Pros: 5 single-ended heatpipes feeding a huge aluminum-finned heat sink. The L-shaped form allows orienting the heat exchanger right in front of the case exhaust fan, thereby eliminating one of two fans to reduce noise. The fan is attached to the heatsink with almost-rubbery standoffs, which just about eliminated all fan vibration transmission to the heatsink. This fan is really quiet.

Cons: The heatsink is really big. Some cases won't fit. I was trying to retrofit this thing and a new motherboard into an old P4-based Gateway microATX box. The heatsink was just a little bit too tall for the installation. So you do need to measure things first.

Overall Review: The L-shaped form (with the heatsink on one leg and the cpu pad on the other leg) is really easy to mount on the cpu. However, it also can slide a bit. You might want to find some rubber band or high friction fabric to insert in between the hold-down strap and the heatsink pad to keep it from sliding around the top of the cpu.

Pros: Compact size.~14 x 14 x 7 inch. Nice wire bundles. At $19, cheap. Can't get much better than this.Thumb screws for side panel removals. The two fans 12 cm front and 8 cm in back are quiet.

Cons: Really tight. Some of the screws are just too small. Front bezel has not enough open area to take advantage of 12 cm fan through flow. There is only 1 5.25" external slot and NO 3.5" external slot. The space above the external 5.25 is only good for powersupply cabling storage. NO extra 3.5" internal slot. No vertical support on right side of case. Picture wrong.

Overall Review: This thing is tight, but can pack very nicely. You need to do things in sequence: 1. Take both side panels off. 2. punch out the 5.25" bezel. 3. put in the powersupply 4. put in the DVD burner 5. put in the 3.5" hard disk. Make sure it's pushed all the way to the front; otherwise, power connector will interfere with motherboard memory. 6. install the mATX motherboard. 7. wire it up 8 restore the panels.

Pros: Works. Quiet.

Cons: None.

Pros: USB3, onboard video

Cons: Bought this with an 3.9 GHz 125W FX-6350 and G.Skill 2x2G memory. Board loads XP fine but reboots near end of installation. Rebooted bios screen said power fluctuation. Reset to 3.0 GHz. Boots fine. Able to load drivers. All components working. _However_, running DIVX 10 bombs. Will not take the load. It's got the newest 1503 BIOS already. chipset heatsink very hot to the touch. Southbridge heatsink hot also. No heatsink on VMR. Speculation: this might work okay for lower power CPUs..

Overall Review: If this thing is rated for 125 Vishera cores, it really should have heatsinks on the voltage regulators. Oh, the southbridge heatsink is pretty puny. I thought about replacing it and the chipset heatsinks with larger units before I decided to return the board and go with a 990 type board with 8+1 VMR

Pros: Nice little micro-ATX board that still uses DDR2 and will support AM2+ and AM3 CPUs. 3 types of onboard video outputs - analog, DVI, and HDMI. 8 USB2 ports in the back.

Cons: ... where do I start? The first board was bad. Cost me $13 to ship it back for RMA. Newegg's second board was good. Could have gotten a more expensive board for the combine cost had I known... Gigabyte normally's pretty good. Must had a batch with bad quality control or switched to a new factory. The board is a v.1.3.

Overall Review: The first board wouldn't boot when it first came. I found the north bridge (NB) heatsink to be loose. I took it off, cleaned the dried cement off the heat sink and used alcohol and q-tips to remove the cement from the chip. Then I install the heatsink with Arctic Silver 5. Now the NB sink is HOT! Okay, the heat transfer aspect is working. Nevertheless, I can't run the MB standing on its side as the spring-loaded heatsink won't stay on tightly. The springs were too weak. Then the MB rebooted halfway through OS loading. I found the southbridge (SB) heatsink to be completely cool! So I took it off and found (gasp!) that the thermal compound on the back wasn't even imprinted with the chip's outline. That's when I decided to RMA the board. Another weak spring issue. They really should remove the flashy cover over the NB heatsink. It cut down the airflow and made the HS really hot.

Pros: Wow!. This is the nicest wireless setup I've come across. It only has the simplest features, but that's all I need. But the reach is really spectacular. I backed up out to 8 ft and it's still nicely responsive. And then I hit the wall. The keys have a nice snappy feel.

Cons: The keyboard uses AAA cells. The mouse uses AA. It would be nice if both uses AA. However, I understand. We don't use the keyboard nearly as much, and the keyboard is pretty thin.

Overall Review: I've had this thing up running for 4 days now on couple pairs of old NiMH cells. This particular setup seems to take the lower voltage pretty well. We'll see how long this thing lasts. I've had 5 Microsoft wireless desktops and some of them (piece by piece variation) are just really touchy about the low battery voltage. Hopefully this one is the norm instead of the exception.