Pros: I was buying this for a media PC, as a second tuner ..So I didn't care if I got the remote , I just needed the board.. anyhow to my surprise I got the whole retail package .. from the description I thought I would just get the board .. it is not a windows media player remote .so that could be important to some people.. but it included cables and everything

Cons: not a windows media remote..but it does the job

Overall Review: IIRC the this had to pay for shipping, but was less that the one with free shipping ..so some times it is cheaper to pay for shipping

Pros: cheap

Cons: well in less than a year of use this board is appears to have a bad dimm chanel ..for some reason the board is unstable with 16 gb , but seems stable with 8 gb ... the system was fine with the install, then was escentially shelved ... a couplle weeks back I decided to used it more and no boot... huh? it was working.. after exhustive trouble shooting it boots with 8gb ..not alwyas with 16 gb .. appears to be a bad channel since it will not always boot with 8 gb in the "bad "channel..same brand dimms... kindston blue also tried gskill gamers.. and swapped dimms around no effect .. is there a voltage tweak I could be missing?

Pros: big card... measure your case first ( unlike me) on sale where as the 4070S was not...so felt it was worth it for 16 GB comes with anti sag bracket ( nice touch) power connector not on top but side front.. a little hard to get the connector in right, but worth it IMHO

Cons: nothing so far

Overall Review: wow tight fit, I forgot to measure my case and technically it is not supposed to fit, but it did. had to remove the hard drive cage, and then put in the card and then the hard drive cage.Good news the hp12v connect is perfectly straight and no stress or bend to it since is being fed into the harddrive cage.

Pros: there are a couple of cons opinions for a little slow .. what do you want for a $50 cpu and a whopping 25 whats.. I think there is plenty of cpu power here .. I have used it for a media pc. first thing is this thing is silent for me. I can not hear it in the living room during the quietenst parts of the movie .. I have a Haupagge 2250 dual tuner and have enough cpu power to record 2 video streams while watching a third off the disk and never drop a frame . Next power efficiency is amazing, I am not sure how it does it , but it can record while it is powered off.. the power light doesn't turn on and it just does it .. I am not sure how .. I am impressed ... plus the motherboards for this cpu is incredibly cheap

Cons: most of these mother boards have only 2 sata connectors , one for ssd one for massive storage for the video recorder .. and there is nothing left over for a dvd player.. so I used a external storage case with and old dvd pata... which in the end reduces power since I only need the dvd every once in a great while ..

Overall Review: if you are like me and living with out cable , this and Windows media center is great for recording your favorite network shows to watch later this is awesome set up ..

Pros: cheap ... fits my giant head ( actually could fit a bigger head) sound could be worse

Cons: there is no indication on the box or any where that there is a volume control.. I assumed that the were a piece of low quality ..until I happened to see something that looked like a scratch.. looking close I saw it was a volume control.. and tweaked it up

Overall Review: they should make the volume control more obvious and it is something that should be mentioned in the box

Pros: gigabit , 8 ports install and forget about it ...works like a charm

Cons: none so far

kind of an impulse buy, and after I bought it , I was wondering if it was really Hoshanho... It arrived in a very impressive box, and is off the charts sharp. that will take your finger off if you miss handle it. Slices tomato like it is in a Ron Popeil commercial .