Pros: I didn't realize how small it was when I ordered it... the pictures aren't good enough...

Cons: It's a SATA cable... THERE ARE NO CONS.

Overall Review: Hehe... smaller is... better?

Pros: This card works as intended and I have had no issues with the hardware. I play games and use ventrilo/teamspeak, watch movies, listen to music. Using the optical cable I have had nothing but success with this card. No problems with the software included, it's not bloated or buggy, seems very stable.

Cons: Included drivers for Windows 7 64 bit were finicky but just download the up to date ones from the HT OMEGA website. You'll be fine.

Overall Review: I have no experience using the analog multichannel outputs, but I prefer using the digital optical cable anyway. I'm using a 5.1 channel amplifier, unfortunately my amp is a little old and doesn't do 7.1, but I would love to see how this card runs in 7.1 config.

Pros: I have this coupled with my overclocked Q9400 and I am seeing very high framerates (some games a solid 60 entirely) at full settings. Just for the heck of it I disabled vsync in Left 4 Dead for a moment to see this card rendering over 100 even during crazy panic events. Some games vary a bit, like Fallout 3, where I mostly get 60 with occasional dips into the low 40s and rarely below 30... ...this is the game at full settings at 1080p. All my games I have tried are playing very very well at high settings, even Warhammer Online (except during those pesky keep raids, where I see major dips but that is to be expected with the huge processor load in that game.)

Cons: None that I know of that should keep you away from this card. If anything for a con, when setting the fan to 100 full blast in evga precision, it is the loudest thing in my system. Well, now that I think about it, I don't seem to have much headroom for overclocking. Gave it a mild overclock (can't remember the numbers, sorry) and would see occasional graphical glitches in some games, so I keep the card at default. (The defaults seem to be a bit higher than the specs listed here. I don't know if it's an error on Newegg's part or evga, or if this is intended from evga. If anyone knows please share your thoughts in your reviews.)

Overall Review: Overall I am very pleased with the performance of this card. Your performance will vary, sometimes greatly, depending on your CPU. 3DMark06 scores: Test 1: 1080p, all tests, no anti-aliasing or anisotropic filtering 14096 3DMarks Test 2: 1080p, all tests, 4x AA and AF 11873 3DMarks

Pros: Have this overclocked to 3.2ghz and running stable and cool for about a month or so. I have this coupled with a GTX 275 and I am seeing very high framerates with very high graphic settings in all the games I have played so far (fallout 3, fear, warhammer online, oblivion, bioshock, left 4 dead, and more). I can encode fraps videos very fast and well (And at 1680x1050). Overall I am very pleased with the performance of this processor.

Cons: Well, at the price I had paid for it, if I had waited a bit longer I could have got a chip with double the L2 cache, but that's just how the computer industry works, and regardless I am still very pleased with my 6 megs of L2. :)

Overall Review: For those concerned about temps, I have a thermaltake v1 running at lowest speed with some artic silver, and a antec 900 case with all fans at lowest speeds. Right now (according to coretemp 0.99.4) the hottest core is at 30. While encoding videos I see it rise to the mid 40's. As far as gaming, it's hard to tell since they're all fullscreen :P I have my bios set to shut down the system if the temps reach 60 (the minimum setting in my gigabyte mobo) and I have never seen that happen. The hottest I have EVER seen was 50 while scanning for viruses, but that was only for a few moments.

Pros: Owned this board coupled with a Q9400 overclocked to 3.2ghz for over a month now and no problems. I dig the additional SATA controller, I have it set to AHCI mode and using the included eSATA bracket to use my external hard disk from time to time, and yes it is fully hot swappable under windows 7 provided you installed the drivers proper which is not difficult. As a first time overclocker I can say it was easy to set it up and the bios setup seems to have quite a lot of options for tweaking. Even coupled with a single GTX 275 I am very satisfied with the performance of this board. :D

Cons: Well, this is not a fault of the board per se, but for some reason it is bent in the corner where my ps/2 ports sit. I am not sure if it was an accident during shipping (the box did have a bit of damage in one corner) or perhaps the weight of my thermaltake v1, but I kinda doubt that. And I am certain I have the standoffs and screws in proper. Maybe its the case, I really don't know. That said, both my ps/2 mouse and keyboard work perfect so I guess it's not a major concern. I was also a little worried my cpu heatsink would not fit because of the heatsink mounted on the northbridge, but yay for me that it did.

Overall Review: It's only been a month or so but the board has been working great for some serious gaming sessions, as well as the occasional encoding of fraps videos :) For a serious gamer I would highly recommend this board and for anyone looking to build a computer I would highly recommend Gigabyte.

Pros: It's new, it's fast. Windows 7 is optimized for them. OCZ support is great, check their forums. OCZ put the ATTO benchmark results on the box. Those speeds are real.

Cons: Just be sure to tweak your OS so that all those writes don't wear down your drive so quickly. (again, research their forums for info)

Overall Review: You can get loads of valuable info over at the OCZ forums, they could even get a caveman to get this drive up and running in no time.