Joined on 09/23/02
Great build

Pros: Solid construction, awesome appearance. Side vents allow graphics card to breath well. Modular construction and pull out motherboard tray make assembly reasonable. Anyone planning to use this case: Modular Power supply is a must.
Cons: Supplied 60mm fans are terrible; while they are silent, they move almost no air. I replaced them with Rexus 5300 RPM fans, and put them on a fan controller. Case will NOT fit Full size graphics card without removing hard drive cage. Also it will not fit a double thickness card (GTX 260) without modifications. We had to cut part of the 3.5" external cage off to allow room. This made that bay unsuitable for mounting the HDD. we then modified the case buy drilling 4 holes in the bottom and bolting the hard drive directly to the bottom of the case using 4 motherboard stand offs. The Bay covers for the top and bottom bay are 7" not 5.25. The idea is to accommodate the Thermaltake 7" LCD screen in the top bay, but for those of us who want to use a 5.25 device other than an optical drive, the front panel knockout will have to be modified. ThermalTake should offer replacement knockouts with a 5.25" opening.
Overall Review: Case allows for building seriously powerful systems, however does require some modifications. Over all very impressed. I ranked this case a 5-Star because over all the design and usabiltiy is awesome. The modifications I had to make for this case are due to the hardware I chose to install, and were not that difficult to perform. It would be nice to see ThermalTake change the drive cages to aluminum to save some weight. They should also include at least one 7" panel with a 5.25" opening.
Wow for WoW

Pros: 1920x1200 Resolution is awesome. TONs of desktop space. Color is great right out of the box Monitor has a Rapid response time setting of 2ms PIP mode is handy
Cons: Sound output is only for proprietary sound bar. It would be nice to output sound from HDMI source to other speakers.
Overall Review: I would prefer a Matte screen surface which has lower glare, however almost all new displays are glossy so there's not much choice there.
Heavy Duty

Pros: Quality of this product is outstanding. Very heavy cable should be extremely durable. No complaints. 8/8 perfect connections.
Cons: Cable management could be difficult if a large number are used. i.e. 16 port KVM.
Overall Review: 8 of these were purchased to replace tech bench cables at PC repair center. They are MUCH higher quality than the old cables. I expect these to hold up much better. These cables were purchased from Newegg, but not on my account. I was so impressed that I felt the need to log-in and review them.
Jumper Why?

Pros: Seagate 5 year warranty. Fast drive, great performance. Windows 7 scored it at a 6.0
Cons: Seagate SATA II (3.0 Gb) drives have a jumper that limits them to SATA I (1.5 Gb) performance. Unless using an older board or SATA I controller make sure to remove the jumper to get max performance.
Overall Review: Runs cool and quite and fast.
Max Awesome

Pros: Runs every game I have at Max settings, no complaints
Cons: Large, heavy, requires 500 watt PSU with 2 6pin PCIe rails. Not a problem for most gamers.
Overall Review: AWESOME
Lan Box

Pros: On-board 8300 with HDMI, DVI, VGA. 5 SATA headers which is awesome for a MiniATX board. Support for 140watt CPUs, durable design. Great selection of ports and features. Express Gate technology is amazing. very cool. Raid support NorthBridge runs cool. This board is an excellent choice for LanBox applications.
Cons: Driver disk does not support Windows 7 at this time. The Vista 64 bit drivers work, but must be installed manually. Would be nice if it had more fan headers 4-5 would be nice. Mosfets lack heat syncs Placement of 1394 header away from USB 2.0 Headers is inconvenient for clean cable management. The USB headers also are placed almost under the PCI express slot, and almost covered by large graphics card. Has a floppy connector????? (anyone out there still use those?)
Overall Review: would like to see all USB, HD Audio, and 1394 headers along the bottom or front of board. This board is part of my Portable gaming box....no complaints Very powerful. I have this board in a ThermalTake Lanbox case, AMD Phenom 9600 (quad) 8GB DRR2 800 (4-4-4-12) EVGA GTX 260 GPU BFG 550watt Modular PSU