Joined on 12/01/07
64-bit now, with the stability of XP:

Pros: Without a doubt by far the most stable version of XP I've ever used, Windows XP x64 is probably the pinnacle of XP in all of its uses. I've been using it myself for nearly two months now, and without skipping a beat, I manage to find all of my drivers for it, (For rather exotic cards as well: The Asus PhysX card, along with a 9800 GT) As well as a humble card reader. The only driver I couldn't find was for an elder NAS that is about to be replaced anyway. x64 bit computing is without a doubt more stable and feels almost twice as fast. This system was built new fom the ground up, but its Snappier thanks to XP x64. The jump from x86 (32 bit) to X64 isn't as big as I thought. I can see all the ram I could ever need now... All 8 gigs, nevermind the extra 512 MBs in my graphics card.
Cons: Internet Explorer 64-bit is nothing to Minefield 64-bit (Firefox), but without compatible flash both are somewhat lacking... Finding A Firewall and Antivirus was somewhat of a challenge for awhile, but a quick google search liquidates all worries. (I'm using Avast Anti-virus, and Comodo Firewall) Graphics Cards Monitoring software (Ntune, And the ATI Equivalent) don't seem to function but Riva gets around that. Crashed for about a week until I noticed my Graphics card was too hot, and Riva fixed that rather quickly.
Overall Review: Without a doubt, my most iffy part of the purchase of a new computer, I now don't regret it for a second, and don't ever wish to go back to x86 (32-bit). Searching for 64-bit programs is fun, but if you can't find them, simply get the 32-bit one, it will almost certainly work fine. It will be a dark day when I can't find something to get around any sort of trouble this Operating system is supposed to give users. I've heard more ill-will versus Vista and Especially Vista x64 then this x64.
Quality Manufactured

Pros: Good quite and fastly shipped Sobering agent, used silently in my bathroom this morning to get fresh. Being a tech I can't walk into the office drunk, Newegg came through again, in a tough pinch.
Cons: Ate too many of them following a rather rushed job to look sober after a night out... tried applying them towards making myself seem less drunk, but found out after several reviews that thanks to an erratum in the yolk they don't really sober you up that much. Will definitely be returning these eggs to Newegg for replacement, or for a refund.
Overall Review: I couldn't find out where to put my egg in an envelope so I just sent the remaining egg of my lot back in my rating, I hope that Newegg is satisfied with this. though after this review I recommended not uploading it, this Eggshell is difficult to get out of a USB port...
Surprised and impressed:

Pros: - Clarity is REALLY good, I'm impressed at what I'm hearing in sound that I wasn't before. I really thought that my onboard was fine, until I got this as a "why not" gift for myself. I figured that it'd at least give me a physical switch to turn up and down music, it does ALOT more than that. - I'm impressed at how much more distinct sounds are. Listening even to shows on youtube, or streamed online, I can hear sounds far more separately, and clearly. This really adds to music especially. - Fixed a problem I was having where my audio channels on my headset were backwards (My right audio came out my left, and vice versa), it seems to be common online, and this is a fairly expensive way to fix it, but it did fix it.
Cons: - It doesn't create two audio interfaces so it's easier to switch between outputs, you HAVE to do it in their software. I'd really prefer that they simply have both outputs appear as physical outputs on a computer so I could easily switch using built in methods.
Overall Review: It's not often I have a product like this that I order and really impresses me.
Great Yellow fans, good look:

Pros: Inexpensive for the pack, and very quiet fans, was surprised to find that the three pin adapter has a molex attached to it as well, it unfortunately wouldn't fit with the extra cord, so I cut off the molex, and used the standard 3-pins and sealed the other wires. The result is very good and quiet.
Cons: I didn't go to yellow fans sooner, it's a good and unusual look in a computer.
Overall Review: This really looks like an OEM pack, it's a cardboard box with the fans in it, nothing special, but then again, I didn't buy it for a fancy box.
Good USB 3.0 card

Pros: Good quality easy to use USB 3.0 card, installed freshly on a new copy of windows 8.1, I didn't even need to download drivers, windows picked it up and worked immediately.
Cons: Nothing major, I had to open the case to use it? It didn't install itself?
Overall Review: I would wish that all USB add in cards could prove this easy to install, I've had my share of USB 3.0 duds, but this one is a winner.
Good Zotac for the money

Pros: Not a bad card for the money, got it on a good sale on black friday and haven't really looked back since then. It runs on an old AMD socket 939 well and does quite a bit to make it feel like a more modern computer, best upgrade it's ever had.
Cons: Not a very wonderful warranty, though everything else on it is wonderful.
Overall Review: If I had to choose again, and this was on sale? I'd buy it everytime.