Pros: - Runs cool despite 130watt TDP - Powerful (encoded a 320Kbps, 1 GB File Size song in 25 seconds) - Awesome Overclocking ability

Cons: - None

Overall Review: This thing is a beast! I upgraded from a Core i5 2500 and this CPU blew my mind being able to handle anything I threw at it with ease. My example is in a game of Minecraft in an amplified world..... My old Core i5 2500 would get maxed out during normal gameplay and heat up ~65c where under the same conditions this CPU goes, "Haha That tickled" only needing 25% of its total processing power!! Now THAT IS AWESOME! I can get with a Xigmatec Black Knight CPU Cooler and thermal grease I run temps around 35c idle to 50c max load! Yes 50c max load..... all cores clocked @ 4.1GHz and oh I normally run this CPU at 4.1GHz BUT IT CAN DO SO MUCH MORE. I hate overclocking but its like a waste of cash not to overclock this beast! I got a stable 4.65GHz before needing to back off. If you are on the line.... just buy this beast! You will NOT be sad at all!

Pros: - Build quality is very firm, everything feel built well and solid - Dimm.2 slot ( for M.2 Drives) was a genius idea, Samsung 960 EVO never exceeds 55C. No known stability issues. - BIOS layout is easy to understand with hundreds of tweaks of things I never would imagine - Fan in I/O shroud with a heatpipe to the VRMs for cooling is a huge plus!!! - Onboard OLED readout screen is neat when it works. - Most connectors are in easy to route spots on the board making cable management a breeze later - USB 3 and 3.1 headers..... very nice! - Board is stable once you find your boards sweet spots

Cons: - AI Suite software is junk..... and always has been. Board does not need it which is nice. - Heatsink design for southbridge is absolute junk. No way to dissipate heat which makes that area toasty 60 to 75C under load.... this area also holds the only onboard M.2 slot... temps under heavy load will not be good. There are two other M.2 slots provided by the Dimm.2 function - Aura colour options and functions need a lot more added to them... was very disappointed in the lack of fine tuning options to each effect if this is important to you. Colour options are fine however. Plenty of options. - This board tends to overvolt your manual voltage inputs!! Type in 1.35 for RAM, it gave me 1.379 actual.... this gave stability issues. Keep this in mind if planning on overclocking. Easy to accidental overcook. - Blutooth on my board is intermittent - Warranty sticker on Southbridge heatsink placed right over an cut out for the LED light. This is annoying. - Issues with not posting if top row of USB ports has anything plugged in. It will not post and OLED error says Load VGA BIOS. - Only one USB 2.0 header, two are still handy these days as my one plug at least is still commonly used. - Two "fan" headers are very hard to access under the VRM heatpipe that runs from the VRM heatsink to the I/O shroud heatsink - Mounting screws on the TR4 socket are way too short!! Extremely.... EXTREMELY difficult to install. No excuse for this at all.

Overall Review: Asus you are better than this for your products. This board feels like when I tried pasting together a macaroni picture in 1st grade and the macaroni kept falling off. It still works and does its job for the most part but it was quite a bumpy road and a huge learning curve to figure out what makes it stable. My first Asus board was back from the 775 socket days and owned nothing but Asus motherboards since. They are better than this....... but it can be a lot worse as well.

Pros: - Optimal Layout - Two 2.4A USB charing ports - Long power cord - Overload and Ground Fault Warning lights are a nice plus - High Surge Arrest rating - low profile wall plug with the wiring running along the wall which is a huge plus

Cons: - One outlet outter ring is DOA, it does not allow anything to be plugged into it and if you attempt to the building fault light will light up. (Red) This tells me the prongs on the inside of the plug are likely bent. I purchased this to replace a aging 10 outlet strip and needed that one extra outlet. Sadly, I will need to consider another product.

Overall Review: --

Pros: -Temps!!! @26C Ambient. Idle ~28C, Load ~55C (50% Fan). -Tackles all my 1440p dual monitor activities with no sweat. - Dual HDMI outputs -Overall aesthetics are great with the choosing of your own LED colours in Asus's Software. -0db fan mode handy for powerful HTPCs -White/Red LEDs on the PCIe power plugs handy, showing if a plug has power or not.

Cons: -Software stopped launching for me. Have to reinstall it every few weeks if I want to change LED colours. -Shroud feels flimsy -Can not remove the fans to add a waterblock without voiding the warranty. A warranty sticker was added to one mounting screw -DVI port added. I would like to see third party cards start ditching the DVI port in favor of air flow.

Overall Review: - “I am writing this review to enter into the "Join The Republic- Your Path to Legendary Commences" campaign" Overall, I am very happy with this Graphics Card from Asus. My card maxes out at 1997MHz, to which I am rather pleased. Temps have never topped 75C with the default fan curve, and never tops 60C with my more aggressive fan curve. My only displeasure is with the rather unstable software, though I have never had much luck with Asus's software honestly, and the software is not a critical need for this Graphics card at all. I normally buy my graphics cards from another manufacture, however they had massive issues with stock. Could no longer wait for a 1080Ti to replace my aging 780Ti and I am not regretting it! Asus builds some rather good Grpahics Cards, this is my first card from Asus.

Pros: - Great Performance at its rated speed - Stays cool under stress

Cons: - Fans need clips on both side of RAM slots to install which my motherboard only has clips one side. Common nowadays which i am surprised G. Skill has not accounted for. - Fans are huge! - Hard to get stable above 1600MHz. Which my computer now refuses to post if RAM is set above 1600MHz.. Diagnostics concluded it is the RAM not allowing the computer to post. and if the computer does post it takes forever to initialize any operation that has to do with the RAM - I have two resistors touching each other! One is off the pad on the PCB which is touching a nearby resistor! This is not IPC standard! Lucky, the trace shows it goes that direction anyways.

Overall Review: Flawless RAM! I mean absolutely Flawless that is until about a 1.2 years later....... Running the RAM at 2400MHz was an absolute treat did so since day 1. One day however my desktop refused to POST out of nowhere. It continued to hang up at code Fb with the DRAM led diagnostic light lit up. Switch the RAM out every known way I could still refused even with just one stick. Stuck a different DDR3 chip in 1600MHz G. Skill RAM and it booted up, stuck this stuff back in would not post until I lowered the speed to 2133MHz. Played there for awhile until a month or two later, Bang, no POST this time with code 14, tweakit lock out, and DRAM LED lit once again. Since the RAM locked the BIOS up this time I was forced to clear CMOS and recover my settings. I now have the RAM limping at 1600 MHz. We will see how long this holds up .... time to save for new RAM. Oh, btw one of my chips has a resistor off its pad, another is misaligned and touching a nearby resistor.... could be why these chips are slowing dying out ... nor is this up to IPC Standards. I am surprised these chips passed through testing, and quality. I assemble power control PCB at my work place so I know what I am looking at, but if these chips made it out our door lives could be at risk if our products where to fail.

Pros: .........

Cons: Contest or whatever this is ended 3 days after I got this as a combo deal with my processor?

Overall Review: I bought my processor on 2/6/2014 and got Intel Elements as a free bundle...... well come to find out Intel Elements ended on 2/3/2014!!!!!!!!! and this "product" is still listed as a free bundle deal!!!! Newegg! Get it together! This was totally unfair to give my a expired promotion. Not Cool.