Pros: Awesome power. One of the best single-GPU cards on the market from the time I got it (April '11) until I write this review (Sept '11). Drivers are mostly ironed out now and as far as a long-term investment, it's a sure bet! It's half the price of the dual-GPU cards, but still able to run almost anything out there maxed. I can run many games maxed AND record FRAPs at least at 30 fps locked smoothly. Or if I'm running eyefinity with 3 monitors and maxed, I can still record FRAPs half-size at 30fps locked. Simply, it is a freaking SWEET card. Eyefinity is also a big plus. One of the major draws for me in choosing this card. I have 2 passive mini-d ports with VGA attachments for my peripheral monitors and DVI for my central.

Cons: Loud. Loud. Loud. Well, it's not tornado loud, but very loud for a video card fan. I am going to look into the MSI 45% fan profile mentioned in other review, as I think that will eliminate this "con" from the list. Large. Make sure you have the clearance. I have a giant case (NZXT Phantom) which has more than enough room, but make sure yours can fit it without bumping into HDDs or anything else. Perhaps because of the fan not kicking in until the card warms up to "N" degrees, when it does kick in it warms up the room. It can raise the temps in the small room it resides 10 F or more depending on ventillation. Make sure you have good room airflow, not just case airflow.

Overall Review: I want to max the baby out on BF3 and see what it can do. I want to get a 2nd card and run xfire mode with 3 monitors 1280x1024. I can't right now as one of my 3 went to go live on a farm and frolick with other old LCDs contently (so I'm told), but I think the ideal rig would be 2 of these in xfire and 3 monitors for full detail high-res gaming, and maybe with optional water cooling to reduce noise/heat a tad (optional). Unless you're actively looking to nitpick, this card will work for you. I'm not saying it's better than the equivelant nvidia card, both have merits and I've had more nvidia than I have AMD cards in the past. I will simply say you won't be disappointed in the muscle you get for the price.

Pros: On 2nd PC it went in, installed fine, and instantly worked after a reboot. No problems, allows me to remove a wired cable from a mid-tower case.

Cons: On 1st PC it went into free PCI slot and did not work. Funky things happened. Installed drivers, but it kept blinking in and out in software... When it registered it never showed a network, never showed any wireless networks to connect to, etc. Tried downloading newer drivers with no joy. Let windows work the WLAN, no joy. Ended up yanking a PCI card and trying another slot. Similar problems. However I did something somehow that got the hardware manager to indicate a conflict with the card and it didn't show up in Windows anymore. IRQ or some other conflict? Really? Seriously? So I had to pull 3 PCI cards INCLUDING my nice SoundBlaster Audigy card and cram it next to my PCIe video card. Luckily it's low profile toward the back and didn't disrupt airflow. WORKED! Terrible issues with hardware compatibility. Was able to put 2 cards back in PCI slots but had to leave Audigy off and use onboard sound. Bleh!! 2 eggs off for this major 2-day ordeal I went through.

Overall Review: The PC it worked with had an ASRock Dual775-VSTA motherboard. The one it didn't was a newer but similar dual ASRock board of different model name. Very major issues with hardware incompatibilities. Don't get this if you are doing online gaming. As painful as it might be to string cable, that's the best thing for latency and online games. If you're not doing real-time gaming like shooters or flight sims, go for it. It's actually quite nice on the non-gaming computers. Works fine IF it works. If not, you have to work hard, and you may NOT get it working, period. So if you're somewhat sure you know you stuff it's a 70% shot you can get it working. If you're not very tech savvy, it's going to be a 50/50 shot it will work or not. Total craps shoot.

Pros: Good kit overall. Nice heat sink cover over the RAM modules. Feels sturdy when pushing into the slots. Allows option for overclock up to 2000MHz. Runs just fine also at 1600. I am running 1600 only because it's a better timing for my stock CPU speeds right now, but I like that I can ramp it up without fear.

Cons: Autodetect on my motherboard didn't seem to yield good results. I had to go in and manually set certain things to get it to stock 1600 MHz, even. The fan started the death rattle less than a year in. I thought maybe something important was going south with the noise coming from my case. Turns out it was the RAM fan! Yanked it out and the case is quiet once again, which is a shame because I liked that fan setup. No egg deducted, though, as the RAM is still working just fine. No documentation included. Not even printed on the packaging itself. Nothing listing the timing you might need to know. No explicit list saying "this is 8-9-8-24 RAM @ 1.65V"... Newegg gave me more info on how to set the RAM than Corsair did.

