Pros: -Dual Core technology -Virtual Chip -Very impressed with performance in gaming and multitasking

Cons: None

Overall Review: The prices on CPU's are falling with hopes of the quad core coming. This CPU is an excellent buy for the money. Thinking about getting another...

Pros: Price. 8 ports available for raids

Cons: After setting up a raid on my home server I was starting to see different errors on my hard drives. These are 7200 rpm seagate 3 TB seagate drives. I noticed that my raid would kick out a drive every so often which would cause the kernel to spawn a few "cpu locked" messages. This was disconcerting. After further investigation the manufacturer of this card admits their drivers are not compatible with linux. Centos 6.5 is what I was running. This was extremely disappointing and completely terrible as my raid was causing instability to the host itself. I then went to e-b-a-y and picked up an LSI 9211 8i card. Same price and the shipping was fast. This card has been amazing and I have since reinstalled those earlier reported hard drives and they are running flawlessly. Contacts with the manufacturer have resulted in nothing. They state that these cards work in windows but are unsupported with my setup. I'm frustrated as this is grounds for DOA. Now I have a $100 paper weight. /sigh

Overall Review: Buyer beware. No linux support 0/5.