Pros: 1) it has four ports, and the price is right. 2) It's vanilla PCI 3) Despite the bad press, it *does* work with Linux (SuSE 10.0, 2.6.13...) - If you're prepared to rebuild the sata_promise.ko module or else fix ulsata2, the driver Promise provides on their we-site. While both work with very minor changes, the distro module seems slightly faster.

Cons: It could have better Linux support from the vendor, and for that matter by the various operations that sell Linux distros. (Broad hint, N-----ll)) I'm sure it works fabulously right out of the box for Windows, but that doesn't help me.

Overall Review: There's nothing really wrong with this board, horror stories on and bad rep on the web notwithstanding. I don't believe I'm getting the best out of it yet because I've installed on an ancient Cel. III rig and the CPU usage is on the high side. Maybe the drivers can be improved... but I believe it will do what I need. at a price I can afford. Also a good word for for Newegg for great prices, prompt order processing and, not least, top quality merchandise.

Pros: I've had very good luck using it with Linux with a variety of motherboards. for a couple of months now. For the price I have no cause for complaint. I can boot off it no problem. Performance is pretty good, using three 15K drives in software RAID-0, I get a respectable 190 -220 MB/Sec depending on how I measure. It's not a RAID board and this may be it's upper limit, but it works for me, even tough the disks are capable of about 270 in sum. In contrast to some other reviewers I founf tis to be a very user friendly piece of gear.

Cons: The downsides? No built in RAID, 1x PCI-e interface (which is a plus if you have one of those otherwise useless slots). May not be capable of 320 throughput, but it could be user error too.

Overall Review: It's the least expensive PCI-e solution and it's WAY better than regular PCI cards, not quite as good as a full n PCI-X, but those are not so common on new motherboards, even server boards. For most workstation type uses, this card gets the job done. When I get it over 250, I'll give it that last egg.

Pros: This is a *very* nice board. Overclocking is a piece of cake, I put in one of those 5000s witht he unlocked clock and run at 3.2GHz (16x mult.) without any problems.Like a previous reviewer, I run SCSI arrays on the PCI-x slots and even using software RAID get sustained transfer rates right up to what the drives can handle. Those 15K drives aren't cheap, but with 3ms access time they are still the best game in town. Along with the 5000 I got some DDR2 800 ECC memories which were on sale that day. The BIOS very kindly runs them at 887 without my even having had to ask.It does throw some heat, but with good air flow through the case I use low speed fans all around and enable the in board fan control. Unless I'm working the c**p out of it, you can hardly tell it's running. Also, I had zero problems booting Linux from cd, usb, scsi, or sata. I have not done much with the Marvell ports, but there are drivers for them, albeit only recently.

Cons: The documentation is for the birds. There a *lot* of timing and voltage options... I don't know how people got by before google came along.

Overall Review: Overall, I'm a very happy camper. I got it for the PCI-X slots (and it was half price), but everything about this board worked right out of the box for me, Except the docs.

Pros: Very bright crisp images. Huge display, a real bnefit for the near blind like me who still need a reasonable amount of info up at the same tme. The color fidelity may a little off but I haven't really worked at getting it right. Lot's of contrast with BLACK blacks. ot single dead or stuck pixel. The Newegg price and the rebate made this irresistable at < 250. I was nervous about it being a poorly made item, but it's all good. No <word I can't use> speakers! Quite amazingly, this display is pretty sharp at the emulated/inerpolated/dithered resolutions. 1280x1024 is ver legible, even 160x1200 is pretty shar.. I don't rally play games, so if you need that specific info, don't infer it here.

Cons: Stand could be stronger for a heavy LCD like this but it doesn;t wobble or anything. There's really nothing to complain about.

Overall Review: Getting Linux to sync up at 168x1050 on my presistoric (five year old) hardware was a chore. Yu need the correct modeline, here 'tis: Modeline "1680x1050" 146.250 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089 -hsync +vsync Cut& paste! it has to be be just so or the monitor will think your in need of one of its emulation modes. good, but not what you're after)

Pros: In spite of the specs I put a 15K SCSI (Fujitsu MAU3147NP) drive in one of these and it works great! I don't hear the drive motor at all. The actuator is still audible but it's a low pitched rumbling kind of sound that's not hard on the ears. I do have a low-rpm fan blowing on the case but the drive temp reported by SMART has never gone above 35 deg. C.

Cons: Assembly is easy, getting them apart is harder. This was problem mostly because I fed the whole SCSI cable through. , but don't plan on swapping drives frequently.

Overall Review: Best of both worlds, better performance than even the best current SATA drives (sustained xfer 92 MB/sec,3ms access), and no whining!