Pros: Perfect for my HTPC box. Long cable that came with the motherboard was way too long.

Cons: I would have liked it better if it had an L-shape or right angled connector. Had to bend it a little to get it to fit in case (Asus Pundit P1-AH2)

Overall Review: Locking connectors do the job. I forgot they were there and tried to yank it out and broke off a piece of my hardisk that was holding the cable in. Cable survived unscathed. Impressed. Word of advice to others - the locking clip really works make sure to release clip!

Pros: It's small. It's well built. It's the perfect form factor for a HTPC.

Cons: Paired it with an AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350 Brisbane 2.1GHz. CPU could not be ID'ed by the motherboard. System refused to post at first. No lights, fans running full blast. Was going to RMA it until I tried to clear the bios settings using the jumpers following the instructions listed in the detailed manual (available online or on the Pundit driver disk). That did the trick though the bios still reported a checksum error. Bios still shows "unknown AMD processor" though even though it is the latest version - 4.04. I got rid of the stock fan that comes with the case. It was NOISY and refused to come under motherboard fan speed control. I unscrewed the shroud and used the stock CPU fan that came with my processor instead. MUCH quieter. Installed Windows Vista Home Premium. Lots of hiccups. Get the realtek audio drivers from the net. Those on the disk won't run. Get the latest NVIDIA nforce drivers from the NVIDIA website for the graphics etc

Overall Review: You might want to look into getting special SATA cables (the L shaped kinds) if you are going to install an SATA optical drive. Mine barely squeezed in there. I taped on a heatsink for the southbridge for my own piece of mind. Glued on a 40mm fan on the northbridge heat sink.

Pros: It's Vista. it's fairly cheap when purchased as a system builder's pack.

Cons: My disk came with faulty data or at least that's what i thought because I couldn't get it to install. Turned out in the end that there was a perfect circle of scratched surface right where a crucial file was. I had to rebuff and polish the disk before it could be read by my drive.

Pros: Loved that it has its own trackball. Mouse keys are unconventionally placed but surprisingly intuitive to use. Pairing with USB dongle was painless.

Cons: Keys are harder to press for those used to laptops. Cramped keyboard. Will take a while for touch typists to become used to. Numlock comes on every reboot which changes some of the key assignments which irritates me because my windows password has an o which when the numlock is on becomes a 6. I have to remember to hit the numlock key before inputting password. Finally got fed up and set computer to enter suspend and I never reboot so numlock stays off.

Pros: Drive really does run quieter than most 7200 RPM drives I've seen. Has both SATA and old fashion ATA power connector so can be used without molex-SATA power adaptor if your power supply doesn't provide that.

Cons: None

Pros: About the only fan controller that fits into the PCI slot.

Cons: I measured the function of this fan controller. It varied the supplied voltage from 7.0 V to 11.8V. Made little to no difference to the attached fan it was controlling. Speed was exactly the same. Would have liked to see a wider range of control.