Pros: I was happy with the USB 3 and I was using a tri-core well with BF3 Duex Crysis2 and other new releases I had to get a quad core the amd960 and now I can play everything with a GTX570 and now just getting into the 3d... really awesome!

Cons: I would get the random BSD, well seems the ram was not able to clock at the speed in the docs! I played with this until I was able to power up the motherboard from suspense, if the speed was too high, it would just blink the lights on my keyboard.

Overall Review: Really for the cost you couldn't go wrong, I bought a Asus sabertooth board and well I just can't see reason to upgrade other than I could get more ram, so now it just sits getting dusty, but that isn't an issue for now just a very very reasonable gamer system and I helped my buddy with his alienware, and $$ vs performance and the DYI will always be better unless you are unable to help your buddy because he lives in CA and you in Indiana. In the last year I upgraded the processor and video card and couldn't be happier, I use it every day and very very please, was crashing due to many many video driver issue but now resolved and haven't had issues!