Pros: - Just works out of the box. No issues whatsoever. - Runs very cold - Very quiet: doesn't activate the top fan unless actually needed. My new haswell 4th gen build temperature seems to be always low, so it stays this way all the time. - Prior experience with Corsair PSUs is that they last for a long time, my other, older system has run for many years with an older Corsair PSU. - Only two cable-trunks are permanently attached: 1) Thick trunk + Molex connector for the motherboard main, and 2) thinner trunk for the CPU. Both are well wrapped as trunks so you don't see a mess of small cables. - The rest is 100% modular, so you only use the cables you need. This significantly reduces box cable clutter - SATA power cables have lots of terminators so you can run only one cable for many separate disk-drives - Comes with lots of spare cables and a nice velcro-closing bag to store them. - Looks good

Cons: none I can think of

Overall Review: Newegg as usual excelled in fast shipping and great service & email notifications. Never had such a clean (few cables) system before. It is good that power supplies are OS agnostic, so yes, it runs Linux :)

Pros: - Minimalist modular design - Very important: can pick-and-chose your own cables (not limited to certain length) - Works very well so far - Cheap

Cons: - There are no closed SATA L sockets. Only the L itself and two tiny plastic guide pins on the sides - so cables with latches can't actually lock in. There's no enclosing compartment to latch into. - A bit lose seating on the far side of the screw - note that this is just a connector, so it doesn't sit inside any PCI socket. Its only support is the single screw on one side of the metal. - One of the tiny black plastic guide pins on the side of the sata socket arrived broken (I super glued it back rather than RMA-ing since it was minor)

Overall Review: I would have been happy to pay twice for a really solid product with real cable latching. The current internal plug is so loose that I can disconnect the internal cable with a little blow of air. This product does its job, but it could have been designed way better with a really small addional attention to detail: support cable latching. OTOH: I found no viable alternative. the fixed brackets I saw had too short (about 1 foot) SATA cables attached to them so I couldn't make them work in my system where I need about 2 feet to reach from the back into the MoBo SATA socket array.

Pros: - Low profile - Good airflow - Supposedly very quiet (I didn't have a chance to check)

Cons: If you're not very technical, on the hardware side, don't get into this adventure. Unlike the stock Intel cooler which comes with the CPU in just one piece and is trival (less than 1 minute) to install - this cooler is way too complex to install. To install the stock cooler, just place the 4 legs over the 4-holes, press down and lock each leg using a 90-degree turn as marked on the black plastic. Done. To install this one you need to read the instructions, figure out which parts are relevant to your socket/MoBo (it is supposed to support several different sockets but all the parts are mixed) and which are not. Then you need to assemble the ones which are relevant in the right order and way. Problem is, there are too many little metal parts in the box and the diagrams are not very clear. In the end, I simply gave up and didn't bother. The stock heat-sink is pretty quiet and works well (Temp below 40C at 3.5GHz for the Core i7 4771 Intel CPU) It is a shame, because I feel it could have been a great cooler if more thought would have been devoted to designing for installation simplicity. There's no good reason why it couldn't be as simple to install as the stock cooler given the right design.

Overall Review: The specs say it is "socket 1150" (Intel 4th gen) compatible. Looking at the parts and the 4 round holes I have on my MoBo, I couldn't figure out where the myriad of little metal parts should go. Wondering - should I ship this back to new egg or keep or spend a long evening and retry.

Pros: - Superbly designed, clean, good labels on connectors - Built in wireless, with excellent reception and performance - Magnetic base WiFi antenna - Latest and greatest (4th gen) Intel socket (1150, Haswell) and chipset (Z87) - 8 SATA ports - VGA, DVI, HDMI, and DIsplay Port (DP), all supported - SLI bridge - Plenty of space for memory and additional cards - Very easy to upgrade firmware via USB - Plenty of USB3 connectors - Auto detect of memory speed via XMP and optimize for it - 2-digit 8-segment LED with codes to say what BIOS is doing - On MoBo hard switches for optimal vs conservative performance - Very good included booklet documentation and explanations

