Pros: This card will run Bioshock and other recent games at highest settings with a nice FPS. The stock cooler isn't louder than any of the other fans in my case.

Cons: As mentioned, this card is *big*. When I first installed the card, the fan made a horrid clicking sound when it spun up, which needed a bit of questionable tweaking to fix (a few screws loosened, and a bit of prying with a screwdriver).

Overall Review: The questionable tweaking seemed to have worked, leading to a quiet card.

Pros: Lots of SATA ports, good price, a really nice BIOS (with a GUI!), and the ability to mount good CPUs.

Cons: Most motherboards have two little plastic handles on each RAM slot. This one has just one. Not knowing this, I failed to properly secure one of my RAM sticks, which caused it to post weirdly. Once secured it did work. Also, the chipset drivers on the included CD wouldn't install. The program would launch, but then terminate, with no apparent reason. Downloading the drivers from the manufacturer's website worked though.

Overall Review: The BIOS gui is quite nice. It has lots of options regarding overclocking, which I probably won't take advantage of, but it's nice to have. There are LEDs on the motherboard that light up if there's a problem to help you track it down. Keep in mind that there's no IDE slot on this motherboard; I didn't even think to check, and so I had to put my optical drive in a USB enclosure to install an OS. But that worked just fine, so... yay.

Pros: It's high capacity, it's decent speed, and above all: none of the 4 sticks I bought had any errors. No RMA crud, it just worked.

Cons: The heat sink's irregular surface made it a tad dicey pushing it in, but not dicey enough to warrant losing an egg.