Pros: The option of digital coax or digital optical connections is great (or RCA but who's using that?!?). Device is compact and well built. Looks good in my entertainment center.

Cons: The digital coax connector on the rear of the device is a tight fit - if you have a digital coax cable with a heavy duty shroud don't expect it to fit. Mine didn't so I went with the optical. Also, setup can be a pain if you plan on daisy chaining the device via ethernet to your wireless router. This particular configuration isn't even explained in the documentation - only direct ethernet to PC is mentioned.

Overall Review: Overall I'm pretty frikin pleased with this purchase. Sound quality is top notch. I considered the squeezebox but you can't beat the price on this Linksys.

Pros: Card reader was useful to me for the past 1+ year of ownership. So was the USB. I recently tried using the power jacks for an external drive enclosure (see below).

Cons: The 5V and 12V *jacks* for external drives work properly. In fact, if you look at the 4pin molex on the back of this card reader you'll find that the pinning lines up the yellow 12V and red 5V lines the correct way. If you then test the jacks on the front panel of the card reader you'll also find the plug labelled 12V indeed produces 12V of juice and the 5V produces 5V of juice. It's not the card reader, it's the "custom" cable that Silverstone shipped with this unit. The cable reverses the 5V and 12V pins and will fry anything you hook up to it. I went through 2 drives until I figured this out. Don't use the cable shipped by Silverstone.

Overall Review: You might think you can just swap the 12V and 5V barrel plugs and get the right voltage but you can't because the two plugs have a different diameter (which is correct, that's the way it should be for this device). It's not a matter of the manufacturer putting the wrong labels on the wrong ends of the cable either. I came to my conclusions using careful testing with a multimeter. The card reader itself is 100% functional in my opinion, but you can't ship crummy cables with no QA process. Silverstone fried 2 of my hard drives, hence they get 1 egg.

Pros: The heatsinks look cooler than the other mushkin heatsinks (imo).

Cons: Will not run above 1600Mhz. Could be the mb I'm using or it could be the RAM. I suspect the RAM because Newegg discontinued it less than a week after I bought it. Truth be told these sticks are not on my mb's QVL list (but neither are any other 32GB configs really).

Overall Review: I'm keeping these because I don't have the time to waste on an RMA and there aren't a lot of reasonably priced 32GB kits out there but I usually buy other brands when it comes to RAM and I'll probably go back to those brands in the future.

Pros: Easily attains the advertised transfer rates (I tested with ATTO and hit 500MB+ per second). Looks awesome and has nice blue LED indicator lights. Small enough to fit in my Lian Li PC-V350B mATX case. Windows 7 x64 boots faster than I can pour another cup of coffee. On sale b/c it's gen 1 but that's good enough for me!

Cons: The onboard RAID may not play well with a pre-existing firmware-based RAID. If you already have a mobo-based RAID you might need to give it up (I did). It has to do with pumping both sets of option ROMS into BIOS at boot (limited NVRAM space). I actually got both RAIDs to work simultaneously but only if I didn't load the SATA controller - which would have meant no DVD drive. This is not OCZ's fault so I still give this 5 eggs. Because this card sports an onboard RAID 1, it can't support TRIM. Supposedly speed will degrade with time but I still think this is a great product and an innovative version of SSD.

Overall Review: My mobo isn't listed as compatible but with some time and patience my BIOS recognized the OCZ RAID and now it works perfectly. It's an older mobo and doesn't list PCI as a boot option in BIOS but it found this card after I played with the SATA/RAID boot options for a bit. I took the $280 gamble and won. The final upgrade to my workstation! Asus P5N7A-VM GeForce 9300/nForce 730i mATX Intel Q9650 @ 3.3ghz w/ Corsair H50 Thermaltake Extreme Spirit II A-DATA Supreme Series (4x4GB) DDR2 880MHz OCZ RevoDrive x4 120GB 2 x WD Black 640GB SATA 3.0 LG Black 8X BD-ROM LG 24" 1080p LCD

Pros: Amazing cooling performance. I have a Q9650 that used to idle under the stock intel cooler at 50 deg C (even with Artic Silver 5). I couldn't run Prime95 for more than an hour before the CPU would hit 90 degrees (yes I know the tjmax). Now my CPU idles at 35 and maxes out at 50 degrees at 100% load (and that's pre-break-in with the stock thermal compound that came with the H50). Getting heat out of the case is an obvious problem with a Lian Li V350 so I suspect that's what led to the buildup to 90 degrees, but even so this cooler rocks my world.

Cons: There's a ton of thermal compound on this thing but I guess that's to support a wide variety of CPUs (but a nice thin layer). I had to flex the tubes a good amount to fit this in a mATX case so I hope the fittings will hold!

Pros: Integrated video worth it's salt. Supports 16GB (for someday when 4GB dimms aren't so $$$$). Respectable onboard RAID performance. Plenty of nice ports. Stable, well-designed board.

Cons: Doesn't support faster RAM. With a 1333/1066MHz FSB I would have hoped for PC2 8500. It's true about the northbridge - it runs pretty darn hot - I'm looking for a good chipset HSF b/c the provided copper fan/pipe doesn't seem to do much. Speedfan says my IGP is in the 60's during idle but that might also have something to do with my microatx case setup.

Overall Review: Paired this board with a Core 2 Quad Q9650, 8GB of Kingston DDR2 800 (4x2GB) and two 640GB WD Black drives in RAID 0 in a Lian Li PC-350B case with an LG 24" 1080p display and Vista x64. And I freakin love it.