Pros: After the debacle with Seagate HDDs spontaneosly committing suicide, I chose to be safe rather than sorry and replaced my old Seagates with these Western Digital ones. They work like a charm, effortless to put into an Intel ICH9R RAID array, quiet, cool and fast. No blue screens of death - caused by these HDDs at least.

Cons: Didn't install themselves.

Overall Review: Running two of these on a Windows 7 x64 platform in a RAID 0 array. Other components: Antec 1200 Case ASUS Rampage Formula ASUS Xonar D2X AGEIA Physx 100 Series Card EVGA Geforce 285 SSC Edition Q9650 overclocked at 3.8 8GB Mushkin Ascent RAM Antec Signature 850W PSU

Pros: Great sound. Buggy, inflexible drivers. Not an ideal card if you have a 2.1 audio setup.

Cons: Horrendously overpriced on Newegg.

Pros: Does everything you'd expect it to - plays music, takes pictures, gets a wifi connection, and serves as a surrogate and undersized laptop (though with less functionality). Unparalleled portability.

Cons: Apple's priceline is already ridiculous, but Newegg makes it worse by jacking up the price and then offering a "discount" to get it back down to the "old" price. Protip: that's not a deal, and competitors have it for cheaper. Effectively a walled garden which treats its users as if they were fools, draconian DRM schemes built into the operating system (Carrier IQ), battery life.

Overall Review: I hate on Apple, but they do well with this product. It's hard to criticize it.

Pros: Lots of overclocking options. Plug and play installation, little guesswork involved. High quality heatsinks (see cons for the drawbacks, however). Spacious design, fits well in my ATX (antec twelve hundred) case. Aesthetically pleasing, good performance. Fairly futureproof as far as motherboards go (Socket 775 won't be going anywhere for a long time, and PCI-E 2.0 is here to stay). Could use SLI or Crossfire if the desire struck (though in so doing you'll prob block at least 1 PCI-E 1x slot and one basic PCI slot).

Cons: The thermal pads and thermal paste used beneath the mosfets, northbridge and southbridge are, quite frankly, of extremely poor quality. Basically, the "thermal paste" Asus has used on this board is glue; as well all know, glue is neither designed nor intended to be a thermally conductive material. It is, succinctly, very ineffective for cooling. Considering the caliber of the board, I am very disappointed with ASUS in that regard. This board isn't cheap, so they shouldn't be either. This problem can be resolved with a little elbow grease and some Arctic Silver - google for more info. It is well worth the time and effort. "Onboard" HD sound is a pain to configure in WinXP SP3, and though this is largely Microsoft's fault, ASUS doesn't make it any easier.

Overall Review: It has no bearing on the board itself, but I can't help but chuckle a little bit every time I see the poor grammar on the ASUS website (they should hire me as an editor- hah). Regardless, ASUS makes solid products, though I am disappointed to see them cutting corners on a specialist motherboard. Newegg shipped this to me in a (relatively) timely fashion; good service, but nothing to write home about.

Pros: This card definitely does use ATI's catalyst drivers. You don't need to use the Powercolor ones at all. I've been running it on ATI's catalyst drivers, without a hitch, since the day I got it. Guess the dude's tech knowledge is more likely abysmal than "high".

Cons: Epic failure. In most hardware failures the fault lies with the consumer, not the manufacturer.

Pros: Excellent card, runs smoothly, ATI's drivers actually now take advantage of the dual GPUs (though the games sometimes don't). Runs remarkably cool all things considered, averages around ~56-58 celsius when gaming for me. Much better price than when I bought it.

Cons: I don't think they actually intend to honor the rebate offers. It's been over 3 months since I sent mine in (I followed the directions TO THE LETTER) and my inquiries as to its status have been met with nothing but rudeness and obfuscation. I don't expect to ever get it.

Overall Review: It is a good card, but I am deducting one egg for Powercolor's bait-and-switch rebate scheme. The card is BIG. Use ATI's drivers, not the ones on the disc.