I have read all the horror stories regarding mysterious smoke generators and understand people do not like the all in one boards, but I have used many without any problem.

This morning talking to a colleague about the weekend I told him about my CNC mill conversion and he produced a 5 axis BOB and 3 x CW-5045 Drivers from his desk that had been taking up space for some time, price FREE. So my question is, are there any advantages to swapping my TB6560 that is working perfectly for the BOB and seperate drivers not including the fact that people do not like them, I mean any genuine gain or improvement to be gained from doing so?

From my investigations after hearing the horror stories on the forums I only came up with the circuit protection on the seperate drivers, for any one connecting stepper motors incorrectly would save them from taking out an onboard driver and scrapping the board if they were not able to remove and fit a new chip. Probably why these boards have such a bad press around the forums quite easy for the unsuspecting to do when starting out without RTFI.