Pros: cheapest x38 board out I can find but at the same time runs with the best of them. Will yeild you better performance than the P35's and runs as fast as any other x38. 4 stage digital PWM instead of mosfets which supplies better and safer power to the CPU. 100% all solid state caps. Lot's of bios options for memory tweakers that want to tighten up timings and OC memory. One of the best CPU OC'ers I have ever had, got my Q9300 to 3ghz with hardly any extra voltage added. North bridge cooler is very well designed and is not some crazy heat pipe maze and also has the ability to have a added 60mm fan cliped on for even better north bridge cooling.

Cons: I really can't think of any to be honest. I'm actually sitting here trying think of something. For one the DK comes with a little less features than it's more expensive LT brother. But I don't really care, the bios features in here put most others to shame, so your not going to be missing much. North bridge comes with cheap paste. I instead put Arctic silver 5 on. Would be nice if the third PCIe slot was a 2.0 x16 slot. Comes with a monitoring untility that is not very accurate at reading voltages and temps. That's it. Very minor things.

Overall Review: Got my Q9300 to 400mhz FSB without a sweat with very little voltage. Very easy to tighten down memory latency and increase burst speeds. Board is very solid and stable running Vista Home premium x64, 4x1gb DRR2 800, and Radeon x1800xt. Thnak you DFI, newegg, and Intel!!!

Pros: Was a decent value at best for awhile.

Cons: Returning my card after 2 days to xxxxxxx and buying the new ATi Radeon HD 3850 from newegg. They are the same price as these cards, but completly destroy it in every game.

Overall Review: looks like Nvidia has failed me.

Pros: Best bang for buck z68 board out there bar none. Xfast lan, xfast usb, are nice utilities. Bios is easy, and a kid can OC on it. Mother board looks great with the gold caps on black board. No issues with anything(SSD, windows 7, crossfire etc) everything just works. Read other thoughts.

Cons: Not a whole lot of frill came with the motherboard. I guess that is to be expected with the price.

Overall Review: These boards are different than the ones that first came out. They have the latest bios now. So all these whiners that complained about weird cursor issues in the bios should not scare you away from this board. If you are considering the Extreme 4, it has... -better chipset cooler -more power phases -standard size(the extreme 3 is little narrow) -better lan controller (Broadcom) -more sata3 -more usb3.0 -extra pcie slot for tri/quad GPU's -displayport -firewire Is it worth the price? Depends. For those with Raid set ups, I say yes, or those that have more than two graphics cards. Other wise, save your self $70.

Pros: Well like any SSD, it's amazingly fast, small, light and consumes less than 5w. What makes this one special or just about any Crucial SSD, is that it's reliability is second to none. Check out Corsair, or OCZ... they are dropping like flies. The thing just works. Money well spent. I'm using mine as a boot drive and for a couple favorite games. Windows boots in less than 10 seconds after the bios screen.

Cons: No bracket included to fit in a standard 3.5" bay. For those with older cases, this is a bit of pain. I did not realize till I got the drive, but with some innovative thinking, I vertically mounted it inside my Lian Li k7b. I'll get a bracket later, right now it works. Price? I would love at LEAST in due time, 1gb per $1. Still not as good as a ratio as HDD, but much better than today. It will get there though.

Overall Review: Thinking about picking up two more. Two in raid 0, and a third with my 5400rpm 1TB Western Digital green drive running Intel SRT caching. I'll wait though. My mother board is a AsRock Extreme3 Gen3 z68.

Pros: -2GB of GDDR5, this card will carry you thru the years -much more efficient graphics pipeline over the HD 5 series(smaller but just as effective shaders, and two set up engines vs one set up engine in HD5), this card will get closer to its theoretical's than the HD 5850/70 ever will. -MLAA is a very cool AA mode(NV does not have this) -EQAA modes(similar to Nvida's CS mode) -Fan is pretty effective at keeping the GPU cool -OC's like a champ. I maxed out the CCC oc slider to 840 and runs stable. This is no voltage added btw. These cards can hit 950 no problem. -Power tune feature gives you control over the power draw of the card. -new driver coming out soon that will give us tessellation control override. -my edge detect(another Radeon only feature) also tippled in performance over my HD 4850. Edge detect is actually very usable now and still the most superior quality mode I have seen yet.

Cons: -Fan can be a bit on the loud side if you set control to 40% or above. Honestly, their is no reason for it to be that high though. The GPU can tolerate up to 105c and at 30% speed, it will not hit 80c nor will you be able to hear it. Very non issue.

Overall Review: As for HIS. I picked up this card with the free shipping and rebate deal. Not only that, but HIS has the coolest looking art. Sorry sapphire, your ruby interpretation is ugly and I was not a fan of your naked ice man in the past either. HIS box is nice too, with all the things you need. Get this card. I promise you, you won't be disappointed. PS. For those that are interested, this card does indeed flash into a HD 6970 for the full 24 shader arrays. Flashing is at your own expense though. Just because their is a safe switch on the card does not me it will be honored under warranty. I'm not flashing because I'm unsure if future batches will be flashable and I would rather crossfire with the same card. My system: Q9300 4gb ddr2 ram DFI x38 lan party PC power cooling 610w silencer

Pros: The pics don't do the case justice. Up close and in person, the brushed black aluminium looks brilliant. Very classy. It just looks amazing. The inside is less so steller, but seems to be plenty of room for high end video cards.

Cons: -Top mounted PSU (this makes is little bit harder to wire, though I suppose this preference) -Wire management is a pain and not what I was expecting. This partly to blame on my PSU for it's extra long cables, but the width of the case makes pretty hard to hide the cables behind the tray. If you have lot's of time and perhaps a modular PSU, I would imagine this being less so an issue. -The exspansion slot screws ABSOLUTLY refuse to screw back in. Easy to uscrew, but when I put in my sound card and video card, then tried fastening the screws to secure them, the darn thing would not want to. What I did? I used thumb screws instead which worked very well. In fact, if any case manufacturer is reading this, thumb screws for the expansion slots is amazing. -Wished they included more thumb screws. -The 5.25 drive bay slots when poped out are near impossible to sit back in. -Wish the HDD bay was 100% tooless.

Overall Review: Aside from that, I love the case. However, when my case arrived, one of the disk drive bay slots was caved in. I was mad. I know it was not UPS because of the way the case was packaged. No way it could of been them. I lucked out majorly though because that slot happened to be the slot I was going to use for my DVD drive anyway. But still... I can't help but feel that I was given a open box item or perhaps Lian-Li messed up on this one. I'm leaning more towards newegg jibbing me a bit. If I bought this full price I would raise a storm, but I got it $30 off with a code. At $60, I give this case 4 eggs. At full price I would of given it 3.