Comments: Wow.. very good waterblock. The fellow who wrote the previous review probably doesn't own one of these. If he did, and installed it, he didn't do it right or he used a hyper-constrictive set-up with a cheapo radiator. I'm using a Dodge Ram (D-50) pick-up core, a cheapo Via Aqua pump, and getting about 34C loaded with an ambient case temp of 31C. Also using soem Ceramique-all I use-but the block nice; and I challange anybody to find a better finish on any production water block. Also, you can actually talk to the folks at Pro-Cooling for more info on details and suggested flowrates-as Bill is a member there (not under his name anymore) I'd suspect anybody with some WC talent can get results like mine. If I could rate this 6 or 7 stars I would. 'old west' indeed. ROFL So some blingish blocks are better?

Pros: Cheap... A seperate sata 160 Hitachi has been my gaming rig's main squeeze. Lowish noise level (but I isolate all my hard-drive mounts)

Cons: under 3 weeks for this one? the other one is less than 6 months and showing signs of 'slowing down'

Overall Review: had 4 of the 5 platters fail simultaneously on it- went from 2 partitions and ~160 gig to ~33gig with some random files. Needless to say, I'm gonna stick with Seagate and a lovely 5yr warranty. I've had to RMA every brand- but at least Seagate and Maxtor lasted longest prior to RMA. As far as I'm concerned, I put Hitachi only 1/2 step above Western Damnitall in quality.

Comments: I'm less than impressed. The supplied driver discs are decent.. until you try to install the USB controller and Intel HA audio. Regardless of the fact I installed WinXP with SP1, it still says SP1 is not installed, and thus cannot be supported. USB controller is AWOL... I guess you could say this is what I expect from Chaintech. Their website is underwhelming, too. As it stands, its looking like a 50-50 RMA chance, pending response from Chaintech and their driver support.

Comments: Contacted Epox over my misadventures with this mobo and as a matter of fact, it should have worked with my ram. Turns out I had a truly defective board. Epox made things right though, and I must say they won me back as a customer after the quality customer assistance. As far as what nomad below had to say about my previous post: that Mushkin ram worked in numerous Epox boards before and per Epox should've worked in this one. They (Epox) agreed that board was bad once I explained what was going on- turns out I had some cold SJ/traces ram slots - I tried 5 total brands of ram-wife's G.Skill, Mushkin, some generic (read unlabeled Centon), some Kingston, and PDP/Patriot. NewEgg replaced, and the Epox guys were swell, too. Ended up getting the replacement and its sitting pretty using that Mushkin ram... only pushing 228fsb, but thats at 2-2-2-5 with active RAM cooling. Everest is reading the sensors correctly for both V/temps, and best of all, its rock solid stable. I won't complain.

Comments: wel, 2 months later and still kicking bootie. Not as massively OCable as some, but hitting 255fsb without much of a hitch- and only using some 'generic' (read: centon) pc3700 ram. Timings aren't great on the ram, but this sthing stil performs incredibly with a lowly 3000+ and 6600gt. Shut down the system 3 times in 2 months due to lightning, otherwise, it hasn't been turned off or rebooted except to reboot at higher fsb speeds. Really surpried here considering my K7S5A nightmares. Couple this with any 754 and a half-decent pci-express vid card and it should hold you over til dual-core cpus become truly affordable.

Comments: for those of you who actually NEED this drive (not the tard who previously reviewed), this is an excellent drive. All our servers are screaming now. Access times are effectively nil, and our DB mgmt is now essentially almost a non-issue. Any PRIVATE user buying this: you're not who this hdd is designed for- TBH, I doubt the previous guy even knows what SCSI is designed for or even means. For us corporations, this is the REAL DEAL. We purchased elsewhere, but also paid a good deal more. Had we seen this when we purchased... *sigh* Anyway, for anyone running clusters or needing serious speed out of there servers, this really is a tough drive to beat. Aside from everythying else, its surprisingly quiet, and runs cooler than I expected. We're saving money since our server room AC isn't being pushed as hard.