Pros: Fan's quiet, engineering's solid, price is fantastic. Heat pipes and copper for $18? Yeah! My 89W CPU stays under 70 deg C, actually below 65 once I sped up case fans. This cooler impressed my coworkers; it was quite the conversation piece the day it arrived!

Cons: As others have said, for AMD CPUs it takes a bit of concentration to get the cooler lined up right, and then not have it slide around while fastening the clips. Really, it's no big deal, and once it's fastened down it's rock solid.

Overall Review: Get some Arctic Silver 5 instead of what comes with this cooler. This supports such a variety of sockets, I *might* get to reuse it in my next rebuild in a couple of years, which would be interesting.

Pros: - Nice price point for one of the latest-greatest GPU chipsets (as of 2011) - You'll have no trouble fitting this in your case because of its length, unlike some other mid-to-high-end cards. - Fan throttles up and down as needed, and even on "performance" setting I have no complaints about the noise.

Cons: - XP 32-bit video driver seems to blue-screen after coming out of hibernate. My guess is Windows 7 64-bit folks (most people these days) probably don't have this problem. - Card produces a little "click/chirp" in my mobo audio system each time a frame is rendered. Could easily be my mobo instead of the card.

Overall Review: FYI, this card runs Skyrim really nicely. In fact, I think this is even more graphics card than Skyrim needs. If anything, my understanding is Skyrim is pretty CPU intensive and would really like 4 cores @ 3.0 GHz.

Pros: The price is right, the interface is right (SATA), and it's detected perfectly and operates quietly. I see nothing not to like here.

Cons: none in my experience. I haven't tried LightScribe or DVD burning.

Overall Review: You'll have no problem saying goodbye to parallel ATA cables. In case you were wondering.

Pros: Probably about as good as it gets for UltraATA drives, in terms of price, performance, even temperature and noise.

Cons: The ATA interface itself, which is a fast-vanishing breed. Only ATA-100, not ATA-133, although many think ATA-133 was just marketing hype.

Pros: Very affordable card for those not looking for latest-greatest gaming experience. To be fair, it runs Doom 3 and Half Life 2 very well. Software control panel is nice: allows 3D-acceleration setting overrides, thus getting older 3D games to look nice even though they know nothing about advanced options like antialiasing.

Cons: Metal faceplate was, bizarrely, a little short for my Lian Li mid-tower ATX case. Had to bend it a bit to get it to fit. Included drivers not digitally signed, causing a Windows XP warning. They seem to work fine, though.

Overall Review: I'd say avoid pushing on the heatsink when installing the card.