Pros: I've been using the 5 in 3 for many years now and don't have a single complaint. Now I'm looking at adding a 3 in 2 go ahead and fill up the case and take use of the 8 port highpoint controller (areca 4320 card)

Cons: not 6Gb compliant

Overall Review: it was a good investment

Pros: The only pro is that this is my first return ever for something I've purchased from Newegg and I probably paid for a couple of their webservers by now. If you're a PC enthusiast, you probably don't want this card.

Cons: I would hear an occaissional slight popping sound every now and then but it was only with 64-bit Vista and then...I'm returning it because of the following reason: no ultra high setting allowed in 64-bit Vista or 32-bit XP while playing BF2. This isn't the original X-Fi chipset. Do your homework & search wikipedia for Xtreme Audio

Overall Review: The Xtreme Audio model lacks the EMU20K1 chip and thus only supports the "Entertainment" mode via software emulation, while all other models support all three modes. X-Fi models that support "Gaming" mode use EAX 5.0, which supports up to 128 3D-positioned voices with up to four effects applied to each. *(thx Jaiden)

Pros: I've had this mobo for over about a year and a half. runs nonstop. reboots every now and then. sometimes i have to turn it on when the power goes out. has about 2TB of video on it using Microsoft Media Center & Windows 7. it's almost as fast (responsive) as my cable box. Running digital out to an older Parasound receiver - sounds great.

Cons: i wish 1080p playback was simpler to set up in MS HTPC. required other third party application(s) for playback to be successful. i think i ended up paying for one of them.

Overall Review: used the following: APEX MD-100-C Black Metal with piano finish Mini-ITX Tower Computer Case G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 533 (PC2 4200) StarTech SLSATAADAP Female Slimline SATA to SATA Adapter with Power one or more of the may not be required for HD playback: CORECODEC COREAVC 2.0.0 w/ CUDE Haalie Media Splitter Realtek HD Audio Drver ffdshow DirectVobSub I also went and picked up a PCI slot fan & wired it up to 12v and used a potentiometer in series to create enough flow of air, but not too loud...so that it stays cool. Helped alot when watching HD. No issues getting hot after that. mini-wireless keyboard w/ touchpad. i would like to get a Harmony 900

Pros: Purchased 5 of these drives, four from newegg and one from local electronic supercenter. All of them running off a Highpoint 4320 RAID controller in RAID. They are consistantly faster than the 750GB Seagate drives they replaced. Four Hitachi drives in a RAID0, using HDTune 2.54, had an average transfer rate of 473.1 MB/sec and a 347.1 with RAID5. Seek times 7.1 and 7.4 cooresponding. HDTune Pro 4.00 puts the Sequential read middle with 2265 IOPS @ .4ms @141.549 MB/sec Random seek size 8MB @ 18IOPS 55.5ms / 73.076MB

Cons: Had to rebuild the RAID partition once and it's not been online twice. If I rescan the drives after controller is online, drives are available. This could be isolated issue related to the swap, but it never happened with the others.

Overall Review: Over 5TB for using single drive letter on Windows 7 is nice using GPT. Using 5 bay IcyDock for disk management and cooling keeps the disks between 91F and 111F degrees during IDLE/Minimal use. Can't wait for larger drives to back it up!

Pros: good card, clean design, tight package. lifetime warranty is a plus, just don't forget because you only have 30 days. driver v160+ seemed to help ALOT. in the end, i'm glad i parted with the water setup to a maintenance free rig.

Cons: kinda loud and i wish i had my water cooled 8800gtx back. at one time i turned my volume down in the middle of a game because i couldn't make out the sound i was hearing, then i realized it was the card. reaches 90 degrees running 2560x1600 playing bfbc2.

Overall Review: upgraded from a watercooled 8800 gtx, so it was a nice upgrade - but it didn't turn water into wine. try to catch it on sale

Pros: I've been using the 4320 for 16 months now, without an issue. Upon initial installation, I did pull a drive to ensure proper rebuild of my +2TB array using 4x750GB Seagates. Worked as expected. The benchmarks I've ran put my RAID 5 configuration on par with the latest SSD (single), if not slightly faster, but with MUCH more space. I'm using it with a 5 bay Icy Dock drive storage system. No issues with XP, Win7x64, VMWare workstation, Acronis, and Ghost applications. The greatest feature is the ability to rapidly change boot partitions between different OSes w/o having to configure multiboot within the OS. I can leave my other OSes offline. The ability to create different RAID partitions on the same disks is valuable. I have a RAID0 & a RAID5 for my two OSes and one RAID5 for data. I can't wait to attached a few SSDs.

Cons: None, because I never needed tech support!

Overall Review: Make sure you create your OS array first since it will be the fastest. Hard drives use the fastest part of the drive initally. There was about a 50MB/s difference between creating the OS partition before the DATA partition in my initial benchmarks. I paid $333 for mine when it was onsale last year and was very glad to do so. My 2TB is almost used up in a year and now I'm looking for more drive space (75GB left)!