Pros: - Great deal on the product, but arrived defective with the inner LCD screen cracked. I have high hopes though - NewEgg RMA team is excellent in terms of getting the return processed smoothly

Cons: - Time to return and establish a replacement order seems too much; would much rather cross-ship and everyone wins - Shipment of the replacement order should have the same level as the original order. At this point the replacement is shipped from CA to NY and is going to take 8-9 days to arrive

Overall Review: 1-egg lost due to return process

Pros: - Compact, good for NAS, good brand name

Cons: 1- Odd that the case plate provided in the box was not for this board - close but not close enough. And this was a new board, really? This shouldn't have happened. 2- Newegg doesn't support advanced RMA for motherboards. Eggstremely disappointed here as I run a business. So now with me being in NY I have to ship it back, let them inspect, and maybe some day I will get a replacement board. :(

Overall Review: Newegg could have done better here. Other competing vendor return systems and process is awesome by comparison Newegg customer service processed the RMA during a chat session with me. She tried every step of the way to help me out.

Pros: Rubber-ized fins, fan support and mounts so that eliminates any vibration whatsoever. With more fins airflow is improved. You don't even hear this thing going; and you shouldn't if you are cooling your system and case properly. Lastly, the 4-pin feature is something of a MUST HAVE these days to permit the motherboard to control it's own temperature. I us these mainly for server or workstation boards but they would easily benefit the casual user.

Cons: Price! But I'll pay an extra $10 for this type of quality although it doesn't mean I like it.

Overall Review: To J.W. who posted on 4/5.... This can be put in a 3-pin header. Give it a try as the only thing you lose is automated temperature control from the motherboard.

Pros: This is a great workstation @ 5 eggs, but since Lenovo calls it a server it only gets 4. It's a glorified workstation with a Xeon processor and can run power-user workloads with ease. I have a dual-port NIC installed along with an LSI RAID adapter, SSD boot drive and 2 enterprise drives running as a server with Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V. Several VM's are running without a hitch. MAKE SURE YOU TURN OFF POWER-SAVING FEATURES; otherwise you will be scratching your head for weeks!!! Lenovo just made an awesome system here. And coupled with a $79 3-year on-site warranty my clients will enjoy the insurance and stability with this system. Whisper-quiet is indeed true. Solid performer. I can push this server beyond it's limits but SOHO offices can be best served with one or two of these babies; and you are still saving $$$

Cons: Drive bays are somewhat limited but that only forces you to get the storage capacity right the first time.

Overall Review: I am preparing 2 more servers to replace my 12TB clustered NAS. Ubuntu 14.04 runs fine on this system.

Pros: First-off, Samsung rocks plain and simple. This is a good drive but not worthy of the premium compared to the 840 EVO. The only thing you get right now is longevity compared to the EVO.

Cons: I didn't see much of a performance difference between my 840's and this 850. RAPID mode was actually SLOW on the 850 and my workstation runs a Xeon CPU with 20GB of RAM. Performance returned once I disabled it.

Overall Review: Go with the 840 Evo for now. I am sure Samsung will leverage 3D technology in the future and it will beat up the 840 series good enough. Until then.... disappoints.

Pros: Sleek design and stays cool. Love the Gbit ports and I use the stock firmware (not DD-WRT).

Cons: Just stops accepting traffic 2x per week. For what I use it for it's OK but man since this is a recurring pattern with this device the leadership and management in ASUS should be retrained on how to develop a product that should run 24x7 w/o a hiccup.