Pros: Absolutely everything.

Cons: Doesn't warm my room up as well as my old Q9650 rig. But in all seriousness, I wish there was an option to buy the chip without the cooler. This would reduce the price (not to mention waste) by a non-trivial amount. I'm sure most of the people who purchase at this level toss the stock heat sink in favor of superior solutions, especially for the "k" series processors which imply the intent to overclock.

Overall Review: I have this running with an ASUS Z97-A and a Cooler Master Seidon 120V. I was able to overclock the turbo from 3.9GHZ to 4.6GHZ and REDUCE the turbo voltage from 1.2V to 1.12V. Idle temps are around 26C and full load (Prime95 small FFT test) temps are from 60C to 65C. This was truly a great purchase, and I would highly recommend spending the extra $$ for this CPU.

Pros: The base is copper for decent thermal conductivity.

Cons: The mounting points were seemingly designed to fail. They rely on the elasticity of small plastic clips to mount to the motherboard. If you are like me, and you routinely remove and clean your heat sinks, this product is not for you. Plastic deformation lead to the failure of one of the four mounting points, and i am honestly surprised it lasted as long as it did. Additionally, the mounting brackets are difficult to use. If you are trying to install this on a motherboard that is already inside the case, it is nearly impossible.

Overall Review: For $5 more you can get yourself a Cooler Master. I replaced my Arctic Freezer with the T4 and I couldn't be happier. My CPU is cooler, the build quality is better, and the brackets are much easier to use.

Overall Review: I upgraded my NAS/Server from an old Antec Three Hundred to this to take the edge off the noisy HDDs. I couldn't be happier with the results. The new chassis is nearly silent, and the build quality blew me away.

Pros: - Looks awesome vertically mounted in my Phanteks Evolv X case. - Runs consistently cool and clock speeds are consistent and high. With the equivalent of 6 140mmx140mm radiators cooling my 5Ghz core i9 9900k and RTX 2080 my coolant temp maxes out at about 35°C during long gaming sessions and the GPU maxes out at about 52°C, a 17°C delta. At this temp the card happily runs overclocked to 2070Mhz core (+100) and 16,000Mhz effective memory clock (+1000). - According to some benchmarks I've run, in my configuration this card runs better than the average RTX 2080 Super. - Was on a deep sale when I purchased it. I think it might have been the cheapest RTX 2080 on the market at the time, which truly baffles me. Clearly they were trying to clear out stock. - RTX looks nice in Metro Exodus. I get generally over 100 FPS @ 1440p (with some dips to as low as 70) with settings: Ultra, RTX on High with DLSS, Tesselation and PhysX on, 1440p.

Cons: - Based on comments from others, I am concerned about how the cleaning experience will be with this card when the time comes. More below. - Absolutely massive. It barely fit in my case. The far right side of the card is gently resting against a fitting coming out of my reservoir. Thankfully, it did fit, and I did not have to get creative with mounting the reservoir.

Overall Review: When I filled my loop for the first time, I discovered that there was still a small amount of debris left inside my new radiators even after thoroughly cleaning. Small white particles wedged themselves into the smallest nooks of my CPU and GPU water blocks and a fine white powder coated the inside of my reservoir and tubes. For now, it is purely an aesthetic misfortune, and performance remains stellar. When the time comes, cleaning the EK CPU water block, fittings, tubes, reservoir, and radiators should be trivial, but as I said above, I am very concerned about how exactly I am going to clean the GPU water block. For this reason I have subtracted 1 egg. I know I will have to clean the block soon, and there does not seem to be a way of doing it without damaging the card. I am hoping that MSI will have some advice for me here. My only plan now, is that I will contact their customer support before I attempt to clean it and hopefully they will have something good to tell me...

