Pros: every thing went smoothly, fired up first time, installed a althlon x2 4000+ and it picked it up properly as well as the gig of xms i put in it, has onboard video, and everything worked great until u read the cons.

Cons: installed all drivers and everything was smooth as silk, almost too smooth if u know what i mean, when i put my ati x800 card in that was working 5 mins b4 i put it in this system, nothing happened. the board refused to post.ok so i tryed 6 other cards, and got the same results. after some inspection, i found out that the agp slot was missing a pin in the slot!!

Overall Review: i rma'ed this board the other one should be here soon, so ill repost with the updates.

Pros: this card is fast, i get about 14k points in 3dmark 03, my ati x800 gets about 11.5k points.i like this card.

Cons: i hope im not the only one with this problem, but the fan on the card seems to be blowing air into my case not out thru the back?? im going to see if i can get the fan to run the other way.

Overall Review: i know that my score will go up when i get rid of this junk sempron 3200+ proc, im gonna throw in a opty 185. :D my set up for now, asus mobo from compaq computer(i got this free, and had stuff to put in it)sempy [email protected], 4 gig of pc 3200 ram, western digital 160gb hard drive, lite on dvd burner, thermaltake 450 watt psu.

Pros: man this puppy kicks.Ive had this chip for about 15 months now and i dont think ill need another cpu for a couple years.I have it oced to 2.45ghz with stock heatsink/fan and it never gets above 45c, it idles near 32.i have it running in a vnf-250 mobo, and i havent found a problem yet.

Cons: man as i said b4, why is there required cons? heres one, Where Is FEDEX!!!!!!!!!!!!

Overall Review: According to sisoft Sandra This CPU is in par with a athlon fx 53 in all benchmarks, thats simply amazing.Enough Said.

Pros: its great burns lots of disks, most of the time i can copy a cd in under 2 mins thats with read\write, and normally it will burn my full 700 meg mp3 cds in about 1.3 mins, thats fast, anyways its awsome love it, go fed ex, and really go newegg for great pricing

Cons: none

Overall Review: to wolfgar, man u got it all wrong, oem means exactly that, original equipment manufacturer, but that does not mean that sony made it for some one else, it just simply means its the drive and nothing else except for a software disk, do a lil research man, dont scare people off like that

Pros: the pros?where do i start? hmmm, well yes this is good, i have this chip in a chaintech vnf3-250 and it smokes at 1.4ghz, but did i stop there? nope, took this puppy right on up to 2.23gig!! overclocks nicley and smokes my moms atlonxp 2500+ oced to about 2.46gig, in benches this eats it up, ive had this chip for about months, and wow, idles round 30c, and loads about 39-42 with stock hsf!!!!

Cons: why is this box even here? is there ever a con with amd???

Overall Review: other thoughts are the simple fact that i can achive 2.3 gig on a single ide drive, but when i kicked my raid0 in with 2 ides, windows gave me constant bluescreens, i had to drop back to stock 1.4gig, but oh well thats not the chips fault, its the mobo, this chip with this mobo= egggselent combo oh and chears to neweggs best prices, and chears for fedex, u know, i wish fedex would just buy out ups so we dont have any more soccer games with neweggs best, lots of stuff from fed ex and not a scratch, 3 boxes from ups, and well, the scrap shopp wouldnt even touch it, so WOO WHOOO FOR FEDEX AND NEWEGG!!

Pros: lots

Cons: i dont own this.......yet

Overall Review: i have noticed a lot of people saying they have to plug and unplug the mouse, i have o do the same thing with my logitech and i have a nforce 3 mobo, just thought it might help