Pros: Nice layout and connectivity. Pumping optical Spdif out into a 7.1 home theater system and DVD sound quality is excellent. Running flawlessly with i5 CPU and OCZ Obsidian DDR 1600 RAM.

Cons: System with Windows 7 kept freezing until the manufacturer's drivers were loaded. Metal knockouts for MBs are never as good as those on retail PCs

Overall Review: Visiontek TV Wonder HD650 Tuner stopped working after a year in my old Compaq SR5010NX. Plugged the tuner in for fun on the ASRock build and the card came right up. PCIe x16 and x1 slots are very close on the Compaq and picked the ASRock as you do not have to put other cards up against a hot graphics card

Pros: Excellent quality on regular DVDs, including sound using optical SPDIF. Easy install and useable out of the box for non-Blu-ray with Windows 7 64-bit in Media Center

Cons: Cheap blu-ray hardware price a gimmick to upsell player software. Neither sound nor picture is Blu-ray quality with included software and price is not so great if you have to buy the player. DVD 8 complained about DVI and wanted VGA and only output 2 channel sound. Program not integrated with Media Center like DVD 9 which had no problem with with DVI hardware. 8 did get me to upgrade the video driver though it made no difference.

Overall Review: Using DVD 9 demo, sound and picture quality with Blu-Ray great on a 92" screen. But not any better than a stand-alone 1080p upconverting DVD. Doubt I'll be buying much Blu-Ray

Pros: Price, heat sink, and fast delivery

Cons: For PC12800 at 1600/1.65v/9-9-9-24 settings, getting a 5.6 Windows 7 experience rating. Seeing 5.9 with PC6400 on a Q9400 PC

Overall Review: Initial Windows 7 build was unstable until manufacturer's INF driver was installed. Using an ASRock P55 Pro mb with i5 CPU. No problems with the RAM before or after adjusting the bios to spec. Cheaper mb reviews reported RAM compatibility issues