Pros: It spins pretty pieces of plastic around at high speeds. And it reads and writes from them. And it never, ever, makes me wait when I hit the eject button.

Cons: It's nowhere near as noisy as a few generations ago, but it's by far the noisiest part of my computer.

Pros: It pushes pixels to a monitor. Without drawing a lot of power.

Cons: As of Feb '09, this wasn't the card to buy. It'll never again be the card to buy. I thought from the spec it'd drive a DVI-D monitor (30" LCD) but noo, not at all. It doesn't make sense to me to buy this card for any reason; a few more dollars gets you a lot more capability, and a hundred more dollars gets you an order of magnitude more capability (e.g., Zotac GTS250)

Pros: It's a great value in a high power supply

Cons: You don't want a high power supply if you're building a low-end system and want to minimize power consumption.

Overall Review: Note that I'm only running one video card (Zotac GTS 250) at the moment; my review would be more trustworthy if I'd been running two for some time. But it's also a Core i7 system so native power draw is fairly high, and the case (the XCLIO blue fan case) is staying cool.

Pros: It's memory. Cost effective memory. Reliable cost effective memory. Reliable cost effective three-channel memory. 6 GB of reliable cost effective three-channel memory.

Cons: You can't look at it after you install it in the case and it's kind of pretty.

Overall Review: You really, really, want 6 GB of memory. Even if you're running a 32 bit OS, but you should be running a 64 bit OS.

Pros: As of March '09 it seems to be right at the heart of the price / performance curve. No more slow windows for me!

Cons: None, but I'm not overclocking or doing anything fancy.

Pros: All the tech specs seem to be correct! Power savings modes work great.

Cons: Power saving modes work great. No seriously, it means this won't charge your iPod 'cause it goes to sleep too quickly, and the wakeup is so fast you won't change the sleep settings to let your iPod charge. I'm running Win7; Vista performance may differ.