Pros: There are 3 questions that should go through any potential customer in the market for a aftermarket heatsink. Material. Copper. Copper conducts heat the best and is proven in many tests Weight. Weight is often overlooked but is important, this heatsink weighs slightly higher then the recommended weight by intel, but is no where near as heavy as some coolers weighing up to and sometimes exceeding a pound. Performance- This aftermarket cooler cools both the CPU and motherboard components flawlessly. The directional design helps eliminate deadspots in your case by directing hot air out the back exhaust fan of the case. Stock intel cooler idle-53C load-61+ 9500a idle-42C load-53 MAX These figures are from a CPU stress test running CPU at 100% load for about 30 minutes. Immediately after stopping the tests the Temps drop significantly by about 5-8 degrees C

Cons: Installation. Mounting the brackets and getting the screws in can be a pain.

Overall Review: Check your clearances. I used Arctic silver 5 for my install. Components- Lian Li pc65, GIGABYTE Ds3l, E8500, EVGA 9800Gt, Zalman 9500a, antec neopower 500watts.

Pros: Modular design

Cons: Price, quality, Warranty department is a nightmare. It worked for 3 solid months then suddenly started restarting my computer in games. A replacement power supply from a different company works like a charm how ever. Because of this my previous review of 5 eggs is replaced with this review of 1 egg

Overall Review: I wrote a previous review praising this unit. After not having 3 of my 4 calls placed to Antec's warranty department not being returned even after leaving detailed messages I have lost my patience. I have yet to be issued a ticket id or a rma# from Antec. I will not reccommend any of their products to anyone nor will I ever buy one of their low quality products again.

Pros: Windows Vista looks great! It does use up about 25% of my 4gb dual channeled mushkin RAM. The features and safety of vista IMO are better then XP. Everything installed easily and works just as expected. Great for those looking to save money (compared to Vista ultimate.) Comes with a nice little tool that rates your entire system. Recognizes and utilizes up to 8gb of ram for you memory hungry program users.

Cons: hardware hungry.

Overall Review: Be sure that your RAM and Video card are sufficient. atleast 2 gigs of ram. gigabyte ds3l/ Antec neopower 500watt / e8500 / mushkin 2x2Gb / WD 160gb hd sata/ asus optical drive 18x sata - My system scored all 5.9's (highest score) except for the cpu scored 5.6. Not bad for a custom built PC. At first I was scared to try vista. But after going with vista 64 bit for 90 bucks I am very happy with my system. NO problems to date and it is safer then xp. Nicejob WIndows and nicejob NEWEGG!!!

Pros: 3.16 core 2 duo runs blazingly fast and COOL. Scores higher benchmarks in most situations then similarly priced quad cores.

Cons: Stock heat sink and fan are low quality, but you aren't paying for that, You are paying for POWER!

Overall Review: Don't follow the hype train of similarly priced quad cores if your main concern is running a few programs or games, this dual core has more power.

Pros: Modular. Affordable. Quiet. Simple installation. If you need an affordable powersupply with reliable power look no further. Antec Delivered a solid product.

Cons: The SATA chord has room for 2 sata power connections but the distance between the 2 plugs is too short to reach my HD and Optical drive. So I had to use 2 chords thus increasing clutter and decreasing airflow.

Overall Review: The con didn't really affect my system negatively by a great degree. So I did not remove and egg. But wow what a quality product I am very impressed with antecs quality of worksman ship. Gigabyte ds3l, antec neo power, e8500, evga 9800gt, WD 160gb hd, lian li pc65.

Pros: Cheap. Solid product. Installed vista 64 bit. The computer recognized all 4 gigs of mushkin ram and the e8500. Multiple usb hookups. Compaitable with many fsb speeds and ram speeds. Gigabyte makes excellent products, will purchase in future builds.

Cons: Can't run SLI or raid but you should know that by reading previous reviews. That being said you can't knock off an egg for those reasons listed above.

Overall Review: My first build. Gigabyte ds3l, antec neo power, e8500, evga 9800gt, WD 160gb hd, lian li pc65. Newegg rocks!