Cons: installed phenom x4 9600 with 4 1 gig sticks of crucial and board would not read ram correct. i manually reset ram to 1066 and started getting run time errors, so i flashed bios which acted like it took but then quit booting which should not have been an issue except for the fact that the 2nd bios failed to kick in. newegg fortunately has rmaed the board will have to try different configurat