Pros: Price, performance. Easy to install in G34 socket and to mount A6 fan on a SUPERMICRO MBD-H8SGL-F-O mobo. Nice and quiet in a SUPERMICRO CSE-743TQ-865B-SQ case with 16GB of ECC RAM. Makes a great ZFS server.

Cons: Higher clock speed would be nice but it is so fast this really isn't a con.

Overall Review: Built gcc 4.6.0 from source in around 26 minutes, running OpenIndiana 148. No complaints there! No bus resets as with the old mpt driver and 1.5TB SATA 7200 rpm disks. This cpu and Solaris are a marrage made in heaven :-).