Stu R.
Joined on 02/15/08
- 5
Great fan great deal

Pros: I've bought several of these fans over the past 3 years or so and haven't had one fail yet. They come with a speed controller, fan grill and all the screws - even a screw for mounting the speed controller in a rear case slot. They also have the 3 wire connector for the board for speed monitoring although they pull their power from the large 4 wire connector.
Cons: The blades are red?
Overall Review: Fans that cost 4x as much don't have all the extras these have.
Super junky

Pros: 8 SATA ports, Built in WiFi, power and reset buttons on board.
Cons: 3 bad boards in a row. All 3 boards were rev 401. 402 and 500 are out so these are a little old. Came with BIOS 39 and I immediately upgraded to 64. Boards 1 & 3 started out ok and within an hour degraded to the point of not posting. They both eventually hung on POST 92 which is keyboard detection. Tried different keyboards and no keyboard with same results. All parts work fine when I swap in a known good Gigabyte board. Tried different memory & power supply, remove battery, load BIOS defaults etc. Board #2 just gave a memory error beep code right out of the box.
Overall Review: I've used lots of intel boards and very rarely have any problems. This model must be a lemon. SATA ports very difficult to reach in an Antec 300 case.
Works great Win7x64

Pros: Worked great and Windows 7x64 installed drivers and saw the old HP5L connected to it all automatically. Didn't use the CD that came with it.
Cons: None so far
Does not fit Gigabyte X58A-UD7

Pros: Intel NIC
Cons: Hits heat sink on X58A-UD7's only PCI slot.
Overall Review: I should have checked the clearance before ordering.
Bought 2 one DOA

Pros: SATA3, USB3, 2 old PCI slots, PS/2
Cons: No floppy or PATA like most Gigabyte boards, no POST display or speaker to beep codes. One board's PCIEx16 slot was bad out of the box. The 4x slot worked so I could at least test everything else.
Overall Review: New Egg's customer service is the best! Less than 5 minutes on the phone to get the replacement that should show up tomorrow!
