Joined on 06/04/07
Sweet keyboard

Pros: This is one seriously awesome keyboard and for the money its hard to argue that it isn't. Keys feel really nice, its between have a laptop keyboard and the big button keyboards. Keys are nice and quiet too.
Cons: Perhaps some more function buttons?
Overall Review: This is just too cheap to pass up.
Dead channel B, worst support ever

Pros: Nice for the price, if it works. Newegg is always the best part of buying PC hardware. They seem to actually care, and work with you.
Cons: DDR channel B dead out of the box. I am not the only one to have this issue. Where is the support phone number? You have the sales number. You can email support. Guess what, 1 day later, nothing back from them, other than the confirmation that they got my email.
Overall Review: My build went well. Got Gskil ram that is supposed to work with the board as per Asrock compatibility chart. Installed as per usual slot arrangement A1-B1. Get a message, channel B ram failed, re-seat, try again. Hmm. Swapped them around, same thing. Did A2-B2, Same. Installed both chips into A1-A2, works single channel. Tried a single chip in either of the B slots, completely dead. Just for giggles, updated bios to latest version. Same thing. Even more giggles tried 2 chips in channel B, same thing. Finally tried other known working ram, same story This is the first time, in 14 years of building computers, that I have had dead dimms. So now, I have to RMA the board. Which will take 5 days minimum. And while this happens, I get to tell my customer to go beat sand while all this happens. Oh, lets not forget that I just assembled this all for free, and get to do it again when the new board arrives. How about the home user that gets to go out and buy more thermal paste. And in the process hopes not to break everything that was assembled while removing, and installing again. Either way, the biggest pain, is they do not have any support that you can just call. Or, if this is a known issue, maybe pull the boards back, and stop giving us all these headaches. I don't know if I would try this brand ever again. I have never had an issue with Asus, figured all the great reviews were worth a try. Just my luck.
Ordered 9, so far 2 have had the screen fail

Pros: Cheap and light. Newegg return is stellar as usual.
Cons: None other than 2 out of 5 have screens die fist use. Flick, something pop, dead. Second one died, called Lenovo to complain, they said sent it back where I bought it from or send it for a 2 week turnaround to repair. Sort of not the point when I spent so much to overnight them all. I have another 4 coming tomorrow, I pray they don’t do the same. So far that’s a 40% fail rate. Will update if any of the 4 I still haven’t powered on will fail as well. Do not recommend. No one wants to deal with this.
Overall Review: The ones that work are decent enough for the price. I have 4 more coming tomorrow. I pray they work. Clearly some sort of defect with screens or ribbon cable, or something. 20 years of IT I have never experienced fail rate like this from Lenovo.
Nice big fan, but description not accurate, fan/heatsink orientation not ideal for this socket.

Pros: It's Noctua, it's nice. Huge fans. If only description would match what I was supposed to receive.
Cons: 1. Supposed to have thermal paste already applied, DOES NOT. Would not have been a problem if I knew this ahead of time, and ordered some, but I figured I did not need to. This cost me time and money. It is not easy to find a spot in midtown NYC that sells quality thermal paste. On top of that I paid double of what I would have paid ordering online. 2. Supposed to come with a metal Noctua Badge, DOES NOT. Not a functionality problem, just a misleading description. This is now the 3rd Noctua Cooler that I have purchased that did not come with the badge. I didn't complain before, but now that my thermal grease was missing, I figured why not. Either Newegg is taking them out, or Noctua needs to update the description. Considering all my fans are Noctua, I would like to have the swag that is promised in the description. 3. The cooler is oriented the wrong way. If you look at the LGA 3647 socket motherboards, the socket is longer from the rear connectors to front of Motherboard. The Noctua heat sink makes the fans face left to right, across the motherboard. This makes the fans blow inside the case, and not follow front to rear air flow.
Overall Review: I will revise rating once Noctua sends me badges. I expect nothing to happen about the thermal grease at this point as I have taken care of it already. Fan flow orientation is very poor. This is not an ideal cooler for this socket. The Noctua NH-D9 DX-3647, looks to be oriented in the correct direction. Be aware though, description also states thermal paste is already applied, and metal badge is included. I am going to presume that both those statements are not accurate.
Dell OptiPlex

Pros: Small, this thing is the size of an internal CD Drive. Like put it in your bag and take it home small.
Cons: Could be faster.
Great Board

Pros: Great board, second one I've purchased but this time for my office computer. Lots of features to tune in BIOS :) Comes with lots of accessories too.
Cons: NONE!!!
Overall Review: For the money this is one seriously awesome motherboard.