Pros: With PCI going away, my next upgrade was going to leave my X-FI XtremeMusic behind. Saw this for a killer price and didn't think twice about picking it up. Droped the card in my current machine, Win7 knew what it was, D/L'ed a basic driver, and everything worked like the old card did, Creative programs and all.

Cons: Stock op-amp will hiss at high volume levels, easily fixable with a better one and some soldering skills.

Overall Review: With an LM4562 op-amp mod, both my XtremeMusic and this Titanium card sound great with a pair of Grado SR-80's.

Pros: none

Cons: Both first board and RMA'd board came DOA, turned out not to be such a bargain find at all.

Overall Review: This board seems to be a total miss, look for a different manufacturer.

Pros: Unless you were on an A320 board, this chip should work anywhere the 5800x3d does. Very happy AMD listened to users and found a way to make 5000 series work on 300 and 400 series motherboards. It's a single CCX chiplet CPU, which, on some of the AM5 designs that have multiple CCX'es, with asymmetrical features, can cause problems with games without a proper CPU scheduler.

Cons: It's a defective 5800x3d, chip binning exists for chip fabs to recover revenue from imperfect chip dies. Like said 5800x3d, the multiplier is locked, so no 'easy' overclocking. It's only 8 core 16 thread, so if your workloads aren't mostly gaming, you may be better suited with a 5900x instead for the 4 extra cores and 8 threads.

Overall Review: At $249, when I purchased it, it was a great value, but at $229, it's an instant buy. You won't miss the 10% performance loss from the lower clocks compared to the 5800x3d. If you held out hoping for a deal on the 5800x3d after you couldn't find a source close enough to you for the limited 5600x3d release, than your chip has come in, pardon the pun.

Pros: Good, secure packaging. Arrived on time against all odds (pre-christmas blizzard).

Cons: Though it costs extra, signature verification can help make shipping more secure.

Overall Review: Overall, excellent service.

Pros: Glad AMD/Gigabyte gave unofficial support to Windows 7 for the Ryzen platform, even though MS tried to prevent it. - Gigabyte is great about putting out new Firmware revisions, so many of the early-adopter Issues I had have been fixed (low memory overclocking overhead). - Addition of separate BCLK generator for fine tuning overclocks.

Cons: - Overclocking Settings are shown with two values, the setting you want the board to run at, and what the board is actually running at. Both aren't labeled. - Early Firmware revisions limited memory divider options. - VRM's do get a bit warm with or without the I/O shroud at load, I recommend removing it and directing some extra airflow over the heat sink if your running the boxed cpu heat sink or water-cooling. - Early Linux kernels in the 4.10 line had an issue with all Gigabyte Ryzen motherboards that would prevent the system from booting (search for "unexpected IRQ trap at vector 07") This has been fixed with further revisions. - SATA RAID drivers for linux only support current LSB on Ubuntu (16.04.1)and Red Hat 7.3. Currently, any kernel past 4.10, the source code provided to build the driver will fail to compile (search for "ryzen linux raid" for a detailed explanation.

Overall Review: Had to take an egg for the current RAID issues on linux. Trying to get in touch with AMD directly for this issue is frustratingly slow, since the technology behind the board's RAID controller wasn't developed by them (It's from a now twice-over acquired company who themselves sub-licenced tech from Broadcom.) - Not so much an issue with the board, but if you are looking to add other cards to the board, watch out for bandwidth restrictions. if you put any cards in the lower 1x slots, the 3rd x16 slot that runs at 4x PCIE 2.0 speed will run at x2 speed. (UPDATE 06/14/18) - as mentioned by this forum post: https://community.amd.com/message/2858780#comment-2858780 There is now a patch to fix all RAID driver compile issues with newer kernels. This opens up the possibility of running on the newest Ubuntu LSB (18.04).

Pros: Just about every display out there, even old CRT monitors, is capable of displaying 720p or better. This thing makes every computer on your network an HDTV. Why not make use of the excellent DVR that is built into every Windows 7 PC (excluding starter). If you have fast, stable 802.11n or ac network, you might be able to watch on a laptop or tablet, scoring even more awesome points. If your sick of paying extra to rent a box from your cable co, this may be a viable alternative.

Cons: The hoops required to jump through, not from my cable co, but for WMC/SiliconDust were hair-pulling. First issue, the current stable version of the HDHomeRun software ( ver. 20130328) has an issue in which a few files are missing, preventing the software from detecting any tuners on the network. The current beta release, ( ver. 20130413beta1) has fixed the issue. Next is Windows 7 Media Center, PlayReady will refuse to properly update itself, causing you to have to chase down hidden system files, stop/start system services, to running a DRM Reset tool to allow it to function.

Overall Review: If your comfortable with rolling up your sleeves , and doing the legwork required to satisfy the DRM dieties; wether you have copy-once channels or not, go for it. The struggle made the victory that much more satisfying.

While I never received what I ordered, (USPS either lost or stole the package). the seller did refund me, no questions asked. Would definitely give them another chance.