Pros: Compact, clean, quite inexpensive for a rackmount chassis, no frills. 200 watt power supply isn't too loud, as rackmounts go. Has a taped-down plastic floor mat. Has regular ATX (12 x 9.6) standoffs!

Cons: Fixed format IO panel. Each IO socket (ps2/usb/lan, etc.) has its own stamped out hole, so make SURE your motherboard fits. Should have 2 PCI openings. SuperMicro should make their chassis more flexible for the enthusiast/tinkerer market.

Overall Review: I got this case for a DIY firewall, and though the case specifications imply it can handle any 9.6 x 9.6 motherboard, be VERY careful about the IO panel. For me, the panel had the same *visual* layout as my board (s2518), but upon installation I was horrified to find that my board's spacing was incompatibly wider than the chassis'. I had to make some adjustments. On the other hand, the interior is pretty flexible. I got my circa 2000 dual 370 **ATX** 12 x 9.6 just barely in. Putting an ATX board in there crowds out the drive bay, but I'm using a Disk On Module anyway. For those going uATX I think SuperMicro should have cut out 2 PCI holes. In fact, with a ribbon I could even use an extra. Overall I'm very happy with it. I had a big ol' ATX board for which I wanted a case that fit like a glove. And, this chassis is far and away the least expensive.

Pros: Cheap - I bought two and got a $2 discount

Cons: Wired all weird. 6-pin jack fits into ATI 4870 receptacle, but the wiring was totally off. Isn't the wiring a standard? I had to remove the mesh shielding to be able to rewire it.

Overall Review: Fortunately, my 4870 came with one 4-pin to 6-pin, so I used it as an model to rewire this P O S. It's pretty easy to do - just do it on the 4-pin side where you can squeeze the pins so they can be pulled out of the molex jacket. I used a tiny flat-head screwdriver to press down the pins' "barbs" that hold them in place. One of the pins in the molex has two yellow wires attached. All the yellow wires appeared to be in the correct place, but the others (black) were wrong.

Pros: - More responsive to touch than a Lenovo L2461X, which is much more laggy - More responsive than my Lenovo X201T - Touch in Windows 7 is still not even close to natural feeling: laggy and finicky

Cons: - Touch layer has a very visible "+" grid which creates a shimmering visual interference pattern with the display pixels - Touch layer gives a slightly dimmed and "through-vaseline" appearance - Bezel is right up against the outside pixels, making it very difficult to interact with normal OS windows, or anything on the edge

Overall Review: I tried it out for a week, but just couldn't get past the Cons I listed above. It was for simulating touch apps before actual testing, but given the steep price for this panel, I'm just using my X201T now instead.

Pros: - PCI-X works well - Stable - 12GB at 1333

Cons: - Xeon heatsink specs, but backplate not included! I'm idiling at 60C, so I decided to upgrade from the stock Intel cooler. I found that this board uses Xeon specifications for the top-side, as a server board would, but does NOT include the required threaded backplate. Now, if you use a push-pin style heatsink, there is no problem. Supermicro uses the Xeon socket spec, meaning different keep-out zones from the "standard" 1366. This wouldn't matter except that the spec calls for a threaded backplate, and the board DOESN'T INCLUDE IT!!! Check page 28 in the manual: http://www.supermicro.com/manuals/motherboard/X58/MNL-1063.pdf How can you sell a server spec mobo without a 2 cent REQUIRED piece of metal?? How is that OPTIONAL?? I had to hunt down the bracket, and found only ONE place that had them. You can guess it was too expensive. Stvpid beyond words. At this board's price, it's criminal the bracket isn't included.

Overall Review: I used 2 cheap kits of CT3KIT25664BA1339 for 12GB of RAM. Runs at 1333. Other than the heatsink crippling, I am very happy with the board. I have an Areca 1680ix-16 in a 16x slot, and an Areca 1160 in a PCI-X slot. I get 825MB/sec to the PCI-X slot.

Pros: I got the drive at the original price, and it feels like money well spent. My wife's computer, which has this as an OS drive, boots and loads apps in manic style.

Cons: Tempts me to get more, but only when MSRP is recovered. Don't forget - next year they will be half price.

Overall Review: newegg keeps changing the SKU, probably to get rid of prior negatory comments about their behavior. I used to buy only from newegg, but since the pricing debacle on these drives I've started shopping elsewhere. It's a shame; they were so greedy.

Pros: * Very speedy relative to single spinning drive * Very compact for level of performance * Contributes nothing to system noise

Cons: * Still more expensive than SAS! * Superstitious (?), uneasy feeling about writes to the drive

Overall Review: I bought this in the first wave of availability. At that price it is definitely worth it. However, since this is an object of desire and not need, I will refrain from another purchase until the price returns to GO. I used it as a "feels snappy" keystone in a new 72 watt "low energy" daily driver for my wife. The system is a GF9300-ITX, 4GB, E8400, Big Shuriken, X25-m, 1.5TB Seagate, in a Lian Li PC-Q7 case with a picoPSU 150 XT, Windows 7. No doubt watts could have gone lower, but I already had a lot of the parts. Anyway, the X25-m was the key to making the system feel "instantaneous."