Overall Review: Honestly I thought the fan was going to be louder. I saw a lot of people and reviews complaining about the noise but for me I haven't hardly heard the fan even while gaming. Yes it does run warmer then a triple axial fan would, but the noise honestly isn't bad. I have a Radeon VII as well and to me that fan is about the same. My PC sits under my desk but I have had louder cards in there before that were more noticeable. Overall Great Performance!!! At 1440p playing The Division 2 on high at stock, it comes within 5fps of my Radeon VII. Other games such as Metro Exodus, Assasin's Creed Odyssey, and Star Wars Battlefront 2 run Great!! I'm very pleased with the performance for the price. Using a 144hz 1440p Freesync monitor without checking FPS and playing between this and a Radeon VII I don't notice the difference at all. Framerates and Frametimes have been good for me. The one issue most people seem to mention is about the drivers and for me they have gotten better now after a couple of new driver versions. Make sure to uninstall old drivers with DDU before first installing the latest drivers especially for the first time. I had issues at first going from Radeon VII to this, but after using DDU in Safe Mode and then installing new drivers helped me big time. This will get better with time being a new card and new architecture.

Pros: This is the best looking reference card of any vendor I've ever seen. Feels top quality and I love the way they did the rgb on it.

Cons: Drivers are definitely improved from what I've seen from early reviews. Their driver team does seem to be making some good progress, still depends on the game on what is problem free. Some games I try work flawlessly while others work, but may have some stuttering issues.

Overall Review: Overall an awesome looking card!! If drivers keep improving this will be an amazing long term buy. Ray tracing is great compared to others in this price range. Glad to own one, and I would buy again.

Pros: Cooling 10-15C cooler than stock cooler. Quieter than stock cooler. I have an AMD FX-6350 running at stock that while under load with the stock cooler would constantly get up to about 60C and the fan would run between 6800-7100 RPM. This would make a LOUD sound reminding me of the Old Geforce FX 5800 Ultra cooler. Lol. It would only get this hot when running Handbrake and while Folding. I purchased the N520 from a local store because I needed something that would keep it cooler and quieter while under load. I would of loved to get the Hyper 212 EVO but it was too large to fit within my case. I looked at the Hyper T4 as it would fit but I went with this cooler because it already had 2 92mm fans and with the T4 I would of added a second fan since the AMD FX series processors run Hot as it is. I used Arctic Silver 5 Thermal compound to attach the cooler and under full load of Handbrake and Folding I only get up to about 48-50C max and under normal use on a hot day about 33C max. Gaming about 42-45C max. The fans are a LOT quieter than the stock cooler. The thermal difference of 10-15C cooler is really about what I was expecting and wanted. Fit perfectly in my Rosewill Ranger-M Micro-ATX Case. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147122&cm_re=rosewill_ranger-_-11-147-122-_-Product It also cleared my ram just fine.

Cons: It doesn't have the 4-pin fan connectors to control fan speed. Installation required removing the motherboard, but this is generally required on all larger coolers so it's not really a major con. Nothing that caused me to deduct anything from the 5-star rating.

Overall Review: My Setup: AMD FX-6350 Stock at 3.9ghz baseclock 8gb ddr3 Team Elite 1333 ECS A960m-mv (V1.0) Motherboard 1tb WD Hard Drive PNY Geforce GTX 660 Rosewill Ranger-M Case with 2 case fans (Micro-ATX) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147122&cm_re=rosewill_ranger-_-11-147-122-_-Product I am going to use this same cooler with the AMD FX-8370 processor that AMD is getting ready to launch as well. As one final upgrade for this aging platform. Lol.

Pros: Shipped with the latest Bios from ECS and would be able to handle FX-8350 out of the box. I was able to do some mild overclocking with this board.

Cons: none so far.

Overall Review: I teamed this with an FX-4130 also from Newegg for a cheap gaming rig and it has handled everything so far just perfectly.

Pros: A good cheap 4GB ram stick that worked flawlessly for me.

Cons: none so far

Overall Review: I was able to overclock with a cheap motherboard to 1600 stably

Pros: A Decent stock cooler for minor overclocking. A cheap Quad-Core. I purchase on sale for $89 Performance I believe is close to being on par for competing low end processors. Feels smooth in windows and games.

Cons: Not as efficient as a Vishera-Core processor Not as good power wise as competing Intel chips

Overall Review: I purchased the FX-4130 for a cheap gaming rig, paired with a used Geforce GTX 660 and I am not dissapointed. Sure this isn't the fastest processor out there but for $89 I am more then happy. I was able to overclock this stable to 4.3 ghz on the stock cooler, and that is paired with a cheap ECS motherboard. Performance is about what I expected and definitely beats my old Core 2 Duo rig.

I never received item or refund for motherboard I ordered. Responded once 2 weeks ago and still nothing. Complete scam.