Pros: Great price for good specs.

Cons: Due to the length of the card, the heat vent dumps in the front of your case. In my situation, my two cards are cooking my HD arrays at 140F+, so I had to add another fan on the drives to cool them off.

Pros: They are trying to create sales incentives...

Cons: No Chevrons in my area. Marketing needs to offer a more universal giftcard. Besides, when it comes to giving me free cash, I'd rather just have the difference taken off the price of the product.

Overall Review: Colleges offer good marketing classes, try something in the 300 levels and better luck next time.

Pros: Quieter than my seagates, made a nice raid.

Cons: The utility from WD to copy IDEs to raid stinks. I had to do a fresh XP install to get a bootable raid. I couldn't just copy the ide system disk and set the boot priority to raid.

Pros: No problems, benchmarks say this can crank up to 3.8Ghz.

Cons: Check e-bay, some old stock was cheaper. The Q9550s old stock were within another $100 of this.

Overall Review: Using a Zalman fan, all copper. Stock settings, this chip stays at 39C in my house which has no AC, and its currently 32C at the end of July.

Pros: I had no issues at all with this board. Lots of features. Raid utility was extremely easy to set up. You can even set up stripe raids with non-identical drives if you wanted. Another jewel from Asus. Express gate is cool too.

Cons: The only part I did not like, was that windows xp requires a floppy with raid drivers to make a bootable raid. The drivers are on the CD, and thier location is not quite obvious with all of the controllers available. I wish the board would of let a flash drive substsitue for a floppy during windows set up cause it took me forever to find my old piece of junk 1.44, and then find a working disk. The utility on the CD has a "make disk" for riad drivers but it took 15 minutes to make a 1.44 driver disk using it. It was faster to locate the files and copy them over. There was another quirk with the "make disk" utility, it changed the system on my boot raid to "free dos" when trying to make a disk, which nerfed my first xp install. Easily repaired with xp repair install though, but still aggravating.

Overall Review: Q9450, 2 X 1 GB OCZ 1600, SLI NVIDIA 9600GTs, 900W Warlock, first time boot no tweaking the bios, benches right near the SISANDRA benchmark for Q9450 for MIPS and MFLOPS.

Pros: Good Price. Nice retro analog gauge design, it really stands out.

Cons: I took away an egg for three things... The internal alloys are really weak, and its easy to strip threads on the MB mount. Metals edges are very sharp, especially card covers. Blood fouls circuitry, so get your kevlar gloves. Finally my bud bought the same case and his thermal gauge was DOA, although Apevia sent hime a new gauge, he still had to tear his new rig down to replace it.