Pros: This card is cheap - at only 60 bucks, it was only 10 USD more than the cheapest 3850 at purchase time. Good for a budget game build, which is what I used it for. Quiet under load, and doesn't need alot of power. 512MB VRAM handles all of what nvidia's 64 shader G94 can throw at it. Overclocking gives you near 8800 performance, with some added fan noise. High quality DVI video out and gpu-accelerated post-processing (as expected).

Cons: 64-shader G94 in theory has better raster OP/texture performance than the seemingly archaic 112 shader G92 in the 8800gt, but comes up short at higher resolution's regardless (usually ~15%). Not a big con, at the price and power consumption levels.

Overall Review: I have crysis results for those interested: Wolfsdale E5200 2MB @ 3.75Ghz/1200FSB Crucial DDR2-800 CL6-5-5-17-24 (single channel) Asus P5N73-AM 610i mATX board 17" FD Trinitron XP Pro 32-bit SP2/Crysis Bench Tool 1.05 XFX 9600GT with Arctic Silver Ceramic Paste on *all* heatsink contact points In stock guise, plays Crysis on all-high settings in 32bit XP with DX9 at 1152x864 (avg 35 frame/s) with very few drops into the low 20s fps wise. (24-30 fps in this game is usually considered playable, btw). Excellent post processing keeps this game looking smooth at low frame rates compared to most games. All High/DX9/HDR/No AA/AF - 3.75GHz 650core/1600shader/1800GDDR3 1024x768: 37.87fps 1152x864: 35.23fps 1280x1024: 28.90fps All High/DX9/HDR/No AA/AF - 3.75GHz 730/1950/2000GDDR3 1024x768: 40.31fps 1152x864: 37.68fps 1280x1024: 32.29fps Really broke and have a low-resolution screen? You can still play crysis smoothly on high. Those of you with 1280x720 wide, consul

Pros: Top of the line ATA6 performance with a 5400RPM spindle speed. Acceptable seek times, very quiet seeks. Used 160GB version in Dell Latitude D400 w/ 2GB DDR2 and 915 chipset. This was a pretty quick setup due to this drive, and would breathe new life into any mobile setup chained to 2.5" parallel ATA. 5 year warranty. Would be 5 stars if the drive didn't fail.

Cons: This drive failed after 28 days with moderate use and ambient temps in the high 50s, and no physical shock.

Overall Review: Seagate warrants this drive for 5 years, and all I have to do is ship it do them. Require good warranty policies for your mobile 2.5" drives, as their MTBF is generally abysmal next to their 3.5" counterparts. No blaming seagate for this failure. Currently about to ship this one out for replacement.

Pros: Very good performance in benchmarks and real world usage, in everything from being the SSD in my HTC EVO Shift, to being an external disk. Performs better than promised for a Class 4 SD card, and the gains are tangible. CrystalDiskMark benchmark info: Seq Read: 18.45MB/s Write: 7.781MB/s 512K: 14.27/1.00 4K: .969/.172 (QD32): 1.832/.266 average speed while transferring MP3s back and forth from PC using HTC EVO Shift as USB 2.0 interface: 16.0-16.8MB/s read from disk 6.8-7.3MB/s write to disk In all, way more than the 4MB/s promised by the class 4 tag, and an exhausting review for a cheap SDHC. :)

Cons: Space?

Overall Review: Very good value for money, makes a decent primary SSD for a smart phone and scratch disk to load diagnostic/AV programs to computers I work on in the field. Could use more storage space, obviously. Test Conditions: AMD Sempron 145 Sargas @ 3.33GHz 8GB Kingston DDR3-1240 9-7-7-20-27-2T AMD 880G w/chipset native USB 2.0 Windows 7 SP1 x64, CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 HTC EVO Shift 800MHz Snapdragon 45nm 512MB LPDDR Gingerbread 2.3.3

Pros: Simple, reliable board with a great onboard feature set. Certainly worth the price. Supports 1333MHz cpus. Very good memory timing and vRAM control (2.2V and higher is available). Can unlink memory from FSB by typing in what bus and memory speeds you want (ie, no fixed FSB:DRAM ratios in BIOS, but it will still link to the next available ratio stored in BIOS, so it's not actually fully stepless). Onboard audio sounds surprisingly good, and the onboard video handles old games like UT2004 maxed out at 1600x1200 w/AA. Took an E5200 Wolfdale up to 3.75GHz/1200MHz QDR/1.356V (load). Multiplier control with Conroe and later based Cores/PDCs/Celerons.

Cons: Sparse fine tuning options. vCore control is limited to +50mV-150mV in BIOS. No adjustment for any signal-related chip-set parameters. Lack of dual-channel memory ensures a small hit along the lines of a good 5% is most apps, maybe more so compared to the latest quick P4x series chipsets, and more so with multi-core multitasking of bandwidth intensive applications (encoding with two cores while watching a video, with one, for example). This is a shame, because the otherwise decent geforce core has to fight for contention with one, two, or four cores (when in use) for one 64 bit memory channel - but through a 128bit effective data bus. This is however a small nitpick in this price category.

Overall Review: Don't expect to overclock well with 90nm processors, and your results will invariably get better as you step down process size (90nm -> 65nm -> 45nm etc) due to limited vCore and various other voltage related adjustments, not to mention a decidedly weak voltage regulation circuit (wouldn't recommend pushing big Kentsfield 65nm 8MB core 2 quads on this tiny board, but you wouldn't anyway). Additionally, your overclocking headroom will be limited with 1333MHz cpus due to the lack of high-fsb clock stablity typical of nvidia chipsets. I've had a good experience with this board, and choosing the right components for it ensures you will to.

Pros: Mine came with Hyundai Electronics IC # HMP112U6EFR8C-S6. This was used to replace Patriot Viper 1066, as I needed it for another machine. I can actually overclock higher with this memory (oddly enough, but certainly due to chipset/motherboard peculiarities) Currently running on a cheap ASUS P5N73-AM, nVidia 610/GF7050 integrated (128M sideband) ,P4 520 2.8GHz @ 3.5 (1.296V). The point? These sticks are rated at DDR2-800 6-6-6-18-24 @ 1.8V according to SPD. I was going to use this as a temporary stick, since I assumed it had no headroom. It's now running at DDR2-1000 5-5-5-15-21-2T @ 2V. Cost me $13 to my door. Needless to say, one of these cheapos is going in the other channel. Hopefully I get a stick with similar ICs.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: I'm using CPU-Z 1.51 for frequency, timing, and SPD verification. Prime95 and Memtest are used for 100% load stability testing. nVidia's nTune was used for software overclocking.

Pros: Impressive results and excellent stability. Stable 4.0Ghz/1066MHz ~1.475V with a Prescott core 3.0Ghz/800Mhz (530J HT), and a cooler master Hyper48 (55C load). Performance with low-latency DDR matches many newer mid-level DDR2 motherboards using the 900-series chipsets (915, 945, 955X, etc). Useful integrated cpu-fan throtting. Ample room for HSF assembly. Clean layout. Useful range for vCPU. 24/7 Stable under Prime95 at 4.0Ghz using Antec TruePower 400. Another timely Newegg shipment as well.

Cons: Limited to 2.9V vDIMM. Stock connectivity options are sparce, only 2 SATA 1.5Gb ports.

Overall Review: Can't comment on quality of onboard sound (using Soundblaster). Would recommend for anyone with a Cele/P4/P4HT 775 wanting to overclock moderately and still hold on to their AGP graphics card. A+.