Advantages and disadvantage

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Advantages to ASRock H61M-HVS fine for an HTPC, cheap, supports Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs, ASRock is a good MOBO company. Disadvantages are more numerous - I have a thing for 2xDIMM MOBOs, limited to HDMI (no DVD-D), no OC'ing (CPU or RAM), no USB 3.0 support, no SATA3 support (for a fast SSD), etc.

It really depends upon your specific use. If it's for an HTPC then sure it's fine otherwise it's too limited.