Pros: Affordable 800 series chipset from AMD. RAID, high speed memory support, USB 3.0, 6GB sata, easy to install layout, shorter than full ATX board. I was able to get my memory - Corsair DDR3 1600 running at 1800 stable 8-8-8. RAID 0 is backward compatible with ASUS M3A78 AM2+ AMD 770 ATX MB (the RAID controller gave out on this one). Works great with Win 7 64
Cons: Could not overclock Phenom x4 955 at all. I previously had it OC'd to 3.4Ghz (from 3.2) on my old MB, but I could barely get 10mhz increment with this board despite underclocking memory and other CPU links. The board would also not POST when I had a DLink DGE 560T PCI-E NIC installed in the PCIe slot. The card was working fine in my previous MB, so I'm not sure why this one didn't like it. Not a big deal with onboard NIC. I also had some issues with MBR of my RAID 0 becoming corrupted when I was testing the CPU overclock. Never had that happen before, but Win 7 won't automatically fix MBR with the repair disk. Need to boot into repair disk and use command prompt to fix it. Google for specifics, but it's not hard once you figure it out. Just annoying...
