Some perhaps useful user reviews from Newegg.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813157115
Board Man
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year 9/13/2007 11:20:44 AM
Pros: Very very flexible board with the dual memory options and the LARGE selection of CPU's it will handle. I teamed mine up with an Intel 940 Duo Core and it runs like a bear . I up graded my memory to the max and have never had a problem with it !!
Cons: Instruction manual was a little "weak" at times and you would need some basic knowledge to get the most out of this board. Two more memory slots would really make this board a great deal for the price !!!
madmax
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week 9/8/2007 7:37:01 PM
Pros: I had to buy this from a different vendor as Newegg didn't have it. Runs an e6600 at 310 FSB with no probs. I am using my old DDR RAM and a Radeon 9600 AGP. Good interm upgrade board.
Cons: For 59 bucks, how can you find fault if it works as advertised
MikeJ
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month 9/5/2007 3:11:57 PM
Great MB!
Pros: I was able to use a left over AGP video card, DDR400 memory, and Celeron Processor and this board never even hicupped! Good investment because of the long term upgradeability - I can get DDR2, Duo Core CPU, and PCIX Video when the time comes! Started up immediately - has run non-stop for 3 weeks.
Cons: Not really a con - just a caveat - there is no onboard video with this MB - You must use a card.
Other Thoughts: I'm getting another one to upgrade the house server!
DaveNH
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month 9/5/2007 10:08:11 AM
Bought 2 so far
Pros: I bought two of these boards so far. One ended up as my main machine, the other is used for the wide-screen TV. My main machine runs with a RAID1 of 2x250gb SATAII drives, a 2.18 core 2 duo (1066FSB), 2GB of 800 memory and my AGP 7800 video card. The second machine is an 800fsb 2.0 core 2 duo with some "old" P4 memory I had extra. Its not as fast, but way faster than the P4 machine its replacing. So for about 60 for the MB and 120 for a 2.0 core 2 duo (800fsb); its an easy and FAST upgrade for cheap money.
Cons: "they say" that the PCIe is only 4x. I can't confirm or deny as none of my machines use it. I wish it had a firewire header; but I knew it didn't when I bought it. Thats what the extra PCI slots are for.
Other Thoughts: I use a Soundblaster Audigy 2. I don't think I use the on-board sound on any of the 8 PCs I run at home; they all use Soundblaster cards.
shimoty
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year 8/3/2007 11:45:26 AM
nice board
Pros: this is a nice board for the price because you have a wide range of cpu's to choose from and it makes it easy for an upgrade and AGP or PCI Express x16 so you have a lot of options for video cards as well. SATA 3gb/s working nicely for my 320 gig hard drive good board for people with a budget but want performance
Cons: sound driver would not work so i had to uninstall it and then reinstall it then it worked not a big problem though