Pros: Good board layout. Not DOA! If your RAM supports xmp profiles, you can use them. Usual stuff in the box. Really like the locations for everything. Nice handy board clear cmos button! Love the bios options, nice layout. i7's Turbo work's nicely.

Cons: Knocked off an egg for lack of an SLI bridge. Seriously? Yes I understand there are supposed to be two versions of the board (msi forums), but the box outside shows both logos. Two dollar part guys. Maybe three if you used the fancy flexible ones. Also contributing to that loss of the egg is the very high northbridge temps. Bordering on 80c, pretty warm guys. Gonna have to pop that off and see if the thermal compound needs reapplying with some other compound.

Overall Review: 16x/16x/4x gonna have to see some SLI action soon! Nice board for the price, better if you don't mind messing with it to fix some heat issues.