Pros: This case is probably the best built in its price range. Its sturdy, and will protect your internals well. It even has some tabs to lock the side panels in place to keep people from stealing your components (maybe you're building the system for a business, or taking the PC to a LAN party). Not to mention the 120mm fan is a nice touch. It's quiet; quieter than any of the other components I have installed in the case at the moment. The case also has a remarkable amount of space for larger components, which I wasn't expecting from a mid tower case (especially with so many drive expansion bays).

Cons: The only gripe I have with this case is that cable management is almost impossible unless you have a modular power supply. There is practically nowhere to put excess cabling, and nothing to tie any of it to.

Overall Review: I've recommended this case to all my friends for their builds, and will continue to do so until the case is no longer being sold. It's sturdy, reliable, and even after quite a bit of wear and tear seems to never lose its luster.

Pros: Small, compact form factor. Comes with a quality 80mm exhaust fan and a compact power supply. Even has a built in multi-card reader on the front panel. Could be "converted" from a typical desktop form factor with the provided stands or placed on its side with a monitor on top.

Cons: The cables for the front audio jacks seem to work against any modern spec of front panel audio pinouts. Maybe it was intended to work with AC97? I'm not really sure, but I couldn't set them up. There also seems to be issues with proportions when it comes to compartment space and cable length. For example, a full size hard drive will not fit in the bay provided properly unless you get SATA cables with a 90 degree bent connector. The power supply and front panel cables are long and unruly, making it impossible to properly organize them. I didn't put a DVD-ROM drive in my setup, but if I had there would have been no place to move the cables. Additionally, I did not see any documentation come with the case. Had there been at least something I might have been able to get the front panel audio connectors sorted out.

Overall Review: For the price point, this case isn't terrible. Its not spectacular and it really needs a revision to sort out the issues it has now, but if you need something compact, this case will get the job done well. However, if you need something expandable or clean to work with, this case definitely isn't it.

Pros: This is a nice sturdy and inexpensive motherboard. I had no issues getting it set up. Its laid out great and the documentation is always MSI grade fantastic.

Cons: No USB 3.0. However, I can't strike an egg of the rating for this given the price point of the motherboard.

Overall Review: I needed a motherboard that was inexpensive, reliable, and could fit within a small form factor. I had intentions to build a small, multi-purpose home server running a server Linux distribution for the operating system. Its on 24/7. I coupled this board with an older Phenom II x2 545 I had, and some Kingston DDR3 I had around. Has worked wonderfully ever since. I would not recommend anyone use this motherboard for more than basic builds, however. Its not built to handle the extreme current draw and swings of overclocking (well) even if it permits this. High end graphics cards would probably roast the modest passive cooling on the north bridge unless you're running a Bulldozer or Piledriver CPU. Of course if you're going to overclock anything, you would invest the money in quality components and cooling to do so, right?

Pros: It gets the job done once configured properly. If there is any kind of performance penalty from having this device installed (apart from, ya know, using a hard drive that is bottlenecked by the IDE interface), I haven't noticed.

Cons: No instructions. Not even a hint as to where to begin setting it up. But I can only think to take one egg away for that, since it has proven itself very reliable.

Overall Review: My primary hard drive that I was using in an older configuration was an IDE drive, but since it was still fairly new (and a fairly large hard drive at that) I didn't want to just stop using it, so I took a chance on one of these adapters. It was lots of playing with jumper settings before I found one that just worked. Interestingly enough, my system (and the motherboard itself) detects the hard drive as an IDE drive, anyway, despite being connected via the SATA interface. Its simply an add-on IDE controller over SATA. Its been over a year now, and the adapter hasn't given me any trouble. I'd recommend this device to just about anyone that wanted to squeeze some more life out of their old IDE devices if they're still worth keeping around.

Pros: High quality memory that simply can't be beat for the price. It operates at the 1600mhz just fine if you set the timings as specified by Kingston.

Cons: It dropped $10 the week after I bought it. :/ What can ya do?

Overall Review: While this memory will easily run at a higher rate of speed than specified, it simply can't be run outside of its stock timings at 1600mhz. I tried setting latency from 9 to 8 at 1333mhz, and while Windows booted just fine, it wasn't stable enough to get past the login screen. If you need low latency RAM, buy high grade RAM. But for most applications, this memory will do just fine.

Pros: It's cheap, fast, and stable. Fast enough to run any game I have in my collection (just got done playing Assassin's Creed @ 1920x1080 resolution with practically no stutter, max settings). Among the things I like about products using nVidia chipsets are their stable drivers; AMD seldom ever matches nVidia in driver quality. The card is also quite short, and it seems the bulk of the length was spread out in the card's width instead. However, there is a price to be paid for that. See cons below.

Cons: This card runs HOT. It idles at about 45"C at startup, and under load can hit 70"C and higher without issue. I understand this is a graphics card, but at stock settings I don't see why a graphics card should ever go over 60"C at the most.

Overall Review: If you purchase this card, it may be best to avoid benchmarks and gaming for extended periods of time unless you change the cooler, or have a case with very good airflow. If you do plan to push the card, you may consider replacing the cooler. However, the cost-effectiveness of this may vary, depending on the cooler you get; the cost of a higher grade cooler with this card may equate to the cost of a better card altogether. In fact, I might replace the cooler it comes with since I am really unsure about its ability to keep the card cool. I don't really want it to fry in a few months.