Pros: They do an exceptionally good job at moving air for their price and size.

Cons: They are loud. Very very loud.

Overall Review: My workstation has over 14 assorted fans and countless harddrives, all running at full speed, so for me to say that a SINGLE one of these fans is loud, you know how loud I mean. It drowns out all my other computers. Though, they were my last resort for two servers that had chronic overheating problems, and they dropped the average ambient temperature from over 60C to under 45C on both machines, so I'm happy.

Pros: Great card for it's price. Easy to configure and install, works great under all 64-bit OSes.

Cons: Not as fast as I expected from it, tops out below 220mb/sec read on a 8-disk RAID5, on PCI-X/133 bus.

Overall Review: I was looking for an exceptional PCI-X SATA RAID card for my workstation that wouldn't cost more than the machine itself did. I probably could have picked a better card, but looking back I'm glad I went with this one.

Pros: Works great under Windows x64, very high quality and high volume output.

Cons: The ribbon cable from the drive bay to the card could stand to be a rounded cable and better shielding. If you route the cable too close to a "noisy" component, such as a complex video card, and turn the volume all the way up, you can hear some minor electrical noise.

Overall Review: I never thought a sound card could matter so much. I started out looking for a sound card that wouldn't have the electronic noise issue I usually have with sound cards, and figured for the price this card would probably have almost no noticable electronic interference. I had no idea how much difference it would make to how I hear things with my computer. It was very, very much worth the money, and I'm far from being an audio expert.

Pros: Absolutely wonderful motherboard.

Cons: Has some problems with memory that requires more than 2.5 volts (Corsair XMS registered memory), and some stability issues on Windows XP x64 (but not Windows Server 2003 x64). Finding working drivers for the PCI-X hotplug support was impossible for 64-bit windows. The onboard sound is horrible. If you want sound, get a decent sound card with it.

Overall Review: I wish Tyan had made the additional 4 SATA ports and the other 4 PCIe lanes from the second chipset available on this board. It would have been nice to have even one 4x PCIe slot, and there's room for it above the 16x slots.

Pros: Absolutely great card, extremely fast for modern games especially in SLI mode.

Cons: SLI mode can only support running one monitor at a time, these cards get extremely hot, and need a firmware update to work 100% stable.

Overall Review: These video cards are killer for the latest 3D games -- unfortunately, they're not so great for 3D rendering utilities, CAD or certain complex OpenGL uses. This is about the best you can get if you're into gaming, but for my purposes I might have wanted to go with a Quadro solution.

Pros: Fast, reliable drives that do what they were designed to do. The 5 year warrenty is an added plus and shows the manufacturer's trust in their product.

Cons: Relatively low heat tolerance, they tend to fail faster if not kept cool.

Overall Review: I own somewhere near 18 of these exact model drives, and have never once had a DOA drive, or major drive failure. I have noticed these drives are a bit more prone to premature failures if they're allowed to stay over 30C for significant periods of time. All of these that I own I bought at various different dates, and have all been added to the RAID6 array in my primary workstation without a flaw.