Pros: Solid product offering with plenty of flexibility.

Cons: After market cpu fan choice may be limited. Memory slots are close to the CPU. ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm fan covered the first memory slot. If you want to run the full 8G, check the fan dimensions before you buy.

Pros: One worked.

Cons: One didn't. Couldn't get Vista 64 to install on a new build. Over a week of BSODs and BIOS tweak trial and error. Installed just fine on the one good stick.

Overall Review: Generally, the MB folks, the Memory folks and the OS folks need to come together on some sort of bootable RAID 0 tool that tells us mortals what to RMA. After reading the Gigabyte forum, the OCZ forum and the Vista stuff, it's easy to see why Dell is what it is.

Pros: One worked.

Cons: The other didn't. Spent way too much time (and headaches) de-bugging a new build and clean install of Vista 64. BSOD a lot and support folks went after BIOS settings as source of trouble.

Overall Review: After reading tons of Forum content, clearly, the motherboard folks and the memory folks are not thinking through the build process. And Vista's de-bug tool was worthless. A bootable tool that tells you what to RMA would be great.