Pros: It has lots of storage and a decent speed for only $120. What is there not to like? It's fairly quiet compared to some old IDE drives I've owned, but the computer case can help with that. Vista took only 15 minutes to install with my SATA optical drive, too. Comes with a really nice looking translucent blue cable, too!

Cons: Not as fast as I had originally thought, but still fast.

Overall Review: It may not have as much of a reputation as the Raptors do, but this is still a fast drive when you compare it to an IDE. The one thing that stood out for me with this drive was the higher storage for $60 less than the Raptor which only has 150 GB.

Pros: The UEFI and the 3D bios are fantastic. Upgraded from an Asus P5E and I love it. Supports a good range of RAM and CPUs and overclocking is pretty easy to do as long as you take is slow. It's great "budget board" if you have an aging PC and want to use an i5 or i7 chip.

Cons: Installing the drivers for this board was a complete headache. Some installers didn't work with my version of windows (Win 7 64), namely the autorun on the CD. If Gigabyte had just shipped discs with software that specifically worked with my board, I wouldn't have docked two eggs, but I just can't let this slide. The only advice I can give to you system builders out there is to make sure you install the Atheros Ethernet drivers first. That way, you can at least download the proper drivers you need. Never had this problem with any other board that I've worked with. Especially ASUS boards.

Overall Review: If you're looking for something a bit more top-of-the-line, look elsewhere. As I said before, I had some trouble installing drivers for this board. I was feeling lazy and decided to see if Easy Tuner 6 could overclock the board for me and I ended up with a corrupted boot sector and am forced to reinstall Vista with an upgrade to 7. If you do any overclocking with this board at all, be sure to to do it the slow and steady way and not the quick and dirty way like I did. Take your time, find the board's limits and for the love of gigahertz, don't use Easy Tuner 6. It's still a very good board, but you'll be scratching your head and referring to the manual when you're trying to figure which driver set to install, especially if you're running a 64-bit OS.

Pros: Installation with with an ASUS P5E, Optical SATA, and SATA Hard Disk was so simple. I didn't need a floppy drive or flash drive or anything. It was as simple as putting the DVD in and waiting for it to boot up. Even the setup program was clean and clear compared to WinXP's. Aero makes all of your window frames translucent and opaque and overall very pleasing to the eye. Being able to search for files or folders right from the Start Menu is very handy.

Cons: As technology marches on, Windows takes more and more control away from the user. This can be very frustrating if you're trying to troubleshoot. User Account Control can be VERY annoying when initially starting up your fresh install, but this can be disabled with a little bit of exploring. If you're unsure of what I mean, refer to the Mac commercial with the Secret Service guy. Some drivers and software still hasn't been updated for Vista, but that's not Vista's fault. If you're a gamer, you can still run quite a few games on this OS. Don't worry, your world won't cave in on you if you install Vista.

Overall Review: The more I use Vista, the more I'm beginning to like it. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone running anything slower than a Pentium 4 at the moment since it's very RAM/CPU intensive. I gave it 5

Pros: This a nice little screen. The stand is solid and swivels in case you need to move it to get at the back panel or show someone sitting next to you something. Not ghosting at all during games, no color fading at the edges, either. I have an xbox 360 as well and since I own a VGA cable for it, I can plug that into the analog port and keep my PC plugged into the DVI port as well. There's a little source switch at the bottom that allows you to switch between the two sources and if it only detects one source, it switches to that source automatically.

Cons: The plastic shroud that covers the inputs doesn't always go in and out nicely, but this really isn't a huge con. Higher resolution would have been nice, but I'm upgrading from a standard aspect ratio of 1280x1024 to this and I'm rather pleased.

Overall Review: I was a little wary of the price, but myself and a lot of other people are pleased with it. If you want something bigger with a monstrous resolution, then by all means, spend the money. I wanted something that had a clear, solid picture, but was also good for the eyes. I really can't complain at all.

Pros: Vista support, compatibility with the ASUS P5E, and high clock speeds appealed to me with this board. It really shows, too. Battlefield 2142 runs flawlessly and smoothly, as does ET:QW. The huge fan assembly and heat sinks keep it all running cool in the meantime. No need to mod your card.

Cons: The foremost issue that anyone has every had with ATI cards since 2000 still plagues ATI boards to this day. I'm talking, of course, about the drivers. Unless ATI has their stamp on it, certain effects just won't display properly. For example, in Tabula Rasa, dynamic lighting just doesn't work on an ATI card. Catalyst is in version 7.11 now and there's no support for dynamic lighting?

Overall Review: Don't let my one con steer you away from buying this card. The reasons I bought this card were for compatibility with the ASUS P5E, clock/core speed, along with the biggest bang for buck. I'm quite happy with it and I'm used to dealing with ATI's awful driver support. Just remember to turn off some of the AI settings in Catalyst Control Center and let your game tweak the settings. There's also a standalone driver that excludes CCC which I'm wishing I stuck with. I'm hoping that the new Omegadrivers for Vista come out soon since I find I have fewer problems with them.

Pros: It's a fast, stable, powerful board. The sound card they provide is pretty good, too. Definitely a good board for the gamer or 3D artist. Supports a wide variety of Corsair RAM, which was a big plus for me. Had everything I wanted in a brand new board...

Cons: ...except only ATI Crossfire support. I would have preferred nVidia, but at least I have experience with ATI cards. Also, a number of users have had problems with trying to flash the BIOS from the software provided. Check the ASUS forums for more detail. I had a problem with the AI Tweaker that lead me to having to clear CMOS which was a BIG pain because there is no reset switch. You MUST take the battery out which is located directly below the PCI-E slot 1 which just happens to be where my enormous Radeon HD 3870 is located. A number of other users have reported RAM timing and RAM clock speed problems with this particular board as well. Another con for me was a lack of temperature monitoring and fan control from the BIOS. Even my 5 year old Aopen AX4R Plus had that.

Overall Review: All-in-all, this is a good board and should be an excellent board once the BIOS is ironed out. I'd also like to point out that the Newegg specs are misleading. This board supports DDR2-667, DDR2-800, and DDR2-1066 NATIVELY, and can OVERCLOCK to 1200. Which actually works out better for you as the user because timings and latency are more important for speed rather than clock speed.