Pros: Laid out fairly well. Plenty of sata & USB ports. The manual is clear & useful. CMOS reset doesn't require opening up the case. Plenty of things to tweak. Onboard audio is decent & allows both the rear speaker outputs & front case outputs to remain active.

Cons: The initial bios it ships with has problems with sata ports, CPU settings, & memory timings. New bios versions still have issues as of 12/8/08. You'll have to research the proper CPU & memory settings & enter them to get it stable. The default settings are incorrect for Core i7. I expect these issues are temporary and will be fixed in a future bios release.

Overall Review: The sata ports are hard to reach when installed in a case. They face the side of the board instead of facing up. This might be a preference issue. It's makes for cleaner cabling, but it's harder to swap or install new drives, but it also means if you want to run SLI or Tri-SLI, you won't have any sata ports blocked. Overall, I'm satisfied with the board.

Pros: Plenty of drive bays. Cable management holes in motherboard panel. GREAT airflow! Mesh screens over 3 of the intake fans & side window vent.

Cons: It's certainly not tool-less. It's cumbersome to install a drive in the drive bays or to remove the fan screens for cleaning. You have to remove BOTH side panels & 8 thumbscrews for each of the 3 drive bays & fans (total of 12 thumbscrews plus 4 mounting screws per drive). Not much room behind the motherboard panel for thick and/or multiple cables. Long video cards may not fit due to the size & shape of the drive racks.

Overall Review: This case could be great with it's space & design, but it's mostly wasted. It needs about a 1/4 inch more room between the back of the motherboard panel & the side of the case for cabling. The drive bays should be on rails to get at the screens & drives. Lots of wasted space at the top of the case would be better used toward the bottom so Tri-SLI video card fans are not right up against the top of the power supply.

Pros: Gives you access to all of the Ooma Telo advanced features like instant 2nd line & importing Outlook contacts.

Cons: Sound quality is terrible. It's worse than on any other phone in my house. Battery life is poor. Screen display is hard to read & doesn't really look like the pictures they use for advertising. Phone will randomly "de-sync" from the Telo base at times & you have to take it back to the Telo base to re-sync (my Telo base is tucked into a smart panel next to my router & modem)

Overall Review: The Ooma service is wonderful. This handset isn't. It might improve with new firmware.....

Pros: $3.50 a month for home phone service. I was paying almost $35 a month after taxes. Sound quality is great, and often sounds better than the old POTS line. Setup was easy, even when distributing to all the phones in my house. Their international rates are pretty good.

Cons: I also purchased the Telo handset....... don't. Sound quality is great on all of my standard wired & wireless phones. The Telo handset sound quality is awful. I'm not sure why. Their handsets are not necessary for the service.

Overall Review: It works fine for sending faxes with our fax machine, but it doesn't work with some of our old Directv Tivo receivers that have only a phone jack.

Pros: Works at the rated speed of 200Mbps. Works in an exterior building with a sub-panel and an older home with lots of aluminum wiring. Power usage is not that bad, and the units don't heat up very much. It's about the equivalent wattage of a CFL bulb.

Cons: A bit of added lag is noticeable, and it is a little bit worse than wifi. This may be due to my electrical wiring conditions.

Overall Review: We were trying to set up a detached poolhouse/workshop as a home office. The signal from the wireless router in our main house was poor or non-existent. We tried to do an additional Cat6 run, but the existing conduit to the building was too small to fit any more cabling. Considered running a signal booster, additional WAP, or extender, but I wanted something I could easily turn off to save power whenever the office was not being used. I also thought I might try this first since the receiver includes a 4-port switch that I can use for both laptops, a networked printer & a Directv receiver. I was not sure it would work due to the aluminum wiring & sub-panel, but it's working flawlessly.

Pros: Excellent card. Overclocks very well. Shock absorbers on the cooling fan keep it very quiet.

Cons: No DVI to HDMI connector. Newegg says package contents include HDTV cable, but it's not correct.

Overall Review: I can't imagine a better value for a graphics card. In crossfire it can beat the Nvidia 280gtx and save $100.