Joined on 03/29/02
Excellent unit

Pros: Cools well. We use to suppliment cooling on upper floor during summer, and to reduce cost of running central air 'too cold' to cool bedroom. works like a charm. In 2 years, have had to empty water once. Very effective cooling at a good cost. No "window unit" look on the outside either. Newegg shipping was 'instant' as usual. thanks from a longtime customer.
Cons: Not completely quiet, but no moreso than any window unit.
Overall Review: Compared to a second zone AC, the cost is 1/10th the price, and keeps us frosty cold (we like 66 degrees in august to sleep well) at a low cost.
Excellent value for 1Tbyte SSD

Pros: Low cost, excellent controller, and very respectable performance. Running 24/7 in linux system zero errors, very very low error correction count reported,
Cons: None so far.
Overall Review: Great value and performance "not far" from top notch SSDs. Makes a 1Tbyte SSD affordable.
Excellent speed for a large quiet drive

Pros: Have two drives mirrored in primary desktop (linux), others in 8 bay eSATA case (replaced fan with artic cooler fan of higher speed). Significant performance increase over 2G drives of another brand. Solid >150Mbps performance in desktop, no complaints in NAS either. Temps well within normal range (<30c so far; NAS in uncooled garage!), and solid speed up on desktop applications. (linux OS/apps on an SSD). Drives are quiet, and initial drive raid sync speed highest I've seen from 7200rpm mechanical SATA drives.
Cons: None so far.
Overall Review: Use gdisk/gparted to create partition tables as desired and check your controller for >2Tbyte support. Excellent data drives (high density platters increase speed of data transfers). Suggest (as with ANY new HD) running smartctl extended self tests prior to deployment. No failures thus far. -- former samsung drive fan, not disappointed. DUE TO SIZE OF DRIVE... RAID 6 is minimum recommended in multidrive raid setup....raid 5 vs MTBR at this capacity is not sufficient.
Excellent MB, top notch performance!

Pros: Motherboard includes all quality onboard components, extra eSATA and USB2/USB3 ports on rear panel. UEFI very easy to configure, and overclocks an 8350FX easily. Included are numerous SATA cables and MB has 2 "real" headers for front of case USB3.0 connections. Easy to install a large heatsink on CPU due to good layout. Solid product!
Cons: None.
Overall Review: The onboard audio and Ethernet chips are top grade, digital PWM power for CPU well designed, board runs cool (good sized heatsinks on north and south bridge, and all devices seem to be supported by linux and windows. VERY OC friendly and flexible UEFI, with ability to update UEFI code via Ethernet connection, no hassles with downloading updates.
excellent feature set, reliable board

Pros: Excellent layout, good solid power design, and very flexible UEFI setup for overclocking and feature setup. Zero issues in overclocking a phenom II x6 by 20% along with matching DDR3 ram speed setup. Nice inclusion of eSATA port and USB3. Solid running linux or windows7, zero issues. Easy to install a large cooler with own backplate/mounting. Plenty of FAN headers and controls in UEFI, very easy to tailor good balance of quiet and cool. Easy USB thumb drive UEFI upgrades too.
Cons: DDR3 slots fairly close to CPU (typical/necessary for good signal) can be tight using large cooler and "fancy" heatsinked dimms. The board IS a bit flexible for full size ATX board, but correct installation should result no issues.
Overall Review: priced right, reliable, full feature set, and super easy to overclock/tune and cool. Have something in all PCI-E slots (enet, wifi, esata, video card) no problems. Good locations for power connectors, sata & usb ports, and so on.
Solid, stable and fast

Pros: Excellent UCC/overclock features. Running quad core 95W processor (no UCC needed). Very flexible BIOS setup, great passive cooling solution. OC's easily at default voltages without question. Very cool running overall.
Cons: Would prefer other than a realtek nic, but for the price on a full feature board, not really a concern.
Overall Review: Lots of room for expansion, board organized well, and button/LED and peripheral ports well placed. Construction very solid.