Joined on 08/28/10
Good rice cooker
Pros: It cooks brown and white rice pretty well. Cleaning is easy. It's awesome got it on sale for$80.
Cons: Takes 2-3 hours cooking brown rice, but I knew that. After finishing rice the steam just drips all over your table/counter.
Overall Review: Buy it, but when its on sale
X79 UP4
Pros: Worked right out the box. Installed a 3960x with a Silver Arrow SB-e. Temps range at high 30s @ stock speed/voltages. Running the samsung ddr3 1600s in quad channel @ 2133 cas10
Cons: Boots so fast that keyboard isnt recognized sometimes when I spam the delete button ;) lol using a mechanical ps/2 keyboard too. Silver arrow sb-e blocked the first pcie slot completely. Switching to eisberg when it releases. So becareful when your purchasing this board with a larger heatsink
Overall Review: no led debug no power button
Pretty good oc'ing ram
Pros: Okay, was skeptical of Patriot ram at first, but I got it at a huge rebate at my local MC so why not I bought it and tried it. Got it running @ 2133 10-11-10-26 at stock volts (1.65v) XMP. If you want my system specs there down below. Stable ram no bsods as of yet and 12+ hours of memtest stable. (luck of the draw, you never know when your going to get defective ram) Great color ram too, matches well with my motherboard.
Cons: I have a nh-d14, and it fits, but the bottom 120mm fan has to be raised a bit above the heatsink. Does not affect performance pretty much at all, but I enjoy my stuff lining up nice and neat.
Overall Review: Ram is pretty weighted. System specs 2600k @ 4.8ghz/1.44v nh-d14 z68 ud7 b3 board rest really dont matter for mem oc'ing.
Z68 Extreme3
Pros: The motherboard looks great. Actually is a bit smaller than a regular ATX board so fits great. Tons of features. Virtu,PCIe 3.0, etc. And only $129 for all of it. Overclocking worked, was a bit hard at the beginning cause their OC bios are a bit wonky, but still good.
Cons: No USB 3.0 Header. To the below poster. The only 2 USB 3.0 are in the rear panel. If you plan on using the 2nd PCI express slot(SLI or crossfire) you will not be able to reach the onboard power/reset easily. The Clips to hold in the PCI express slots are a little flimsy. They aren't auto lock like most boards. You have to reach your hand in to lock it and it still feels flimsy after you lock it.
Overall Review: Great budget board. If you are looking for a great board with tons of features this is your board. I was able to OC my 2600k to 4.8ghz.