Pros: - G-Sync is amazing. Going from 60Hz to 120+Hz is a more significant improvement. But G-sync feels like the delicious cherry on top. Even low frame rates (50+) look buttery smooth. After doing some reading and testing, I opted for G-Sync + Vsync on in my Nvidia Control Panel, and I don't imagine I will be changing that. - Pixel Response/toggle-able overdrive. In the OSD it is called "Response Time" with options for "Normal" or "Fast". I keep it on "Normal". The "Fast" mode induces an unsightly amount of ghosting, something my previous monitor suffered from (GN246HL). On Normal, The Pixel response time feels much faster than my old monitor. -Pixel Density. I don't like seeing jaggies. So this monitor, with 80% more pixels and therefore 80% higher pixel density as compared with my old 24in GN246HL, is quite nice in that respect. -The Stand. For my old monitor, I had to buy a 3rd party stand to get height, swivel, etc. This monitor comes with a nice stand. Now I have an extra monitor stand. -165Hz. It's a marginal upgrade over 144Hz. I'm not entirely sure if I would be able to tell the difference, but I enabled it anyway because why not....

Cons: - Color Banding. Before Calibrating (I used Lagom's lcd test page), the color banding in dark colors was VERY noticable. After calibrating, the banding is subtle. Since I use this monitor for gaming, it isn't an issue. The colors are probably worse than my old GN246HL, but I do not have an issue with this like a previous reviewer does. The colors look pretty good to me, and the pros more than make up for this for me. -Gamma. The gamma with the included color profile is something like 1.7 @ 48% luminance. I used my Nvidia Control Panel to bring it to around 2.2 (see settings below).

Overall Review: I am using the following settings: Monitor OSD: Brightness - 40% Contrast - 60% Red - 92% Green - 99% Blue - 100% Response - Normal Refresh Rate - 165Hz Nvidia Control Panel: Red Gamma - 70 Green Gamma - 73 Blue Gamma - 75 Monitor Techonlogy - Gsync Vertical Sync - On (Triple Buffering - Off) $350 was an excellent price for this monitor.

Pros: - Initial Setup was pretty easy. Deciding on a name for the server was the hard part. - In home media streaming without the need to have my primary PC turned on, amazing. - Feature rich, there is a lot that this machine can do. I feel like I have not begun to scratch the surface. - Easy to install and uninstall applications with the Package Center. - I can access my files over the internet via DDNS and FTP.

Cons: - The number of available features can be overwhelming. - Lots of trial and error. - Sometimes when I'm browsing files and folders using the internet browser UI I hit the back button on my mouse to go back a folder, and instead the webpage goes back to my home page. Palm Face. Really, I should just use the mapped network drives for this.

Overall Review: I bought this with a pair of 8TB WD Red drives. The NAS configured the drives as a Redundant RAID by default giving my 7.2TB of usable storage. This is great because it is exactly what I wanted. The initial setup was pretty easy. I moved the files to it that I wanted off of my PC, mostly Movies and Shows, and I was able to set up a few user accounts with varying levels of access to the default Home and shared folders. Within the first 24 hours of owning it I was streaming movies and shows to KODI on my HTPC over SMB. On my primary Windows machine I was able to map drives to my Home folder and the shared folders as easily as one might expect, and I was able to set up Windows to automatically backup files and folders of my choosing to a folder within my Home folder. I spent several hours combing through the settings in the Control Panel to see what this NAS is capable of and I was able to tweak various settings to my liking. I was also able to Install and uninstall various applications with ease thanks to the package center implementation. I am now running a Plex server (no transcoding), for instance, so that the FireSticks in the house have easy access to my library. And I uninstalled many of the pre-installed apps like Video Station since I will not be using them, and can easily reinstall them if I change my mind. Once I was comfortable with the UI and basic functionality, I began researching means of accessing my NAS from over the internet. After much research, trial, and error (I'm new to this) I was able to setup a free DDNS in the control panel through synology (very easy) and an encrypted FTP File server that I can access using FileZilla(not as intuitive). With this method I can create user accounts for friends and they can upload and download files and folders that I explicitly give them read and/or write access to. Pretty great!

The cables came as advertised and they look pretty nice. I am less than satisfied that this package did not include a set of cable combs that could handle all of the wires coming from my dual 8 pin GPU. Instead I had to get creative with the 8 and 6 pin power cable combs to get everything looking "okay", not perfect, but pretty good.