Pros: Nice drive smooth operation, quiet and fast. 15 to 25 minutes to rip a blu ray is good. Contrary to other people who have given this a rating of 1 for not reading blu ray movies. It reads blu ray movies just fine if you have the right software installed. Reading blu ray movies will not happen without the right decoder and player software.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Don't buy this for playing blu ray discs if you are not going to buy the software to read and play them.

Pros: Good Mobo, works pretty much as expected. Nice layout of connectors especially power and SATA being placed near the front edge of the board. Good for cable management. Running great except for the sound.

Cons: Be warned the 5.1 sound is not output from the S/PDIF or the HDMI and I have had to purchase another video board to get 5.1 from HDMI. I really do not want to run sperate cables from the sound output jacks to my audio amplifier. Would've been a five if it wasn't for this.

Overall Review: Silverstone Black Aluminum Grandia GD05B HTPC Case AMD Phenom II Black 3.2 Ghz Mushkin 90 GB SSD G. Skill Ripjaw (2x 2 GB) DDR3 1600 2X2 TB Western Digital Caviar Green Seasonic 520 W Bronze PSU Sony Black Blu-ray burner Win 7 Pro, Sage TV with Hauppauge 1212 PVR Probably overkill for HTPC but running great.

Pros: Really quiet, CPU staying really cool

Cons: Make sure you accurately measure the space required. It fits in my case but I had to move one of the case fans to get it in.

Overall Review: Good value CPU fan

Pros: Running Win 7 64 bit and programs to drive my HTPC. Machine boots in seconds. From the time the BIOS runs to fully ready for use including typing Win password is less than 20 seconds. Easy install no effort.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Thinking of putting one of these in my other PC. Boot time seems so long!

Pros: Nice looking case, well laid out. Fits great with my audio and DVD components. Very robust and well built. Everything running cool with 3 big fans.

Cons: Installing storage drives is tight and cabling needs care. Now I have the CPU fan and Video card fan it is a little noisy when the room is quiet. Have to remove the Blu Ray/DVD drive to install video card. WOuld have been a 5 if this was easier.

Overall Review: Thinkind of turing one of the fans off to see what effect it has on cooling.