Pros: This thing is QUIET. I have to feel the air moving to tell if my PC is even on or not. It keeps my Ryzen 1800x at 40c at idle. It fits AM4 out of the box. It's easy to install.

Cons: None

Pros: Makes a good space heater.

Cons: 1. It's not compatible with all AM3+ motherboards. I had to disable 4 cores just to run it. 2. Even with 4 cores disabled, the 'variable' speed thing would lock my PC up All the time (And that's when the Overheating wasting shutting it down.) 3. Even with 4 cores disabled, the remaining cores lowered to 3.6 Mhz, and using SILVERSTONE TD03-LITE liquid cooler, it takes *MANY* tries of getting the thermal compound good enough so that it doesn't overheat in seconds. 4. When I finally did get it stable, it runs at 60+ degrees C AT BIOS, 70 at idle running Windows 7. I can feel the tubes of the cooler, one is scorching hot, the other nice and cool... so the water cool is not likely to be the problem, unless it's sheer volume of liquid being moved isn't enough. 5. You need non-standard Power supply to power JUST the processor...

Overall Review: I've been building PCs for 25 years, and I've never had any problems with CPUs like this one. The number of different type of severe problems this thing has... I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, ever, under any circumstance.

Pros: It's great, if you only have two or fewer sata devices

Cons: This MB has 6 Sata outlets, 4 of which do NOT point upwards, they point forward... directly into a wall (Drive bay housing). 2 Ports point up, and are in a good position. The other 4 are directly under the primary video card, and are unusable because the drive bays block them. My previous MB had 6 Sata ports as well, 2 unobstructed, 2 under the first PCIe slot and 2 under the second. Using only one Video card, that left 4 usable slots. And a very odd thing: it takes 15-20 seconds after you power on before it *STARTS* posting. Once it starts posting, it takes less than 5 seconds to boot... So, in other words, it takes 4-5 times longer to boot than it should. My OS drive is a SSD, and is only detected on boot about 1 out of every 3 tries. So, I have to sit through that "15-20 seconds of pre-posting" 3 times+ before it boots. And no... it's not my drive, it's the MB. UPDATE: After a bios update, the motherboard no long fails to see the SSD, and the "pre-posting" is down to 5 seconds. (I'm calling the time between you press the power button and the time video signal starts as "pre-posting") and POST only takes 2-3 seconds. I still can't give it 5 stars due to the placement/direction of 4 of the sata ports. When I know full well they can be placed/oriented in a usable manner.

Overall Review: If you only need 2 sata ports, then you're fine... or if you don't have an extended drive bay, your fine... otherwise you're going to have problems.

Pros: "Backwards compatible" Motherboard only supports up to 2400 MHZ without overclocking. Works great at 2400, doubt I'll worry about going faster.

Cons: None

Pros: It's *FAST* It runs very cool Upgraded from my 9590 to this is night and day. Things that took 5-30 seconds are now instant. And instead of running at 70 on idle, it runs at 40. Dramatic decrease in temps.

Cons: Compatibility: My 9590 CPU was only partially compatible with my MB, requiring me to disable 4 of the Cores. Even with that, I had extreme overheating issues, so I decided to swap to a Ryzen. This required a MB replacement... which required RAM replacement... and what really tripped me up... required a heat sink replacement! The only heatsink that is AM4 compatible out of the box (that I could find) is the Corsair H60 (and similar series).. The others require you go to the manufacturer and get a replacement backplate. Oh and the MB replacement required swapping from Win 7 to Win 10 (LONG story).

Pros: Runs at 775 KH/s for litecoin mining, straight out of the box. Runs at 856 KH/s with tweaking (no overclocking, very stable) Runs at 963 KH/s with overclocking 1025 GPU 1500 Memory (runs like a champ at 963 for 48 hours+ at 80 degrees Celcius... but becomes very unstable if you ever stop the mining software, Win7, CGminer 3.7.2)

Cons: Loud... VERY

Overall Review: It's big... VERY big. It's an extremely snug fit between the back of my case, and my HD cages, make absolutely sure you have enough room, and don't forget the 1/4th inch for the lip on the mounting bracket.