Pros: Looking forward to oc'ing with this beast! Just built my first new PC in a while and was concerned that I'd have problems cooling it. I got this after waffling between it and a zalman. Quite happy with it. Installed easily on an am3 motherboard.

Cons: Could be a con for some if your case doesn't have the room, but mine did (just barely).

Overall Review: Put this into the following system: NZXT Apollo Black SECC Steel Chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case XIGMATEK HDT-S1284EE Rosewill RP600V2-S-SL-S 600W GIGABYTE GA-MA790XT-UD4P AM3 DDR3 Crucial 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 AMD Phenom II X3 710 (will probably upgrade later)

Pros: Plenty of storage. Quiet.

Cons: Drive died just after Newegg 30 day warranty. Trying the WD RMA process. Will see if they can manage to send the replacement quickly.

Overall Review: I've had good luck with drives. Most that have died have done so long out of warranty.

Pros: Can't beat the price. I got it when it was $80-10% discount (almost covered CA tax)

Cons: Adds quite a bit of white noise to my new system.

Overall Review: I had just built my own system and was quite happy with how quiet it was relative to my old system. I had to look at the system to make sure it was on (pretty blue lights...ooohhh). Anyway, after adding this drive, I have no problem telling when its on. It's not rumbling, just loud enough to put the total system over my volume threshold.

Pros: I got this card to build my new system around. My old card was a nvidia 5700 ultra and this thing just slaps it silly! I got far cry 2 when I got the board and haven't benchmarked it, but I've got it at 1680x1050 on ultra high with a phenom 2 x3 2.6GHz cpu and it is silky smooth! Not planning to oc the board more than it already is since I don't think I'll notice much difference with the current crop of games. Looking forward to playing f.e.a.r. as more than a slide show!

Cons: Here's hoping the rebate comes through without a hitch!

Overall Review: Put this into the following system: NZXT Apollo Black SECC Steel Chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case XIGMATEK HDT-S1284EE Rosewill RP600V2-S-SL-S 600W GIGABYTE GA-MA790XT-UD4P AM3 DDR3 Crucial 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 AMD Phenom II X3 710 (will probably upgrade later)

Pros: I haven't put a system together for quite some time, but was looking forward to this chip for a while. My old system was an athlon 1.8 GHz cpu that was showing its age. This thing screams! I combined this with a 260gx video card and can run far cry 2 on ultra high setting with absolutely zero slow down. Being able to upgrade this cpu with a faster chip next year will be a nice plus. Just want to see how stable things are now, but plan to be overclocking it shortly. I've got a xigmatek monster cooler that should assist quite nicely with that.

Cons: None yet.

Overall Review: Put this into the following system: NZXT Apollo Black SECC Steel Chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case XIGMATEK HDT-S1284EE Rosewill RP600V2-S-SL-S 600W GIGABYTE GA-MA790XT-UD4P AM3 DDR3 Crucial 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 AMD Phenom II X3 710 (will probably upgrade later)

Pros: After being out of the system building scene for a while, I took the plunge with this board. The board itself is nice and thick and took the prelim parts I put in it effortlessly. I'm looking forward to upgrading to faster processors and memory in due course and all indications are that this board will support that.

Cons: I found the software that came with it adequate, but nothing special. Hopefully the rebate won't be a problem.

Overall Review: This board probably isn't the best home for a 260gx video card, but it went in without a problem and is humming along nicely. Put this into the following system: NZXT Apollo Black SECC Steel Chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case XIGMATEK HDT-S1284EE Rosewill RP600V2-S-SL-S 600W GIGABYTE GA-MA790XT-UD4P AM3 DDR3 Crucial 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 AMD Phenom II X3 710 (will probably upgrade later)