Pros: Cleanest layout of all the Nforce4 Ultra boards I looked over. Took all my components I had when making this build with no glitches at all. Manual was very detailed and informative. Lots of USB ports. Enough headers using the back plates that came with the board to also use one for the front USB on my case. Lots of features. NewEgg's and UPS's service. :)

Cons: Active cooling. I despise active cooling as eventualy the fan will fail. No Firewire.

Overall Review: I gave it 4 eggs for two reasons, no firewire and active cooling. It takes nothing away from the board iteslf as the price is very reasonable, and I had no problems with the cards and memory I got for it.I've had good luck with ASUS and so far so good. I didn't get this board for the RAID function and I never intend to use it. I got it for X2 support that was non SLI. I also never intend to use the integrated audio as I use an Xfi.

Pros: Decent price, fast transfers. Newegg's service and RMA process being painless.

Cons: Quality. QA lacking big time. Two drives ordered both were bad, one doa the other went out within a day. A third replacement for one of the bad drives was doa.

Overall Review: Been a user of WD drives for years, this drive has been the worst from them for me. I know hard drive batches can be iffy sometimes, it's just frustrating to have three bad drives in a row. Wish WD would implement better QA with their drives before shipping them out. I did get one good drive out of four, a replacement for one of the bad ones. 3 bad drives out of 4 is bad, bad, bad. Opted for a refund for the 3rd bad drive(replacement). Thankfully RMA was quick and painless.

Pros: Lightweight, good variable cooling fans, adjustable height, and extra USB ports. Made of metal not cheap plastic. Very sturdy.

Cons: None

Overall Review: The USB ports aren't USB 3.0 but that doesn't take away from it. The size of it fits my Asus G74SX perfectly it never gets too hot even when rendering. The height adjustment is very nice as it allows me to use this like a docking station. Has 3 extra USB ports, which are nice and a fan dial. The metal was a bit rough around the air holes of it making potential snagging an issue.

Pros: Cheap price, sturdy construction, very good airflow for mid case.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: I had the blue one for many years, when I built my mother a new PC I chose this one due to the fact it's a perfect case that's not big and bulky, with great airflow.

Pros: Good vivid colors, led back-lighting gives even lighting across the display. Price. No dead Pixels.

Cons: None really.

Overall Review: I didn't care about additional outputs as this is my workstation's primary display. Love the color, the menu can be a pain when you do adjustments. I could care less about the speakers as I use headphones for my work. Price and performance were my main needs when choosing displays. Comparable displays with more outputs cost about 100 to 200 dollars more than this one.

Pros: Great new updates from CS3 that I was used to using, The 3d function for Photoshop is vastly improved. Illustrator has a couple nifty improvements also. Acrobat seems to be cut down. Most of the programs included have improvement to them, coming from CS3 is a pretty big leap in functionality. Coming from CS 4 or 5 though its not that big of a leap. Newegg has it cheaper by 300 bucks compared to the Adobe store. 64 Bit for most programs is nice. Speedgrade is a nifty addition.

Cons: Lack of Director, OK I get it they want to kill Director and have us use Flash instead, I LIKE Director for quick kiosk type projects, much faster to develop than in flash but I'm not gonna pay an extra 1k for it when it should be included in the master collection. Not all programs are 64 bit yet. For the price and compilation of programs it would be nice to have a couple of extra font packages or plugins included with it.

Overall Review: Overall a very nice Upgrade from CS3, so so or not really needed if you have CS4 or especially CS5. They do add a couple of nice programs to the mix, Speedgrade is a very nifty tool for adjusting color gradients for video. Prelude is nice for organizing your clips.Just wish they would include Director in the master collection.