Cons: BIOS leaves a lot to be desired. - User interface of UEFI bios is not very intuitive. Have to dig into the menu hierarchy to find things because titles are often misleading. For example to disable secure boot you need to go three levels down via 'CPU settings' and 'Fast Boot' just to make the button leading to the secure boot option appear and its label (CMS?) has nothing to hint what's below it. Extensive use of acronyms with no explanation. Many of the items help texts (top right quadrant) are either missing or don't add anything beyond what the option name already is. By means of illustration: the help for option XYZ is: "set of disable XYZ" without explaining what XYZ means. Just spelling out the individual words which 'XYZ' stand for, would go a long way, but this wasn't done. The worst part is that it refuses to boot from a big (4TB) Western Digital Caviar Green disk. Instead, it repeatedly falls back to BIOS with no error message to explain what the issue is. Things I tried: - Upgraded firmware from version 1414 which is came preinstalled with, to latest (1707) downloaded from asus.com web site. The upgrade experience was painless, even pleasant, but it didn't make any difference. - Various settings in the BIOS, one by one, save, reboot, repeat - Reinstalling the boot loader and MBR at the beginning of the disk - Reformatting and partitioning the disk in several ways - Trying both "dos" and "gpt" partition tables. The only solution that worked was switch to a smaller (1TB, older disk) - no issue booting. Regardless of BIOS settings and disk partitioning. Problem gone immediately. This almost certainly indicates that the issue is with the BIOS not recognizing the bigger (4TB) disk geometry. Once up, the (Linux) OS (not the BIOS) had no issue recognizing the big disk and making full use of it.

Overall Review: I actually love this MoBo and wish I could give it a 5-egg review but inability of the BIOS to find and jump into the boot-loader (in order to boot Linux) from a 4TB drive has to cost one egg.

Pros: - Huge storage space: about 3.8TB - Quiet - almost inaudible - Very energy efficient - Remains pretty cold to the touch even under stress - Large cache Works great with Linux various file-systems (except for the MBR -> boot-loader chaining step) -- mostly ASUS BIOS fault.

Cons: I wasn't able to make the system boot from any of these drives. When initializing the drive with a traditional "dos" partition table, about half of the space is "gone" and invisible to disk partitioning tools (I used gparted). This is apparently because there are more sectors on this drive than a 32-bit partition table can address. When using a "gpt" partition table which is recommended to be used on very large hard-drives, I could see > 3TB of space in the disk partitioning and later (after the OS was up), but the BIOS was never able to get the BIOS to load my OS loader (grub2) after hours of trying, BIOS setting changes, disabling secure boot, repartitioning in different ways, reinstalling grub, MBRs, etc. etc. The only solution I could find that actually worked, was to stick an additional (smaller) disk in the system. Once the BIOS booted from the smaller disk, the boot loader (grub2) started successfully and brought in the OS. Not surprisingly, once it was up, the OS (Linux) had no issue recognizing and working perfectly with all disks in the system, both big and small, unlike the BIOS. One could claim that this is mostly a fault of the BIOS and not the disk, but I would have expected Western Digital to work with the major MoBo makers, in particular ASUS, to make sure these issues are sorted out before letting users spend so much time trying to make these work. Either that or at least put a big warning that the defaults just won't work for booting so users can stay with older and smaller hard-drives until booting can be made smooth. Another issue is that during my tries of reformating and reinitializing one of the two disks I bought, it seems to have "lost" 2TB permanently. I cannot see the 4TB even when recreating the partition table from scratch as GPT. Not yet sure how to get it back, but I'll keep trying.

Overall Review: Will probably switch back to 2TB disks until ASUS and WD can make these beasts boot smoothly.

Pros: - Simple, no gimmicks and frills - black case - Can fit both ATX and mini/micro MoBo sizes - Very large number of hard-drive slots - Hard drive bays have slide and latch frames/trays allowing tool-less adding/removing of disks - just disconnect the two SATA cables (power and data) and pull the disk, with the tray, out. - All needed screws, tools, connectors included and well organized, lots of spares. - Good instructions and diagrams - Very quiet: dampening foam material, rubber rings for hard disk screws, good air-flow and relatively quiet case fans - Major pro: has an elevated floor for MoBo and rubber portals all around MoBo area periphery, so you can build the full system by running all cables between the floor and the back-side panel. This results in a very clean and easy to access system: not even one cable running over the motherboard.

Cons: - A few of the drilled holes for the stand-offs and the side panel securing are not fully done/smooth so require either force screws in or redrilling/polishing - A bit heavy and big: I actually preferred the mini-tower form factor, but had to go with this model because none of the mini-micro MoBos I looked at as an alternative, had enough of the features I wanted. MoBo ATX size forced me to go with the larger case. - Could be even quieter with Noctua case fans Anyway cons are relatively minor - none enough to deduct an egg

Overall Review: It pays to read other reviews and do homework before buying each and every part. NewEgg customers are an intelligent bunch and you can learn a lot from their prior collective experience. New Egg fast shipping and service shines as always. Bottom line it allowed me to build my most beautiful, fast, cool and quiet system to date.