Pros: After hundredss of times upgrading the insides of this case, it still comes apart without falling apart and goes back together right every time At first, I thought it was flimsy. It isn't. Top-grade engineering. Perfect size for me. Runs cool and silent with just the CPU fan and the PSU fan, since I learned to properly use the partition plate.

Cons: It ate CPU coolers until I started sealing the air holes on the partition plate with duct tape. I learned from burning out a CPU cooler's fan that extra care is needed to make sure the cables to the DVD burner stay out of the fan. Duh. The stick-on feet really suck, but I got some aftermarket feet that work great.

Overall Review: After I learn to administrate a Smoothwall firewall I built from spare parts, I'm buying another of these cases for an Ubuntu Server/WordPress/Moodle webserver that fits my standup desk. A $7.00 Arctic Cooling Alpine GT 64 has kept my AMD A8-5500 happy for 6 months or so now. It just got an ASRock FM2A88M motherboard and I'm way happy with the way the machine works now. This is a helluva long way from the Sinclair ZX80 I started out with in 1979.

Pros: Its coloration looks highly functional, like a flat black street racer. The gripping surfaces are non-slip, and comfortable It works terrific - while it's connected. The price was right.

Cons: If I don't use it for a minute, it disconnects. It won't reconnect without clicking the connect button in the Bluetooth app (I use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS). Because it's disconnected, this mouse won't make that click. I have to plug in a USB mouse to reconnect it. I call that a design flaw.

Overall Review: If the documentation told me how to turn off sleep mode, I would love this thing, even if it's a bit small for my hand. If it brought itself out of sleep mode, I would feel okay about giving it to my wife to replace a dying mouse..

Pros: Solid piece of equipment that works just like it ought to Smooth insertion/extraction of SSDs No chance of breaking anything while changing SSDs; I move the latch and the SSD pops half out of the slot and going in is that safe, too. This thing will probably out-live me. Looked just right on the InWin BK623.BN300TBL I bought from Newegg

Cons: SATA connectors stopped staying connected. One SATA plug is broken, but the other isn't and it still won't stay on.

Overall Review: I wish every part I bought was built this solid. But for the SATA connectors, this is all I'd ever need for a RAID 1 to safeguard my work (I write fiction). I bought another (from Newegg) that's not the same last-a-lifetime quality but the SATA cable stays connected. I buy lots of Rosewill parts and this is the first problem I've had. It's mounted behind the flap over the 3.5" bays on a tank-like Topower case I got from Newegg for about the same price as this mobile rack. The lights don't work, but I couldn't see them if they did. The rack works perfect but for the lights. Newegg's customer service and shipping are the best in the business, five eggs. Newegg gets it right every time, for me - since 2004.

Pros: Two PCI Express 2.0 x 16 slots.

Cons: First boot of this board, I went into the BIOS to see what the hype was about. In the process, I gave the BIOS a password. I can't get rid of it, and Gigabyte can't get rid of it. Gigabyte customer service (maybe tech support? I surely hope it's better than this) keeps telling me to clear the CMOS. I've known how to clear a CMOS since the late 70s. But I did it five times, all with the same result (the password didn't clear) before I refused to tear my machine down to do this futile process once more. I've not heard from them since. First, the support person assumed I'm a newb who didn't know what clearing a CMOS meant. I got my first computer in 1979. Insulted by the assumption of my lack of knowledge, I said so. The support person responded, all upset from being abused. This is customer support? They told me to clear the CMOS six different times. I did it, five times, then refused to keep doing something that was having no effect. I use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse on my workstation, and they haven't come up in the boot sequence at this time of the boot, so I have to plug in a USB keyboard to key in the password. Every boot. I feel this is a defect, and I want a motherboard that doesn't do this. Gigabyte dropped their efforts to help me when I refused to tear down my computer again, and I've heard nothing from them since. Even if Gigabyte products are solid gold, they're worthless without customer support. Every time I have to plug in a USB keyboard to continue booting, it makes me mad as hell. To me, this motherboard is defective and Gigabyte's 3-year warranty should give me a board that works better than this (the BIOS also don't let me set the DVD burner before the SSD in the boot sequence, so I'm stuck with this version of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS because the BIOS boots straight to the SSD).

Overall Review: I made an error in buying from Gigabyte. It's the first Gigabyte motherboard I've bought, and it will be the last Gigabyte product of any kind that I buy if they keep stonewalling on giving me the service appropriate for a 3-year warranty. The board is pretty nice after boot - and I'm over being outraged for having to do the stupid human trick to boot my machine. I bought it for the 2nd PCI Express slot, where I wanted to install a RAID card. I'm a Vietnam vet disabled with PTSD and I have a $100 per month allowance for buying computer parts, etc. I got the board, it sat around in my studio for a month (in the box, and the plastic) until I could afford an A8-5500 for it. So Gigabyte is my only recourse for reparations. I'm not holding my breath, but the Gigabyte board comes out of my machine, one way or the other, and if Gigabyte won't do the right thing soon, this board goes to the recycler. I don't have enough mental health to deal with this thing.

Pros: Dependable: it's worked every day since I got it in a Lian Li Q11 case Quiet: still can't hear it run, after 2 years

Cons: None

Overall Review: Been building boxes since 1980 and this is as good a PSU as I've ever had Running it to a Zotac MB, AM3 dual core, $12.00 Arctic Cooling CPU fan, 8GB G-Skill, DVD burner Just does what it's supposed to do Couldn't be happier with a PSU

Pros: Strong cooling w/heatpipes Looks impressive w/92 mm fan atop the heatsink Fits mini ITX case really nice with the heatsink hanging over the chipsets instead of the RAM Very versatile CPU cooling system

Cons: Weak clip that's a PITA to install just right

Overall Review: I patched the clip with a piece of paper clip and installed it with all the screws on the retention holder backed almost out then went round and round tightening a bit at a time to pull it down even until it was tight and it works great. Installed a SlienX IXP-64-14 92 mm fan (single speed) blowing into the heatsink and it's the only fan in my case, quietly cooling everything on the m/b. It also cooled fine with a 80 mm case fan pulling air through the heatsink without a fan on it, but the fan was too loud for me. My m/b doesn't have PWM