Pros: Bought one for a budget build. installed and ran easily (I always forget how tiny microatx are) and eventually I was able to unlock my Phenom II with the build in ACC. Pretty standard bios, but easy to use. On board graphics was easy to use until my video card came in. Just plugged in my monitor and it worked without fuss.

Cons: My first motherboard was DoA. It happens (though personally if it's a defective product I think Newegg should pick up the tab on returns...I've sunk a lot of dough from returning defective things). A PCI slot also gets blocked if you're using a video card with a fan or heatsink. I realize that it's a micro atx but it kinda ruined my plan of having a wireless adapter and a sound card. And maybe I'm just spoiled, but two SATA cables was just not enough. Needed one more. Kinda went through a hassle to buy it.

Overall Review: Solid manufacturer. Solid build. Plan on only one PCI adapter if you're using a mid to high tier video card. Comes with two sata cables. I ran a 2.8ghz Phenom II tricore, 8gb 1333 PNY with two hard drives, an optical and a wireless adapter on this motherboard with no problems.

Pros: Worked immediately. No fussy installation. Did what I wanted to, making this build quick and easy with no initial complications. Nicely packaged, comes with SLI cable.

Cons: Freezes! Locks up! Crashes! All these things happen! Boot up a game, marvel at the graphics for about three minutes (often less) and then your computer locks up, sometimes recovering back to desktop saying you have a display driver crash but more often than not not requiring a complete restart of your computer. I've tried everything: reseating, new drivers, old drivers, beta drivers, etc. The problem only fixed when I stuck another old video card into my computer Doing some research you discover that the non-recertified version on Newegg has a very bad review average. Many people experience these same problems and Googlying PNY's 570GTX also reveals the same thing. A few people have good video cards, but, far more often than any company should be comfortable with, there are too many issues with crashing and lockups when loading and playing. Also if you're relying on PNY's warranty or customer service, don't try overclocking/underclocking/altering fan speeds of your card. It voids

Overall Review: i7 2600k Gigabyte Z68-UD3 16GB DDR3 1600 G-Skill Ram

Pros: Fast, great for builds with large coolers that have huge overhang. Competitively priced (When it's on sale it's quite the deal). Looks cool (not really a selling point).

Cons: The only issue with this was that the timings don't default to their regular 9-9-9-24. I was expecting this from other reviews but it was still a minor hassle to deal with that. Took an egg off just for that.

Overall Review: Works perfectly. Just check those timings! Proud to include in my build. i7 2600k @ 4.5ghz Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 GSkill 16GB 1600

Pros: Buy it cheap. Stick it in your case. Plug in some wires. Use it. No problems.

Cons: Bad cup holder.

Overall Review: Packaging seems a little cheap (wrapped in bubble wrap, i guess it works) but everything is there and it works well.