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Good MBO !!!
The ASUS M4A785TD-M EVO Socket AM3/AMD 785G/4DDR3-1800+ is an excellent product. Little tight, but it is an ATX format. The only drawback I can find, and I can live with is... the PCI slots are too close to the Video slot (PCI Express) especially if you use an aftermarket card with a heat sink/fan. You lose one pci slot. Would have liked more PCI slots further away from the Video slot. But, the motherboard was easy to install and I have been "burning it in" for several days now with no problems appearing. It took my AMD Phenom 11 quad 4 955 CPU with its massive cooling tower with ease. Seems to be easy to OC, but, It's advised that you use DDR3 ram only for best overall performance.
Would I buy it again? Most definitely! Only real drawback was the placement of the PCI slots. This is why I only gave it 4 stars instead of the full 5. Construction is good.

Extremely satisfied
Good construction, fairly fast boot (but watch out for internal USB devices, that adds like a second for each device!!, features a-plenty. Only one 16x slot. Don't see the use for the 1x, maybe audio. But this one's audio seems robust; excited to try out the 10-channel. ExpressGate does NOT use wifi adapters - didn't realize that one. Dual channel support - this means get your RAM in pairs, and get all the same kind. The placement of the PCI slot right next to the 16x is unfortunate; don't they know most cards you'd want to use with it take 2 slots of space?

Total USB connectors is 12. That seems pretty generous. I don't get the legacy support for LPT and COM, though they are internal.

Use the DVI/HDMI. I have not tried them yet but they are bound to be better than the VGA, which is marred by interference. It's like looking at a projection that's under a pool of water or something, kind of. Faint wavy dark lines flit across at all times. And a little blurrier than my laptop's VGA output!

The onboard graphics is surprisingly capable and of course silent. Can play Braid (a very fill-rate intensive game) at 30fps if you overclock your CPU a bit. You can even overclock the onboard DDR3 VRAM. If anyone knows how to enable some kind of hot-switching between onboard and PCI-e leave a comment! Would be great to cut down on noise while using audio programs and coding.

The overclocking on this board is extremely robust. I love how easy it is. You can just tell it a percentage to overclock a component and it can do it automatically.

All in all this board is awesome for a small gaming system. The large heatsink I got fit very well and was easy enough to mount. Keeping this thing cool is also helped by the fact that it does adjust cpu speed and fan speed based on load and temp, like a good laptop.

Overall, I am happy! Good quality, overclocking du'jour, generous USB, and not-bad onboard graphics all make it a great buy at the price. Legacy connectors, bad VGA and lack of hot-switching between onboard and PCI-E graphics keep it from being a 5.