Pros: Cheap, simple, stable, reasonably fast motherboard. It has overclocking options and OC's fairly well. This is a stable, fast, cool board, and a great buy. I have built PLENTY of pc's, and this was a very well laid out and built board, no BIOS instability as may be found on other, higher end boards here.

Cons: None what-so-ever. It only has two SATA and two DIMM slots, but you should be aware of that when you buy this.

Overall Review: I rate myself as "Somewhat high understanding..." for two reasons. 1) I don't know exactly how motherboard chipsets work. I know what they do in detail, but how they do it on a molecular level escapes me. 2) Many people put a tech level of 5 and then talk about how a hard drive rattles when you only screw it in on one side.

Pros: Card worked as installed, cheap

Cons: Card died 3 weeks in. pc's (including test rack) won't post with card installed, likely something shorted out on the board, not the die. Very likely two bad caps.

Overall Review: Been building PC's for 8 years now, stinks when this happens. New brands are always hit or miss with QC. It'll take some rave reviews from people i trust before i buy from them again though. Not a condemnation of the brand, since I'm sure most of what they make is reliable, and their prices are low; it's just that QC is hard to do, and Zotac is new at it.

Pros: It worked for a while

Cons: OCZ times their memory differently. And someone fell asleep at the QC part of the assembly line. Last OCZ memory I'm ever buying. I bought 2 sets of this ram, and this is what happened. 1) July of '08 - threw it in a brand new Asus P45 with expressgate. wouldn't boot with all 4 sticks in. Went to RoGCon... sponsored by Asus, and 2 of their engineers spent 5 hours bet over my machine (even cooked up a firmware for me on the spot, how sweet). Then they brought a guy over from the Kingston booth and he threw 4x2gb sticks in, and it worked. So I ran with 3 of my sticks in for a while... 2) asus board dies, couldn't tell ya why, might have been this ram, might have been a room mate, id'fingk. buy a gigabyte, happy, but still can only run 3 sticks 3) get 4 sticks up an running in the gigabyte with a beta-bios update that has yet to come out of beta. system is unstable as all get out. 4) mem slot dies on gigabyte

Overall Review: 5) flash back to stable bios, run 6gb 6) gigabyte dies, buy a T-Force, and I love this thing. but now my system is crashing every 23 mins (mean) (std dev = 3.2 mins.) (I have a masters in Stats, don't ask). 7) I pull a stick out. down to 4gb... great. still crashing, but now only every 3 or 4 hours. memtest still nets me about 86 errors a run. about two years of problems from ram running the same dimms as this from OCZ. Never touching their memory until my MOBO manufacturer says that the specific OCZ ram works with it. Save your money.

Pros: It looks cool, and stays cool.

Cons: Sometimes it stays cool because the PC won't boot. Across 6 motherboards, I have yet to get my 4x2gb sticks of this to work. It takes 4 or 5 bios flashes to get this to boot 8 gb's of ram. OCZ took what they alone though was the best path forward; compatibility not important. 6 motherboards, 5 different mobo brands.

Overall Review: I was at RoGCon with these sticks last summer, and 3 ASUS engineers (from Taiwan, there was a 4th guy who translated). I had a brand new ASUS motherboard, the very one they were showing off as awesome at that show, and I told them mine wasn't working. The 3 guys wrote a firmware update on the spot; which got the machine to boot, but not much else. THIS RAM IS A HEADACHE TO ENGINEERS. If you think you can write a BIOS update, then go ahead an buy it.

Pros: It is small, huge capacity, and cheap.

Cons: The key chain is comes with breaks... often.

Overall Review: This has got to be the best flash drive I have ever bought.

Pros: Love this case, roomy but not a giant full tower. great airflow, and no firewire! I don't think I know anyone who uses firewire, yet it seems every mf'ing case has firewire ports to sit there and be unused and dusty. Finally a case with only ports that a PC user will use!

Cons: none. NZXT is the best bang/buck brand.

Overall Review: It is not a Lian-Li, but those cost an arm and a leg, and who wants to play Crysis/CS:S with only one arm?