Joined on 07/15/06
Great Mobo

Pros: Right out of the box you can tell this baby will kick ****. The Heat pipe and Heat sinks look awesome. The placement of components on the mobo was put into consideration giving plenty of room for 2 dual slot graphic cards and Pci-e and Pci cards in between. Bios are straight forward with Easy and Advance OC features. With 2oz of copper and EasyTune 6 or just C.I.A 2 in the bios you can overclock with ease.
Cons: Was a bit tight installing a Zalman CNPS 9700NT because of the heat sink and capacitors being so close to the cpu socket. No jumpers in the box incase you needed to clear the CMOS. The CMOS is open with 2pins, to clear you must place a jumper on the 2pins for a few seconds then remove. Lucky I have some extras lying around. 3 case fan connectors instead of 4, but not a big deal.
Overall Review: Very happy with the motherboard, when they say Durable they mean it.
Better than last Years'

Pros: Authentic Hockey gameplay through out the game. Be a Pro/Hockey League/EAUHL(by the way addicting). If you like NHL 10 you are going to love NHL 11. Trust me.
Cons: Non really, like in any EA Sports game you get a bit tried of hearing the music while in the menus.
Overall Review: Buy it here in Newegg free fast shipping and the cheapest price anywhere for this game.
Love this baby

Pros: Listen, I was stress out a whole month researching mp3/video players before commiting to the S9. At first it's great, but it gets better after the firmware updates and the community's custom UCIs. With good headphones/earbuds (stock earbuds suck) you can have your own party/club in your ears. Seriously, my brother and sister both have ipods and I compared a few songs on both devices with the same earbuds and trust me the player does matter. S9 will blow the ipods away with sound and battery life, not to mention the screen is scratch resistant. If you're a audiophile looking for a great small durable mp3 player that will have your ears in heaven S9 is for you.
Cons: Bluetooth is not it's strong feature, drains the battery fast but still transfer great sound. No wifi.
Overall Review: Get your self some good headphones/earphones. I have currently: Radius Trutune earphones and Audio Techinca ATH-ON3W. Radius Earphones and Audio Techinca have great budget headphones with great sound.
Sweet

Pros: 8GBs!!! Reads fast and no read errors.
Cons: Non
Overall Review: It was free with the purchase of the LG Blu-ray drive. Newegg Rules
Amazing

Pros: I owned the PS3 for about 6 months and all I did was watch Blu-ray movies on it, so when I saw this LG drive for the low price I figured I sell the PS3 and buy this instead. I was not disappointed, Blu-ray movies run smooth just like they did on the PS3.
Cons: Have to use PowerDVD thats provided to watch Blu-rays and a blue led light flashes while reading movies. Noticeable if you have all the lights off in the room.
Overall Review: Lightscribe capabilities was a nice surprise and no driver needed in Vista 32bit. Overall Excellent drive.
Works

Pros: Detected as DDR2 800 on the Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P, but easily able to put it to DDR2 1066. Make sure you put the timings manually and set the Voltage to 2.0v. Very stable and fast running Vista 32bit.
Cons: Would be careful of overclocking the memory. CPUZ doesn't show the 533mhz/DDR2 1066 timing table in the SPD Tab. Only shows 266mhz/333mhz/400mhz and says max bandwidth PC2-6400(400mhz).
Overall Review: Very happy with the sticks, these will be my last DDR2 sticks until my next upgrade to DDR3 mobo. Which will probably be a few months after the new Intel Core i7 come out.