Pros: This board is a one-of-a-kind product. If you want to build the fastest "Workstation" you possibly can at any price as of the time I write this, this is the board you *must* get. As the only overclockable Intel 5520 based motherboard it's the only way you can expect to push any of the awesome Xeon 5500 or 5600 series processors to their full potential. I have been very impressed by the overall build quality and finish of this motherboard, and the overclocking options. Not that I really care, but the red and black aesthetic is pretty nice.

Cons: While the overclocking options are extensive, they're not as well laid out on some other boards. You don't have the option of loading a BIOS from inside the BIOS menu. You have to have an OS loaded, which got me in to trouble, as I have Engineering Sample versions of the Xeon E5530, which aren't supported by this board. Luckily with the help of a borrowed CPU and a serious l33t hookup with a hacked BIOS from the guys over at [H]ard|OCP forums I'm off and running. I would qualify the non-standard HPTX form factor as a real con. I can confirm that it does indeed fit in the Lian Li PC-P80 (Item #: N82E16811112159), but only barely, and if you're serious you should probably buy an M3-0.50 drill and tap set so you can tap a couple of extra holes in the motherboard tray of that case to mount the board more securely. Plastic standoffs with adhesive pads are included with the SR-2, but for a board this heavy, with the serious heatsinks most people are likely be using they're hardly an answe

Overall Review: Right now I'm using: 12x 1GB PC8500 ECC DIMMS from some Nehalem Mac Pros some clients upgraded. I'm also using a 550 Watt Antec power supply. Along with a GeForce GTX 260 and a GeForce GTS 8800 320MB card. These are all stop-gap measures. I'm saving my pennies to get: (in order of necessity) A nice 1100 watt power supply: (Item#: N82E16817814019) 2x 12GB kits (3x 4GB) of fast, non-ECC RAM (a trade-off: overclockability for stability... I'm sort of vacillating on this one) (Item#: N82E16820231356) 2x GeForce GTX 470 (Item#: N82E16814130550) a nice power supply Seriously, I'm sort of amazed that my three year old 550 Watt Antec power supply is even managing to boot this thing. It's a testament to its high build quality, but even at stock voltages and speeds on all components the PS is pumping out a lot of heat. I'm even afraid to really push the graphics cards. Luckily 3D viewports, not games are my big 3D application. When my system is up to snuff for OCing I'll

Pros: Relatively compact, relatively clean internal configuration, high quality motherboard and power supply, good selection of front ports.

Cons: This case is very minimal. not cheap, just very, very basic. The hard drive mounting is very primitive, and there are absolutely no frills like mounting for 2.5" hard drives, etc. The included cable management accessories are nice, but that's it. Since none of the CPUs designed for this barebones come with included heatsinks you'd better add at least an additional $60 or so to get proper heatsinks. N82E16816101683 is the Supermicro specified part, listed under "optional accessories" At time of review this adds an additional $90 to this barebones.

Overall Review: While the photos on NewEgg do indicate that heatsinks aren't included the images on Supermicro's site are very misleading. Additionally I've purchased dozens of Supermicro barebones server and workstation kits and I can't remember a single one that was designed to work with server-class CPUs that didn't include the required heatsink solution. This is a bad trend!

Pros: There's a thing called the internet where one can look up information about products

Cons: Newegg didn't provide the information. I don't own this case, and can't compare it to others such as as Pelican cases.

Overall Review: Model # BH11856 Weight 1.25 lbs Included Accessories Cubed foam, removable top and bottom foam Warranty 1 Year Limited Warranty Outer Size 8.3" x 3.5" x 6.6" Inner Size 7.30" x 2.95" x 4.83" Case Material Polypropylene Padding Material Open-cell pre-perforated cubed foam and egg crate foam padding Working Temperature -10°F ~ 210 °F Lockable Fittings Two molded in lock holes that accept shackle diameter up to 5mm Watertight Seal Yes Crushproof Yes

Pros: Pretty small, good adjustability and build quality. Reasonable picture quality for the price.

Cons: Automatically installs cr@pware. Absolutely refuses to run more than 4 at once. Running more than 2 at once is difficult

Overall Review: I purchased 15 of these from Newegg for a client. We were setting up an installation and needed many small, easily positioned webcams at a reasonable price that could do pretty good 720p video. These seemed like they would do very nicely. Their picture quality is fine, and their form factor and build quality is very good. They do, however automatically attempt to install a bloated and useless software suite whenever you plug them in to a computer with automatic driver updates enabled. It doesn't even give you a choice, despite the fact that Windows 7 comes with a driver included. The software makes it very difficult to run multiple instances of this webcam on the same computer, an issue shared by many other Microsoft cams it seems from my testing. I realize this is hardly a common application, and shouldn't dissuade most buyers, but if you do have such an application, the contemporary Logitech devices of the same price don't suffer this issue. These are more ergonomic though.

Pros: The price/performance ratio of these cards is fine, and I haven't had any failures with the three of them I own.

Cons: I purchased these cards to boot Linux on some old Pentium IV micro ATX boards I had around. Unfortunately these cards are reported to the BIOS as "removable media". Many boards are capable of booting from removable media tagged flash memory, but many more are not. I found that the much faster (and much more expensive) SanDisk cards (N82E16820171416) work on my old machines. Oh well. They're functioning fine as backup CF cards for my Canon 5D

Overall Review: The write performance on these cards is nothing to write home about. The read performance is better, but I wouldn't call it 60MB/s maybe 30 sustained. For the price, they're fine in some applications.

Pros: So after the experience of my friend, I suggested this system to another client. Again I got them a 4GB memory module. This time, however I wiped the unit before doing anything else, and installed the 64 bit version of Windows 7 Pro. The same license covers both versions so that's all good. From a technician's perspective, I can't emphasize enough how easy this system is to service. You just push a little harder on the battery latches and the bottom panel pops open, allowing instant access to RAM, hard drive and optical drive, as well as wireless card. (there is an empty solder location for another mini-PCIe slot which is unfortunately not included in this model.

Cons: It is a giant pain in the behind to have to re-install the OS and all the drivers and utilities, but HPs website doesn't make finding them too hard. There are about 800MB of stuff though... How does a bluetooth driver get to be 40MB?

Overall Review: This is still an amazingly good deal for a Sandybridge based laptop. It seems to get about 4 hours of battery life under normal usage, the display is pretty good (and matte), the audio is quite serviceable, and the fingerprint reader works great! HP's support is pretty good, and this thing is super cheap! It's a great deal!