Pros: Silly-fast, Super-cheap, stomps my old X2 4800. Halflife2 levels load in about one-fifth the time they used to, and my 4800 system had raid, this one doesn't. Every game i've played totally flies, and multithreaded apps are obnoxiously fast.

Cons: none

Overall Review: Windows XP needs a couple of modifications to correctly use a multi-core processor, if you're having issues (especially in games), do some research on these, they make a big difference.

Pros: Excellent picture quality, great captures, fits perfectly atop my 24" lcd. Works perfectly in xp, or vista if you use onboard sound.

Cons: WARNING!! if you use vist@ and have a $ound bl@ster x-fi, don't even think about getting this cam. if it's plugged in at all, you will have no sound, the conflict has existed since vista came out, and they're nowhere near a solution, so i'm stuck with an expensive camera i can only use if i boot into xp.

Overall Review: the mic works perfect with no setup at all in xp, this could be the end-all cam in my opinion, but since so few people have this cam + an x-fi + vista, they'll probably never work together.

Pros: it functions fine as a replacement for oem boxes, wouldn't do a custom build with one though.

Cons: Loud, like, crazy loud, you're better off with any of the other cheap logisys 480w supplies, they're all way quieter.

Overall Review: if noise is no factor for you, this'll work fine in an oem box, but again, there are quieter options at the same price point.

Pros: It's cheap, kinda the only game in town for what it is. If you have a 4-wire HSF, and a fan controller for your case fans, this board may be adequate.

Cons: ALL the fans run at 100% ALL the time. I understand that a 4-wire fan will make the fan control work on the cpu fan (which is adding a week to this upgrade waiting for it to ship), but why do the chasis and power fan plugs run 3-wire fans at 100% all the time? Come on Asrock, I know you're the inexpensive alternative, but even foxconn motherboards don't induce suicide by running all fans at full speed, get it together. nearly every other motherboard i've worked with will throttle down a 3-wire fan if you tell it to in the bios, but this one will not.

Overall Review: If you're looking at this board for an existing hsf, make sure it's 4 wires, otherwise there's nothing you can do to slow it down, other than unplug it. Also, you have to have a fan controller to run case fans, otherwise they'll be at full speed all the time as well.

Pros: as always, very well made, you never get the sense when building in a lian-li that any corners have been cut, every part is as good as it can be. this is the first screwless expansion card system i've ever used that actually works. the hard drive mounting system is pretty excellent, and if you work in your case a lot, you're not disconnecting and reconnecting right on the drive, which is good for connector longevity. considerably quieter than my old A10 case. looks excellent

Cons: i'm not a huge fan of the wire management channel, it ended up being an encouragement to be lazy and do a worse wiring job than i normally would, but i suppose for people who would've done no wire management it's probably a good thing.

Overall Review: as other case makers have nearly all moved production to china and allowed quality to disappear completely, lian-li remains a high quality product made in taiwan by free people who actually get paid a living wage. never change lian-li, just keep getting better, and i'll keep buying your cases exclusively.

Pros: if you've saved up this much, you're halfway to a lian-li

Cons: typical chinese metal, permanently warps if you breathe on it wrong, the plastic is the same quality you expect to find keeping your chocolates separate, buy this case and spend the rest of your life trying to get the f@#$ing side panel back on. all the fans are 2-wire so they run at full speed all the time unless you buy a bunch of fan controllers. none of the stickers are on straight.

Overall Review: i work on hp's and gateways all the time, and for all their cheapness, at least the forking case sides go back on when you're done. I'll never buy another antec product until they move their factories to taiwan, or europe, or the us, or canada, or even mexico... anywhere but garbage-producing china.