ASUS M4A78 Plus ATX AMD Motherboard

Cons: The I/O panel is stupid (but which motherboard's isn't?). The panel they give you is frustrating to get on but I wouldn't consider this a con since the performance is not affected - just the external appearance. Also, see below for a not-really-con.

Pros: Great motherboard! Installation was pretty easy and it runs beautifully. No problems as of yet (knock on wood) and so far it's working great!

Cons: Worked great for a day or two. Then with no warning, after a restart. Nothing. No post. Not even a keyboard light, or monitor kick on. Just dead. I'm returning, and going for a more reliable board.

Pros: Looks, good. Sure it would perform great if it hadn't died.

Cons: My ECS's and other cheap boards were only giving me about a year of service so I thought I'd go with the supposed best, but asus turned out to be the worse. This board was DOA and the M4A78 Pro it was temporarily replacing has to be RMA'ed as it started dying at 6 mo and was dead at 7 or 8. I'd a been better off for price and quality to go with the cheap boards, much better off. Not at all what I expected from Asus. At this rate, if I have to return these every 6 months I'll be paying more for return shipping in the long run for both my recent Asus board purchases than I paid for the boards. In what I'm hoping is an unlikely scenario, that could potentially better than double the price of each board. :(With that in mind and due to the reviews I read from you other 1 eggers, I'm pretty sure I'm going to change my New Egg RMA from "replace" to "refund". I just don't need this aggravation or to be stuck with 2 Asus boards.

Pros: None. Poorly made/little or no quality control. First new Asus dead in a few months, the second new one from a different order, DOA. I'm reduced to posting from my 10 year old HP Pavilion 500 mhz. The old HP has an Asus board and because it's lasted is one reason I decided to pay the extra for an Asus. Well, they don't make em like they used to.

Cons: Okay, seriously... What is the deal with the documentation? Absolutely no published documentation regarding RAID. A PDF file hidden on the CD that hardly does it justice. Would it have killed you to print something up? No floppy support which cracks me up given that they provide XP drivers. No problem, slipstream.. oh except that the drivers in the RAID folder don't work and the RAID drivers in the "Chipset" folder don't work either. Download the drivers from the website you say? Oh sure you will see the array and it installs very nicely.. just don't reboot. BSOD!! After scouring the internet I found ZERO solutions. Based on the feedback I have read if you plan to use RAID with this motherboard, you are better off buying a RAID controller. What's the point?

Pros: Decent motherboard with a lot of USB support. Memory placement is decent. Inexpensive.

Cons: Right side of board under ram is unsupported. So hold the edge while u install your ram.

Pros: Easy install. Layout is nice, sata ports out oe the way from the pcie. Lots of usb ports. Asus gateway feature is pretty cool. Havnt tried ocing, but many settings available so it shouldnt be difficult.

Cons: Only 5 internal sata ports

Pros: eSata, 9 USB on the back

Cons: It's still a bit pricey for, what i consider, a low end AM2 board.

Pros: Great Motherboard. It's rock solid, full of features and has 9 USB PORTS! Crossfire capable and laid out very well.

Cons: never worked from day one. I was purchasing parts for a new build every payday. took a while to get them all. the board was bad but asus said I'd had it too long to replace it.(4 months)

Pros: none

Cons: In the BIOS, the board reports zero current on the 5 volt rail and it appears there is something not right about the 5 volt rail because if I try to use S3 standby (suspend to RAM), the system shuts down and loses all data. No big deal. Sometimes these things happen. So I RMA'ed the board and after 10 days, ASUS sent me the exact same board with the exact same problem without any explanation. I guess this means they either didn't reproduce the problem or couldn't fix it. Whatever the case, sending me the same board without fixing it and not providing any explanation is not acceptable to me. And I'm not a very difficult customer.

