Joined on 08/02/09
Excellent!

Pros: Um, everything? This board is excellent. The RAID worked on Win7 64bit flawlessly, and the utilities it comes with are actually helpful/useful, and not overbearing like you get from some manufacturers. I mean it's almost as if Gigabyte actually thought about the person receiving the board when they designed it and the installation to go along with it. I've had two ASUS motherboards before this one, and provided no catastrophic failure Gigabyte has me hooked for life. The quality leaves little to be desired, the CD they provide actually has everything you need and doesn't require a genius to figure out (although I am an IT professional it is nice to know that the average user could install it). I'm estatic as a person working in the field to see a company who actually seems to care about their customers, and isn't looking for a quick buck.
Cons: Zip
Overall Review: AMD Phenom II 955 BE 3.2 stock GTX 465 OC a tad. 8 GB of Gskill 1333mhz Rosewill 1 kilowatt PSU Win 7 Prof x64 Onboard Sound (which is excellent for normal use) Onboard LAN
It's RAM...

Pros: Good fast RAM, my mobo allows me to use the XMP profiles instead of changing everything manually. That is a really nice feature. In the past I've changed things manually to mimic XMP profiles and it works just fine that way too. G. Skill has never done me wrong and I've never gotten a bad stick from them. They are cheaper than other brands who I will not name, and operate just as efficiently and as quickly (timings).
Cons: Zero
Overall Review: I plan on getting another pack to run 16 GB. Running this on a Gigabyte board with an i5 3570k. I don't suppose the OC on the CPU matters for compatibility purposes, but in case I'm mistaken it's running @ 4.3Ghz. Oh and I've had this RAM for longer than I can remember, which means it might be 2 years old or 6 months old haha. I believe it is over a year old now though.
Hyper 212 Evo

Pros: I love these little guys. They put out a LOT of air. I mean a lot. They really aren't that loud. It's more like nice almost distant low db rushing of air.
Cons: None
Overall Review: I put 2 of these things in a push pull config on a hyper 212. i5 3570k OC'd to 4.2 GHZ with stock voltage and running 73C Max in P95. coming up almost a whole Ghz on the core clocks showed a noticeably increase in boot speeds and generally overall with this processor. These things made all the difference after reading similar setups sticking with stock Hyper 212 fan.
5 years going strong

Pros: It's ran for 5 years. It's cheaper than buying a "gaming" PSU if your smart enough to know that you need to use 2 of the rails to run a GPU. So basically anyone who is building a computer should have this basic knowledge. It's marked on the PSU, plain and clear. I have a rosewill Thor full tower. It's not quite a blackhawk, but it's a friggin monster. All cables routed Perfect, except CPU cable is stretched across GPU to connect to it's plug up top.
Cons: Cables could stand to be longer.] Only semi modular, because of the 4 rails I have 6 pin GPU connectors hard wired to the PSU that just sit in the case, because I needed two rails (60 amps) to adequately power my GPU. The hardwired ones for some dumb reason run off only 1 of the rails...makes no sense since it's there's no other component I can think of that takes a 6 pin.
Overall Review: To the special person saying that it is hard to or perhaps doesn't work in a Rosewill Blackhawk, then you are in fact special. That case is designed in a way that the PSU can go on top or bottom. I cannot fathom you having trouble if you simply move the PSU.
Absolute Best Value for Price

Pros: This thing is great. I can't speak highly enough about the sound quality for the price. I'll be honest I've never owned any type of good speaker set (had some Really nice headphones). I went with speakers this time around, because I wanted a sub to get some good bass, because even though I've had some headphones that put out a large amount of clear bass for being headphones it just wasnt the same. So I buy this thing, and immediately I'm really impressed by the bass. It's really clear, not some garbaled mess like you'll hear in a lot of subwofers. The mid's and high's are above average, but not just super excellent. However, for the price you will NOT be disappointed.
Cons: I get told to turn it down entirely too often as well...
Overall Review: I'm cheap, and I would have payed more money for these and still have been happy.
Simply Amazed

Pros: I honestly didn't believe it when I saw the temps, so I stressed test to bump the temp up then gave it time to settle and still these fans dropped my temp on my cpu down by 6 degrees. The mounting of my HAF is not so good. There is really no way to put air right infront of the downward facing fan on the HAF for my CPU. So I did the next best thing with one of these fans, I put air blow downward right beside the HAF. It obviously worked. I use 4 120mm fans in my case I bought two of these to test them out, and so far I'm impressed. One is blowing as close as possible on my CPU fan, and the other is blowing directly into my graphics card fan. CPU temp went down 6 degrees, GPU went down 5-6 degrees. These temps are at idle.
Cons: ZERO
Overall Review: I will definitely be buying 2 more of these fans to go into my case. Wow is all I can say, I just can't believe how much of a difference these things made.