Pros: Look man, its paste. I don't know about this whole tri-linear ceramic thermal compound jazz, but this is some paste. Its some great paste, don't get me wrong. But this is paste my friends. It does a fine job of getting the job done.

Cons: You may think they forgot to ship it to you, but they didn't. It's wrapped up in some of the bubble wrap. Keep searching, its in that box somewhere. Somewhere in that box is your $7 tube of paste.

Overall Review: Ralph might eat this paste. I would not recommend eating this paste.

Pros: When it worked, it was fast.

Cons: Crpped out and won't turn on at all after one measly power outage. No other hardware failed, just the SSD. This Neutron SSD had my OS and all my applications on it, so thankfully not much was lost. Then again, this is supposed to be a reliable SSD, and you pay a premium. Obviously not worth that at all. My research indicates Intel SSD is more reliable these days. Corsair seems to have gone majorly downhill here. Forums are cluttered with Corsair SSDs that have failed after power outage. Buyer beware!

Overall Review: Going to try for a warranty claim since this has 5 years and the drive was purchased in 2013. Did I forget to mention that? The drive is less than a year old and failed after one measly power outage (no other hardware affected all over the house in multiple other pcs/electronics)

Pros: More SATA ports, Gen 5 SSD support, easy to work on, booted on the first try, I like easy access to CMOS battery as well for the long term

Cons: Needs more SATA ports, what happened to support for more than 6 SATA?? Little pricey for what is essentially an older board B650. No paper back manual is just a cheap move by MSI.

Overall Review: Paired this board with 7800x3d and 4070 Super. Happy with the results. Was very happy it booted on first try with no issues and did not require a BIOS update. Price has come down a little in last few months, probably going to buy a second for another similar build. I would have loved to find 8 SATA support board but those apparently don't exist anymore...it's 2 to 3 SSD and then 2 or 4 or 6 SATA. I love a big tower with a truckload of hard drives and 2 optical drives too! Looks like I'll be adding SATA via PCI.

Pros: Bought and installed in March very easily. Died in July. Initiated RMA. Not fun to have to troubleshoot an overheating CPU. After you finish all that you get to install the stock CPU cooler. Yup, it was the CM Seidon 120V that failed. Causing the CPU to see north of 80C

Cons: Dies on you.

Overall Review: My case did not allow me access to the bottom of the motherboard. Had to complete remove board to uninstall Seidon and install stock cooler. Ultra bad. I blame Canada.

Pros: Have had this thing in a home theatre library working 24/7 for over a year. No issues. Excellent drive for the price. Plenty of space and speed for 1080p movies and TV. Formats to 1.81TB in Windows. Not bad at all.

Cons: none.

Overall Review: 4TB is now available but 2TB is where the sweet price point is currently.

Pros: Have had this board installed for about a week. Build went very easy. The board is obviously high quality given the price point. Sure you could get another 10 port SATA for $160-$180, but this board has about ten billion crazy addons that make up the price differential. BIOS is decent. Overlclocking profiles do make things easier, but those will only work to a certain point...Make sure you switch to XMP profile if you purchase high speed DDR3. It's easy, and I did find the board detected the profiles correctly. The core i7 and GSKILL overclocked easily to 3.9 on the basic mobo profile. Board comes with some whiz-bang stuff. Most of it's good, some of it's useless. At least the SATA ports have 90deg angles on them. Works well since the SATA ports are mounted to the side. Plenty of fan leads, though I found I ran at the top of the board and I had to route some fan cables down to find slots on the motherboard. Since my install ultimately went down extremely easily and this board has performed as expected I think it's worthy of the 5 eggs. That's my initial reaction, will update as time passes. The 10x SATA, socket 1150, Z87, and extras were what sold me. Now it just needs to work reliably for the duration. I have had Asus in the past with no problems on the mobo, lets see how this one does.

Cons: Wish it was cheaper, but it's understandable.

Overall Review: If all you need is Z87 and 10x SATA you can save $100 by sacrificing on all the extras. If you don't care, like Asus, want the extras, then this works great.