ASUS M3N78-VM SLI mATX AM2+ Nforce 750A 1PCI-E16 1PCI-E1 2PCI HDMI Video Sound GBLAN Motherboard

Cons: None so far.

Pros: 4 DDR2 slotsDespite the specs saying only AM2/AM2+ - It works with a large number of AM3 CPUs. I have an Athlon x2 250 AM3 dual core in mine. Check AMDs website for the full list of compatible CPUs. Onboard Video supports hardware offloading of H.274 playback in Boxee/Ubuntu. Linux drivers are solid enough. Lots of Connectors - SATA, 2x System Fans, hdmi/dvi/vga - surpringsing for a compact Micro-ATX board

Cons: I was unable to get it to power, I tried multiple power supplies, removing the ram ect. ect. Called Asus tech support they came to the same conclusion. After reading the reviews I was afraid this might happen and it did =(. As long as I get a working one I'll be happy so, this doesn't really change my opinion of ASUS.

Pros: Seems like a great Motherboard, cheap, has extended support and is a great replacement board per the specs.

Cons: I had this mobo for just under 1 year and everything seemed fine. I installed a SATA HD enclosure to allow easy HD swaps. Was powering down and swapping drives every couple days between a Vista and a Win2k drive when eventually nothing would boot. Now, about 30 percent of the time the mobo doesn't even POST! When it does POST it detects the SATA drive about 1 percent of the time. That's right, boot 100 times and maybe 1 time it'll see it and boot Vista. If I drop the drive into a SATA-USB converter it'll boot, but since Vista was already installed as C: I get BSD.When it does POST and I get into the BIOS, as I said about 1 percent of the time the SATA doesn't show up. It showed up for just under 1 year and now the BIOS can't find it. I usually use SATA mode but tried RAID and AHCI just for grins -- no help.The built-in video is extremely slow and useless as movie playback is full of glitches and frame drops.

Pros: None

Cons: Issues with video driver. Colors are too bright even after downloading new drivers and adjusting.

Pros: Good features on board. Easy to set up and configure.

Cons: wish is had an extra PCI slot but i knew it didnt when i ordered it.. so thats on me

Pros: Ordered this to replace my high end Gig motherboard and so far so good.. not a big OC person so this is just right for my gaming.. it came with everythig i needed and more.. got some extra cabbles to a diff MB..lol

Cons: This board is physically setup a little weird. I had to cut and solder longer cables for my power/reset switches, hdd/power leds. Minor inconvenience.

Pros: HDMI output, NVIDIA chipset, works perfect in Linux.

Cons: has an alternate boot mode for media service that I find useless, but maybe that is just me.

Pros: good range of support, easy setup. automatic smart overclocking.

Cons: Only 3 actual Sata ports.

Pros: The features and price of this board were right around what i wanted. Still working great.

Cons: lacks 1394 but not a huge deal since i dont really ever use 1394, but would be inconvenience for someone who does. i dont see ever using express gate. hybrid sli is supported by two models of geforce 9800 video cards, and only under vista. doubt ill ever use it since i currently have a 8800gt and will soon upgrade to a 200-series.

Pros: inexpensive. quality hardware. has everything i needed. accepts phenom ii cpus. lots of bios options. stable.

Cons: Onboard video can get a littler choppy. Connected it to my HDTV, and full screen flash videos have a considerably lower frame rate than I expected.HDMI audio is crackly in Vista, non-existent under Ubuntu 9.10, and only decent in Windows 7. Could not get HDMI audio to work at all in Vista Media Center.

Pros: Decent board for a HTPC. Very stable. Very nice board layout and good documentation. Nifty utility to let you change the BIOS splash - if you are running Windows. Very easy to update the BIOS. Plenty of space for expansion. HDCP-compliant.

Cons: motherboard keep rebooting and a loud buzz from the speakers. I wont get a refund because I broke off the clip to the graphic card slot. you cant load the bios without installing express gate. the bios are very difficult to understand. gigabytes and ECS are much easier to use.GIGABYTE over clocking tools anyone can use.

Pros: software. tech support

Cons: You can only have up to 4GB of 1066MHz memory installed. Paraphrasing the manual, only one DIMM per channel may be 1066...once you put in more than one 1066 DIMM in a channel, the bus speed drops to 800MHz for stability.Not a huge issue, but kind of a bummer.

Pros: - Fast, integrated graphics- HDMI out- On-board video/audio is perfectly compatible with FreeBSD 7 (I'm running 8-amd64-release and everything is working)

Cons: can't do duel channel with 1066 but i knew that when i bought it

Pros: -great board for the price

Cons: None.

Pros: Great features, HDMI and eSATA are a nice touch. IGP NVIDIA chip is fast.

Cons: the i/o cover does not fit right, and the motherboard seems cheap. when you install the ram it sounds like the motherboard is breaking. the cpu fan does have fan control , but it is set to high. I have a 2,000 rpm fan running at 4,300 rpms. the northbridge is very hot about 40 c. I install a fan on top of my case that hits it. my cpu is about 10 c hot now than it was in its old motherboard. it idles at 30 c to 44 c under load.

Pros: motherboard worked right out of the box. when I build my work horse computer last year I had to give an Intel board life support to get the bios to load. Nvidia 8200 graphics . Asus software is good. VIT hd audio sounds great over 2.1 speakers. hdmi and esata on the back panel.

Cons: This is my third go-round with this board - the first two were DOA, [however it is a possibility the motherboards died as a result of a bad CPU. This would be a first for me in over 30 years of building literally thousands of PCs, but I've learned that anything is possible.] The DVD they sent with the drivers was no good - in fact I think it's blank (unrecorded.) I was able to download all the drivers (use the download manager, they are quite large) and utilities.

Pros: Works great - just like you would expect from ASUS. Lots of great features, even better price.

Cons: None so far.... although I haven't figured out if/how to get audio out with the HDMI.

Pros: Great Features. Runs smooth with almost no issues ever so far.Suprisingly, HDMI works great... switches over to HDMI from DVI as soon as I put my LCD TV to HDMI Input.

Cons: Super I/O chip is either bad or incorrectly installed. Two DOA's with smoking chips. Unacceptable!

Pros: Well laid out, good price point for features

Cons: Motherboard is DOA. The board could not have been tested properly. The BIOS chip started smoking instantly when started and MB won't boot (of course.)

Pros: I've been a fan of ASUS quality for many years - they went through a rough patch several years back, but overall their quality has been very good. This is the first DOA MB I have got (out of hundreds) in several years.

Cons: same as before

Pros: same as before