Pros: tight timings at high speeds about all i can think about

Cons: firs 2 kits i received were defective newegg replaced them fast for me but once i got the 2 new kits back they work great only problem is its not clearly stated on newegg or patriots site that if using more then 2 kits together they reduce their speeds and become unstable at the rated xmp profile which wasnt a huge deal could understand that but the only way i was able to get both kits to run at 1866 was to manualy adjust and test every timing setting possible before i found a stable profile to use

Pros: first the price is good they are trying to compete with asus thats good no one wants a monopoly effect when it comes to computers otherwise the company could charge as much as they wanted

Cons: the board has problems it boots up fine but i went through 3 of these and had teh same problem the ram was running at pc 2100 speeds constantly even when overclocked to pc 3200 which is weird because i had pc4000 in it and it clocked it down to the pc 2100 mark ive tried everything i could even whent through 4 types and speeds of ram and nothing would get it to run right i also tried 2 rosewill 6600 pcie cards in sli and got horible performance only was running around 40fps on source with max settings setup my old system which is basicly the same system just different motherboard. i would highly recomend just ponying up the extra 20 or so bucks for the asus model it is in fact a better board everything i had ran properly in the asus board and i got 112 fps in source with the 2 6600 cards i realy recomend that you get the asus i didnt get this board here but i got the asus board from here

Overall Review: the asus board has some problems such as the litle doodads but it is only on its first revision of the bios give it some time and the bios will be perfect

Pros: biostar is great used multiple board manufacturers over the years an ive come to the conclusion that biostar asus and gigabyte are the only boards i will buy anymore

Cons: none

Overall Review: board booted right up perfect out of the box able to oc easily to 5.2ghz on my i7 2600k layout is great plenty of features overall biostar did an amazing job on this board minus the whole bios reading wrong was supose to be a a+ but reads as k+ but after a little research guess the k+ are replacing the a+ models same baord they just fixed some minor problems with the a+ model

Pros: fast card bundled with 16 gigs of 1866 ram and a intel core i7 2600k cpu oc at 5.2 ghz and i max out all games full aa af max settings rarely see fps drop below 60 since i have vsync on best part being able to fully utilize the cuda processing under linux enviorments if my cpu wasnt able to process enough data can always throw 5 times the load to my video card :D

Cons: no tri sli but only plan on gettin 1 more of these anyway to later sli when the 600 series release so hoping to get my next one for around 150 if possible considering i just spent 1100 on this new setup

Overall Review: the card is alot smaller then you will expect surprised me also the being able to crack high rated encryptions with the cuda cores in nice under linux would of taken me almost a month to break a wpa2 encryption now its done in a matter of a couple hours

Pros: this chip is a beast idel at stock is around 40c load never goes higher then 62 but overclocked to 5.2 idel is only 42-44 and load is only 60-65 amazing chip

Cons: stock heatsink isnt worth the cost of production imo they should just stop including them and have the option to just include a aftermarket with it what i ended up doing

Overall Review: not sure if my temps are ok really or not ive been a amd fanboy for 15 years didnt really use intel chips much till now but from what i read this chip is rated to be able to take almost 80c for a while before the thing fries

Pros: install instructions are just plain horrible you can most likely figure out how to mount it without even looking at the book but then again i never use instructions half the time but overall a great cooler

Cons: not sure if this is a con but i have this on a i7 2600k at stock in my bios it says idel is 50c but when booted into windows it says running at the 37-41c range which sounds about right and i do disable the power settings an cpu throttling

Overall Review: under load at stock this chip peaks at only 62c with this cooler idle is avg around 40 yet even at 5.2ghz i only see a 2 degree change idel 42-44 and load 100% 63-65 which is still great