Pros: Great value, tons of features, rock solid stability.

Cons: Only 4 internal SATA ports. The board has 2 eSATA ports and I'm not sure who would buy a $60 board and use both. It would have been nicer to have 5 internal ports and one external.

Overall Review: At first the board didn't post. I reset the bios and removed/reinserted the ram & video card and it booted right up. I haven’t had a single problem with it yet. I’ve bought ASRock boards before and I have come to expect this value/stability from them. Don’t forget that ASRock is a subsidiary of ASUS. Also, if you are going to use DDR3-1600, you’ll have to manually select that speed in the bios.

Pros: Built a brand new Win7 x64 system around this drive a little bit more than a year ago. (3ghz Phenom quad & 4gb DDR3) Out of the box i was getting sequential write speeds in the 190 MB/s ballpark. Win7 booted up in 30 sec flat. 5000 hours later the write speeds still held up. Sequential write speeds were around 60-80 MB/s for about the first 2500 hours, but quickly dropped off...

Cons: After around 2500 hours (6 months for me), I noticed problems with youtube videos skipping and google maps not running smoothly. I checked the SSD's performance using Crystal Disk Mark, as I had done before. Sequential write speeds had dropped to around 20-30 MB/s. Hoping this was a fluke I ignored it for a few months. At around the 5000 hour mark I tested the write speeds again, this time discovering that they had dropped down to 8-15 MB/s! Naturally I went to Patriot's site and updated the firmware to the latest version (3.005). Patriot doesn't provide an offline/bootable method to update the FW, so I had to put the drive in another PC and update the FW from within windows. No noticable performance increases resulted from the latest FW update. I RMA'd the drive back to Patriot (who were very helpful). 3 weeks later they send me a brand new drive running the latest FW. Unfortunatly this new drive had the same terrible sequential write speeds as the old drive, right out of the box.

Overall Review: I suppose it's possible that later firmware versions somehow sabotaged the drive's sequential write speed, at least for my hardware configuration, but I find this unlikely. Later FW versions enabled TRIM for the drive (according to Patriot) although many users are skeptical of this as there is no real way to check if TRIM is working in Win7. Read speeds were always excellent with this drive. Stability was excellent. Aside from horrible write speeds the drive has been rock solid for over 5000 hours so far. At this point I'm not going to spend anymore time trying to get another drive from Patriot. The problem is with the entire product line. Maybe it's not a problem at all, maybe this drive is suposed to have a 15 MB/s sequential write. I'm going to switch to a WD Raptor or an Intel SSD.

Pros: Great value, performance, and stability.

Cons: None

Pros: Faster than any hard disk, and faster than most other SSDs. Detected by the BIOS without any issues. Windows 7 runs stable and quick.

Cons: Doesn't support TRIM (yet) which is what you’ll need to get those insanely fast read/write times.

Overall Review: I bought this expecting a 10-15 second Windows 7 boot time. Instead I’m getting 25-30 seconds, but I’m not disappointed. I should have done my research. If you want a drive that’s going to perform like that, find a Patriot or Intel that supports TRIM technology. Even without TRIM, read speeds are better than anything you’ll ever get from a WD Raptor, but write speeds are not. If insanely fast speed is what you’re looking for, either get an SSD with TRIM or get a Raptor.

Pros: Great value, extremely stable & powerful, runs very cool with stock AMD heatsink.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Maybe I've been doing something wrong all these years when installing CPUs, but this CPU runs cooler than anyone I’ve ever seen before…and with the stock heatsink!

Pros: Works as advertized.

Cons: Overpriced, no fan.

Overall Review: If a metal adapter bracket was available I would have bought that instead.