Joined on 12/24/06
Great motherboard for the price
Pros: I was skeptical at first since there were no reviews, but I was building a PC for a friend and this turned out to be a lot better then I thought. It has all your overclocking features and the board felt very sturdy. It's pretty small, but still offers absolutely anything you would need especially if your on a budget.
Cons: The cpu power plug is in an awkward area which my psu's molex cable has to be awkwardly placed because of it, which scared me at times because I thought the molex cable would stop the cpu fan. I was finally able to pin the cable down, but the awkward placement of the plug made me waste 10 minutes trying to find better cable management.
Overall Review: It's a great motherboard for the price and gets the job done. I built my friend a AMD Phenom 8450 and OC'd it to 2.5ghz which isn't amazing, but I didn't even try I just put the numbers in and booted and everything was stable.
Misinformed due to review here
Pros: It's a great quality motherboard and it quite a looker too. The bios are very friendly and easy to use and it was very easy to install everything. Was done in under 5 minutes.
Cons: If you're looking to upgrade to an APU there really are no cons. This is an amazing board.
Overall Review: Might say that the purchase isn't verified, but that's because I received it as a gift from my wife on her account. I wanted to upgrade my system as I haven't upgraded in years and I didn't do much research this time around and I made some big mistakes. Went from a Q9550 to an A8 6600K which wasn't really an improvement and I went with this board because one of the reviewers indicated that it supported SLI. It Does not support SLI!!! Do not make the mistake I did! No where does the product even indicate supporting SLI. I'm very disappointed, but not in the product just my lack of research into the parts I was getting.
Great Case
Pros: Good airflow. AMD Phenom 8450 idled at 35 @ 2.5ghz. It was fairly easy to set up. Also very attractive glossy finish.
Cons: the bottom piece where most cases use for the usb, on this case wasn't anything which was cool, but it was off from the case which I'm sure was UPS's fault, but it was annoying to pop it back into place.
Overall Review: Great case, little money in your wallet? Need a case? Buy this 1.
Great psu
Pros: The psu worked and i had it temporarily hooked up to a 9800GT and it worked flawlessly. It also allowed me to overclock fairly easily which was pretty cool for a very fairly priced psu. Don't let the price fool you this is perfect for budget/mediocre pc builds.
Cons: The cables were a mess which is why I docked a star. I had a bit of trouble which can be do to my motherboard layout as well, but the cpu power connector had a 4 pin molex cable splitting from the same wire( like a "Y") and the 4 pin molex wire was very sturdy/strong and it was hard to move in a place which I was guaranteed it wouldn't hit and stop the cpu or case fan. I got it done by pinning it down, but this is my reason for docking 1 star.
Overall Review: If your on a budget and don't plan on buying gtx 280's in SLI then buy this. It will be worth every buck and seemed very well built to last you quite some time.