Joined on 03/26/08
Great board!
Pros: This board brings huge value. All the features you want, and the ability to upgrade to PCI 3 and ivy bridge when they come out. I paid $125 shipped... $50 under the closest competition. RAID0 was painless and required no windows 7 drivers Lots of fan headers, and the work well with Speedfan. Skip the molex fans and plug them right into the board and control them! Running an i5-2500k @ 4.4 with +.1v offset I did not know this had Intel SRT when I bought it WOW!!!
Cons: Small cons knock off an egg 1. Known bios glitch, if you plug a USB keyboard into the middle USB ports the system will not post... took my a while to figure out why the system would not post. 2. Did not recognize my DDR3 as 1600, had to manually increase from 1333 3. Only 2 SataIII ports limit you to RAID0 OR Intel SRT not both. I created a RAID volume and wont be able to incorporate SRT without a reinstall
Overall Review: Heat spreaders around CPU are not mount well. The move with a small amount of pressure. This made it difficult to mount a coolmasterV8 (Huge cooler). Alternately this makes them really easy to remove if I want to water cool them (and chipset) Windows 7 retail install does not come with USB3.0 drivers. You can't use the blue USB ports (or the middle USB2.0 ports) with a USB keyboard to install windows
Non functional
Pros: Does not work.
Cons: This product does not work. I tried with 2 different 2.5 mm devices. The plugs match but it doesn't carry the signal
Overall Review: I bought this one and it works fine. Newegg neds to carry functional products. eForCity Premium Universal 3.5 mm Male to 2.5mm Female Stereo Headset
Great if you follow advice
Pros: Great sound quality, Great battery life, light weight yet durable, even with batteries it's lighter than my wired set! Totally brings gaming to a new level!
Cons: Request 3.5 pin to 2.5 input cable to connect to a PC, requires proper room configuration to avoid popping
Overall Review: This uses the same frequency as G wireless (2.4 GHZ). That means your own as well as neighbor wireless signals can cause some popping sound. I relocated my router to the other end of the house and can use this 24' from my PC in another room through 2 sheets of drywall. Keep all wifi devices away from this bad boy! For best result 1. Keep transmitter to your left, the antenna in these is exclusively in the left ear cup (mic side). You want to have the signal emitted from your left, not on your right side where it has to travel through your head to get to the reciever! 2. Disable G wireless, you must keep this away from a wireless transmitter. Using wifi with your xbox/PC? get a long Toslink cable and move the unit far away. You need to be closer to the transmitter than to other wifi devices. 3. Invest in some rechargeable AAA batteries
got what I ordered
Pros: exactly as described
Cons: Paid more than equivalent DDR3... hate the price jack up on DDR2
Exactly what I ordered
Pros: Great deal on a bare-bone for older Intel processors.
Cons: PSU fan is very loud. Mine came with an atom sticker on the front
Works as advertised
Pros: works as advertised
Cons: None