I ordered one of these boards for my husband as his old system was 'old' and dying a death.
The first order failed to arrive, but a quick email to Amazon Customer Service sorted that out in quick time (impressed with a companies customer service...that's a first for me and 5 stars to them)
The second board was sent first class and arrived safe and really well packaged
He fitted out this board with OCZ Gold 4gb ram, a Q6600 Core2Quad 2.4Ghz with an Akasa heatsink/fan, a 680watt psu, a GTX260 GPU and a pair of Hitachi 1Tb sata hdd's alongside a 500Gb Caviar Blue 'C' drive
Scores on Windows Index went from a poor 1.0 to 7.1's apart from the hdd rate which sits at 5.9
The board is a fairly simplistic affair, but with his usage, he didn't need a 'monster' just something to drag his system from the dark ages.
I would definatly reccommend this board to anyone on a budget who's looking to step into the world of DDR3. It's basic and cheap, but it runs really really quick, don't let the price fool you, it's ASUS's usual top quality.
Asus supply some decent features with the board, the online BIOS update is a great idea, as is the 'Turbo' function.
The one thing he asked me to point out to anyone considering buying this board for gaming is that the larger gpu cards will sit over the top of another pci slot making it inaccessable and unusable. I won't knock stars off for that as he checked that out beforehand.
The BIOS is fiddleable with compared to other ones we have seen
Rating for this board?? 5/5 for looks alone, 5/5 for ease of fitting components, 5/5 for os running (he tried Xp x86/64, Vista x86/64 and Win7 x86/64 before settling on Win7 X64 for the max ram feature. AND.....5/5 for the packaging, whoever packed this board foiled Royal Mail's usual attempts at destroying the contents, cudo's to the packing person