AnDi I.
Joined on 12/27/07
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Better than those flaky Dells!

Pros: We love these monitors. We've bought ten of them. One of the key features is that they swivel (one of our users loves that ability). Another is that they take DVI input. Also, unlike the Dells, they don't exhibit "banding" (although I'll have to wait another year to be sure).
Cons: The price. But that hasn't stopped us from buying them.
Watch Out! Might ship the wrong card

Pros: It's cheap.
Cons: Watch out! Instead of shipping the Dual-DVI card, they might ship you the single-DVI single-VGA variant. To make matters more confusing, the manufacturer (Galaxy) apparently uses the same part number for both variants (i.e. 95TGE8DC1CUM). Newegg made good and gave me a complete refund.
Overall Review: I wish they had a passively-cooled card that cheap--I seem to be having a lot of problems with fans on graphics cards failing.
Works great!

Pros: Easily handles 2 x 1920x1200 DVI monitors without breaking a sweat under linux (rhel 4.6) using the nvidia-drivers. Doesn't have a fan, which is a big plus, because I've had 2 GPU fans break on me and others which were way too noisy.
Cons: Probably not great at 3D rendering, but we don't care--we use it for designing semiconductors, not for playing World of Warcraft.
Overall Review: Wish it weren't so pricey
14% slower than another vendor's board

Pros: Everything worked flawlessly. Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz LGA 1366 installed without a problem, recognized the 24 GB (G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333). Ran memtest86+ for 48 hours without a problem. Booted RHEL 4.6 with kernel 2.6.28 w/out a problem.
Cons: Didn't perform as well as an identical system (albeit with a different vendor's motherboard) (same CPU, same RAM). The ASUS came in 14% slower.
Overall Review: I didn't tweak the BIOS on this Board or the other vendor's board (other than to change the IDE setting to AHCI and to change certain boot options (e.g. quiet boot, no; quick boot, no). The ASUS offers much more options to overclock than the other vendor; it's highly possible, with the right settings, that this mobo could match or even outperform the other board.
