Pros: I got one of these free with a Maxtor 250GB SATA drive a long time ago, and now I'm buying another one for a new system I'm building. It works flawlessly under both XP and SuSE 9.3 - even hdparm works on SuSE 9.3 on the SATA drives. Current system which has card installed has five hard drives and two DVD burners (two SATA and one PATA on the Promise board). Media server I'm building (2.0TB on seven hard drives currently) will use this card to replace motherboard VIA SATA controller (Promise SATA controller is better supported under Linux than VIA, IMHO).

Cons: None

Pros: Everything except the sound

Cons: Tried two and both emitted a very annoying high pitch whine.

Overall Review: I have two other Antec power supplies in other PCs (TruePower series) and they are quiet. Guess their supplier of the EarthWatts series is cutting corners to lower costs. Going to try a Seasonic S12 next.

Pros: Works as it should

Cons: Non-standard drawer dimensions means I can't use the optical drive covers in my Antec Sonata. The drawer won't fit through the flip-down opening in the cover

Pros: Easy setup, performs as advertised

Cons: Speeds improved, but still are not that impressive.

Overall Review: My wife's computer is in in her craft room, on a different floor from my home office where I have a Dlink DIR-655 (H/W revision A, so it's older) wireless router. She had a Medialink Wireless-N USB adapter, which only could get about 8Mbps of throughput with WPA2 enabled. With the EnGenius wireless repeater connected to the Ethernet port on her computer, we're seeing 20-25Mbps, so at least she is able to utilize all of our cable Internet bandwidth. However, even when the repeater was in the same room with the Dlink DIR-655, I was only connecting at 65Mbps, and total throughput was around 30Mbps. Overall it's an improvement, but I was hoping for much higher speeds for our own file sharing. My laptop connects at 130Mbps when in the same room as the router, and I get about 60Mbps of throughput on it.

Pros: Very cheap. Does the job. Lack of features means nothing gets in the way when installing it.

Cons: Just the basics. No frills. No control over clocks, timing, core unlocking, etc. No Firewire, no USB 3.0. What do you expect at this price point?

Overall Review: Bought this to upgrade the hand-me-down PC my wife was using who now wants to edit video. Pulled out the 5-1/2 year old high-end (at the time) Gigabyte board and E6300 C2D, replaced it with this, a Phenom II 960T, 8GB of DDR3-1333 memory, and a Nvidia GT 430 pulled from another system. Ran a couple passes of MemTest86+, then cloned her old Windows 7 boot drive, rebooted, and let it detect all the hardware changes (I know it's risky but I do this all the time and have never had a problem. I'm an EE and a S/W developer and can get myself out of trouble if I'm ever in it.). One reboot later all the new H/W was working and she's happily editing her crafting videos. Gave it four stars because it is soooo basic. Tremendous value, though free beats cheap.

Pros: Couldn't pass these up at $59AR. Even these are marketed as P67 XMP compatible, I'm actually running these in an AMD motherboard at DDR1333 rates. I installed them in a new build, fired up MemTest86+, let it run for a few hours (five passes I think), no errors. Installed an OS and have not experienced any problems at all. No idea how stable they would be if you overclock, but they are rock solid in a stock system.

Cons: None so far.