Pros: Very quiet, decent airflow, good static pressure. 6 year warranty?

Cons: Price, I guess.

Overall Review: Air flow in CFM: high: 17.2 medium: 13.8 low: 9.8 Static pressure: high: 2.18 medium: 1.41 low: .61

Pros: Solid construction.

Cons: Doesn't come with instructions on how they intended the rails to be installed on the rack.

Overall Review: This is my first rack-mount chassis with rails, so maybe this is normal: The back end can be fastened with whatever your rack uses. The front bracket is threaded for M5, and the kit comes with M5 screws. There is a hole that a screw can pass through (to screw in the front of the server), but it is too small to fit around my M6 cage nuts. I'm considering boring out the threaded front so I can attach it with my M6 bolts, but then it will stick out a bit because of the heads... Maybe I'll expand the hole so it can fit around the cage nut, put the bracket behind the square holes and screw the M5 nuts through the square holes into the bracket? Who knows what supermicro intended, and it seems that you'll have to modify the hardware to get it to work.

Pros: Works with XBMC on Windows 7 out of the box (possibly with an automatic driver download). Cheap.

Cons: XBMC doesn't recognize all of the buttons - I installed IR Server Suite, after which I would consider it good enough. Some buttons still don't do anything, and I haven't had the opportunity to look into custom keymapping. Comfortable in hand while navigating menus (good button placement), but the play/pause button cluster is a bit too far down - but really, I'd rather navigate comfortably than pause comfortably.

Overall Review: I've only tried this on Windows 7 x64 w/ XBMC. If you install the IR Server Suite, (at least) some input is interpreted as keypresses and is passed to the active window - I haven't done more than press OK to clear dialog boxes, so I can't say anything about how well it works. I'm getting another.

Pros: Good feature set, good OS compatibility, good quality. Plenty of features, BIOS seems to have lots of options, supports ECC ram.

Cons: 3D acceleration for 4200 HD integrated graphics cards isn't yet supported in linux. It should be supported starting with the 2.6.32 kernel (released, but yet to be declared stable). Only one PS/2 port, so you might have to buy an adapter if you love your older keyboard and mouse.

Overall Review: I've bought 3 of these so far - first for an OpenSolaris fileserver, then for a Linux client, and last for a Windows box for my parents. DDR2 means I don't have to buy new ram just yet.

Pros: I kept wondering if I would be all right without the cache - and I am not disappointed! For the price, this thing is awesome.

Cons: Slower clock speed means that processes that aren't multithreaded can be a little slow. On the up side, you are still left with 3 cores free should that happen.

Overall Review: I have yet to tax the cpu with any of my normal home activities - but I haven't done much development. I haven't tried any overclocking.

Pros: this is my second entry.

Cons: I had weird issues where sata wouldn't show up - a simple bios update fixed that.

Overall Review: The gentoo setup guide is on the german wiki... (links are apparently stripped)