Pros: Single slot, unlike the 8800GTS brick I used to have. Plays Crysis smoothly with most settings at very high, 1280x1024, no AA. Crysis just laughs at most systems. All other games at warp speed!

Cons: As mentioned by others, card runs hot! I use Riva***er and set the fan at 65%. It is noticeably louder than auto setting of 29%. Fan is loud only if you will be using as HTPC though. Otherwise, even set at 50% using Riva***er, it's no big deal.

Overall Review: Very happy with the purchase. I may get an aftermarket cooler just to see if I can keep the temps down a little more, but manual fan settings fine for now. E6750 3.36ghz, Gigabyte P35 mobo, MSI 8800GT, 4GB G. Skill, Windows Vista Home Premium.

Pros: Nice balanced sound, crisp highs. Complements my Harman Kardon sub very nicely. Awesome value at $193 shipped using coupon code!

Cons: None.

Overall Review: Wall-mounted these using the keyholes, and was a piece of cake running the wire behind the wall for the "clean" look. Replaced a set of Harman HKTS-10 speakers, and they look and produce better sound. They definitely started getting better after 40+ hours of break-in.

Pros: Quick boot and load times. Faster at loading programs than my oc'ed C2D E8400 gaming desktop with conventional SATA drives! Quiet, cooler temps. No tweaks except disable page filing and enabling write caching.

Cons: Small capacity, slow write times, but that comes with the territory.

Overall Review: What used to take 52 seconds from boot to wallpaper screen now only takes 23 seconds! Programs load up almost instantaneously (iTunes used to take about 9-10 seconds to load....now it's only 2 seconds). This breathed serious new life into my Dell! I loaded about 12GB of music and image files, along with MS Office and XP Pro and still have 10GB of HD space left. If you're content with NOT using this drive to store large files or data, or constantly doing write/delete files to your drives, then it's a must-do upgrade for your older IDE notebook! Did a fresh OS install rather than ghosting existing drive, so idk if results would have been different had I done the latter.

Pros: Excellent sound, works like it's supposed to with 5.1 and DTS easily configured on my HTPC using SPDIF and optical cable. Movie surround accuracy and music fidelity is night and day compared to old SB Audigy 4 (haven't tried in games yet). Easy setup in XP.

Cons: None so far, really happy with purchase.

Overall Review: Had been considering the sound card upgrade, but kept hesitating. Pulled the trigger when it was $xx bucks off with free shipping. Would have paid regular price had I known my experience with this card would be fantastic! You can install drivers after installing card (I ignored Windows driver install prompts), reboot, and you're good to go!

Pros: Good overclocker when using faster memory. With 2GB of G.Skill DDR2 1066 my E6750 overclocked to 3.44GHz! Perfect layout with exception of front panel audio input. Awesome board for the money!

Cons: Terrible overclocker with slower memory. Had G.Skill DDR2 800 sticks that held this board back. Couldn't get it to boot on anything but auto memory settings in BIOS, limiting ability to speed up the CPU. Popped in new sticks though.... and shazam!

Overall Review: What a difference the memory made! This bad boy got my 3DMark06 score from 11870 to 13780 just by being able to OC the chip. My specs are E6750 3.44ghz, PNY 8800GT 512mb oc'ed to 670mhz, 2 x 1GB G.Skill DDR2 1066, XP Home

Pros: Great overclocker (Prime 95 stable at 3.69ghz out of the gate, but not stable at any higher speeds), could probably do better with higher quality RAM and playing around with voltages. Runs cool, no higher than 50C at load with voltage set at 1.3125v.

Cons: As others have said, cr***y HSF. Replaced with AC Freezer 7 Pro.

Overall Review: For those having high heat probs, BE SURE to have your CPU cooler properly seated. At first I was frustrated because I started getting high heat readings from the getgo, and immediately blamed the processor. I was positive I had that cooler on tight, but sure enough, after inspecting it, one of the pins had come loose! They really oughta come up with a better solution to those lousy push pins. My specs: E8400 Wolfie slapped onto a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L, 2GB G. Skill DDR2 800, MSI 8800GT 512MB, PCP&C 610W PSU, all residing in a Thermaltake Tsunami and running on Vista Home Premium (for DX10 and all its glory!)