Pros: Near state-of-the-art at low cost. It works. RAID support, e-SATA support, stable, legacy PS-2 support, dual ethernet connections.

Cons: Poor documentation. Abysmal tech support.

Overall Review: Fortunately, everything worked just fine and I didn't have to contact tech support through their "technical support zone" web-based system for anything really critical. I just had a few questions about how to configure RAID 0. Good grief! It took them days to respond, and when they did, all I got were a few short sentences in reply to my carefully constructed questions. It was obvious that they didn't read my questions carefully and just wanted to blow through it. It took several back-and-forths to get the answers and I had to repeat myself several times. All in all, it took over a week and I still wasn't satisfied. I had to resort to an independent forum to get answers (Tom's Hardware forum). If you're very knowledgeable about mobos you probably won't find this an issue. However, if something goes wrong and you need them - GOOD LUCK!

Pros: Low cost, fairly easy installation, although it's best to have someone help you fit the backplate on while you hold the cooler in position.

Cons: These results are from testing at 21 C ambient in a very-well-ventilated, large case. I was able to keep my Corsair Vengeance with the tall heat spreaders because I was able to mount the cooler in one of the positions that allowed it to clear it. I tried the thermal paste that came with it, using the standard dot method. Temps at idle were 32 to 34 C. Temperatures while under Prime95 quickly rose to 60 C with only 4 cores running the stress test. So I took the cooler off, examined the paste application and verified that the paste had sufficiently covered the CPU where the CPU die is underneath and then some, but I noticed that some paste had been absorbed in the minute cracks between the exposed heatpipes. So, I cleaned everything off well, applied slightly more paste, remounted, and retested. No difference. I switched to Arctic Silver paste, again using the slightly-heavier dot method. While remounting, one of the mounting bolts (or screws, not sure which), started to strip and I had not overapplied torque, so I thought, so I stopped. I knew this was my last chance. This sucker was not going to be able to be unmounted and remounted again. I re-tested with Prime95 and got the same results. I changed the fan to a 140mm Noctua NF-A14 high-flow fan, and found that the results were only cooler by a degree or two. The end result was that my FX-8350 could only run at 30% CPU before temps began approaching critical of 60 C. The temp rise curve was actually a thermal runaway. In addition, the original fan shook the heatsink badly and caused it to make a rattling noise. The Noctua fan also caused the heatsink to rattle (more of a tinkling noise) but nowhere as badly. I'm ordering a Noctua NH-D15 now to try again with a completely different heatsink. This one is going in the garbage. It's not worth the cost of the return. My previous cooler, a Zalman CNPS9900MAX-B was horrendous to install but kept my CPU well below 60 C indefinitely at 100% load. I had to replace the Zalman because the fan was starting to rattle from age. My system is not overclocked. I have installed many CPU coolers in my day. I cannot understand how others are reporting that it keeps big CPUs cool at load.

Overall Review: System Specs: CPU: AMD FX-8350 Vishera 4.0GHz 8-core Mobo: ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 AM3+ PSU: CORSAIR HX Series HX750 750W Video: ASUS GTX650-E-1GD5 GeForce GTX 650 1GB HDDs: 3x WD Black 1TB, various models Memory: CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) Case: Zalman MS800

Pros: I was very impressed by the build quality of this case. It is solid, well-built and heavy. All the necessary different items, like screws and standoffs, were separated by function/type in separate little plastic bags with labels telling you what they are for. The instructions are on a sheet permanently affixed to the inside of the case lid. There is a removable air filter for the front fan. The accessory cages are easily removable for installing accessories and disk drives. Everything went together just fine with no issues or frustrations with plenty of room for me to work in.

Cons: I recommend that you add one or two 80mm fans (not included) to the rear for increased airflow through the case. The included 120mm front fan will probably not be enough. The blue power LED is too bright and the other LEDs are dim by comparison, but this is just a minor thing, obviously.

Overall Review: If you need a basic, short case, this is an excellent choice for the price.

Pros: Can't think of any. It just didn't work in my new build.

Cons: My mobo is an ASRock X370M PRO4 AM4 AMD Promontory X370. O/S is Windows 10 Pro. I purchased 16GB of this memory (2 8GB sticks). This memory is on ASRock's QVL list for this mobo. During the post-build testing and burn-in my new system was getting BSODs. Testing only one stick at a time still produced BSODs. Bizarrely, moving the sticks to the wrong mobo memory slots resulted in improved behavior, but was still unreliable. At times it was fine but at other times everything just fell apart. Memtest86 showed no problems with the memory. I suspected a mobo issue so I returned the mobo and put in the replacement. The problems continued. Then, finally, Memtest86 began showing memory errors. I was using the standard XMP memory profile for this make/model of memory (no overclock) the memory. I double-checked that the values were correct. I took the memory out and replaced it with Kingston ValueRAM 16GB (1 x 16GB) DDR4 2666MHz DRAM KVR26N19D8/16 and there has been NO problems since. My system is as stable as a rock. I don't know if the sticks were bad or if it really is NOT compatible, despite the QVL listing.

Pros: Installed with no issues. Moves a lot of air. Price is right.

Cons: No big deal, but it would have been nice if the four wires of the header connector would have been enclosed in a sheath. As they are, they are all loose which required several cable ties to keep them neat and away from the CPU cooler fan.

Overall Review: Whether a fan is "noisy" or not can be very subjective. All fans of this size tend to be on the noisy side, especially when they are running at high speed. This one is about average. I have mine running at about 50% speed and the noise is acceptable, even in a quiet environment.

Pros: The connection to my Wheelwriter is still stable and working fine.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: I mentioned in my previous review that the manual was missing. This was not the case; My mistake - I found it when I was tearing the box down for recycling. It was under the cardboard inserts. There was no driver CD, but that's ok as it wasn't needed.