Pros: Purchased a few months back. Built a new rig around this, and haven't looked back. I have had no issues whatsoever with the build. I seriously was waiting for something to pop up, and it didn't. I have run a stable OC of 3.8 Ghz on air but settled for 3.6 for an everyday OC. AMD Dragon platform is fast. If you are thinking about buying this or the Intel, I really think that you need to understand that synthetic benchmarks don't get the whole picture. Synthetics rarely catch that in the real world you are surfing the net, while playing WOW, and editing pictures of your weekend. I do a lot of photo editing and some light gaming. WOW runs fully maxed on 1680x1050 at 60FPS, and photoshop is snappy (at the same time.) Might that filter be applied in photoshop 3 seconds faster on an i7? Probably. But the other 23 hours 59 minutes and 57 seconds in the day the difference in speed is unnoticable. I have compared :)

Cons: Core i7 are faster. Not going to lie to myself. My checkbook likes this chip better ;)

Overall Review: Evaluated in the following system: Asus M4A79T-Deluxe AMD PII 955 BE 8 Gigs GSkill DDR3 1600 (F3-12800CL9D-4GBNQ) Asus 4870 1GB DK Xigmatek DK Heat sink Antec 900 Case Cooler Master 650 Power Supply 2x 750GB WD Caviar Green in Raid 0 (Primary Drive) 500GB Seagate 7200.10 (backup) Windows 7 Home premium

Pros: It booted long enough to setup the BIOS

Cons: Sounded like a gunshot went off when it went to boot the first time. The computer died instantly. Took out my HTPC with it, which consisted of my old gaming box: AMD 955BE, M4A79T Deluxe, 8GB of RAM, and a 128GB SSD. All were non responsive under a different power supply. I was (edited to appease Newegg) to say the least.

Overall Review: I bought it for the manufacturer, since I didn't want to cheap out on a power supply. I spent $49 on it with a $20 rebate. It's $15 to ship back for RMA to get back $35... Decisions, decisions... Easiest decision of all was replacing it with an Antec.

Pros: It's Newegg(s). What can go wrong?

Cons: I bought these eggs thinking they were Windows compatible, and it ends up they are penguin eggs. Friggin' Linux...

Overall Review: Newegg won't take hatched penguins back for RMA. Only the original merchandise. First time Newegg ever let me down. Ever try to ship a penguin?!? Don't. What. A. Crock.

Pros: No Dead pixels. Great adjustments. Overall a great screen for the money

Cons: The color, though adjustable, is hard to get accurate.

Overall Review: For the money, this monitor was an exceptional deal.

Pros: Great heat sink. Simple install on AMD chips. Ran my 955BE to 3.8 GHz stable in the low 50's C.

Cons: Size. It overlaps the first memory slot. If you have memory with OVERSIZED heat spreaders, you may have to modify the cooler, or use a different memory kit. I had no interference issues, but see how you could easily. Make sure that you memory and case will support this giant :)

Overall Review: Evaluated in the following system: Asus M4A79T-Deluxe AMD PII 955 BE 8 Gigs GSkill DDR3 1600 (F3-12800CL9D-4GBNQ) Asus 4870 1GB DK Xigmatek DK Heat sink Antec 900 Case Cooler Master 650 Power Supply 2x 750GB WD Caviar Green in Raid 0 (Primary Drive) 500GB Seagate 7200.10 (backup) Windows 7 Home premium

Pros: Ever had a computer build go off without a hitch? This motherboard was part of my first. It doesn't hurt that I went with a full AMD Dragon platform build. Many options on this board. It will be hard for me to max out its full potential. If you are thinking of buying this board, you know why you are. You need the PCIE slots for your crossfired cards, or the SATA connections for your RAID 10 drives, or the tunability that is built into the BIOS. You will not be disappointed. OC is easy in the BIOS as well as updating the BIOS through EZ Flash. Asus products have always done well for me, and this was no exception.

Cons: Windows didn't recognize the Raid Driver. Had to download on another PC and install on a flash drive while partitioning during the Windows install. That is the only thing that didn't flow smoothly from the opening of the boxes to playing WOW 3 hours later. Price... If you need less PCIE slots, get a cheaper board. This board might be overkill for many, but I buy my parts that way so I do it less often.

Overall Review: Evaluated in the following system: Asus M4A79T-Deluxe AMD PII 955 BE 8 Gigs GSkill DDR3 1600 (F3-12800CL9D-4GBNQ) Asus 4870 1GB DK Xigmatek DK Heat sink Antec 900 Case Cooler Master 650 Power Supply 2x 750GB WD Caviar Green in Raid 0 (Primary Drive) 500GB Seagate 7200.10 (backup) Windows 7 Home premium