Joined on 01/26/04
Great board with a major flaw

Pros: This is a great board for the price. Higher performance, all-solid capacitor design means rock solid reliability from a company that whose hardware is already pretty reliable. And, as others have said, this....board....is.....FAST. Put a 6400+ and 4 gigs of RAM in this thing and you better bolt it down or it will be out the window. I dont OC so I can't comment on that.
Cons: READ THIS BEFORE YOU PURCHASE! This board advertises 4 SATA ports on board and support for RAID 0 and 1. However, what it does NOT tell you, is that if you set up a raid array (1 or 0) on 2 of the SATA ports, the other 2 ports will be unusable for an optical drive. If you want to boot from a RAID array, you'll be forced to use the on board PATA connector for your optical drive. I was pretty disappointed by this because I usually run 2 HDD in RAID and 2 opticals for burning. No can do on this board without running a master/slave on the PATA which sucks for burning high speed. Apparently this is a limitation inherent in the SB600 southbridge controller.
Overall Review: Other than the issue above, this is a great board. Some complain about the floppy connector being tucked down below the lowest PCI bus adapter but I did not find this to be a problem.
Works first try with my PS3

Pros: Low cost. Ease of use.
Cons: None Yet
Overall Review: I sync'ed this up to my PS3 and it worked out of the box. Just make sure you charge it fully before it's first use.
works like it should

Pros: Good price. Handy
Cons: Lame that Sony doesn't include this with the PS3
Overall Review: I like this remote. It does just what it should and the price is reasonable on newegg. It's bluetooth so you don't have to "point" it at the PS3. That's nice. It is however, incredibly lame that Sony doesn't include this in the PS3 bundle. I mean, it's supposed to be a blu-ray player right? As if I want to have friends over to watch a blu-ray and have to use the controller to play the movie. Get real sony. The PS3 is expensive, there's no reason Sony can't include this. They're cheaping out and that's why the PS3 is struggling.
Fast, cheap and reliable

Pros: Cheap-fast-quiet-cool
Cons: none
Overall Review: I was a big Maxtor HDD user for a long time until they started to fail more frequently. Now I'm using just WD and Seagate. I've found the WDD to be the most reliable. The caviars have been solid for 10 years. These particular 160GB drives are cool and quiet and very reliable. What else do you want in a low cost drive? They are plenty snappy for the $$$. Obviously if you want speed or gaming, this is maybe not the best choice, but for the money, they are excellent.
Very good performance, incredible value

Pros: CHEAP. 512GDDR2 in a silent form factor at this price? It's a no brainer. Add in the the rebate and the free game (while supplies last) and this card is close to free! It handles modern games very well with most settings on high and a few on medium, which to me, is honestly more than I expected from a card of this price range.
Cons: Runs a bit warmer than I would have liked, but not surprising in a fanless design. My card idles at 56C and hits 70 under a load (witcher playing with all settings to maximum) but in my reading I've seen that anything under 80 while loaded should be fine for a GPU so no worries. Also, the heatsink isn't as bad as some make it out to be, but it is somewhat big. Plenty of room in my rig, but SLI kids might want to be aware.
Overall Review: This came free with the Witcher and when I installed it, it detected my card and set all settings to maximum. The game looked amazing (1280x1024), but there was some slowdown in a few places. I backed off a few settings to medium and it runs smooth now. CPU: AMD Athlon X2 6400+, 4 gig of RAM, Windows XP
Very Fast, Surprisingly cool, and affordable!

Pros: Fast. Very Fast. Affordable. Easy installation.
Cons: None.
Overall Review: I read every review on this processor. Some thought it ran hot while others thought it was fine. One thing everyone seemed to agree on is that this thing is blazing fast. Well, at least they got the fast part right. The heat sink that comes stock is fantastic. it has a solid copper base, multiple copper pipes and loads of large fins. Application was an absolute breeze. If you remember older AMD procs, you probably remember having to really push hard to get the clamps seated on the sides of the heatsink. Not anymore. This has a lever arm on one side. You just drop the one side on, put the lever side on, and push the lever down. It will slowly clamp down in just the right position. Bingo. I have a nicer case with a 120mm fan in back, an 80mm fan in front and a side vent with ducting that allows the CPU to pull air direct from outside the case. My CPU idles at 34C with core 1 at 30 and core 2 at 35. Under a load, core 1 will hit 40 and core 2 will hit 47. And its quiet.