Pros: A great deal. I use this as my root partition on Linux (/home, /var, and /tmp are on a normal hard drive). Boot time of Fedora 13 Linux and KDE from grub loading to the desktop is 25 seconds. hdparm -t /dev/sdc reports 214.60 MB/sec and hdparm -T /dev/sdc reports 5637.81 MB/sec. The cache time is comparable to my hard drives, but the buffered disk read for my SATA III Western Digital drive is 119.58 MB/sec.

Cons: A SATA III connection would be nice.

Pros: The case is spacious. The large fan on top of the case is very quiet, and really cools the motherboard and CPU. Putting the power supply at the bottom makes the case very stable.

Cons: The metal is pretty thin and bends easily. The metal shield covering the I/O ports of the motherboard is very difficult to remove---removing it caused bending the entire back of the case. The "toolless" plastic stuff that holds in the PCI cards and hard drives is horrible---it doesn't hold anything. Most of the pieces on mine, extra flux on the plastic meant that some of the pieces didn't even fit. However, the plastic can be removed and plain screws used (I wish I would have read that in previous reviews before wasting a bunch of time!). None of the fans are speed controllable, which is unfortunate since my motherboard can control such fans.

Pros: Nice screen, good price. Nice and bright, evenly lit. Does not get too warm. Screen is matte, as is the black bezel (no shiny distracting reflections on the screen or the bezel!). Stand is very stable.

Cons: Had a dead pixel near the left edge on arrival. The viewing angles are significantly worse than the specifications imply. Since the screen is so wide, I already get color distortions along the edges when sitting 2 feet from the screen. I think this is typical of most TN screens though; I had an IPS screen beforehand that had none of these issues. It would be nice if the screen was height adjustable (though very few monitors seem to have that anymore). The product box the monitor was shipped in did not seem damaged, but the bezel was scraped in two places. The screen itself seems fine.

Pros: A fast processor---the fastest speed of individual cores.

Cons: You pay for the speed---if you don't need it, then it's a better value to buy a slower core i5.

Pros: Works great, as advertised. A good deal.

Cons: None.

Pros: Works great. Here are the timings (connected to a SATA III 6G controller) under Fedora 13 Linux: hdparm -t /dev/sdb 119.58 MB/sec hdparm -T /dev/sdb 5506.31 MB/sec

Cons: None. Just remember that you need a SATA cable when buying a bare drive.