Pros: For those of you purchasing this board with one of the C2 (earlier) chips, this board has done fantastic in reviews. In fact, read the reviews on Newegg. For the most part, this board is a great overclocker and stable.

Cons: PLEASE READ: I've never given out a one egg before. Most of the time I think it's childish and you get reviews like "Did not POST, DOA, etc.", that make you want to flag the review as not being helpful. **This is very important** As of this past month (11/07), AMD released new revisions to their top line of processors (starting with the 965 125w). DO NOT PURCHASE THIS BOARD WITH THAT (OR ANY OTHER C3) PROCESSOR. AMD supports these chips in the most current version of the BIOS (v.2002). However, in order to flash your BIOS, you have to have another AM3 processor. The board will NOT boot at all with these new processors. This should be fixed in the next 6 months for this board. I say 6 months for the fact that it takes about that time for the new BIOS to be implemented into current shipments.

Overall Review: This is not a bad board. This is a respected, well built ASUS board that has great features. Not to mention the stellar price. Please don't purchase this board with a new AMD processor (Google C3 for a list of the new processors). Alright ASUS, please don't bother responding to this. I know someone pays you to follow the bad reviews and give the whole "We're sorry you had a bad experience..." script. GO AHEAD! I bet anything ASUS will give the standard cut and paste rebuttal under my post. Waiting...

Pros: There are almost all pros: easy to install, good directions straight forward design well planned and logical and plenty of material to complete the job without having to run to the store. It had all I needed to get it in and up and running in one try. Now, after it is in and booted up there are a ton of little utilities and gizmos that have great eye appeal but I will probably only use one. There are a couple of good tweaking tools which are much different than the eye appealing stuff which are easy to use and do work in a game they could be interesting. I play no games but do mess with the things. amd had a good clocking tool that is easy even for me. express gate will have great appeal to just booting on in seconds for those few things one doesnt want to wait for and that is great if needed Alll in all there are so many things but the first and most important is how solid and easy it was to put in and right out of the boy (my own gpu though) It has been running for days and

Cons: The audio chipset has given me some of the only issues not problems per se but certainly took up some time and shouldnt have given how great the rest of the board was. It just has issues. the VIA vt1708s is particular. I use the plugs on the back and still it is quirky on when and if it will recognize my 4.1 speakers not figured out yet why it wont play the woofer, it is there just wont put sound out of it(and it works)identifies it but no sound and i tried everything in a pretty good comprehensive audio deck interface all kinds of adjustments but they dont always work. lots of issues on their web site too from asus board owners. The only installation con is the "q shield' faceplate for the I/O jacks. it is padded and a super tight fit which throws the board from the standoffs and makes it tough to put in and line up. i got fooled when i did the lay out all lined up on the money till i put the shield in for the button down final assembly and it was a hassle shared by others.

Overall Review: It was the first real build for me from the ground up all new parts and it couldt have been easier and since the Asus board was the heart of the project other than the case, I was glad I picked it since I never thought of ever buying a motherboard up to a couple of months ago. It had a good book back up and a couple of great additions tiny little plugs which made some potentially tough connections very easy. As I said, i plugged the system in the lights went on and I would say it made a noise but it is silent the only sound i hear is rf hum from the cheap speakers i have. I did my research here reading the reviews and looking for sales and spent more than i wanted but still less than i would have for a great pre built one that had lots of what i didnt want and still had to buy what i did. Now i have something that would have been so far out of budget and it is all set and can upgrade for a few years and the Asus was the basis of the upgrade being AM3socket and RAM is not more $$

Pros: Most people cruise though reading reviews on newegg.com, I know I did the same before I purchased this motherboard. Being as that it may be, I have a few pointers for those looking to purchase this or any other M4A7 series boards. 1. The layout of the board is great. 2. Nice customizable bios that includes many tweaking options found on higher end boards 3. Windows XP / Vista / 7 drivers on the included support DVD (gives the user plenty of options depending on what they wish to do) 4. Asus Ai software allows for fans to be controlled automatically, or you can manually set them in the software as well (very handy for when you are gaming and or when you want to turn down the decibels and have a quieter computer for a home office setting. 5. Motherboard came with the most recent bios for me, so everyone complaining about C3 setting issues in the most recent processors have nothing to worry about! =) PCB also showed rev 1.01g

Cons: Only issue I have with the board was getting my DDR3 memory to run at 1600 clock speed. For some reason (after doing much googling) it appears that you must over clock your memory or manually adjust the speed rating and timings of the memory to get it to post properly. I picked up some DDR3 G-Skil "Ripjaw" memory and had bluescreen issues with the board when I was installing Windows 7 64bit. This only happened when I manually set the speed rating on the board to 1600... it turns you you need to increase the voltage and timings to reflect this. Your memory may not have these issues, but I know other people have mentioned this in other reviews as well. Moral of the story is do your homework before jumping headfirst into any new computer hardware build.