Pros: Very good AMD chipset. Good placement of PCI / PCIe slots. Lots of SATA ports. Lots of USB ports. Very decent HD onboard audio. Generally high quality motherboard. (if everything worked)

Cons: This is the first of the Plus' boards I've bought...and I think this one isn't as well build as the others I've bought. It seems a lot lower quality than the M4a78 PRO I have in my own PC. This one came with a dead network port!! I decided against an RMA...this PC is for my Brother for Christmas, so I decided to just add a locally bought LINKSYS Network card. Works great with the PCI NIC card! I've read a lot of other people's comments and apparently the NIC is an issue on this board.

Pros: This is my third M4A78 series board I've bought for building PCs for other people and 1 for myself...love the series!

Cons: None, purchased this board for a friend who just acquired an AMD 965 BE. 140watt compatibility was a must for him, and so are the various usb's. This board fulfilled his every need. Raid, 140watt CPU support, solid capacitors. Been running strong for 5 1/2 months now.

Pros: To the guy that purchased an open box item and decided that it should have come with accessories, newegg STATES that ALL accessories in the picture with (whatever open box item) you purchase, are to represent what you ARE NOT getting. Grow up and read.

Cons: Not a overclocking boardSecond PCIe port run at x4 modedead after 2 weeks

Pros: CheapBackward compatibilityTwo PCIe

Cons: BEWARE when you buy this motherboard. It appears that about 1 in 6 of these boards are DOA or dead within a short time. Mine was one of those boards. First the LAN and USB ports were buggy and would randomly stop working during normal computer use (web browsing, word processing, etc.). Then the board failed completely and wouldn't POST after a month and a half of usage. It just gave some bogus error about the USB devices. RMA'ed to Asus and they sent the same board right back to me without doing anything. Same exact error the first time I booted my computer. Then 4 separate customer service rep's promised to email me a shipping label so I wouldn't have to pay shipping for the 2nd RMA but they never sent me one. The 4th rep even told me that the other 3 hadn't even applied for one for me. After the 2nd RMA the board worked for about 3 months then failed again with the same USB error. Maybe after the 3rd RMA I will get a usable board....

Pros: Inexpensive motherboard that has good features....if it works.

Cons: Didn't come with a I/O shield backplate though I did buy an open box item. Still that should have been included.

Pros: Lots of USB ports, AM3 support, PCI-E 2.0, good bios options. Went together and worked right out of the box with Win7x64. I got this board to upgrade my X2 5400 to a PhenomII 955 and still use the same DDR2-800 memory otherwise I would have gone for something with DDR3. No onboard videocard to clutter things up.

Cons: cheap looking. you get what you paid for.

Pros: my friend needed to upgrade his comp and this mobo was perfect for the job. very cheap with the mail in rebate.supports am3.easy overclock settings on bios.

Cons: None as of yet

Pros: Worked from the box for me, didn't need drivers or anything really, Windows 7 picked them all up automatically. Plenty of options to play with and plenty of slots. I have an avermedia PCI-X card, EVGA PCI-X GTX260, 2 hard drives, and some extra USBs(not tha they where needed).

Cons: none.

Pros: Great board lots of features. I have bought 3 of these boards and have had no problems. runs very cool.

Cons: Doesn't work. When I first started it up, I had plugged in a graphics card that was all but ancient. I figured it was too old, so I bought a new card just for this mobo. Turns out the problem is the mobo itself. My brand new Asus 250 Dark Knight GPU did not work on this board, but worked on my 5 year old Dell desktop. Thanks to no working graphics card, this board it rendered completely useless, hence the one star.

Pros: Cheap board, amazing specs.

Cons: - Cheap (you get what you pay for) - Onboard LAN controller is extremely flaky - BIOS can't handle some USB devices (with a certain USB keyboard connected, the machine fails to POST about 1 in 3 times) - Wake on LAN is very flaky with a PCI network adapter - I suspect it is the motherboard's fault

Pros: - Inexpensive - Lots of integrated peripherals - Serial and parallel port headers (I bought a serial/parallel combo bracket for those)

Cons: none

Pros: Great motherboard, have owned it half a year with only the problem of the LAN port going out, but that is easily fixable, read below.