Joined on 03/17/06
Good case, spacious, 4/5

Pros: I love the look - though personal preference, some may think it's gaudy. 120mm fans are quiet, and can be adjusted with knobs/switches. Could have smarter control mechanism, but generally i know when i'm taxing the system, so this is okay. At full speed they are noisy, but things are quite cool under normal and gaming use just above minspeed. Open mesh panels allow a lot of airflow. Reusable cable ties are nice convenience instead of traditional ones. Easy to route my wires cleanly Side panels allow access to HDD/CDROM drives very easily!! I love this simple feature. Handles on the top; are nice for me since i move my computer between places a lot.
Cons: HDD mounting system does not instill confidence that my drive(s) are mounted securely. * While novel, i'm not sold on any vibration reduction, and if i rotate the case from vertical to on its side, the drives slide around a lot. I think it's a neat idea to remove the traditional cage system, but i would like to see it replaced with something more sturdy. I also have some concerns about the longevity of the plastic bungees. As a suggestion it'd be cool to have something like a click in place tray system as other cases have. This is the only point i feel a little disappointed about, and only reason for losing an egg. Grounding wire is tiny.
Overall Review: I find the slide-out PSU tray and slide-out motherboard tray to be of little use. I like being able to take all the sides off to access the mobo area while assembling the computer, but once i hook up the rear panel and attach pci things to it, i'm no longer sliding anything out. Overall i'm still happy with my purchase, though i'm going to be looking into rigging my own HDD mount for more travel security. I'm 50/50 on the all fans inward idea. I like it, except my CPU cooler blows at the rear fan; to avoid them fighting i reversed the rear fan to make it an exhaust fan. If my cpu cooler blew straight up i think the inward direction would be better.
Happy except FAT32 is annoying

Pros: Memory Size: 128 GB - and being usb is primarily why I purchased this. Write Speed: I used USB3 @ ~70MB/s for 80GB of stuff. Packaging lists 120MB/s max, so it didn't get that for me, but could be my setup, i dunno - and it wasn't slow to me in real time . To me, I don't care about 70 vs 120 (write speed). Cost-physical size: I like the thumb drive size for backup, because prior backups of mine used PATA drives I now have to deal with and upgrade. USB I'm hoping will last for quite some time into the future, so my backups can be updated more easily to new computers. So for ~$1/GB it's not cheap, but considering the medium I like it.
Cons: I did not realize it comes with FAT32, and so my large > 4GB files will not go onto the thumb drive. At least not without me having to change some things, which is also less "parent friendly". Or split the large files. Parent friendly to me is important for these thumb drives. I chose this brand and stick for the capacity to backup family photos and videos. Not many files are super huge, but some files are > 4GB, so i was shocked to see the notification that a "file is too big for device." I'm used to working with very large files at my work, so this seems like it should be a problem of the past, but I guess it's not. This is not the worst problem to have, but it is a nuisance and is enough so to me that i'm writing this review, and is reason for 4 eggs instead of 5.
Overall Review: I am still happy with it overall. I bought this instead of the corsair memory stick, because my friend had a 16GB one he had to get replaced, and the reviews seemed it was a common problem. I previously liked corsair memories, but my friends' issue and my past issues with RAM for my current cpu have really set me back on their memory quality. So i'm trying this brand, and to date I'm happy with this memory stick, though I've only had it a short while, everything advertised is working properly.
Very good

Pros: Keeps my processor very cool. I've been running prime95 v26 on my 1090T processor (all 6 cores), and after hours of torture testing it's topped off around 52-54C. I have this paste and a cooler master v8.
Cons: None.
Overall Review: Directions are to create a 4-5mm bubble in the center when you spread it. I guess i'm bad at estimating millimeters since i got a little more goo out the sides than i would have liked, but it's no big deal. I would use this paste again.
Good ram, but not 100% plug-n-play

Pros: This ram is fast, DDR2000 and 4G per stick is quite a bit. I built a computer using a Crosshair IV mobo, which has 4 slots, and having the 4gig sticks allows me to maximize my ram. I think the pricing is fair for what you're getting. You should not be buying this just to have something that works. I like that each stick had the proper timings on a sticker attached to the heat sink.
Cons: Requires tweaking! When you see that DDR2000 (OC) they mean that little OC. I am not overclocking my computer; I may mess around with that in the future, but i had problems posting and running stably initially with 16G (4 sticks full). The defaults did not detect properly, not necessarily ram problem, but it needs to be set up for 9-10-9-27 as spec'd on the ram stick. Manually specifying 9-10-9-27 timing @ 1.65V, 1 stick of ram was rock solid. However 2, or 4 sticks would crash randomly, and forcibly under tests such as prime95 would crash in seconds. So there is some loading problem. I followed the suggestion of a previous reviewer and upped the voltage of the CPU and CPU/NB slightly (for me CPU=1.35->1.3625 and NB 1.1-1.15). The ram has been running quite solid now and at specc'd 1067MHz DDR2000. Morale of the story, it's good, it's fast, but requires tweaking. Not for someone who wants 100% plug-n-play.
Overall Review: I have owned corsair memory before, and have been happy with rock solid performance/reliability. I have never built such a high-end system before, and i guess a little tweaking comes with the territory. Key specs: Phenom II X6 1090T ASUS Crosshair IV 4x XMS DDR2000 Resulting Configuration (running stable under abuse): DRAM: 1.6625V CPU: 1.353125V CPU/NB: 1.15V HT: 1.2125V NB: 1.200V Stock Frequencies