Joined on 10/23/05
Massive everything.
Pros: Massive case, massive fans, massive cooling, massive awesome looking... this case keeps everything running nice and cool, when idling everything in my case runs at 32 degrees C or lower aside from the GPU, which runs around 37 or 38.
Cons: the built in speed controllers on the side of the case do not work on mine, my fans are at full RPM all the time. Not really too upset though because they run pretty quietly.
Overall Review: Was a breeze to work inside of, plenty of room for whatever you want and cable management isn't much or a problem.
Reliable and Inexpensive
Pros: Runs without any problems, as fast as i expected, runs fairly cool. Came with a free copy of 3D Mark 08. Cheaper than similar memory and still a good name. Heat spreaders looks nice and seem to work well.
Cons: None.
Fast
Pros: Fast, stable, cool, and quiet. What more could I possibly ask for. Price is very fair for what you get.
Cons: none.
Overall Review: This is an upgrade from an Athlon XP 3200+ What a difference.
Good Drive
Pros: Quick read and write. SATA. Cool and quiet.
Cons: See Below.
Overall Review: Not a big problem but for some reason when i installed windows it only read the hard drive as 127GB, then I had to find the other half and format it so it would recognize it and now I have two partitions. I don't mind as long as I'm getting the storage I paid for I just thought it was weird.
Freeze
Pros: Keeps my Athlon X2 6000+ nice and cool, about 33 idle and 39-41 load.
Cons: Big. I don't care though, my RAM fits fine.
Overall Review: replaced the thermal compound with Arctic Silver 5
Great board
Pros: Very easy build with this board. On board sound is great, all my components worked perfectly. Asus software has a lot of useful tools on it.
Cons: No 1394 support, but I have never used it before so I doubt I will miss it. No SLI on this model, doesn't affect me but for those of you who want an SLI setup don't buy this board.
Overall Review: This was my first build and ASUS as made a fantastic first impression, will be buying from them in the future.