Pros: READ speed is freaking nuts. A fresh install of windows loads up in less then 30 seconds on my Dell Vostro 410 (Intel Q9300 CPU, 3GB ram). This drive even tames the inherent Windows slowdown associated with installing .... AOL.

Cons: Write speed - pretty much like everyone else. The whole system appears unresponsive while writing data to the drive, which depending on what you're doing may be 2- 10 second long pauses.

Overall Review: Remove the pagefile, provided you have sufficient ram, as that kills windows from constantly writing to the drive. Installing programs takes longer then usual, due to the aforementioned CON, BUT once the installation is done - this thing screams upon program startup. Still, I'd wait for the SLC drives to come down in price before purchasing another SSD.

Pros: Decent price, solid enough to play Guild Wars and Battlefield 2 with mid to high settings, 256 megabytes of ram.

Cons: Runs way hot. Follow peoples advice, and make sure you have an excellent cooling setup with *plenty* of airflow. On 2 of our workstations, any 3d action results in a computer shutdown due to overheating.

Overall Review: My company bought 5 of these cards to push 24" & 30" LCD - which they handle with aplomb. The heatsink / fan does not have a tight fit over the GPU / RAM, which I assume may be part of the heat problem.

Pros: No rgb. Enabled XMP in motherboard bios and rebooted and the ram was set to 3600MHz / CL16, as advertised.

Overall Review: Not much else to say. It's 32GB of RAM that's rated faster than what I probably actually need for the games I currently play, but it's nice knowing future games with heavy ram capacity & speed requirements won't be an issue for me.

Pros: I can run Battlefield 3 on high settings at 1920*1200 now!

Cons: it's not a 7xxx series card? Oh and it laughs at me for playing older games on it, thinking they will stress this video card. Kinda creepy. :P

Overall Review: Note sure if my aging C2D E6850 can keep this card happy ... the card just works, BF3 looks prettier, I don't overclock, I'm happy with it. Extremely happy with it.

Pros: When mated to a SATA III equipped motherboard, Windows 7 Pro takes less then 15 seconds to boot and get to the desktop. Makes SATA II based SSD's look slow!

Cons: Not really a con, but when mated to a SATA II controller, it's just as fast as SATA II based SSD's - which is still blazingly fast.

Overall Review: Bought 10 of them for the office. Not 1 dead drive. 3 of our newer PC's had SATA III onboard, the rest are still SATA II. No difference in speed on the SATA II PC's (they were all running 80gb Intel SSDs already), but the SATA III PC's .... wow! Glad to see the costs have come down since our previous batch purchase of 80gb SSD's (with no trim support!). What to do with all the spare SSD's I have laying around now ....

Pros: Decent price, Windows 7 x64 Ultimate works awesome, running an older (and abused) C2D E6850 @ 3.0GHz with no problem. I don't overclock, so I couldn't tell if the overclocking options are good or bad, I just know my CPU is working at it's rated speed with no issues. I read all the comments before buying this board, and yes I was worried I'd get a DOA board, guess I lucked out :P Been running Windows 7 since August with no issues, although .....

Cons: This board DID seem picky about what OS I loaded on it. I tried Windows XP Sp3, Windows XP x64, Ubuntu & CentOS Linux before I settled on Windows 7. The 4 previous OS's would either blue screen or lock up randomly for the first 3 days (and that was even after a BIOS upgrade) before I threw in the towel and downloaded Windows 7 via my Technet account.

Overall Review: Aside from operating system installation and running headaches with anything before Windows 7 (I never tried Vista) this board hasn't given me any reason to knock it. I'm running 4GB of ram, 3 hard drives (one of which is the horrible OCZ 64gb SSD with the jmicron controller), ATI 4870 video card, and my trusty X-Fi XtremeMusic. Everything just works.