Pros: This a very high quality 2 channel soundcard. If your looking for a very clean, high quality, 2 channel digital/analong output or input with midi connectors, this card is very well priced. The 2 discrete RCA stereo outputs sound much better than any of the Creative card's 1/8 inch summed stereo outputs. So if your not looking for surround, this is a much better option sounding option. I've also done many stereo recordings with this card, and the sound is very clean and transparent, and the card provides a decent amount of digital patchbay/routing options.

Cons: No surround support but this card is more for people looking to do stereo recordings and the sound quality is much higher than most consumer surround cards.

Pros: Good power to price ratio on this one. Not too impressed with the 200 series cards just yet. Hottest I've seen it run in my case is 65c after playing Crysis for an hour. Never really hear the fan from this thing either.

Cons: nada so far....

Pros: Booted first time with no problems. Easy to use overclocking BIOS section. This thing overclocks like a breeze with my system. Have an E8500 Wolfdale overclocked to 4.0Ghz completely stable at 1.3volts. Am able to run my Corsair XMS2 2GB DDR2 800 at 1066 5,5,5,12 with no problems. Very impressed at how easy it was to really overclock this thing. Not seeing any video locking issues that some have reported with this board.

Cons: The northbridge fan is noisy and unnecessary if you have good air circulation in your case. The northbridge is staying more than cool enough in my Antec 900 with an extra side mounted intake fan on it. Also this fan exhaust points directly onto your video card with can cause your card to run hotter. My advice is to not mount the fan unless your having real problems with NB heat.

Overall Review: New Rig (absolutely loving everything about it): Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz, EVGA NVIDIA nForce 750i F-T-W SLI, EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB, Corsair XMS2 2GB DDR2 800 (OC'd to 1066), Corsair 620HX 620 watt power supply, Antec 900 Case.

Pros: Low power consumption = less heat = high overclocking overhead. But you knew that :) Running in a new EVGA NVIDIA nForce 750i F-T-W SLI. Am able to run at 4.0Ghz completely stable at around 1.3 volts, 1645 FSB. Have it in an Antec 900 with a ZALMAN CNPS9500 mounted to it. At stock speeds I'm seeing around 28c idle, 38c under prolonged load. At 4 Ghz it's around 32c idle, and around 45c under prolonged load.

Cons: zip.

Overall Review: New Rig (absolutely loving everything about it): Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz EVGA NVIDIA nForce 750i F-T-W SLI EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB Corsair XMS2 2GB DDR2 800 (OC'd to 1066) Corsair 620HX 620 watt power supply Antec 900 Case Since I do mostly gaming don't really see the cost benefit of going quad core quite yet as gaming applications aren't going to use that many threads anyways. If you do audio or video editing / encoding / transcoding quad core might be worth more consideration.

Pros: Low power consumption = less heat = high overclocking overhead. But you knew that :) Running in a new EVGA NVIDIA nForce 750i F-T-W SLI. Am able to run at 4.0Ghz completely stable at around 1.3 volts, 1645 FSB. Have it in an Antec 900 with a ZALMAN CNPS9500 mounted to it. At stock speeds I'm seeing around 28c idle, 38c under prolonged load. At 4 Ghz it's around 32c idle, and around 45c under prolonged load.

Cons: zip.

Overall Review: New Rig (absolutely loving everything about it): Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz EVGA NVIDIA nForce 750i F-T-W SLI EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB Corsair XMS2 2GB DDR2 800 (OC'd to 1066) Corsair 620HX 620 watt power supply Antec 900 Case Since I do mostly gaming don't really see the cost benefit of going quad core quite yet as gaming applications aren't going to use that many threads anyways. If you do audio or video editing / encoding / transcoding quad core might be worth more consideration.

Comments: Everything about this case has impressed me. The construction quality is very good. It looks great with a nicely designed side window. The airflow is quite good. The layout works great with all my components. I couldn't be happier with it!