Joined on 03/26/05
great cpu

Pros: excellent price. quick performance. if you have an am2 motherboard it is the best processor you can get and since it is half the price of what it runs locally was well worth it.
Cons: only increased my vista performance index to 5.5 from the 5.2 i had with my 4600.
good value price cpu

Pros: solid cpu for the price, can be o/c pretty far, but stock cooler will cause it to over heat
Cons: stock cooler runs loud
Overall Review: get a better aftermarket cooler stock is loud and limits how far you can overclock safely
excellent as always

Pros: excellent audio great comfortable fit
Cons: very long audio cable, no volume control on the cable
Overall Review: 2nd set of a40's i have owned last set lasted 10 yrs still has great audio but needed new cables ear pieces and headband piece so decided to just buy a new complete set
great value priced board

Pros: plenty of connectivity , good placements of components, great price
Cons: it doesn't support the high end 8-core amd cpu's so if like me you can't afford to get the highend stuff all at one time and plan on eventually gping to one of the fx 9000 series cpus get a different board. also the stock cooler works but is loud recommend upgrading to a good aftermarket cooler
Overall Review: contrary to what i have seen another commenter say this board does work fine with a 125w cpu i have been running an amd fx 4130 cpu since i got it last fall even o/c for awhile the board handles it just fine. was considering going to the 8350 but msi only lists up to the 8320 for support
excellent card

Pros: runs quiet expetially compared to the fans on my antec 900 case. very stable, handles all my games includeing some of the newest ones that i have bought allready. still hard to beat this card unless you have the money to buy a gtx series card. but thinking about buying a 2nd one to go sli if i catch one available
Cons: in around 2 yrs absolutely none
Overall Review: current system specs: abit an9 32x nforce 590sli mobo amd athlon x2 4600+ (upgradeing to 6000+ soon) 250gb x2 raid 0 audigy 2 zs dvd player/dvd burner ultra 600watt power supply evga 8800gts 320mb 22" westinghouse and a 19" envision lcd monitors
only thing i will say be very careful handling extremely sharp edges. have a metal file handy to smooth the edges to try to avoid cuts when installing depending on case layout