Pros: This card handles anything, and it should continue handling anything for quite some time. It's nice to see a card in this price range that's actually a new architecture, not some refreshed and renamed high-end GPU from 2 or 3 years ago. It's very quiet and runs cool. No coil whine that I can tell. I see a lot of complaints about how the fans don't spin unless the temperature reaches 65C. The hottest I've seen mine idle with no fans is 45C, but that was shortly after gaming. Normally it's under 40. Not bad. If you don't like it, set up your own fan profile in the MSI software. As for temps under extreme load, I've never seen it go much over 70C, and even then I can't hear the GPU fans over the rest of my PC's fans.

Cons: A backplate would be nice, as would a metal cover instead of plastic. But these are no biggies. The included mouse pad is too big for my desk. This is an outrage.

Overall Review: I had just bought a GTX 770 when the 970/980 came out. Promptly returned the 770. Had a tough decision between EVGA, ASUS and MSI. I was a little leery of MSI, as I haven't owned any MSI products and have always dismissed them as the cheapie "MicroStar" brand from years ago. Normally I'd have gone with EVGA, but they dropped the ball on this one. Reviews pointed to MSI as the technologically superior 970, so MSI it was, and it's been great. They're definitely not MicroStar any more. My last couple cards have been AMDs. The deciding factors that brought me back to NVIDIA were the build quality, the heat/power efficiency, and ShadowPlay. AMD has been lacking in these areas for a while, and with the price point of the GTX 970's there's no comparison.

Pros: Buttons click nicely and the selectable DPI feature works well.

Cons: This mouse feels very cheap. Cheap feeling plastic, even a cheap feeling cord. It doesn't track well, and the mouse wheel has a strange sensitivity to it. It doesn't remember what DPI setting it was on. So if you use it on a laptop, or your USB ports power down when you shut down, you'll have to click it every time you power up to get to your preferred setting. I believe it defaults to the highest DPI.

Overall Review: This mouse would probably be best used with a palm grip by someone with small hands. The shape on the right side makes it awkward for any other grip, or large hands trying to do a palm grip. If you're looking in this price range, get a regular mouse without the laser and dpi features. You'll be better off. Otherwise, spend a little more and get a more substantial mouse.

Pros: When picked up on sale this battery backup is excellent value, especially considering it is a pure sine wave UPS. I've been using one for over a year and liked it so much I bought a second. It has plenty of capacity to run my gaming PC for nearly an hour (at idle, not including the monitor), and my media server PC and router/modem even longer.

Cons: The USB ports on the front are only 1A total. That's pretty much the bare minimum to power something like a Roku or Chromecast, and it would take a long time to charge a smartphone. Given how many devices are powered over USB now, more power here would have been nice.

Overall Review: A lot of other reviewers have complained about a strong odor, like a very strong new electronics smell. I have an extremely sensitive nose, yet on both of my UPS's I have to get within a couple inches of it to smell it. It's never been a problem. I have not tried connecting it to the computer and using their software. 99% of power outages are significantly shorter than its battery runtime, so I haven't needed it.

Pros: This is a very reliable USB wireless adapter. WIth a good signal it does reach it's advertised speed.

Cons: Drivers on ASUS's website are very old.

Overall Review: I was having an issue where the latency would suddenly shoot up to exactly 1000 ms, and stay there until I reconnected. The latest drivers from ASUS were over a couple years old, but after some research I found that underneath it's actually an Ralink adapter and found some much newer Ralink drivers, and now it works flawlessly. I'm not 100% sure if the drivers fixed it, it's likely, but I was also messing with the router at the time trying to fix the issue, although I never noticed the issue with any other wireless device. I'll still dock it an egg for ASUS not updating their drivers. This adapter is fairly large for being a USB "stick". Pretty big to be sticking into the side of a laptop. I use it on a desktop, connected to a 12' USB extension to place it where the signal is better.

Pros: Fast and reliable. When found on sale or with a rebate, it's performance, sturdy metal build and compactness can not be beat.

Cons: It would be nice if the power connected on the same side as the ports, it's not like this is a rack mount switch or something. However, then it wouldn't be as small as it is, so I'm fine with it.

Overall Review: I have another of these that I purchased in 2006, and after a few years it had some issues. Some ports randomly won't auto-detect at gigabit speeds. I'll switch to another port and it will connect at gigabit just fine. Also about once a month it stops working completely and needs reset. Other than that it's been fine. I don't expect this one to have these issues, but time will tell, and it's so cheap as long as it goes a few years it's worth it.

Pros: I wouldn't call it silent. It is quiet though, about as loud as the cheap fan that came with my PC case, but it moves a lot more air.

Cons: None