Pros: It's a great looking board with pretty much any feature you could ask for, the overclocking settings are great and it's pretty complete as far as features go. Capable of handling my ridiculously massive RAM build and running amazingly

Cons: I'm not taking any eggs off for this, because I feel like the board deserves a full five, however, I had a TON of problems when getting this board to work. I had a 24GB RAM build, and the RAM I'd purchased ran at 1600(the 2x4GB Ripjaws, specifically) My first board was DOA, so I had to RMA it and get a new one, the second one turned on, but apparently didn't support my RAM, I had to boot into BIOS using a friend's RAM. Even after updating to the latest BIOS, the only way I could get it to recognize my RAM was if I either overclocked or underclocked it, but it's working now, and that's all that matters. I'm not taking off anything because I have an obscure build, so expecting it to work out of the box is ridiculous.

Overall Review: Overall a very nice board, I like the support for multiple types of heat sinks, I just think I had bad luck with it.

Pros: Great boot drive, after tweaking XP for performance it would load in under a few seconds, with virtually no post-boot hang ups (note that this was with an extremely minimalistic setup [No AV, only 15 processes after complete load]). Heat and wattage were impressively low as well, although I suppose that goes without saying with SSD drives.

Cons: While the drive had an amazing boot, I found that when copying files to it, or loading files for games, it would go very quickly for a few seconds, then freeze up for a few seconds before moving quickly again, it was somewhat annoying. Benchmarks also did not show it to be nearly as fast as advertised(although I didn't really expect it) and after about 7 months of use the drive completely crashed in the middle of an operation, corrupting my hal.dll file, and later causing every other drive in my system to fail BIOS detection if it was connected (the latter likely being a motherboard issue more than a problem with the drive). Also, the physical hardware is rather lame, the clips don't stick, they slide extremely easily, which is somewhat annoying, especially since it's a smaller drive, so it doesn't fit into the normal slots without rails. While trying to figure out which drive was broken, the power clip broke while trying to reconnect it, so it broke internally and externally.

Overall Review: Now, I don't consider it Patriot's fault for the internal problems, although the external flimsiness could've been remedied, I mostly blame the problems on the newness of SSD drive technology, while it worked there wasn't too much to complain about, other than the hanging while copying, but it didn't even come close to reaching its estimated potential.

Pros: Amazing quality! I had an old monitor that messed up the colors immensely, this one is spot on, and looks great! 1080p support over DVI is awesome too!

Cons: None yet!

Pros: Haven't even bothered OCing it yet, it's running every game I can throw at it no problem, no idea why you'd currently need more power than this. It's also running relatively cool for an air-cooled case in an under-ventilated area, staying below 120 easily, even in the middle of games while running two monitors.

Cons: Kinda big, goes across the entire ATX board, getting the power cables to it required me to move two of my HDDs first.

Pros: I haven't OCed mine yet, simply because I've had no issues with it not keeping up. I plan to switch to an 18GB RAM drive for my gaming needs in the next month or so, but until then I think my only bottleneck is my SSDs, which means this CPU is definitely doing its job.

Cons: New socket is out, any motherboards for this will probably be obsolete in a year or so, kinda disappointing, really :/ Also, the reason for the new socket is to add more PCI-E connections to the CPU, apparently this socket is quite limited, look it up if you're doing anything that requires more than 1 PCI-E 16x slot.

Overall Review: Can't think of any real complaints for this one, as long as you understand its limitations and stay inside those boundaries, it's a solid CPU.

Pros: The memory looks dang sexy and goes for a great price too! I currently have it stable and overclocked at 1866Mhz, and it's operating just fine!

Cons: I had some issues getting it to work with my motherboard at first, but that was on the part of the motherboard, not the RAM, it was solid.