Overall Review: Why can't RAM manufacturers just come out and list the timings on the packaging? There are a number of motherboard BIOS settings that are confusing and if you have to set them manually (or if you want to) it's really hard to find out what the settings on the RAM are! It would be nice to just look at the back label and see "Oh, I see, I set this, that, and this, and I'm good"... tras, mcas, etc, can be confusing for those not at the advanced level and aren't looking to overclock. Ram installed on: EVGA X58 FTW3 132-GT-E768-KR LGA 1366 Stock air-cooled Intel Core i7-960 Bloomfield 3.2GHz

Pros: To correct a comment below, Windows 7 Home Premium supports only 16GB of memory. However, both Windows 7 Professional (which I own and use) and Windows 7 Ultimate have a max capacity of 192GB (in x64) The Windows 7 versions and their max supported RAM: Starter: 8GB Home Basic: 8GB Home Premium: 16GB Professional: 192GB Enterprise: 192GB Ultimate: 192GB

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Pros: PCIe interface for blazing speed, already configured in RAID setup, no need for a first-time RAIDer to worry about any of that, literally plugged it in, loaded the RAID drivers onto a USB jump drive, installed Windows 7 x64 and when it prompted me I told it to load these drivers for this RAID. Not a single hint of a problem since then. Blazing fast speed. After a POST it usually takes me 17-18 seconds to get to a full Win7 desktop and actually being able to click and run things (not sitting there loading like on older systems, where you can't use the mouse for 2 minutes). VERY fast. This is good. It's the reason I got a Revo X2 instead of a standard SSD. The X2 line is RAIDed on the board. The standard REVO line is just a drive. It's the difference between nice and awesome.

Cons: It's PCIe. This is a pro and a con. It's a con because I can't just stick in another. I can't add to the RAID and reformat for more storage. It also only has 100GB storage give or take. While this is enough to run windows, a few key programs, one or two high-priority games I have, the rest of my stuff goes on a standard platter HDD (1TB Samsung) that handles most of my stuff. 100GB is good, but not great. If you want 1 primary drive and no backup, if you don't want to separate your windows paths to point your temp directories, swap files, etc all to your SATA HDD, then you may want to save up and pay for the higher storage versions that have come out since the time I bought mine. Major cons: PRICE! SUPER HIGH PRICE!! In a couple years this may be dirt cheap. Now on the upslope of SSD technology, you have to pay for your performance.

Overall Review: When I first installed Win7 x64 and was putting programs onto the system I did some video editing in my usual software package. I literally freaked out for a minute. The response of the shuttle was instant, no hesitating, no skipping, no micropauses or delays... I was literally thinking "what the frak!?" until I realized all my temp folders, swap files, render files, and cache files were on the SSD by default at this point. It WILL make a big difference in every day computing. I transfered my editing defaults to the secondary drive to extend longevity of the SSD, but I read a study/test that suggested leaving windows' swap file on the SSD won't hurt it any more than standard use, as with Windows the swap file was usually written to with small amounts and the end opinion was this is where it's worth using an SSD. EVGA EFF-TEE-W (filter thinks it's naughty backwards) LGA775 motherboard had absolutely NO problem with this card, as mounted on the lower (outer-most) PCIe slot

Pros: With a few removed screws or a few twists of your fingers you can take out the plastic retaining clips and drive bay holders and use actual screws. They don't get in your way too badly. The case fits a standard ATX and has a bit of extra room (I didn't think it would have any free room by the drive bays until I actually had the board in place and gave it a once-over). Not too heavy. Doesn't look too ugly, either. #1 pro: It's a 25 buck case that holds a full ATX with a side vent over your CPU. If you need a cheap-as-sin case that gets the job done, here you go. #2 as cheap as it is, it doesn't go out of its way to annoy you. It simply is low quality, not low design. That means you can work with it.

Cons: Totally cruddy construction. The bay covers are these wire mesh with sponge filters behind them. For better airflow I assume, but they don't snap out or pop out. You bave to push them out from inside and that means they kink/bend in the middle. You essentially have to break them to get the parts out. If you're careful you can bend them back. SUPER SOFT METAL! I mean stuff a 10-year-old matrix "the one" candidate could bend like a cheap spoon. You look at it and it bends over. The rear expansion slots are far too soft, and yet attached with far too much leftover metal. Banging them out actually warps (significantly!) the metal you are trying to free them from. The upside is you can mostly bend it back in place. The downside is it's really awful metal. Don't expect it to last 3 years or take any semblance of abuse. Stand-offs used some metric size and would not fit into my english hex tools. I had to tighten them in with pliars which chewed the heck out of the soft metal.

Overall Review: This is without a doubt one of the most gawdawful cases you will ever see in your life. EVER. Except.... well, you know that going into it. It doesn't present too many terrible hardships putting parts in. It takes full ATX. It has expansion slots. It loads a PSU just fine. It has "okay" (not good) room. What the heck do you want? It's only 25 smackers! Great for re-boxing proprietary junk like my sister's Dell Optiplex. The motherboard fried. Can't replace the board because non-standard cases. Take all the guts, drives, CPU, etc, get a compatible mobo and a cheap ATX case and get new life for an older system. This was that cheap case (for me). Worked like a charm. I have an NZXT for my own use, but this? It works.