Pros: Fast, reliable, price

Cons: Not overclockable ... from what i've read online

Overall Review: Im mainly a gamer. I buy games and pc parts based on the "wait a year" theory, yesterdays games and today's budget gear makes for a great gaming approach and is easy on the wallet. I bought this setup with that in mind: Pentium G860 ASrock H77M Radeon HD 6670 1gb G.Skill 8GB Ram (2X4) I bought this based on a Toms Hardware article. Doing google searches on forums etc I couldnt find a lot of people recommending it, every conversation I found about it people were recommending what they said was a better alternative. I bought it anyway and could not be more pleased for the price. I play a lot of flight sims (Rise Of Flight, Falcon BMS, FSX) and have also ran Far Cry 3, GTA IV and Fallout 3, Silent Hunter Wolves of the Pacific. This setup plays them far better than the forum talk would have you believe. With this setup I can't max the graphics on some of the latest titles but it hangs in there. With some time tweaking graphic settings this CPU is quite capable. Kept in perspective (price vs performance) I don't think you can go wrong. Based on my experience most of the negative talk online is from people who read charts and have no real experience with this chip. If you follow such things. On 3DMark06, with the GPU overclocked via CCC, I get a score of 9255.

Pros: Was easy to setup, seems very full featured for tweaking if that is your thing. The XFast USB seems to actually make a difference. The XFast Lan im not so sure. Had a little reservation about going with a micro board... concerns unwarranted... its my first micro board and so far I see no cons as compared to a full size ATX board.

Cons: XFast Ram utility nowhere to be found. The whole reason I bought this board was for the XFast Ram utility. I used it for an XP build with 8gb of Ram, but XP only sees 4gb. The XFast Ram is supposed to allow windows to use all 8gb. I cant comment on whether it works or not. ASRock claims that its in the eXtreme Tuning Utility but it's not in my case. I'm using the latest version which is 0.1.185, i've uninstalled/reinstalled, been through the FAQs on the website, googled it etc....i've tried to come up with an answer before posting anything negative...but cant even find anyone talking about the issue. I've emailed ASRock support... they wont answer.... if I had to do it again...and I will... it wont be an ASrock board, not what it claims to be and poor customer service.

Overall Review: If ASrock would bother to help me out I would be happy, but as the XFast Ram is the major reason I bought this board Im dissappointed. I know there are other utilities to do the same thing...but that is beside the point.

Pros: Cheap, reliable

Cons: None so far

Overall Review: I bought this card for a gaming system, most games I like to play are 2 or more years old. I mainly run flight sims and racing sims, Rise of Flight, FSX, IL2, RBR, Grand Prix Legends, GTR2, iRacing, RFactor and still play Half Life 2, GTA 4,and some older titles once in awhile. Im running this with a Pentium G860 and 8gb of RAM on XP Pro. With this card I can run any of the above titles at 1920x1080 but I do have to lower the eye candy to varying degrees depending on the game. Typical FPS killers like clouds, trees, shadows, trackside objects/crowds. ROF in particular I read is very demanding on hardware, with some lowered detail and draw distance I get very smooth frame rates at 1920X1080. I get well over 120 FPS on iRacing and it still runs choppy...I dont think its the cards fault. FSX drags to around 35 to 45 FPS at med level detail, I do believe FSX is very CPU limited however so i'm curious how it would run with this card and a better CPU. Overall I think its quite capable keeping in mind the cost. As always its a price/performance question. I put together an entire gaming rig with this card for less than $350. With that in mind it's a winner in my book.

Pros: I read all the reviews for this and other similiarly priced monitors and finally took the plunge on this one. I dont know about all the glowing praise... "the best ive ever seen" etc.. some people are too easily impressed. Its simply a good monitor...there are better and there are worse. No dead pixels, text is quite clear (better than I expected). Even with 2ms response I still feel my old Viewsonic CRT kills the ASUS in fast moving games like race sims. For any other use its fine, and hopefully with some tweaking it can be a fine gaming monitor.

Cons: The stand is basic, tilt only as others have said...mine also sits lower on the left than the right as others have mentioned. Mine goes into "out of range" when trying to display 1400x720 even though the manual claims its supported. I have older games that max out at lower resolutions...so thats a bummer because "out of range" means a restart in safe mode .. or plugging in the old CRT...pain. This may be a frequency thing with the video card. I found the menus to be a bit of a pain...but no more than any other monitor ive owned...just takes some getting use to. The buttons feel VERY cheap... sorry...but they dont inspire confidence for reliability. This is a low buck monitor with a pretty good panel...thats my take. You get what you pay for.

Pros: Received quickly. Installed without a hitch in XP Pro, works as advertised. Seems solidly built.

Cons: None so far.

Overall Review: Install easily, seems well made and does what its supposed to. Cant ask for mor than that.

Pros: Installed in an OLD Dell Inspiron 7500 with WIN XP. (PII 350MHZ, 256mb RAM). Installation went without a hitch, software configuration was pretty easy, some configuration issues with my modem...but that was my ISPs fault...not the card. Once I got the data I needed to enter in the configurator, it found my wireless link and connected. Also used at hotels and had no problem connecting.

Cons: Connection speeds seem to vary widely, and with my setup (lots of variables) my connection speed will slowly drop and drop. Ex: can start at 54mps and slowly drop to 10mps or 5mps or lower... (i dont know wireless tech....thats what the software is telling me) I can disconnect and reconnect and get a better speed, only to have it slow down again. Some of this may be my computer or ISP, im not tech savy with wireless....but its been consistent with all wireless connections ive tried.

Overall Review: Nothing to compare it to, and theres too many variables and my laptop is too old to blame the card. But based on my experience if I had to do it again id probably spend a bit more.