Pros: 1. Small, sleek, good looking. 2. Ability to plug in a low-profile card makes this case one of the most flexible and small mini-itx cases around.

Cons: 1. Cable management is a disaster with the thick USB3 running around. 2. Case fan power cable is too short, at least for the MB I'm using. 3. The expansion slot is somehow offset to the left (view from behind) towards the motherboard side. In that case I cannot use the black "end plate" and have to resort to not screwing the card all the way down or else I cannot plug into the DVI on my display card. I am sure it is not a display card issue as I tried with 2 other cards.

Overall Review: One of the hardest cases that I've done cable management on, but it's worth it. Small and good looking. However, the offset expansion card slot is really turning me down. It could be because of how the holes are drilled, or the motherboard itself. It's offset by around 5 - 10 mm. FYI, the configuration: ASRock B75M-ITX Intel G630T MSI GeForce GT620 low profile 2x4GB G.Skill DDR3 1333 CL.9 Crucial V4 64GB SSD

Pros: None. I was never able to get it to work anyway.

Cons: The Sil3124 chip on this card is ancient and will not work in Windows 8 (at least mine couldn't). Mine doesn't work on even Windows 7 after loading the driver properly. I actually setup windows on my hard drive and installed driver there - Windows couldn't even see the drive available in diskmgmt.msc. Firmware update boot disk does not even boot on newer motherboard. Plugged into a same-era-as-the-card P55 board and still not working anyway. I can see the RAID BIOS at boot up so the card should be good. Anyway, I tried everything I could think of and now in the process of RMA with OCZ.

Overall Review: If they used one of those Marvell chip (or better LSI/3Ware chips) it would have lasted years more - driver support wise. In this date 2013, the card design is outdated - you can get SATAIII drives with comparable speed at comparable price. I am a very experienced builder (since 1993) and this one card is the most frustrating piece of hardware I've ever had - even more fustrating than setting up MPEG card back in the 1990s which uses custom DMA channel and IRQs. Do not get this, even if the price is less than a Benjaman. Doesn't worth a dime in this age. The issue can't be fixed because OCZ does not manufacture and cannot support the RAID chip - which is what giving us all the trouble. Silicon Image discontinued the chip a long time ago (It's targetted for PCI-X to SATA, if you know what PCI-eXtended is. Not PCI-E), so no luck here. I hope OCZ will either refund me or give me a SATAIII drive. If not, I will put some hot lead through the board.

Pros: - mATX design for 2011-3 - Looks good - Good amp - Support 2 M.2 slots

Cons: - USB3 issues on X99 Gigabyte boards under Windows 8.1 64-bit - UEFI setting entry is picky on hardware attached, and will fail if it doesn't like any of your attached hardware - Overclocking limit is somewhat lower than Asus boards

Overall Review: USB3.0 issue on Gigabyte X99 boards is well known, it's my bad not to research more before buying. It caused intermittent disconnect on any attached USB3 devices (front panel included) and there's no apparent way to fix it. The NEC driver is also hard to find and not listed on Gigabyte website. The board has issues overclocking and limit is lower than ASUS boards (probably the patented socket that Asus had) even using exactly the same physical piece of CPU. UEFI setup entry will hung if I attached my Samsung 2TB 2.5" HDD (SATA), or some of my USB thumb drives. But if I leave the HDD attached but not trying to go into UEFI setting it will work just fine.

Pros: 1. Fast 2. No special handling needed for installation. 3. Looks good.

Cons: 1. Boot sector issue with Windows 8.1 after a couple months of use. My rig is in UEFI boot and one day it can't launch windows and when I tried to fix the boot files using a windows USB it just blue screen saying it cannot find some boot files 2. Before 1 there were intermittent cases half a dozen times I need to re-reboot the rig to boot up successfully.

Overall Review: It maybe because of the somewhat higher case temperature (~40C) for my gaming rig with dual 780Ti and a i7-3930K, but my other Kingston SSDs that actually store game content didn't fail that way (knock on the wood). I'm now back to spindle world for my boot device... I didn't even bother returning it because usual inspection will yield that it is a Healthy drive (since you can still get files out). But some of those files are actually in corrupted states (e.g. larger AVIs/MP4 videos) which has skipped frame or whatever. No trust in Intel anymore.

Pros: Small form factor. Relatively quiet (still a bit of fan noise) Quick enough Easy to assemble (see notes below) Easy on power.

Cons: Don't ever try, not quick enough for 4K decoding. (I have a Brix Pro i5-4570R to handle this Price is a bit steep if you factor in the RAM and mSATA SSD cost. Not such a big issue if you go for just 2.5"

Overall Review: For the assemble part, choose your parts wisely. Look at the gigabyte.us compatibility list for RAM, very important! I bought a GEIL but it wasn't on the list and even though it's 1.35V it wasn't supported. No way to boot. Also, it can't handle 4K video playback. Tried a couple sources and it's 100% CPU usage with pauses. HD (1920x1080) should be fine. I put it in my room, works so great. Here's my setup: Kingston 4GB DDR3-1600 CL11 1.35V SODIMM. Hitachi 1TB 2.5" HDD Intel 530 series mSATA SSD 240GB.

Pros: 1. Low profile 2. Quiet 3. Old system supported (try the R7 240, it won't even boot)

Cons: 1. Driver support is going out soon. 2. The performance is actually worse than Intel HD4400/4200 internal graphics accelerator.

Overall Review: To this day and time - early 2014, the use of this card is marginalized. I can think of someone wanting to pop this in a Sandy-bridge-era Pentium/Celeron board, but if you are building new HTPC/PCs, you better use the onboard graphics and invest in an i3 (Haswell) instead of splitting the capital between a CPU and a Video card. I have done benchmarking of this with an i3-4130. Believe it or not, the onboard graphics is around 50% faster than this card, while consuming less electricity and generates less heat in combination.