Pros: Quiet, efficient, rock solid, low price

Cons: Doesn't have an 8 Pin video card connector

Overall Review: I bought one of these about 3 or 4 years back for my computer, which is on constantly, and it has never had issues. A little over half a year ago, I started mining with a card that really should call for a higher output supply, and I'm powering it from a simple Hard drive power to 8 pin adapter which you really shouldn't use and it has been running for 6 months straight without issue. I recently bought another one for another build, and it also works great, and I expect it to continue to do so.

Pros: I really like the BIOS menu. It is dead easy to do everything, even things like flashing new BIOS versions, and the interface is pleasing and works with a mouse. This price for MSI's reputation for quality control is excellent. 3 monitor outputs.

Cons: This seems to have a strange incompatibility with the stock fan that came with my A8-5500. It made an obnoxious amount of PWM noise and I had to replace the fan. However, this fan is silent on the ASRock board in my other machine. I just swapped the fans and got quiet machines. Go figure. Also no USB 3.0 and only 2 RAM slots, but that isn't much of a con at this price and on a micro board. MSI's driver update utility was painfully slow to download updates and triggered a security warning every time I booted the system, plus it installed an old Catalys driver, so I just did them manually.

Overall Review: The number of 5 star reviews on this and nearly all MSI boards was the reason I chose this one. So far, no regrets.

Pros: It is a good looking case for the price, Easy access, Light but feels sturdy, good airflow, top ports are convenient

Cons: Cables are just barely long enough, front panel seems to come off a little too easily, expansion slot covers are hard to remove once a motherboard is in. Rear fan is a bit on the loud side, and made a clicking noise for an hour or two until it apparently wore off a manufacturing defect.

Overall Review: The case was definitely the part I cheaped out the most on in my build, but I don't regret it. It does what it is supposed to and doesn't feel as cheap as its price point would make you think. The CPU air tunnel is really nowhere near the center of the CPU on my MSI AMD board and only overlaps with it probably about 25%, but the CPU still easily stays cool with the stock fan and one added front case fan. For this price, I expected a long con list.

Pros: A CPU and GPU with these specs and a 65W TDP for under $100 is a pretty good deal at the moment. Of course it has the expected drawbacks of an APU... it uses some of your system RAM, and it is consequently slower for memory intensive video tasks (obviously don't try mining with one) but it is a good consumer level package.

Cons: No temperature gauge programs seem to work with this APU. I tried CoreTemp along with a few others, all show 0 degrees. Some reports claim that if you load the CPU it will star to display temp. Didn't work for me. Also, the included fan made a bunch of PWM noise on one motherboard. It was shrill and high pitched and totally unacceptable. It goes away at full speed of course, but it never runs that high.

Overall Review: I've tested the temperaure as best I can by running a program that loads the CPU and GPU for 15 minutes then stabbed the reset button and quickly checked the temp in the BIOS. It didn't push above 50 like that, and the fan never picks up much speed, so I'm not too concerned about heat. The fan is really loud on one mobo, silent on another. However, my other fan from an Athlon II is silent on both. Something about that combination. The noise utterly overpowered everything in the case. Obviously AMD is lagging behind Intel in the CPU performance race, especially in the APU line, but for processor+graphics at this price point, this unit still makes sense.

Pros: It works.

Cons: None

Overall Review: RAM is RAM. I mean, the specs are right there, so you either get what your expect or it is defective. I figure if everyone rates 5 stars for working RAM and 1 for defective RAM, it gives shoppers an idea of quality control. Mine wasn't defective (did a full run through of Memtest) nor did it have any trouble being recognized and being properly clocked by my motherboard, so it gets 5 stars.

Pros: Good reception, cheap, reliable connection, doesn't use a PCIe slot

Cons: None that I experienced

Overall Review: Can't comment on the utility software, I only installed the drivers. I got this because it seemed to have the best rating to price ratio of any PCI card, and I didn't want to use up my only PCIe slot with a wireless card. Installed the drivers first, then put the card in. It has never dropped signal, and it picks up my router with 100% strength, and picks up neighbors' signals much stronger than my laptop with the included antennae.