Pros: Supports the latest socket 775 processors. Has an LPT port for legacy printers with no Vista/Win 7 drivers which works with Virtual PC 2007. I had to turn off hardware virtualization to get the printer to work in a virtual XP machine. Add-in cards and parallel USB adapters don't work in the virtual machine.

Cons: Startup problems with DDR2 800 RAM. RAM extraction levers bump into video card. No firewire. Only 6 expansion slots, would like to see seven. BIOS was 1.2 but latest is 1.9 from 2 months ago.

Overall Review: A number of people complained about having to reset the CMOS after powering down. I had the same symptom. With the 1.2 BIOS, the machine continually power cycled. With the 1.9 BIOS, the machine just hung and never started to POST. What cured it for me was going into the BIOS under the Cell Menu, then setting the FSB/DRAM ratio to match the CPU and memory. I have an E8500 CPU (1333 FSB) with DDR2 800 which is the 1:1.20 setting. When I went from 4GB to 8GB of RAM, the BIOS was misreading the SPD and setting TRAS too short by 1 clock cycle and the machine took a blue screen crash shortly after bootup. I manually set it to the correct value and the machine is stable now. I am not overclocking because heat generation is an issue for me, especially during the summer months.

Pros: Provides gigabit network connectivity

Cons: The driver has a severe resource and memory leak. After running with this card for a week, the Network Interface Store service was using 30,000 handles and using 1.8 GB of memory. As soon as I disabled the NIC, handles dropped to 460 and memory usage dropped to 99 MB. The other NIC on the motherboard was still enabled. The driver has not been updated for almost 3 years.

Pros: Inexpensive for such a large screen, front facing controls.

Cons: This monitor has a glossy screen. I bought it based on an answer that said this has a matte finish. Maybe that was the case on earlier production runs, but not with the one I got. I never even turned it on because it is going back.

Pros: All metal construction. Fan is part of the tray so you don't have to open the case if it fails.

Cons: Using Seagate drives, the activity LED stays on all the time. When there is activity, the LED gets a little bit brighter. It's hard to tell if there is activity or if the drive is constantly being accessed. With Western Digital drives, the LED goes out when there is no activity. Bytecc tech support is blaming the Seagate drive design, but I have no problem with the activity LED when Seagate drives are used in a backplane from a different manufacturer.

Pros: Built in HD video support, firewire. Was able to unlock second core of a Sempron 140 by setting EC Firmware Selection to Hybrid and Advanced Clock Calibration to Auto.

Cons: The motherboard would not resume Windows from S3 standby. Gigabyte tech support is abysmal. I submitted the problem to Gigabyte tech support. First they did not understand the problem. When I corrected them, they asked me questions that I had already answered in my initial request. They never seem to read any of the prior history of the issue, so you have to re-state everything each time, otherwise they will ask you a question that you have already answered and don't get around to actually addressing the issue. Finally, after ten days of back and forth, they suggested resetting the BIOS to default values. That disabled the second core of the Sempron 140, but then resuming from S3 standby now worked. In short, enabling Advanced Clock Calibration makes resuming from S3 standby stop working. Gigabyte's response was that enabling ACC is an overclocking function and they won't support it.

Pros: Built in HD video, firewire. Got this in a combo with a Sempron 140 45W CPU, which can be unlocked to dual core by setting EC Firmware Selection to Hybrid and setting Advanced Clock Calibration to Auto.

Cons: The Sempron 140 does not come out of S3 standby with Advanced Clock Calibration set to anything other than disabled. Gigabyte tech support is horrible. I was exchanging emails with them for 10 days before I figured out the problem. They only read the last email you send through their web site and ask you questions which you have already answered in a prior email. Their final response was that because I was using Advanced Clock Calibration, in effect, I was overclocking the processor and they would not provide support for the S3 resume issue.

Overall Review: Bummed because the 5050e 45W CPU is no longer available.