Joined on 05/16/06
Solid Power Supply
Pros: Works great
Cons: The fan is noisier than the three 120mm case fans i have installed.
Good but not great
Pros: It's windows 64 bit edition.
Cons: I bought it for my AMD X2 4600+ / 2gb ram Socket AM2 system. I did my research, and there are drivers available in x64 mode for all of my hardware which i've installed. The issue is that the computer randomly hangs (freezes up). This usually occurs anwhere between a few minutes and hours after it boots. Ubuntu linux on the other hand runs for hours without a freeze. I would recommend that you get the normal Windows XP Pro instead of this. The extra speed of x64 is nice, but the stability is a huge issue. The other issue I had was that it didn't immediately recogonize the on board lan in my motherboard. Ubuntu did though... go figure.
Overall Review: TO summarize, it works, but its not stable. If you want stability, try the normal windows xp pro, or some variant of linux.
Saved my career
Pros: It's the only mouse I can use without feeling pain
Cons: Sometimes I give it a good whack by accident when moving my hand to the mouse - this happens because it is a tall mouse
Overall Review: This and a Kinesis Advantage make it possible for me to work as a software engineer. Otherwise I'd be flipping burgers...
Very Fast!
Pros: Awesome speed. Comes with everything you need to install including the heat sink, fan, and thermal compound already applied to the heat sink.
Cons: was a little scary putting the fan on - i had to push harder than expected on the clamp that holds it in place.
it works
Pros: lets you plug your vga monitor in to the dvi output on a graphics card.
Cons: none
Pros: Very future proof with the AM2 socket, 6 sata slots and SLI. Gotta love the dual gigabit lan cards, and digital sound outputs. Very stable under ubuntu linux.
Cons: Doesn't work with my Belkin PCI IDE RAID card. I every time I boot, I get the message "Not enough space to copy option rom [00:00:00]" with this card plugged in. The drives don't show up in windows or linux. This is a bit of a deal breaker because The mobo only has 1 ide chain, and I have 3 IDE hard drives, and 2 ide cdrom drives that need to be hooked up to complete my new system. Ubuntu recogonized the gigabit lan immediately, Windows XP x64 didn't see them until I installed the 64 bit drivers. This is probabbly the biggest con under windows since most everything else you'll do with the computer in terms of software updates requiers an internet connection. I copied the drivers using my USB memory stick.
Overall Review: On the whole, I think its a good board, the northbridge does get a bit hot, but really, its not that bad (what do you expect when you use passive cooling).