Pros: The board is a good buy for what it's worth. It has a good features list, and the manual was actually decent for a change. The overclocking software included is pretty useful, and for me it actually worked. There is also another application on the CD that allows you to flash BIOS right from within Windows, which is great for those of us that don't have floppy drives anymore. And the lack of onboard video is really great. With all these graphics cards now-a-days, why do we even need onboard video?

Cons: I could not get the audio to work. Despite my best efforts, I had to buy an audio card. I tried the driver from the CD, from Biostar's website, AND the driver from Realtek's website, all to no avail. It appeard to install fine, but XP wouldn't recognize the hardware. Oh well.

Overall Review: Despite my audio mishaps, the board has not given me any other problems. This might be something that just I would go through. My last board used the same audio chipset, and I shouldn't have uninstalled the driver the first time. Unimpressive onboard audio anyway.

Pros: This has to be one of the most impressive power supplies I have ever seen, all things considered. For the price, you get a PSU with all the amenities of a much more expensive power supply. And at 550 Watts, you may never need a new power supply (at least for 10 years anyway.) Many people don't realize, but a 800 Watt power supply is overkill. If you look on harddisks, CD drives, fans, etc. they draw very little current. You only need that kind of power when you run a Crossfire/SLI bridge and have a liquid cooling system... and many don't.

Cons: None. This thing is one of the best parts in my computer.

Overall Review: I would recommend this power supply to anyone building a new computer, or for those (like me) who are replacing an older power supply.

Pros: Very fast. It might be because I'm used to a notebook with an Intel Celeron M (very slow), and any bit of speed feels like it's faster, but I believe it really is faster. It doesn't hit over 70% taxed (according to Task Manager) on even my larger tasks (like converting video files while working with Photoshop and music in the background). For it's exceptional price, I would recommend it to anyone.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: I suppose this is no Phenom II or Core i7, with RAM only at 800 MHz, and a total of 2MB L2 cache (no L3 cache), but it gets the job done nicely. You really don't need a processor much faster than this right now.

Pros: Very cheap (price-wise) for what it is. This MoBo came with a gaming tower I purchased, and I have had no problems with it. It's simple and rather small, but it will get the job done for now. Mine seems rather well built; I have been changing things around (and I've been know to be rough on things), and none of my connectors have even wiggled.

Cons: Only 1 16x PCIe slot, and 1x PCIe too close to the 16x slot. My wireless card just BARELY fits next to my graphics card. It still comes with a parallel port (what's up with that?). And it only has 2 DIMM slots, which is dissapointing. Also, I have McAfee installed and it caught that PUP that others said was on the installer CD. So beware (it's called hide.exe, FYI)

Overall Review: It does have a RAID controller built in that is very easy to use (in CMOS). The only problem is, XP doesn't support RAID 1 (mirrored volumes), which is not the MoBo's fault, it's XP (but I hate Vista, so I'm sticking to my guns.)