Pros: Looks good, stays cool. Lots of Plugs for both molex and Sata drives. Ground cable for extra protection. Multiple 4 and 6 pin connections for PCI-e. 56 Amp output for high end video cards.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Just wish I had got the modular connection version, but wasn't available when I picked this up. And the price was just right. Oh yeah and 56A out makes it perfect for high end vid cards. After looking at dozens of PSU's I found this to be one of the few with a high enough Amp output for the New 8800 series recommendations.

Pros: Second one I have bought, the first one works fine but this one not so much. It introduced into my Raid 1 without a problem and works ok.

Cons: Causes the system to hang 60% of the time as it engages what I think is the read arm. I can hear it clicking in there, no good gonna send it back.

Overall Review: Gonna go for WD till seagate works out their flaws.

Pros: Picked this up to replace a 3ware 9650se that I had been running in my main home PC. Plan on utilizing the online expansion and raid migration as I add drives. Currently running a 3TB Raid 1 with WD red drives without any problem. The card is full featured and the web GUI is super easy to use. I found that both the NIC port in band as well as the web GUI are the same interface which makes it super easy to navigate. Spun up the 1TB drive and copied one of the old RAID 1 drives over to it with an average write speed of 114MB/s with the source drive plugged into the on-board SATA port. Noticed a slight degridation in performance when I copied with the source being on the controller card, but I think that was because I had it pulled in as pass through on the same channel, not sure though.

Cons: None thus far.

Overall Review: I am not utilizing this as a corporate or server environment RAID card and this is in my home PC and it will eventually be moved to a home file server. I purchased this because of the amazing features that it has as well as the fact that Areca is a rockstar when it comes to RAID controllers.

Pros: This thing was easy to install and keeps my 8350 at nice temps even with prime 95 running I didn't see temps over 49C in a 73-75F room. The configuration I am using pushes all heat from the radiator out of the back of the case. The pump is practically silent and with the Thermaltake A2329 fan on it for blowing only through the radiator, no pull. The loudest part of my rig is now the video card.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Heard of issues with temps on VRM/Mosfet due to the power and temps the 8350 puts off. So far no problems running the below configuration. MSI 970 Gaming 8GB of Mushkin Ridgeback 2133 (MemoryModel 997167R) 8350 non-overclocked Cooler Master Seidon 120M (sealed liquid cooler) Geforce 465 GTX EVGA 750W Gold Plus Supernova Areca 1224-8i (Raid card) Mushkin 120GB Chronos for boot Samsung Evo 120GB for game drive Ran Prime 95 for 1.5 hours on torture test. With the 120MM fan on full blast the proc got to 49C for each core and the Mobo got to 43C. I generally run the fan at 1/2 spped and the liquid cooler is practically silent.

Pros: The memory ran at spec once I chose the XMP profile that was pulled from the modules. No problems thus far.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Running at spec with 8350 in the following configuration. MSI 970 Gaming 8GB of Mushkin Ridgeback 2133 (MemoryModel 997167R) 8350 non-overclocked Cooler Master Seidon 120M (sealed liquid cooler) Geforce 465 GTX EVGA 750W Gold Plus Supernova Areca 1224-8i (Raid card) Mushkin 120GB Chronos for boot Samsung Evo 120GB for game drive

Pros: Works well and picked up my memory modules XMP profile so it clocked the memory to 9-10-10-28 at 2133 without a problem. Runs cool in my opinion even though others have stated that it runs hot with the 8350 I have in it. Usual board temp reports no more than 43C even with the 8350 running on Prime 95 for 1.5 hours on torture test I didn't see the board hit above 43C. We have AC so that is running of course and I would say the usual temp inside is about 73-75F. Thus far my 2133 memory modules run at 2133 according to CPU-Z by CPUID an the proc is running at fluctuating speeds because I leave cool and quiet on for power and thermal savings.

Cons: The only con I can think of is the Network software for the Killer e2200 NIC. I found that the software was garbage and took longer to start the NIC than I wanted since SabNZBD requires the NIC on to start properly to bind to the IP. To fix this, I installed the NIC software and then I went into the installed directory in Windows and found the drivers and simply copied them to another location. Once I did that I removed the NIC software and un-installed the NIC device. Rebooted and then pointed to the drivers I previously copied to get the NIC to work and now the NIC starts on boot WITHOUT the Killer software that is supposed to be used.

Overall Review: Heard of issues with temps on VRM/Mosfet due to the power and temps the 8350 puts off. So far no problems running the below configuration. MSI 970 Gaming 8GB of Mushkin Ridgeback 2133 (MemoryModel 997167R) 8350 non-overclocked Cooler Master Seidon 120M (sealed liquid cooler) Geforce 465 GTX EVGA 750W Gold Plus Supernova Areca 1224-8i (Raid card) Mushkin 120GB Chronos for boot Samsung Evo 120GB for game drive Ran Prime 95 for 1.5 hours on torture test. With the 120MM fan on full blast the proc got to 49C for each core and the Mobo got to 43C. I generally run the fan at 1/2 spped and the liquid cooler is practically silent.