wihich is not really a problem since the benchmarks show little to no increase in haveing 16x,16x,16x,.I have had this Gigabyte for over a year and it has never gave me no problems so far.I am going to go with two Gigabytes HD5870's in cross-fire and install Windows 7 64bit pro.I hope it works as good as vista 64 bit and SLI,I will find out soon.

Pros: Excellent board after 1 year of use. I installed and ran Gulftown i7 980X 6 core CPU without any issue. Solid construction, plenty of features, excellent stability and ease of use. 980x runs like a beast on any motherboard!

Cons: The dynamic energy saver, when enabled, can cause some stability issues. I tend to leave it off.

Other Thoughts: Gulftown i7 980X requires BIOS update to F11 or higher.

Pros: I love the board amazing it put up with anything i made it do including gaming and HD video editing

Cons: had it for 3 months the south bridge controller went out on. :( had to RMA it took about 2 weeks from RMA to get it back not its working great but not sure how long

Other Thoughts: a little pricey