Pros: I was replacing a ECS board that started burning out just a month out of the box. I was a little reluctent at first to buy this one because I have never used the brand before but, I have never owned such a great board. I can use my new video card x800 radeon, and it took all my ram without brand problems (unlike my ECS board) It's a breeze to setup and the BIOS doesn't require updating right after completion. All in all it's a awesome board for a gaming system on a budget.

Cons: The color of it made the inside of my case look kinda blan but that's not a bad con just a annoying one.

Overall Review: The Biostart website is great for updates, if you use it in the mornings. I had problems downloading drivers and such at night and in the afternoon. Mostly bandwith problems.

Pros: This chip is for office work ONLY! the low cache will not let it take on large tasks such as games and multimedia work.

Cons: For all you newbie builders out there. Just because the mhz rating is 3ghz doesn't mean it's fast. The processing cache's are to low to do much from internet surfing and playing music.

Overall Review: If you buy this don't expect it to speed your machine up. The Pentium 4's are getting cheap and have three- four times more power.

Pros: I'm just a normal home user. I got this to give Vista a try, I upgraded my XP Machine that I've been using close to three years now. So far Basic just seems like Vista with more advanced plugins and preloaded driver supports, which I love. I didn't need the fancy 3d things that the other versions have. My system is for home business work, but I do game from time to time.

Cons: I did have to add more ram to my machine. It's at 1.5 gigs now. I did have to buy a new mouse and keyboard because my Logitec set for 2001 was no longer supported by Vista or Logitec.

Overall Review: I dont game much, but when I do Vista keeps up with it. I just play a little Half Life or TF now and then. My system is as follows. AMD X2 3800, 1.5 gigs of DDR2 677, Radeon 2400XT 256MB DDR2, Two 320 WD Hard Drives, I use three different media burners and card readers through my daily business works. Vista never has problems using them.

Pros: We got a major discount on 45 copies. Too bad they're collecting dust in a box now.

Cons: I work for a IT team that does computer upgrade, repair and upgrade work for the Chase corporation. I have been with them since Windows 98. This month we tested a Vista server upgrade under my supervision. Things went downhill just after ten minutes. Our office network went down, then our root hub was locked out due to denied access command from Vista. After three hours and a still offline network, I had my boss yelling at me over the phone, because now our office was disconnected from the rest of the North American servers.

Overall Review: After almost a day offline we pulled the hard-drives and replaced them with a old pair running DOS. Our now damaged server which we depend on is still having jumper problems because of Vista. We lost almost a full days worth of business and my team and I was almost fired because of Vista. Microsoft still will not refund our 40+ copies.

Pros: I bought three 50 packs last week and thus far they refuse to work in my systems LG Burner even with the lastest firmware. I have three burners and they work just fine in my sony and liteon.

Cons: Doesn't seem to like my 18x LG burner.

Overall Review: Good, cheap, buy em.

Pros: I got this to take some of the guess work out of making my computer. I bought a 1.9ghz amd dual core, a gig of ddr2, readeon 1650x, and a dvd burner. this board took my old hard drive without a hitch and all the parts I bought. It's been running fast and with little noise for a week now.

Cons: None

Overall Review: I now only shop newegg for my computer items.