Pros: *138 Mb/s on pcpitstop overdrive hard drive test *29 degrees celsius at idle in my very small HTPC case (about the size of a VCR) which sits in a wooden compartment underneath my LCD TV in my entertainment center *Although it is a bare drive, it comes in a plastic encasement with 4 screws and instructions. Still need to bring your own SATA cable though.

Cons: Newegg dropped the price by $5 the day I received this hard drive

Overall Review: Partitioning your hard drive and creating a small boot partition will help you achieve the best speeds on your hard drive. I partitioned this drive into an 80 gb boot partition and the remaining 420 gb will be used as a general storage partition. By accident, I installed Windows 7 on the 420 gb partition. I tested it out, and the hard drive rated at 102 Mb/s. Putting the OS on the 80 gb partition resulted in ~30% faster (138 Mb/s) speeds. Means faster OS boot times and faster program startup times.

Pros: None Yet

Cons: Arrived as free gift with a hard drive purchase. Opened the box, which was sealed, and found inside no packaging to hold the equipment in place during shipping, and even worse, no AC Power Adapter. I guess this must be part of their Green series of products, because it uses no power whatsoever. Unfortunately, its current functionality is that of a paperweight.

Overall Review: Chatted with Newegg, who referred me to Rosewill. Called Rosewill, and they asked me to e-mail information to them. Sent e-mail a couple of hours ago. Will follow up on this review to gauge the responsiveness of Rosewill's customer service, and hopefully the actual functionality of this item.

Pros: The J5040 processor and the integrated Intel UHD 605 graphics processing unit handle any video file/resolution I have up to 4K and as demanding as HEVC H.265. This combo kicks major booty as an HTPC.

Cons: No NVME port for SSD? No onboard wireless/BT? Only PCI-e X1? And STILL PS/2 ports??? *Hands outstretched to the sky* Good golly, ASRock, do you even know the market/use case for this mobo??? But at least ASRock has some skin in the game, none of the other mobo manufacturers are even offering embedded mobo's any more, which is IMO even more egregious.

Overall Review: Good HTPC CPU and GPU crippled by a mobo with frustratingly outdated specifications. Still giving this mobo 4 stars because the chip and graphics perform stellar and work superb for an HTPC...and I am glad I found it in stock at NewEgg and jumped before they ran out of stock again!!!

Pros: Had a mini-ITX "Server" with a dual-core atom that I had abandoned in favor of a hacked Pogoplug because it uses much less energy and did almost all the same things the "Server" could do. But neither of them could do transcoding for Plex or HDHomerun, both of which would open up more entertainment possibilities for Smartphones, tablets and media players in my home. Enter this board, which has enough lean muscle to do the heavy lifting when transcoding is needed, but expends the minimum of energy in doing so. I've already transferred over all the duties I was using the Pogoplug for to this board. I feared that the small 40 mm fan would make some racket, but I'm happy to say that aside from a few seconds during boot-up I don't hear the fan at all. This board/CPU would satisfy the computing needs of 90% of PC users 100% of the time, and the other 10% about 80% of the time. Would make a superb board to build office PC's. Efficient, but powerful. Board and CPU combo at a sweet price.

Cons: You have to wait a couple days for Newegg to ship it to you. Delayed gratification really bums me out. Also no USB 3.0 or digital audio out.

Overall Review: I also took the opportunity to ditch the PSU that came with my Apex MI-008 case for a picoPSU. Saved about 8 watts across the board as measured by my Kill-a-watt. Hit a high of 28 watts during boot, then gradually settled in to a low of 14.5 watts when idle. I'd say most of that settling in was because my 2GB performance HDD (Samsung F4) burns up to 11 watts when spinning up, but only about 2 watts when parked. Good to know since I'm going to be running it 24/7 that powering it is only going to cost me around $12 per year. Also put a nice big smile on my face to get around 120 MB per second transfer rates from my main PC to this one, so pretty much filling the entire gigabit pipeline.

Pros: Works very well, strong signal throughout the house, great value for a dual band gigabit router. Allows me to reserve a small amount of bandwidth for my Obi with Google Voice. Compared to my old router, the interface on this one is very responsive. Plenty of options in settings.

Cons: I have had a few dropped wireless signals-two to be exact over the month I've had this. Unit does get pretty hot, but as long as it does it's job I have no reason to care how hot it gets.

Overall Review: A supplier of A/V Cables out on the west coast known for offering good quality products at rock-bottom prices is going to start selling this model under its own name. That fact in and of itself is a pretty good testimonial.

Pros: Mated with a Core i7 2600K, Corsair A50 Heatsink/Fan, Crucial C300 128GB SSD, Sapphire HD 6850 Graphics Card, 2 X 4 GB G.Skill Memory and Seasonic X650 PSU in a HAF 912 Case. Booted up the first time and every time since without problem. Token overclock (Multiplier upped from 34X = 3.4 Ghz to 40X = 4 Ghz) just to see how easy it was. And it really was that easy.

Cons: Not a single one.

Overall Review: Don't understand the string of negative reviews on this board. I didn't even update the BIOS (Came and remains with F2). It has been absolutely hassle-free, which is what I have come to expect from Gigabyte. Good brand, good board, and I'll continue to make Gigabyte my first choice.