Pros: EVGA is one of the few companies in my world where they make you feel good for spending alot of money (provided the product works lol). The card didn't come with much, other than a mini-hdmi to hdmi cable, some power adapters for those who ran out of 8-pin/6-pin on their PSU and a VGA adapter in case people are still rocking CRT's lol :p I can't speak for when summer comes up, but my current idle temp is 49 celsius at 28 celsius room. Load was at around 85'ish when I stress tested it. My case is a Corsair 800D with 3 antec tricool fans pushing out on top, 1 antec tricool fan pushing out the back, and 1 corsair stock 140mm pushing up the bottom. There are plenty of videos out there showing you how to take apart the heatsinks and fan for watercooling block installations in case you couldn't get your hands on the Hydro CopperFTW units. Also the scaling in power usage from 1 card to 2-way SLI isn't as bad. Saw a vid review showing it never reached 600 watts in 2 way at full load.

Cons: - Once it posts and works, it's hard to hate. - Benchmark reviews say scaling from 2-way to 3-way SLI only slightly better (driver problem?) - Eats alot of power (shouldn't be an issue for those who live in mom's basement)

Overall Review: I only wish it came with an extra single bracket. I'm going to watercool this baby soon and the only single brackets available at local store don't have the mini-hdmi holes, only that lame old super video port holes. I've never tried an HD 5870 or an HD 5970 so I can't compare. I originally wanted to make a crossfire build, but reviews show gripes galore on ATI website and here on Newegg based on driver problems. The only negs I saw on the GTX 480 were "eats alot of power" and how it was marginally better in a few benchmarks and games. But it works! Plus you get Physx, CUDA and all that good stuff. Most enthusiasts, whether they are nVidia or ATI fanboys go multi-gpu set-ups from what I see, so I can forego the single card Eyefinity feature and prep for 3D Vision. The price is high, but it hasn't been high enough IMO since they keep selling out. I can see the price dropping to 5870 levels soon once the launch heat settles :)

Pros: Solid headset. My cat got caught tangled in the wires once, and I chased her all around the apartment to get the headset off her. Mic and headset are very easy to start using. Had no problems setting them up with Ventrillo & Skype. Sound worked as advertised

Cons: USB version so not compatible with premium soundcards. Also moderate to heavy head sweaters beware! The earpads, as spongy as it is, will soak up any sweat and oil you produce while under extended use. I am a very OCD hygenic person, but I'm a bit embarassed to say the pads started developing an odor from all the sponging. Since they aren't the traditional leather/pleather/etc. you cannot simply clean them with an alcohol pad. Some of the lint from my hair product got on them and I had to use a lint brush for 15-20 minutes of a time to clean them off. Used Febreeze to freshen the scent up but that's not right...

Overall Review: There is a non-USB version if you are a soundcard user. Other than the spongy earpads, it's a great headset and I still use them. However since I'm growing tired of cleaning them up once a week, I'm currently looking for alternatives.

Pros: - Hybrid setting - VERY QUIET! - 80 PLUS PLATINUM RATING!

Cons: - Can't see PSU branding when fan exhaust is facing down - Might have trouble powering up a 3rd GPU due to lack of available cables. I have a Rampage IV Extreme and I needed one of the PCI-E cables to juice up the PCI-E lane socket on the board. There are 4 possible PCI-E cables on the PSU but I had to use 2 of them on the motherboard for overclocking. This is a real downer for me because I got this PSU for the purposes of attempting a 3-way SLI overclocking push by taking advantage of the 80 PLUS Plat. Getting another one of these PSU's just to power the GPU's would be overkill... - 1 Egg

Overall Review: I bought this from another reseller since Newegg sold out and took too long to restock. I needed a PSU that was over 850W but wanted more bang for my buck. Corsair gold rated Enthusiast series was overpriced for me. I was excited to see that SeaSonic recently released a platinum rated PSU priced just right.

