Joined on 08/14/04
So much good, but one critical fault is infuriating

Pros: -Extremely well designed chassis -10gb Ethernet (one of the main selling points for me) -Surprisingly quiet while under load -Extremely capable for a tiny footprint
Cons: -Completely non-functional 12VHPWR implementation. -12VHPWR adapter included with the Nvidia 40x0 FE doesn't fit without bending it at a very dangerous angle and forcing the bottom panel on. -Intel CHOSE not to support PCI-e 5.0 M.2 drives -Initial post (at least with 64GB RAM) takes excessively long time and there is no warning for this -Documentation is very poorly illustrated (there's pretty much no writing). My first time opening the case I thought I was for sure doing it wrong and about the break the top cover. -SODIMM slots mean more expensive RAM and at slower speeds. I know this is a space constraint issue and sacrifices had to be made, but this was really annoying.
Overall Review: Intel LITERALLY INVENTED the 12VHPWR specification and then failed to follow it. The 12VHPWR plug that is included with the PSU simply will not work with any GPU that uses it because they only have one sense wire?! On top of that, there isn't even so much as a warning that you can't use the included power adapter, if you try your GPU simply won't power up and you have to go search online to understand why! This could be very easily fixed by intel by simply including a different power adapter (the PSU is actually modular). Intel: ship all buyers a replacement 12VHPWR cable and I'll gladly change this to a 5 egg review. The rest of the engineers on this project worked too hard for you to get sloppy at the last minute and ruin it.
Not really compatible with Asrock motherboards...

Pros: -Great light distribution -Bright but not too bright -Ability to cut and make two 30cm strips (requires soldering)
Cons: Partially incompatible with Asrock motherboards!? I bought this to go with a brand new Asrock z390 Taichi Ultimate. The lights work fine but it has red and green swapped! Currently I have all my lighting set to a static color (the strip is set to red to get green), otherwise the patterns don't sync up with the rest of my lights! You would really expect ASUS and Asrock to work together to prevent stuff like this... And yes, I have it connected correctly.
Overall Review: I'll modify this review if Asrock has a solution, they could fix this with a couple of lines of code and an option to swap red and green in their software. If not for this huge flaw I would happily rate this 5 eggs!
Camera lasted less than a year

Pros: When it worked, it took some nice photos; nothing great but certainly acceptable.
Cons: I tried to use the camera Christmas morning, only to find that it couldn't seem to get anything in focus. After a few minutes it gave me a lens error and restarted, but just kept doing the same thing over and over. The camera has always been stored in a case, never dropped, never had anything get in the lens mechanism and hasn't even been heavily used. For the New Years party, I was forced to pull out my 5 1/2 year old Konico Minolta 6MP digital camera. It wasn't until I was looking at the pics while uploading them tonight that I realized that the Konico Minolta camera was taking better pictures than the canon ever did. My old camera always had great white balance, no artifacts, perfect contrast, and the sharpest image. The canon had weird lighting issues, sometimes made bad auto-focus decisions, and sometimes had artifacts along edges. The Lens error is a well known and all too common issue that canon refuses to acknowledge, and for that reason this will be my last canon came
Overall Review: I plan to try getting the camera replaced/fixed by canon, but if I do I will just sell it.
Dissapointingly loud

Pros: As good performance wise as any other Radeon 4850...
Cons: The fan on this video card runs at full power at all times. It appears that what powercolor tried to do is use a simple fan that was quieter than most other fans at full speed. While this may be true, it stays just as loud at idle, which for me was much louder than anything else in my office. The catalyst control panel doesn't show anything for the fan speed.
Overall Review: I sent mine back via RMA, and will be replacing it with a Radeon 4770 as soon as they're back in stock.