Pros: Fast Reliable Good value If you are looking for an SSD that "just works", doesn't cost an arm and leg, and has legendary Crucial support backing it up then you need this in your life. There is a reason Newegg sells so many of these. Some people buy these then don't understand how this stuff works. The firmware issue was resolved a long time ago on these. Crucial acted pretty fast once they knew about it and let people RMA the drives even though they could have still been fixed at home. Crucial went above and beyond to help people which is a lot more than OCZ did when they had issues. They tried denying the problem for the better part of a year. Which would you rather buy?

Cons: Nothing to see here folks, move along now.

Overall Review: I have two of these, one of the 64gb D2s and a 128gb D2. Both now have over 6,200 power on hours and are still working like new. Yes they had a firmware issue in earlier revisions but this could easily be prevented if you updated the firmware yourself, no RMA required. You could even update the firmware after the 5,200 hour bug showed up. The Firmware update process does not wipe your drive and and is about as easy as it gets. No drives are being sold that have the old faulty firmware and I can attest to the fact that the new firmware is working great and even increased my drives performance.

Pros: The board functions fine if I'm not overclockng, this is why it gets two eggs. Unfortunately I bought this board for the express purpose of overclocking and driving my poor 2600K into the ground. In this regard it fails. Hence I docked it three eggs. The board could have better layout but then I saw the X79 series and I was suddenly okay with mine.

Cons: Now for the cons... If everything is set to stock but I set the voltage high (over 1.4ish) it endlessly boot loops. No fault codes are given on the POST display. Also if I use the front panel to add voltage the machine instantly shuts down. If I set the multiplier higher than x46 it usually won't just start/restart but it takes you to BIOS where I have to save and exit again for it to boot/reboot properly. Even though the 4.8Ghz clock speed had proved stable for over a week. Apparently the board has its own opinion. On more then one occasion the POST display has given me codes that were not in the manual. I just love those. Well they are in the manual but if you look they say something like "reserved for future use by AMI" or something to that effect. Either way it's annoying to no end.

Overall Review: Needless to say I have not been pleased with the boards performance thus far. I contacted tech support about the voltage problem (at that point I had owned the board for a couple of weeks) and they blamed the OC. When your CPU does 4.8 at 1.31 for a week straight then you up the voltage by .1 and the whole computer instantly shuts off...the CPU isn't the problem. No BSoD, no warning, not a reboot...just off. I even plugged in a 2nd 8 pin CPU power connector (yes, my PSU has 2) and no dice. Of course now then if EVGA did RMA the board I would get a refurb back and since mine more or less works I won't take a chance on that so EVGA gets a free pass from me this time. Well, the only time because I won't buy another.

Pros: 1) great board and good value 2) great overclocking potential 3) amazing UEFI - known Asus strong point and it shows 4) Good PCI-E slot layout 5) SupremeFX audio - works better than I though it would (only thing I'd like to see is some kind of sound volume equalization like the Asus Xonar line of dedicated soundcards have as it's great for movies) 6) Intel NIC - best in the business

Cons: 1) When I boot into Windows with a USB3.0 thumbdrive in my front panels USB2.0 port the mouse stays frozen (both it and the KB are attached to the two rear USB2.0 ports) for about 10 seconds, during this time Windows plays the "disconnect/reconnect" sound and I "lose" my USB3.0 external hard drive connected to a rear USB3.0 port. Once the mouse becomes responsive, going into Windows disk management shows the drive is till there but it says I need to reformat it to use it. If I log out of Windows then back into Windows the drive functions normally again. If I leave the USB3.0 thumbdrive out and only plug it in after I'm booted into Windows everything works as it should however I feel this is a work around that shouldn't need to be done. My Asus P8P67 WS Revolution board had no problems in this regard. 2) AISuite III errors at Windows start with messages about missing images and DIP5 - I have uninstalled it because the features it offers aren't that useful day in and day out

Overall Review: I give this board 5 eggs because at the end of the day the hardware is good, the price is reasonable, and it does what it's supposed to do. Right now I'm running a 4690K @ 4.6Ghz on 1.225 volts and I have a 4x4GB kit of 1600MHZ RAM OCd to 1800Mhz and it's all nice and stable with headroom to spare.

Pros: Update to earlier review. Going from 1866 to 2133 decreased my SuperPi 32m time from ~7:26 to ~6:54 with no other changes. After some investigating I am now almost certain that this is a set of Dominators without the Dominator name/heatspreaders (and price).

Cons: Gotta pay to play.

Overall Review: So far this RAM is stable for me at these two settings. 8-9-9-24@1866, 1.55volts 9-10-10-28@2133Mhz, 1.61volts I honestly didn't think this RAM was going to run at this speed but once I set it and it booted Windows I knew it was going to work. Took a couple of minor voltage adjustments to get it stable but nothing I would consider "extraordinary" by any means. Very pleased with how this kit has held up and performed. I was very close to buying faster RAM but instead went for an even faster overclock and it has paid off. I run this RAM on a Asus P8P67 WS Revolution motherboard with a 5Ghz 2600K. This CPU/motherboard combo has been benched at 5.3+Ghz and has booted Windows at 5.5Ghz.

Pros: The performance to price ratio on this little dually is outstanding. Nets more FPS than the aging Q6600 it replaced and uses less than half the power (65 watt TDP is with the CPU and IGP running flat out) it did as well. Granted if you need more than 2 cores worth of performance this is not what you need to be looking at but since I have a 5Ghz 2600K I didn't feel the need to blow a bunch of money on another K chip just for a LAN/HTPC rig.

Cons: No overclock ability at all, for anything. Even the memory is locked at 1066Mhz. Bleh.

Overall Review: I paired this CPU with an AMD 6850 and as I kept adding more and more OC to the video card the game/benchmark performance kept going up. Gotta love that. I really miss overclocking on the cheap chips. I remember my old E2200 (2.2Ghz) running at up to 3.6Ghz and running 3.3 daily and it brings back good memories. It was a 65 watt TDP Pentium chip that I paid roughly 70 dollars for back then IIRC. Would be nice if Intel dropped all this K chip nonsense and let us have fun again.

Pros: It booted first try straight into Windows without touching the BIOS (reused a previous HDD). It does exactly what I bought it to do and for the price paid I think it's a fair deal.

Cons: Lack of anything but a D-SUB for the onboard video, an HDMI or even a DVI connector would be preferred. Would have also liked one or two more 3 pin fan headers but that's a minor gripe.

Overall Review: I wanted a small, cheap, no fuss 1155 motherboard to run a video card and PCI sound card for my LAN/HTPC computer and this fit the bill nicely.