Pros: Price. Performance. Headroom. 95 Watts, to help keep it nice and cool.

Cons: It didn't install itself or instantly tweak the bios to get the max out of it.

Overall Review: This is a fantastic chip. I had an old hex 1055t retail hs/f and threw it on here along with a little artic silver. Put FSB to run at 250, Set HT to 1.6 Dropped my memory speed down to 1333 and I'm running rock solid at 3.5 ghz on FACTORY AIR Cooling at 54c on max load with Prime 95, did I mention, this is at 1.3 vcore? with a 92mm or 120mm HSF or water, I can see this thing reaching 4 ghz with a little bit of luck. Mine seemed to hit a wall at 3.7, although heat was never an issue. It was probably the board or my memory. Great Chip. Buy It! OTHOH, if you don't have a HSF and your going to buy one to use this to push it, you might be better off just buying the 955 BE. But if you've got a HSF laying around, even an Athlon II AM3 retail HSF will work, these things just run that cool.

Pros: Cost per TB, Convenience of usb, Sleek gloss black design

Cons: Unreliable, somewhat slow, completely dead without ANY warning.

Overall Review: I got this as a Christmas gift from wife 2 years ago, worked well, as a backup, and used it to store my movies and music for my media server. It worked well for that purpose. Took 2 days to copy the contents over to another usb drive as a backup. Glad I took the time to do that as just last week this drive failed with zero warning. I did not get corrupted files or read errors or random clicking sounds or anything, It went from working fine, to completely dead and the pc not seeing it at all. I pulled the drive from from enclosure case and installed it directly into pc hoping it was the usb interface, Nope. it's dead. Just instantly died with 3 tb of movies, music, software, kids images, etc on it. It may be my imagination, but it seems like the drive companies have not really mastered the science of making large drives that are reliable. I remember when drives used to last 10 years with rarely a problem, heck they used to have 5 year warranties on almost all of the major brands.

Pros: Price. Value. Adequate feature set for avg user. Decent Onboard Video (HD 3000) for non gamers. Decent Onboard Video. IDE connection, LPTI Connection for people trying to reuse an older drive or printer (although you'll need to buy the lpt1 cable elsewhere) Check the auction sites, I got mine for $3 w/ shipping.

Cons: The only real con that took me by surprise was the total inability to adjust the cpu voltage up at all, this was surprising as this is the first biostar board that I've ever had that did not have this feature. Contacted biostar and they advised me that only their T line of boards do that now, I replied back, I'd be buying Gigabyte boards from henceforth then, this is a feature that cost them nothing, all they need to do is code the bios to do this, the technology already exist on the board to do it.

Overall Review: Bought a low power dual core that is supposed to overclock like a dream, (only pulls 35 watts) only to find out, I could only get 10% boost before I ran out of headroom at the stock voltage, I could have easily boosted it another 500 mhz because after prime running for 30 minutes, I was only posting cpu temps of 38c, (with a stock amd retail fan) this thing is begging for more juice, so it could stretch it legs, unfortunately this board, is only tripping it up coming out of the gate.

Pros: Size. Smaller than the Novel War and Peace. Cost. Dual Core, Full 1080 HDMI output, USB 3 support for less than $200? No brainer.

Cons: Numerous. Heat. This thing gets very warm. Could use a bit more vents cut into the case to help it breath a bit better. Linux/Ubuntu/Xbmc/Xbmcbuntu support is not ready for primetime. Could not load openELEC at all. Loaded Xbmcbunu and I kept getting freezes and lockups and it would sleep and not wake up, So then I installed ubuntu with xbmc on top of it, same problems, finally was forced to just install win7 and load xbmc on top of that. It works, but.. Xbmc still locks up from time to time. Not had any problem with win7 locking up though, just the xbmc. Looks great and love the features of xbmc though. This may possibly be a heat buildup thing though, will keep tweaking it, and possible remove the top to the box and see if that makes the problem go away and if it does, break out the dremel and start cutting a few vents on the top. Wifi is weak, I mean, very weak. I've got 40 mb download cable with a ubee n wireless router and I can barely get over 5 mbs of download speed on it, while my laptop, with a weak connection 12 feet further away is downloading at 18 mbs. I check my router interface and saw the connection type and the speeds and its showing this device connecting with G and Not N and only at 1000 kbs, while my phones, connecting at 18000 and numerous other devices showing high numbers this one still showing poor throughput, I checked the support site, No newer wifi drivers exist as of yet, Not sure if the unit is defective or I have a driver issue or what. I contacted support today and hopefully their will be some kind of workaround or fix. On a lark, I had an old usb 2 wireless G adapter that I threw on there and I was able to get 12 mbs of download speed with it and am using that for now. I will update this review once I find out what's going on. WEI numbers on this thing are pretty weak, with the CPU being a big bottleneck, although I ran some older games on it, like Open Gl Quake and got FPS around the 200 mark, not checked it with any steam titles yet. Also the foxconn support number listed here is no longer in service.

Overall Review: I really want to like this thing. But so far, it's been a pain, hopefully I can work out the kinks and when I do, I'll try to share them, if anyone has had similar issues and found fixes for them, please post them up here.

Pros: Small, External, Quiet. Powers off USB Bus, No external power needed.

Cons: Slow. Short Cable. Started Clicking after a year. Toshiba Support Not at all helpful, Nor sympathetic. I purchased from walmart during black friday and no longer had my receipt. They denied my claim. Avoid Toshiba, the warranty was a deciding factor in my being this, This is the first time, I've ever had to provide a receipt for a warranty claim on a drive and I've probably exchanged at least 100 over the last 20 years. Google Toshiba Support Ratings, You'll see they are horrible in helping consumers.

Overall Review: Drive Died. Went to Toshiba site and processed an RMA, after several attempts using Serial number and Model number I finally hit the right combonation and the system sent me an RMA number. I followed the directions exactly, (many times they stated if packing instructions are followed EXACTLY all warranty claims will be denied, antistacic bag, bubble wrap, No peanuts, etc etc.. I sent it to richardson tx as per their instructrions, recieved it back 2 weeks later along with a note saying they no longer process external drives in that location and sent me back to the website to start the process over again. I call support and have him walk me through it, only to be told, I needed an original reciept to submit an RMA, I told them the date stamped on the drive was well within the 3 yr warranty, they did not care, they needed proof of purchase, I asked if warranties were transferable. He said yes. I said then it sound like this is just an excuse to deny claims and save toshiba money. AVOID

Pros: Cheap Low Power Has Decent 2d image. DX 11 (kinda) Probably good for HTPC

Cons: Slow. Frame Rate is horrible DDR 3 memory is only 60% as good as the DDR5 varieties. Old Games are slow. New DX11 games will be even slower.

Overall Review: This card is little more than a rebadged and overclocked 5650. With this slower memory it only has about half the speed of the ddr5 card of the same GPU. Big mistake buying this card based on the 5 egg reviews it was given. If people play no games or only casual games at low res, no problem. But when a newer card chokes on a 6 year old game direct x 9 game, thats no upgrade. BTW with the lack of power DX11 capabilities is non existent for any newer title that uses DX11. Cant recommend. Disappointed that newegg charged restocking for an upopened card though. I was a little upset about that and sold it to a friend at a loss rather than give the money back to newegg. Not gonna stop me from shopping here, just be forewarned, when you buy it, make sure its exactly what you want and shop around, don't buy it because other eggers think its awesome, their tech knowledge may not be up to date or their needs may be much different than yours.