Joined on 05/07/04
Solid value, pretty good case
Pros: I am pleased by this case, paint is surprisingly good, as is the front panel plastic. Case definitely looks better than its price. Item was packaged well and came without a scratch. Included 80mm fan is very quiet and moves decent air.
Cons: The front plastic seems a bit soft, I scratched it up a little bit, but it still looks fine. No real spot for a front fan.
Overall Review: Had to rearrange the front panel power led connector, it was 3pin, my mobo has a 2pin header, easily fixed, but slightly annoying. Screws managed to break out of their bag in shipping and were all over the inside of the case on arrival - minor inconvenience.
absolute disaster, huge mistake
Pros: none whatsoever
Cons: Terrible, yet another issue with color casting, Pantone sent me 2 replacements(slowly, I might add) and the problem was present on all three. Pantone refused to return numerous phone calls and emails. Absolutely unacceptable, I would not recommend this product to anyone.
Overall Review: Pick something else, no, seriously, buy something else. Thankfully Newegg rectified my situation for me...
So Far, So Good
Pros: Nice little board, well laid out and easy to install, well put together manual and nice bios.
Cons: As noted by another reviewer, I have a minor misalignment between the port shield and the ports because the board is very slightly bowed. Not a big deal for my purposes.
Overall Review: "This review for ASRock review rebate program."
Excellent
Pros: Running with no problems under Ubuntu 11.04 as a little server / light duty desktop machine. EFI bios is great and ASUS quality appears excellent. Runs reasonably cool. Was cake to hook everything up.
Cons: Potential issue is no HDMI or digital audio out, but there is a pci-e slot if needed. A fair trade for the 6 sata ports
Overall Review: Hasn't given me any trouble at all and has proven to be a little workhorse, though very rarely a little slow. Excellent value.
Nice big drive, speedy enough
Pros: New platter tech, as the other review mentions. Big capacity, competitive price, runs cool and quiet.
Cons: Slightly slow spinup, but most Samsung drives (I have 2 7200RPM 1TB F3s) seem to be that way in my experience.
Overall Review: Haven't had a chance to run HDTune or similar yet, but the drive seems to perform quite well, especially for a 5400RPM drive.
Very Good Value
Pros: Nice printer, fast, excellent text quality, very good image quality especially at higher resolution setting.
Cons: Potentially toner and drum cost, which is why I dropped an egg. That said, it still appears to be way more economical than a cheap inkjet especially if you don't print that often, or if, on the other extreme, you print a lot.
Overall Review: Glad I bought it, I don't print that often, but when I do it is fairly high volume. Nice to not have to deal with clogged printheads or dried up ink.