Pros: It is pretty silent, as much as a case fan can be. Has a mesh cable covering that terminates to a 3 pin mobo molex connector, at this price point you would hard pressed to find something of this quality. Came with ruberized mounts instead of screws to absorb vibration, and they are reusable. Even the packaging was of high quality. Has a hydro bearing = silience and longetivity All in all, good fan. I don't see many reviews, so I am adding my 2 cents.

Cons: Mobo reporting max CFM around 1200. Not bad for its size, considering how quiet it is. Use it as a side intake or front case fan or HTPC fan to maximize cooling:quiet capacity.

Pros: - Pretty much every feature that you would want on a A88X Kaveri ready motherboard. - Full size ATX features on a Micro ATX board. - Excellent Build Quality, and Color Scheme - Great Bios interface - Very Good overclocking ability and tools - Heatsinks on mosfets, most APU boards dont have these, allowing for good overclocking. - Price vs Quality, probably best A88X motherboard you can buy.

Cons: HDMI issues. I have spent all weekend trying to diagnose HDMI audio stutters. I do not use the APU IGP, I have an MSI R9 270x that I use via HDMI connected to a surround receiver. The PCM audio is just flat out flakey over HDMI, i get skipping and PCM stream dropouts like crazy. I have done the following: - Upgraded/Downgraded/Adjusted everything related to AMD catalyst drivers. Not sure that it's a driver issue at this point. - Adjusted every bios setting possible. HPET, disable on board sound (Realtek), disabled power saving features, disabled IGP. Still get HDMI audio skipping. - Swapped video cards for another known working AMD video card, still get audio skipping/dropouts. - Tried different HDMI cable. - Tried different ports on the surround receiver. - Tried stock clock speed, everything auto, no change. Just for FYI, I came from an Asrock A88X mini itx board, great little board but is unstable when overclocking. Sound over HDMI and via onboard Realtek worked just fine (same video card). Would rather not use onboard Realtek optical out, because you only get 2 channel PCM, no option for 5.1 over optical. Recommendations: PLEASE MSI PUT OUT A BIOS UPDATE. The last bios Update was on 03-19-2014. That is over 5 months ago (Version 1.1). Totally inexcusable. The bios looks great and has great overclocking features, but the options for all your other standard features such as adjusting PCI-E options and onboard peripherals are just straight up paltry and sad. I have read that HDMI issues might be due to running in PCI-E 3.0 mode, which offers somewhat negligible benefits for mid range cards. But there is no bios setting to adjust PCI-E Gen (1.1, 2.0, 3.0). Can't adjust voltage to PCI-E slots. Can't do much in the bios other than overclocking and adjust boot settings. Bioses were originally designed to allow complete customization of computer operations, not to look pretty.

Overall Review: I want to love this board, I really do. It's the best Micro ATX A88X option out there right now. But tech issues and lack of support just make it a mediocre board currently. If we could get some support on the MSI forums or via bios updates that would easily make this a 5 egg board. I don't know if it's just a bad board or not, but I would rather not have to RMA it to replace it with another board just to wind up with the same issue. This motherboard is basically your supermodel girlfriend that has personality issues. You want to love it and yet you want to toss it out the window at the same time.