Pros: Very pleased with this. Expected nothing but probs, but instead had nothing but instant success. AutoCAD 2010 was painfully slow doing 3DORBIT of wireframe model on Intel Duo 3GHz w/ 8G RAM on Intel DG35EC. Now it's lightning fast, I mean night-and-day difference. Imagine higher / expensive cards would perform same feats with REAL visual style models, but can't afford them yet. Meanwhile FX580 works great for spinning, panning, zooming, whirling wireframe and conceptual models.

Cons: Should come with adapter for VGA. One con is that when using an off-the-shelf VGA adapter, card (obviously) didn't recognize the uberness of my VGA monitor and would _only_ allow 640x480 (!!). This, of course, falls short and should be fixed to allow user to force any resolution no matter what. My "fix" was to changeup my whole video system (removed from KVM switch) and run straight DVI instead of VGA. Not a big deal for me personally, but others should be aware that using this card with VGA will very likely result in max 640x480 resolution via the VGA - in other words, plan to use DVI or DP format instead of VGA.

Pros: Not sure there are any, at least none I could find.

Cons: Agreed, Kensington ruined Expert Mouse, did this to charge everyone more than double, since SlimBlade costs more. Expert Mouse felt so much better. I used several Expert Mice for 10+ years...now I'm never buying another Kensington product. Microsoft trackball/mouse wins out in the end because Kensington hurts the very people they should covet and treat the best. How stupid are you Kensington? Are you listening? Do you even give a ?

Pros: We've been running this board 24/7/365 since 2006, and it's still rocking in a colo, handling web requests, routing, iptables firewalls. It only went out once, due to overheat allowed by cheap fan on a supporting chip on the mobo. Love love love ASUS mobo's!

Cons: cheap little fan on one of the supporting chips on mobo burned out, froze/locked-up. replaced it with a big heatsink clamped onto the chip (or maybe it was glued on - dont' remember)