Pros: Lots of 3-4 fan headers Good CPU fan control Good energy management Sleep and hybernate actually work Runs cool and quiet Solid board could surely hold the heaviest CPU coolers SATA 3 6Gb/s - I'm going to wait for a bit and then get some fast SATA 3 SDDs. USB 3.0 Lots of RAID controller options COAX and Optical digital audio out

Cons: Your PCI-E X16 slot drops down to X8 if you enable the SATA3 or USB 3.0 controller. Only four memory slots

Overall Review: For the most part, this worked perfectly right out of the box. My only slowdown was that Windows 7 64b didn't like the P55 RAID controller on my Gigabyte driver disk. Surprisingly, Windows 7 seemed aware of the controller and worked fine after skipping that step. I picked this 1156 board to build a cool, quiet, low power, always-on pc. It's given me exactly what I'd expected, and I'm very happy with this choice. Sleep is working great, and the board runs very cool when active. Fan control seems good. I've never had such a cool, quiet PC. This is a good board for a fast HTPC or any other always on PC. Since enabling the USB 3.0 and SATA 3 controller uses 8 of the PCI-E channels, this probably isn't the best choice for a gaming PC. You could disable the chip to get the 8 channels back, but then you may as well buy a cheaper board. I used a big CPU cooler, and the board seems particularly solid. It looks good too.

Pros: I've had good results from WD in the past.

Cons: The drive was DOA, and WD support refused to replace the dead drive.

Overall Review: I bought this as part of a PC build, and didn't install until after the NewEgg return period had expired. The drive was DOA, and I contacted WD to do an RMA replacement. WD refused to replace the drive because they said it had been damaged. I don't know if this was a defect from WD, or if it was damaged during shipment to NewEgg or to me, but I spent $120 and didn't' get anything for it. This was a very frustrating and disappointing experience.

Pros: Decent feature set, easy connectivity,good build quality, well done scroll wheel.

Cons: I've gone through quite a few mice, mostly logitech, and this one is distinctly uncomfortable for me. There's a zoom button above where your thumb sits, and my thumb rubs against the button and the relief surrounding the button. Mice have gotten so good that this rough pressure point is surprising and disappointing. I'd buy something different if I had it to do again.

Overall Review: This may be fine for people with smaller hands. For someone with a reasonably thick thumb, the zoom button can be very annoying. I've had this mouse a few weeks, and it still bugs me every time I grab it.

Pros: Works! No power adapter, compact, less expensive than other options

Cons: None

Overall Review: I have 3 DVI/HDMI monitors, but could only use two at a time with my 5750 series video card. The 5750, and several other video cards, will support 3 monitors only if one of them is a display port monitor connected to the display port output on the card. Passive adapters that support sending DVI/HDMI over the display port connection don't solve this issue. It's common knowledge that a power supply is required for an active adapter, but that's not the case with this device. This is indeed an active adapter, and allowed me to get all three DVI/HDMI monitors working simultaniously with my 5750 card. Problem solved....

Pros: good looking case, as nice a picture as any other moderately priced monitor, slim and lightweight, good value

Cons: No HDMI

Overall Review: Unless you pay the higher price for IPS or some other technology, this monitor has as good a picture as any. It's got a good looking, slimeline case, with a better than most piano finish. We've got a number of monitors in the house, including a 2 year old NEC, a one year old Samsung, and a nearly new BENQ and this is the best looking on the desks. I like the HP picture the best, but then again, I'm the one who adjusted it. Realistically, I think there's not much difference between the moderately priced monitors these days, and most of the differences is in the way they're adjusted. I have zero dead pixels. Note that it doesn't have an HDMI input, or speakers.

Pros: I was a bit worried about running this on my son's 4 year old SATA2 (3Gb/s) motherboard, but it worked right out of the box. Even with the SATA2, Windows and applications start much more quickly.

Cons: The 3.5" adapter didn't work very well in an Antec P160 case, with no screw holes lining up with the Antec's mounting system. The screws provided by Kingston were the wrong size for attaching the Kingston drive to the Kingston 3.5" adapter. Luckily I had my own.

Overall Review: I'm very happy with the disk itself, running stable in a 4 year old MOBO. I rated this with 4 stars instead of 5 because of the hassle getting this thing physically mounted.