Pros: - Easy to overclock - stays cool - UEFI Bios w/ GPT support - lots of fan connectors

Cons: - Flimsy RAM clip. Right out of the box, the first RAM clip I opened broke. The bottom ones are fixed in place. - Had to flash BIOS for CPU to work correctly. - No IDE, but honestly, who still uses IDE? - DIMMs spaced a little close together, after market heatsinks are a VERY tight fit. - DIMMs a little close to CPU socket - CPU waterblock is a very tight fit.

Overall Review: Asus Crosshair V Formula AMD FX8150 Zambezi 16GB GSKILL Ripjaws X DDR3 2133 2x Radeon 6970 xfire 2x Vertex 3 Pro SSD Raid 0 2x WD RE4 Enterprise Raid 0 Seasonic 1000w Platinum DangerDen custom water cooling

Pros: Relatively cheap for a tabloid color laser. Good print quality, lines are fine and text is crisp.

Cons: See other thoughts.

Overall Review: 1) I've bought 2 of these. The first one was DOA, it wouldn't print any cyan at all, even after we replaced the cyan cartridge. As our business relies heavily on printing, we bought another one right away and went to return the first DOA one, but Newegg wouldn't take it back, and HP wanted $900 in shipping to warranty repair it. Minus one egg for that. 2) Tray 1 (Manual feed) jams CONSTANTLY, even with plain, uncoated, medium letter-size paper. It'll pickup multiple sheets or won't feed them all the way in. Its also very "rough" with the paper -- we frequently end up with creasing or minor crumpling. Trying to feed any perforated paper (e.g., for printable business cards) usually results in the paper tearing along the perforations, jamming the printer all to hell. Minus another egg for that. 3) Toner consumption. The extended cartridges are supposed to be good for 7,000 pages. While I realize that cartridges never last quite as long as their rating, the toner usage seems excessive. I just installed the 3rd CE740A cartridge. This printer is less than a year old with ~3,800 pages printed. That's 1,900 pages per cartridge, or about 1/4th of the rated number of pages. We print mostly text and technical drawings.

Pros: Reliable. Stress tested all of them and ran extended tests using Western Digital's software. No failures, all performed excellently

Cons: Couple of minor quips. 1) They're noisy. 2) The screw holes on the bottom aren't tapped deep enough to accept a standard length screw. This was a PITA as they were being mounted in trays with tight tolerances in a rackmount NAS and the screws wouldn't seat down all the way making installation of the trays impossible. The old drives were WD RE 1TB, no problems. This was the first (and hopefully the only) time I've ever had to run to *HOME DEPOT* to install a hard drive.

Pros: Sturdy. Looks nice.

Cons: Had 2 of them fail inside of 2 days -- the second one didn't last 2 hours. Brand new PSUs powering brand new hardware. And it was Ivy-bridge, not Haswell.

Overall Review: Seasonic is a renowned brand in the PSU industry that are recognized as being head-and-shoulders above their similarly priced competitors. I've gone through 12-15 SS-300/350/400ET for all of the new systems and PSU replacements here at my office. Not a single failure -- some are still going strong after years. Really not sure why these 2 particular units failed, they were both S12II 430Bs b/c Newegg didn't have the SS-300ETs in stock at the time. They were powering a fairly typical run-of-the-mill business system(s) (19 systems like this total): ASUS P8H77-M/CSM or P8Q77-M/CSM Intel Core-i5 3570K 8GB (2x4) Corsair Dominator Platinum 1600 1.5V Samsung 840PRO 128GB Western DIgital Black 500GB Plextor PX-891SAW or PX-L890SA Fractal Design Core 1000

Pros: Fast, runs cooler, essentially a more refined 6970

Cons: Eyefinity: 1. Dimensions: The fan shroud makes the card too "thick" to stack on top of another card. For a mobo like mine (Rampage IV Gene PCIe x16, x16, x8), this meant that I couldn't install both cards on the x16 bus, which downclocked the entire setup to x8. 2. Screen Tearing: Display port seems to be on a different internal clock than the "legacy" connections (DVI-D, HDMI, etc.), resulting in screen tearing on the DP monitor (if your pri monitor is DVI-D/HDMI), or screen tearing on the 2 legacy monitors if your pri monitor is DP. VSync does not correct the issue. Very annoying. The legacy bus does not support 3 monitors, so one monitor has to be DP.

Pros: Cheap. Removable HDD Mounting Plate. Entire front of case is filtered mesh. Good airflow. Looks good, simple.

Cons: Quality control: - The feet are stick on adhesive. All of them are off center. One of them did not have all of the adhesive backing removed before being applied. It was loose in the bottom of the box. - Dying fan, it rattles and squeaks. This is a new case. - The most irritating thing was the cutout for the motherboard backplate. It was slightly out of square and not parallel with the rear of the case, making the motherboard ports not line up with the cutouts on the backplate, blocking access to most of the upper ports on the motherboard. I had to get creative and stack a couple of washers underneath the upper motherboard standoff to force that corner of the motherboard out a little bit so everything would line up.

Overall Review: Would be a very good budget case if they had better quality control. I work IT for a business, we've bought several of these in the past. This is the first one with any noteworthy problems.