Pros: Excellent visual appeal, tool-less, silent dual 120mm fans, great airflow, and the colorful CDRs are a bonus. This last point could be a pro or a con depending on what you prefer - the case is heavy. Empty, it is heavy, loaded, heavier. Quality aluminum used in making this case.

Cons: Hard drive bays leave something to be desired - very tight fit for power connectors if you have a nice power supply with sturdy, rounded cables. Be careful with those fragile SATA power connectors on your HDDs. All 3.5" and 5.25" bays are tight and combined with the mounting brackets makes for some frustrating moments.

Overall Review: Consider your PS carefully - the MB mounts upside down in this full ATX case, thereby the need for a long ATX power connector cable. Does not fit well with PS which has a heatsink extending out the back - XG Magnum/Thermaltake Purepower, etc. The only real gripe I have is the HDD bay/mounting brackets. Overall I love this case and would recommend it to anyone.

Pros: Puuuurrteeeee...

Cons: TBD

Overall Review: I just received 2 of these boards for 2 builds I'm doing for relatives. The 2 previous reviews - well, i'll just say they don't make me feel that good about this product, but hey... I'll be optimistic. Look for glowing or blowing reviews afer this weekend.

Pros: Able to handle every game currently on the market at above 40fps with full eye candy @ 1280x1024 (flatpanel's limitation).

Cons: Stock HSF is loud, and I'm finding that it is insufficient when overclocking the GPU/mem. Constantly hitting 60C at load, in a full tower case with good airflow. Falling behind the 7900GT in terms of price/performance. If I wasn't looking for SLI without having to revamp my build, I'd go 7900GT. I don't even play games enough to justify a second card for SLI, but oh well... :p

Overall Review: Note that eVGA's 7800GT/GT-CO cards stop the GPU/mem clock at 470/1100. This is the limit where you'll notice no glitches or artifacts - if you want more, get aftermarket cooling. Also, if you're going to OC your graphics card, program the ROM (use something like like Nibitor) instead of something like coolbits.

Pros: Clocked to 400/800 (gpu/mem) and runs stable without much increase in core temps (idles around 42C, load at 55C). Can clock at 450/800 but some games start to show minor artifacts after a while. Cost for performance is excellent (even w/o the $30 rebate).

Cons: Not DDR2 or DDR3 memory - not sure how big a difference this would make. Also... seriously - has anyone yet received a rebate back from EVGA? I'm going on my 9th week with my 7800GT's rebate, and I'm seriously pondering whether or not to waste the postage in sending this one..

Overall Review: If you're unwilling to pay the extra $50 for the DDR3 memory of the 6800GS, this is the card for you.

Pros: Affordable, firewire, overclocking options for CPU clock as well as HT and DRAM. decent on-board video. This was part of a low-cost system that i built for my son, and for the most part it does the job. The 4 rating is for the cons...

Cons: IDE (PATA) is not RAID. There should be a heatsink on the southbridge; it gets VERY hot. I put one on... The board is very unstable if you do not have a QUALITY power supply. I had a cheap 400-watt PS with a 20-pin ATX connector; system would reboot itself or fail to power on altogether. I bought a 20-to-24 pin adapter which fixed the reboot/power-on issues but I still could not use a PCI-e video card (gaming caused reboots). Finally purchased a quality 400-watt PS and it fixed all my problems.

Overall Review: Overall I think the board is decent for its price. However, if the target is the budget builder, they should know that this board will require purchase of a quality case or power supply. The board DOES work with a 20-pin ATX connector so long as the PS is good quality ($70+). The system with this board: --------------- Athlon64 3000+ 754pin @ 2.5GHz (stock HSF) This MB eVGA 6800 512 DDR400 GSkill RAM 160GB SATA ** All except the case/ps/hdd are from Newegg (used old parts) ** Newegg continues to exceed my expectations! 5/5 stars for Newegg!

Pros: Affordability and overclockability. I built two systems within the last month with this processor; one system I left running at stock speeds (for a relative), and the one I built for my son is running at 2.5GHz on stock heatsink/fan. Stable on all games and 3DMark05; idles at around 40C, load temps are around 47C-48C.

Cons: there are no cons - if you want a better processor, you spend more money.

Overall Review: I purchased one of the first 754 pin Athlon64s (130nm process?) over three years ago; the best overclocking I could do with that was to squeeze an extra 200MHz out of it. I'm mildly surprised at the overclockablily of the 90nm process.