Pros: Built this for a friend and put my P180 to shame - all the little things Lian Li thought of are impressive. Cable managment in the back, removable mobo tray, slide and click cd drive expansion slots, anti vibration hard drive trays, lightweight and very very easy for cable managment.

Cons: Side panels are a bit thin - nice thin aluminum is good for heat dissipation but maybe not so sturdy as others have mentioned here.

Overall Review: The first Lian Li I have had the pleasure of working with - they sold me on thier design, will be buying another Lian Li for my personal use soon.

Pros: Cheap. And with the rebate special it was essentially free.

Cons: Bought this as a backup in case my PSU died on the new system I was building. As the main PSU was already in use during building I thought I would use this to troubleshoot the system. I have an Antec P180 case and this PSU is not even close to reaching the power connection on an ATX Mobo in that case. This PSU is light as a feather.

Overall Review: Real cheap for 500 watts. Dont expect it to last. Would be good as an emergency or backup PSU but didnt reach far enough in my case - probably would in others.

Pros: Set up was a breeze - motherboard is suprisingly fully featured for the price. Comes with usable software (not the extra worthless junk you normally get) and a nifty installer package to auto install all of it. Appears to be very OC friendly (even has auto setting for OC) even though I haven't attempted an OC on it with Phenom II yet - built system for a friend

Cons: Smaller board, not as many expansion slots as some might need - but thats not really a con, more just what you get when you dont pay lots of $$ for a motherboard.

Overall Review: Impressed by ASUS. I have owned DFI boards for a long time, may switch to the ASUS side after this build.

Pros: Colder than a commodore 64. Almost required for OC'ing as I would never trust upping the heat and volts on my expensive hardware without arctic silver.

Cons: Will not melt down (or harden up) to make fabulous arctic silver 5 necklace.

Overall Review: Imagine that the coolest arctic eskimos found the coldest silver in the arctic, melted it, and packaged it in teeny tiny tubes to be spread in thin rice sized globs on your computer and multiply that by 5. You still arent even close to Artic Silver 5!

Pros: Overclocked easily to 2.7 @ 1.4v. Low power consumption = lower heat = higher overclockability. With a Zalman fan idle = 27, load = 52. Great bang for the buck. I have read other comments about how these are bad overclockers - not really true, just depends on your ram, mobo, psu, and your particular run of the chip. I wouldnt doubt this could easily be clocked 3.0+ considering new chipsets, new chip runs, and DDR2 leaving plenty of OC room!

Cons: 65nm 4200+ came out a few days after I bought this chip for less on newegg. Nothing wrong with this one but it always sucks when you buy something for a good price and then 3 days later something better comes out for less money, lol...

Overall Review: Cant go wrong with AMD. C2D may be running away with the market right now but this chip is cheaper and with a little OC'ng you can easily get it to perform better than a stock C2D. The prices on these chips will only go down and since it's on the new AM2 chipset a little money now on the board and the chip and you will be able to upgrade later to the new market crushing AMD octo core 8.7ghz C2D killer!!!11!

Pros: Great for OC'ing (duh). Stable as anything on the market. Every option you could want. Cheaper than most competitors. AM2 will eventually rule the market as Intel stalls out with C2D and AMD unleashes the new octo-core for 200 bucks!!!

Cons: Memtest86 not part of the bios anymore (at least I couldnt find it). CMOS recovery would be nice as a switch instead of a jumper.

Overall Review: This is my second DFI board - I came back because of the great performance of the first board. 3 of my friends only buy DFI as well and have had no problems to date. DFI offers great bios for overclocking and great layouts/uv color schemes for modding. If you are into building your own systems, why would you buy any other brand?!?