Pros: To the fellow who gave this drive one egg because of bad reviews, can you please update it? The drive is quiet (others have reported loudness and I believe them, but mine is hardly audible) and it is fast considering it's a cheap blu-ray drive that also doubles as a decent all in one DVD burner. No it doesn't play bluray discs out of the box, you have to pay for software or invest 10 minutes in learning how to install some codecs and media player classic or VLC. Within 15-20 minutes you should be familiar with the whole process. This drive CAN double as a replacement for a standalone player for your TV. The initial setup time is more than worth the money you can save. I actually love the look. I've burnt a bunch of DVD4/9 discs, both ISO and files, a bunch of various bootable linux live distros (puppy, mint, lubuntu, fedora), various Android live bootables, and write speed is above-average if you compare it to year old asus supermultidrive whatever it is. This drive is a steal, it's never burnt a coaster for me, and I redbox bluray all the time with minimal hassle.

Cons: None. WYSIWYG. Don't expect a feature-rich bluray player with it's own OS network/streaming capabilities for this price out of the box. I can confirm with some time you CAN get GeeXbox to play your discs provided you know how to convert stuff.

Overall Review: This drive and LG deserve 5 eggs for this product. The guy who gave it one star because he was mad at another reviewer really should change his rating. The people who rated it low because it didn't come with a manual? Let alone software? They obviously have no clue what OEM means and should read a little more. If you can't be bothered to learn very minimal application clicks, don't buy a PC component that shows nothing more in the pictures but a black bezel and a grey box with screw holes.

Pros: Both sides of the connections are snug in my Moto X Pure, Edge 6+, etc. Better build quality than I've seen in memory of this price range.

Cons: No dust cover for both ends. Unlike any other Samsung memory device I own, various read/write tests were all over the place outside of benchmarks. I have no idea why. Inexplicable, and makes moving any amount of files, small or large, a complete guessing game. I know not to expect on-the-box performance when so many different factors play into real life speeds of USB devices, but I swear it was more reliable (and faster) writing and reading from this thing using my phones and tablets than anything else.

Overall Review: I purchased this to act as a buffer for my media library that's attached to a larger drive on my home network, hoping to take the legwork out of files that are most commonly used. I should have gone for a higher price point, but the advertised speeds had me thinking it would perform better. I wholly trust Samsung, even though I stopped buying their phones years ago. I'm not going to give this drive less than 3 eggs because I'm almost certain the one I got is just flaky.

Pros: Great little board. Sublimely solid and a joy to install.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: I wasn't expecting such a robust package from ASRock, nor from a H97 level board. I am more than impressed, that's an understatement.

Pros: Profile is perfect for smaller cases. The kit profile needed no prodding from the BIOS on my GA-Z170X Gaming-7 board.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: Excellent price and performance. It was a hard sell but I tiptoed away from Gskill for these seeing the speeds and thresholds you look at with the Z170 platform. Didn't go in depth, but I was pleased with the overclock I saw with a few initial test posts.

Pros: My son loves the game but it wasn't enough to get him to stop playing Payday 2, Black Ops 3 or Battlefield 1.

Cons: Sheesh. I love Steam. I'm OK with Origin because I appreciate the storefront and my wife plays Sims and my son and I play Battlefield 4 (he plays 1). The process to redeem this free key was AWFUL. I swear for every good decision Microsoft has made with the whole XBOX platform, this new DRM solution is the pits. The Windows store is a PAIN to work with if you're remotely serious as a gamer. Limiting such a flagship game to a single storefront that's fledgling to get a hold of the market is head-scratching to say the least.

Overall Review: So, you get the email with the key, but if you're on a fresh install of Windows 10, you'll be tripping over updates to not only the Windows Store, but the XBOX platform *inside* the WIndows Store, which for me, started throwing out TONS of "file in use" errors and such nonsense. Eventually I just set everything to update, which basically took my son's new PC out of commission for an entire day, including of course the extremely SLOW download of the game itself. Free? That's nice, but not a killer app to get people like us to accept yet ANOTHER DRM.

Pros: It always comes down to Gigabyte and MSI for me, and at the prices I was looking at, I'm happy with my choice with this card. Performance is exactly as expected- please don't buy cards based on website user reviews! Your wallet, PSU and your performance will thank you for it! Gigabyte is always impressive with their Windforce coolers. I have ZERO coil whine. The fans do occasionally spin up but I upgraded to these cards from dual WIndforce 290X's. MUCH quieter. I don't have a lot of experience with the RGB lighting of these cards as this is my first one. I will say that it looks pretty good in my case window, and I haven't done anything software-side, and everyone that comes over has mentioned it's soft and tranquil procession through all the colors of the rainbow. Yay?

Cons: The elaborate Windforce design feels like it has been degrading in quality. It was superbly solid and felt like solid steel on the old HD 7000 series cards. A little more bend action is noticeable on my 29 290X Windforce pair. This card here, I was horrified handling it. It felt like no matter how I held it I was bending the entire frame of the cooler. Luckily I don't plan on moving it anytime soon. I'm never happy with Nvidia software. I don't play partial to any corporation. I usually only get the highest end flagship models but there are WAY too many flavors of the GTX line this generation. UGH! Over-saturated. Anyway, it isn't easy getting rid of all the extra in-game junk Nvidia throws at you- Raptr isn't much better than Geforce Experience, but Raptr can be uninstalled with two clicks. Fallout 4 on a fresh install of Windows 10 64Pro gave me CTD's until I started a new vanilla game using the Geforce recommended settings and made a save right after getting to the surface. Now mods and old saves work fine but I'm not sure why those peculiar crashes happened. Not Gigabyte's fault.

Overall Review: Gigabyte has beaten out MSI for me this time around in terms of price to performance. The fragile feeling of the card aside, it has been cranked up to 11 on all the games I expected it to run. I don't blink at 80-90C temps anymore, not after I (embarrassingly) mined crypto with a bunch of 7970 and 290X cards. Sheesh. If you're wondering, Skyrim and Fallout 4 with WAY too many mods installed run fantastic. Doom on Vulkan Ultra, all I can say is WOW. Nice (and MUCH LESS EXPENSIVE) upgrade from the crossfire 290X setup I had mained for two years.