Pros: Overclocks well and easily. Currently have it at DRAM Freq - 800.5MHz FSB:DRAM - 2:12 Timing - 11-11-11-29 on my EVGA P55 Classified 200. You have to manually set these up in BIOS, otherwise it will likely default to lower settings for initial COMPATIBILITY purposes. Comes with a decent Airflow cooling fans.

Cons: Clips on the fan can slide of the DIMM retention clips if you tip over case or move it in such a way that would cause it to come off. No biggie, just take it off if you are going to move your case around (ie. lan party). I'm not sure you can really blame the Corsair for that since all DIMM retention clips were made in such a fashion that would have it so. Other than that, I wish the color was red to match my motherboard, but they save reserve that color for their pricier Dominator GT's.

Overall Review: Even w/o the Airflow cooling fans, I think the set is a good value. I might have to take mine off to make room for the water cooling tubes coming from my CPU water block later. At my current settings, I don't think the ram gets that hot to worry about. I have other case fans blowing in the direction of their heat sinks anyways.

Pros: - Tri-color LED Fan! you can choose between blue, green, red or off. (too bad it's turned face down in my Corsair Obsidian 800D) - 85% efficiency - Manual Rail Fusion! - USER SELECTABLE +12V rail split/combine for even +12V distribution or maximum power (I love this!) - Modular cable design w/ PCIe 6+2pin designs

Cons: - Green color on the side sticker

Overall Review: I RMA'd my Corsair HX850 since it probably wouldn't have enough power for SLI'ing 2 much more 3 GeForce GTX 480's in the future. I was looking into upgrading to an HX1000, but I couldn't settle on the current price. Then I saw a video review on this and saw that Mushkin's site had a very generous web price special. Corsair currently doesn't have a 1200W PSU (I wonder why..) nor would I care look at the price of those things seeing how high 1000W is. So I decided to give their competition a shot. I know Mushkin's specialty doesn't exactly lie in PSU's, however by reputation I know if I did have problems I would get the same great service they give on their memory products. And so far it has been working out great! I leave my rig on 24/7! :) Rig Set-up: Intel i7 860 EVGA P55 Classified 200 EVGA GeForce GTX 480 Corsair Dominator 4x2GB DDR3 1600

Pros: Awesome wire management! I was VERY pleased with the look of my build after everything came together. The design is also very pleasant to look at.

Cons: I think Corsair had a hard time deciding on who to please more; the general air cooling pop or the water cooling enthusiast. The only thing I'm not happy with on this case is that there is no space INSIDE the case for an additional 120.2 watercooling radiator (aside from the 120.3 radiator on top I'm already dedicating to my CPU) unless I gut it up. Which I don't want to do. For Air Cooling, there is only one 140mm fan on the bottom blowing up and one 140mm fan on the rear. It's nice that they came with silencing pads, but what about airflow? I put 3*120mm LED fans on top blowing out to help, but I doubt the airflow and temps would be any better than the CM Storm Sniper I replaced this with unless I was going for some underclock power efficiency build or something.

Overall Review: Personally, I could've done without the hotswap drives and the permanent hdd rack for 120.2 or 140.2 fan slots in the front. It almost feels like this was supposed to be a server tower. I wanted to keep ALL parts internally, but it looks like I'm going to have to put my 2nd radiator outside the back. I tried measuring for a 140.1 radiator at the bottom, but there wouldn't be space for a push/pull config WITH tubing. Only a pull config which I think wouldn't help with the temps of my future SLI build. Overall this is one QUALITY build and I'm still happy with it despite my air cooling/water cooling critique. The price/setup was a little better compared to the water cooling acrylic case alternatives I was looking at. If price wasn't the issue on some of those cases I was looking at (ie. double wide for dual 120.4 rads up front and 120.3 rad at the back) then I probably woudn't have gotten this. But I think $300 is already enough since I'd rather spend more on actual hardware.