Pros: Runs Cool Does 7-7-7-24 at DDR1333 Does 7-7-7-18 at DDR1066 That is all the timings I have played with so far. Going to shoot for 6-6-6-16 at DDR1066

Cons: Timing table for 1066 at 1.5 volts would give me errors. Bumped it up to the 1.65 it is suppose to run at with DDR1333 speeds and no issues.

Pros: Good temps. Thermal pad is not terrible. Fairly easy install. Near silent. Comes with everything you need. Solid temps (31-34 at idle on a stock 4690k and doesn't break 40 C at load).

Cons: Terrible mounting bracket. This cooler may be easy to install, but the mounting bracket underneath the cooler is basically held in place by some double side tape, which is fine until you realize that it can shift while you are trying to screw in the cooler which can move the mounting screws out of place. This is a pain if your motherboard is already mounted in the case. Would prefer thermal paste as it can be thicker, however with a 40 C load temp in a Cooler Master 130 Elite, it works.

Pros: This is an awesome ITX case for the price. Don't let a lack of 120mm fan for exhaust fool you, with some careful planning case temps are not bad in this case. Currently I have a Corsair H50 silent on just a intake cooler master fan that came with the case at 50 percent fan speed and a 7950 boost and a full atx 500 watt Seasonic S12 and I average around 31-33 C at idle with 40 C load max on a i4960K. Still gives me about 20-40 C head room for overclocking. Great cable management points. Case has little flex. Almost everything is removable. Has room for watercooling/full size ATX card

Cons: So why the deduction in one egg? I wish I could give this something like a 4.5 as a lot of the newer graphics cards are shorter and less power hungry but here are the cons for the case. - Minimum dust filtering. I knew this going into it, but the dust filtering is laughable at best and the filters are thing metal basically folded tabs that are held to the case. Meaning it could be easy to break the tabs. - This isn't the quietest case unlike some of the fractal cases. The video card may be positioned next to your ear - Rubber feet are poor. Easy fix, but case does have a habit of moving when plugging in drives - HD audio front plug/USB header is really really long. You basically have to wrap it around the case - No removable CD drive case which makes putting in something like a 7990 and trying to plug in the a PCI express power something of champions. - my biggest complaint is the push pull configuration. There are tabs underneth the CD Drive cage to mount another hard drive, which would be nice if not for the fact that adding a fan for push pull with a standard radiator blocks this. In fact I am lucking to even get a slim fan in this space as the tabs for the hard drive also block putting a fan in. You have get creative. For its flaws its still a well built case from Cooler Master. The "Extreme" ITX build is sort of a niche as mATX seems to be a better platform For all mid range builds it pretty fantastic otherwise for something like an mATX build you might want to wait for more cases to flood the market before diving into ITX.

Pros: This is a great board. Very very stable. The board arrived with the latest BIOS (0402) and nothing was DOA on arrival with the board and memory worked out of the box with no tweaking to voltage. The PCI arrangement is better than the Gigabyte boards in the price range and the memory slot configuration is amazing. The memory slots are towards the edge of the board. The 24 pin connector and IDE connector is on the edge of the board as well. Decent overclocker for P43. Hit a wall at 420 and did not want to increase voltage. North bridge runs cool and a heatsink like the Zalman 7700 I am using clears the bridge perfectly. Lots of room around the socket. ASUS Express Gate is a nice feature as well as the Crashfree BIOS (life saver). Support for DDR3 as well as gigabit internet is nice on a board in this price range.

Cons: Now the cons: - Could not overclock beyond 350 with DDR 1333 settings. Not like this matters, but this board has support for 1600. There is no way to overclock beyond probably 450 with voltage settings, but you will pull your hair out trying to overclock on 1333/1600 settings. This could be my ram but other boards exhibit this problem as well. Put it at 1066 and you are golden. - EPU software is worthless. EPU-4 engine has support for Video Card (only ASUS cards are supported)/CPU/Harddrive/CPU Fan. Even though there was a slight temp drop and probably a power drop as well the switching from the Speedstep on the processor was noticable using the EPU software. It was like a slight pause when I fired up a game. Withtout it running your system is fine and the benefits are Windows can do the power management better and you can overclock! -BIOS settings are confusing with the AI Twister, Memory OC charger..etc? Same with most new ASUS boards. - Serial/Printer ports and Turbo Ke

Overall Review: This is a really solid board, but for some of the cons I have to deduct an egg. For the price though I would buy this board again. Do not buy it expecting it to be a strong overclocker as it tops around 420 I hear even with voltage increases Intel C2Q Q9450 @ 3.2 Patriot DDR3 1333 Sector 5 2x2gb (4gb) kit ATI 5850 Seasonic 500 watt PS