Pros: Very fast.

Cons: None so far.

Pros: Sturdy design in general (see below for exception), lots of little convenient features - side mounted 3.5" bays, easy access motherboard tray, convenient location of 5.25" rails.

Cons: Motherboard access try was improperly sized and/or placed. I can't slide the tray back into position to properly secure it, because there isn't room for the motherboard/PCI slots at the back of the case. I have it jury-rigged for now, but it's pretty frustrating. Also, as others have experienced, tabs for the front panel broke the first time I removed it. If I ever get 5 hard drives, it's going to take some work getting the front panel cables to fit behind the hard drives.

Pros: Better than the stock cooler.

Cons: Didn't fit exactly right, but I don't think it is impacting performance.

Overall Review: The Northbridge heatsink on my ASUS P5K-WS gets in the way of ideal installation - I had to rotate the heat sink 90 degrees. Still works great though.

Pros: Aside from con, card has performed well in every way.

Cons: If I connect the front panel, the "all-in-one input" won't recognize that I have a microphone plugged in.

Overall Review: I'm not exactly sure how much better this card is than the more attractively priced Audigy 2.

Pros: Excellent performance.

Cons: Default settings for card let it run RIDICULOUSLY hot.

Overall Review: Using Nvidia's nTune program, I manually set the fan to run at 80% (the highest I could get it without it getting loud), and idle temperature dropped from 60 to 45 C, and load dropped from 70+ to 60.