Overall Review: Very happy with the system board overall when it comes to features / price / reliability / etc. Also very happy about the fact that the boards seem to be shipping with the most recent bios Always do your homework before purchasing any computer hardware. Asus has great return / warranty policies and stand behind their products 100%. This board comes highly recommended, I wish I could give it 10 eggs out of 5 due to the price vs performance and options it comes with.

Pros: Used in a build for my brother-in-law's birthday present. Bought it with an AMD Phenom II 550 Black Edition, and unlocked it with next to no effort. Good layout, solid board, and a great price for the capabilities. Probably going to use it for another build soon.

Cons: I was irked at one aspect. I installed this board in an Antec Three Hundred Illusion (GREAT "small" case), and the top-front-mounted audio ports' cable had to cross the board directly. Was unable to do any cable management. The headers for the switches/LEDs wasn't great either. Guys, you know which side of the board will be facing the front of the case. Put the case connect headers BACK THERE.

Overall Review: Installed a COOLER MASTER GeminII S heat sink/fan setup with no clearance issues with board or RAM. Processor setup: BIOS > Advanced > Advanced Clock Calibration (ACC) to AUTO, Unleashing Mode to ENABLED, Active CPU Cores to 4 CORE OPERATION. Save and restart.

Pros: Very attractive price Looks nice Everything worked great without any troubleshooting. Nice bios with potential for overclocking (haven't tried yet) DDR3 RAM I noted the heatsinks were held on by bumpers so that when someone clumsy like me goes and hits one, it doesn't exert too much force on the board. This little thing impressed me

Cons: None yet

Overall Review: I had a problem similary to a number of other users where the MB would power on but then not display anything or post. Turned out I only connected the 24 pin power supply and not the 4 pin ATX 12V. Ooops

Pros: All of the ports and connections I need. BIOS has tons of tweaks for OC if you are into that and a easy reset feature if your OC settings don’t work (no pulling pins).

Cons: I never would have thought to include "strange power issue" when researching this board. Turns out I should have and I bet that is what a lot of the RMAs for this board are about. If the power switch reboots the machine instead of powering off or sleep, you need to either replace it (no exchange) or put a capacitor inline with the power switch for proper operation. (BTW, this has nothing to do with Windows settings). I tried 2 cases, 3 different switches, 2 power supplies and also plugged directly into the mobo (no q-connector) with no luck. A part from Radio Shack that cost 1.19 resolved the issue. Very frustrated and don’t feel like I should have to eat 15% restocking for a manufacturers defect or take the time to RMA for the same issue.

Overall Review: There is a forum on Asus describing the problem and fix. I didn’t solder anything to the board, just created a harness and put the capacitor in line with the power switch. Nothing against Newegg or their policies, shipping was fast and everything packaged OK but there needs to be a point where accepting RMAs for the same board 2,3 or more times from the same people like I have read in the feedback should raise some red flags and the product be pulled. The modder in me doesn’t mind too much, but the consumer in me is just disappointed with the product.

Pros: This board is perfect for that budget, gaming pc. The board worked fine with my AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965, not sure what people are talking about saying it does not work? Plenty of room for two graphics cards, and SLI ready. The onboard sound, sounds great on my 7.1 surround sound system, not sure why people say it was junk. I can't complain at all about it, actually is sounds the same as my previous machine's SB Audigy card.... hmm. Windows 7 takes care of most of the drivers as well, no issues at all. Tons of SATA support.

Cons: Not really a CON, but you do have to change the ram speed to 1600 manually, but not a big deal to change in the BIOS.

Overall Review: Not sure why people are complaining. This board is nice. No problems. I wish people would not give 1 egg for a DOA, it happens, these things are sensitive. Make sure you ground yourself, before your touch electronic components... Also this is a 24 pin + 4 pin board. Make sure you read the manual, I forgot to plug in the 4 pin at first, and it did not POST. I plugged in the 4 pin and it worked great.

Pros: Price, lots of features, nice BIOS, Nice looking motherboard, supports AM3 processors with DDR3 ram * Oh yes, this did come with the new bios (0704) which supports all the new C3 /125 watt processors to those who are concerned.

Cons: Not neccessarily a con, but only supports crossfire at 8x/8x, but it is said you only lose about 4FPS, but for the price of this board and its features, I bought it to run one single GPU that is very strong (i.e. ATI 5970 or GTX 485) *Also, the fact that if you use SATA Harddrives with this motherboard will give you an error in BIOS. Most likely it will say "Adapter 1 - Harddisk not detected" It took me 3 hours to fix, but you need to go into BIOS, under Advanced and then onboard configurations. DISABLE the Marvell eSATA controller. Then it will work!

Overall Review: Besides the annoying "Cannot find Harddisk error", I really like this motherboard. It's sexy and has a lot of features. I will mess with the overclocking features when I get more advanced. This was my first build. It was a: AMD Phenom II x4 965 C3 ASUS M4A79XTD EVO G. SKILL 4GB DDR3 1600 ATI Radeon Saphire Vapor X HD 4890 Corsair 750w TX PSU LiteOn ODD WD Green 500gb Coolermaster CM 690