Pros: I have built 6 custom PC's and this case was the easiest to build and highest quality. Just about every aspect of the case made it easy to build. Between the design, price, and quality Apevia is now my preferred case vendor.

Cons: the temperature display on the LCD is only viewable at a strait-on angle. The stand-off screw position advice didn't match what I actually needed for my AM2 mobo. After trusting the instructions I had to take out the mobo and reposition the stand-offs.

Overall Review: Can somebody please make mid-tower cases that are not so deep? I used this case to build an HTPC. The depth of all the midtowers available were too deep for just about any furntiture configuration. Sure, I could have bought a HTPC designed case but the prices and options were ugly.

Pros: Draws low power, doesn't require a fan.

Cons: I have this in an HTPC configuration plugged into a Samsung 46" LCD HDTV. When set to the 1080p resolution this card struggles with video as bad as I did running the mile in gym class during high school. Any high quality full screen video at that resolution appears in slow motion. Which I actually appreciate when viewing p*rn (that "feature" actually bumped up its overall rating in my book).

Overall Review: Lesson learned, when a card says its max resolution is just above 1920x1080 it means it probably struggles with it. Also, it's Windows Vista graphics rating was only 5.0. Bottom-line... if using 1080p resolution don't buy anything lower than an nVidia 8600GT

Pros: The price for performance was near impossible to beat. It has very little subscription-based software preloaded. It's just an altogether great machine for the price. I have not encountered even the slightest issue with this in the month since I received it.

Cons: Keyboard is small and not ergonomic. They might as well have not included the keyboard. There is no DVI video output. You have to use VGA or HDMI to the monitor. I realize that's not a big deal for most people but it was frustrating for the setup that this PC filled in my house.

Overall Review: Obviously this isn't a high-end gaming rig, it has no SSD hard-drive, but for this price you will have a tough time beating this PC. If you need a PC for your home (or light business workloads) that will suit you for years to come it this is it.

Pros: Hardware installed easy. The drivers installed easy. I havn't noticed any problems. It feels like video performance is better especially on WMV and MP4 video compared to what I was using.

Cons: I installed this on a Win 7 PC to replace a 256MB graphics card I bought 6 years ago. I was disappointed to see my Windows Experience Index score go from a 4.6 down to a 4.1 after installing this one. Apparently it doesn't support Windows Aero graphics very well. One minor disappointment is the package shipped with software to support the card. Sadly the rest of the hardware in my PC doesn't support all the cool features in the shipped software. No way of knowing that ahead of time.

Overall Review: It was shipped USPS. My local postal dude mis-delivered it so it took an extra week of bouncing around my town before I got it. I frown on companies that ship USPS. Any hardware that gets those basic pros that I listed right gets 3 stars from me. The 4th start is for value. The Windows Aero performance prevents me from giving a 5th star.

Pros: This is the most beautifaully designed RAM I have ever seen. The gold finished case made me think it was designed by Snoop Dogg. I wish these chips could appear on the outside of the case. The speed is incredible it produces a 5.9 Windows Vista score. If you are into Hip-Hop you need these memory chips.

Cons: It's not diamond studded

Overall Review: Case and MoBo manufacturers should get together and design components that allow these chips to appear on the outside of the case.

Pros: It works as described. I have mine plugged into a Samsung 46" HDTV LCD and an HTPC which outputs video through DVI. The TV recognized the 1080p resolution from the PC and the recorded TV I pass through it. Temporarily I had this cable plugged into my DVD player to the TV. the HDMI 1.3 CEC functionality of my TV and DVD player worked just fine.

Cons: Can't think of one

Overall Review: Once you experience a system with HDMI you won't go back. Since uncompressed digital audio also goes through the cable I was able to substantially reduce the cables in my media center and I got better digital sound than I did before.