Pros: Successful POST on the first try. 6 SATA ports. 4 on-board USB headers.

Cons: No FireWire. Only one ps/2 port, so you'll need to either get a USB mouse or a USB keyboard. No IDE header, you'll have to get a SATA dvd drive. Only one PCI-E x16 slot, so no SLI/Crossfire. The position of the on-board USB headers makes it difficult to put a real card into the outermost PCI slot.

Overall Review: AMD Athlon II X2 250 Regor 3.0GHz ECS NGTS450-1GPI-F1 GeForce GTS 450 (Fermi) 4 sticks of Crucial 2GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 Audigy 2 ZS from my prior rig Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EADS 1TB 74 GB raptor from prior rig 400 GB Barracuda from prior rig 500 GB Hitachi from prior rig Mushkin Volta 650W PSU

Pros: Cheap as in inexpensive. Does everything my old 1GB Coby did: no special software, no special connectors, your computer treats it just like a usb drive.

Cons: Cheap as in low quality. Feels fragile and shoddily constructed. I'm pretty sure one accidental drop and this thing will turn into a pile of pieces. I have a sinking suspicion I will be replacing it for a structural failure and not because I ran out of space. The included earbuds are garbage. An initial listen, and I'm pretty sure I'm hearing static from the player and not from my own earbuds. This is where I found out how bad the included buds were. I wasn't expecting Supah-Doopah-Dolby, but introducing static is unforgivable. The manual looks like it was written for a similar but different player. Items the manual said would be included weren't. Interface descriptions are different from the actual device. This thing apparently got from China to USA on a Chinese junk. This was slowest shipping I've ever had.

Overall Review: I only have an mp3 player so I can blast heavy metal at night without being nuisance. I did not buy this for the voice recorder, so I won't comment on that. I also did not buy this for the e-reader, but no way are you going to be reading books with this thing. Displaying track info, yes. Reading a book, an exercise in frustration. I bought this thing with the intent of using my own earbuds, because I knew the style of earbuds players come with just don't fit into my ears correctly. Most of this thing's functionality is through the combination mode-switch/mode-button. What is up with that? Bottom line: don't buy. Hold out for something that's higher quality. Unfortunately for me, this thing's is too cheap to bother demanding a refund.

Pros: Inexpensive, no special software, computer treats it like a flashdrive. It isn't just a flash drive with alleged battery-powered extras built in, unlike similar "cheap player" offerings.

Cons: The earbuds suck, get separate buds of your own. The sound is not flawless. There's a definite difference between listening to this and plugging ear-buds into my computer. Button placement is rather awkward. Dual-function "rocker" buttons can cause you to accidentally do something you didn't want to do or the device to not react.

Overall Review: I couldn't care less about the voice recorder and other functions, so I won't comment on them. Recommended with reservations, due to the low-quality sound.

Pros: full tower == room for your stuff looks ok tool-less front bays lots of fans cable-routing options room for radiators . . . sort of

Cons: Big egg deduction: top of the case. -The top panel is flimsy as heck. A part that is supposed to be removable should not make your brain go "Oh, no! I've violated the warranty!" when you remove it. -Top fan needs to be removed to install a top radiator. One of the screws stripped when I was taking the fan off, and I had to get creative to not break the fan. Not sure I'll bother putting that fan back on. -ALERT! Screw holes for the top radiator mount are too small for Koolance radiators! I was going to need to drill holes anyway because of my choice of water pump and reservoir, but widening the existing holes on the top was not something I think I should have had to do. And the radiator has to be inside the case. There is no room for the outlets if you try to put the radiator on top. And the fan screw-holes are smaller than the ones typically used for 120x25mm fans. Another deduction for the bottom fan mount. Unless your power supply is ultra-short, putting anything on the bottom mount (e.g. fan, radiator, EKWB floor-sitting pump) will get in the way of the cables coming out of the power supply. And I've never seen an ultra-short PSU with the wattage to run a high-end set-up. All the screws are jumbled together in one bag along with the cable ties. Different screws are needed for different things, not cool having to rummage through a grab-bag of screws to get the right one.

Overall Review: I've never cared one-way or another about LEDs, but I got blue coolant to be color-coordinated anyway. My prior case was a truly tool-less case, the only screws were for the motherboard. Going to screws for everything took some getting used to. Top drive dock is a cute gimmick, but unless you're in data recovery or you have field-agents running around using SSDs like humongor flash cards you'll probably never use it. A lot of the difficulty was me not doing enough research for my water-cooling set up, but some it is intrinsic to the case's design. The back fan-mount looks like it would accommodate a 120mm radiator just fine. I suppose if you were air-cooling, or using self-contained all-in-one liquid cooler, this would be an awesome case, but custom-loop water-coolers beware.

Pros: Alright bass. Games sound fine. Doesn't choke on heavy metal. Straightforward set up. Worked fine on first start up.

Cons: It's not great. Distorts at high volume and the adjustments you can do don't do anything to fix it. Definitely not for audiophiles. These are a replacement for a set of Klipsch Promedia 5.1 that lost the central amp. The subwoofer on these is way smaller than the Promedia's. If this is the new high-water mark for 5.1 than the standard has fallen bad.

Overall Review: My old Promedia's had a "speaker mode" and "headphone mode." These don't, they mute when you plug in. The speaker cords had a colored band on the striped wire. Tended to come off when you unwound the wire, but it honestly helped keep connections straight.

Pros: It's a usb mouse, what do you want?

Cons: You can get a 1000dpi, 3 button, usb mouse practically anywhere. Getting it from a walk-in store would be quicker and cheaper.

Overall Review: I got this because my new motherboard only had one ps/2 port. I haven't played any "serious" games (i.e. FPSes like TF2 or STALKER), but I haven't had any "spazzes" yet.