Pros: - big (like really big) - excellent GB/$ (22 as of posting) - don't get too hot (35C reported after 7 hour test in room temp. environment with no active cooling)

Cons: - One drive was bad. Not DOA, but lots of bad sectors (2500+). RMA replacement in progress. - packaging showed some evidence of rough handling BEFORE shipping

Overall Review: They arrived in a styrofoam block wrapped in bubble wrap. The anti static bags on each drive had some dents and disfigurations, one of them actually had a half inch puncture. This could not possibly have happened in the styrofoam enclosure during shipping, so I can only suspect rough handling at the factory or distribution center, which is a little alarming. I haven't done much with these drives other than plug them in and run the extensive self tests on them (which, by the way, takes around 7 hours to complete for these drives. kick it off before bed). Three of the drives were clean, including the one that came in the punctured bag. The fourth bailed out of the self test early, reporting 440 bad sectors. I ran it through the minimal test after this, and the number of bad sectors increased to over 2500. That one's going back. The windows volume manager did not like to recognize these drives as 4TB drives, seeing only the first 2048GB on each (before even writing a partition table to the drives). I'm not sure whether this was an issue with the drive firmware, the SATA card they were plugged into (which had other issues as well, so it was probably this) or the windows volume manager. Linux was able to see and apply a partition table to the entire drive. Furthermore, after rebooting into windows with the partition table written to the drive, windows was able to see (and presumably manipulate) the entire 4TB. I haven't done any benchmarking yet as I've only had them for 2 days. Expect a follow up review in a month or so with more detailed performance analysis and benchmarks.

Pros: * Looks nice * simple setup, screw the base to the arm and insert the arm into the unit * No useless extras like speakers * buttons for power, +/- brightness (and 4 dummy buttons. wut)

Cons: * Panel nonfunctional on first power-on * Panel had a large static charge immediately on unwrap. Lots of things can contribute to this but the most likely is manufacturing processes. * Did not come in a protective sleeve, just bare styrofoam, another possible contributor to static buildup * I've found 2 dead pixels so far, there are probably more but I can't get it to actually display anything.

Overall Review: I adequately grounded myself before touching it, like I always do when opening and dealing with electronics. Grabbing a metal water tap with the water running is the best way, it puts you in contact with a gigantic chunk of copper, cast iron, and water, many hundreds of feet of which is buried directly underground. I'm glad I didn't plug the DVI cable into the computer first, there was probably enough juice to fry most or all of the components there too. I didn't even get it all the first time: I re-grounded myself, and it shocked me _again_. Regardless, the monitor has never displayed anything other than a continuous mask of red and green bars that sometimes change gradually with what the computer is pushing to it. To be honest, I'm not sure whether it died when it shocked me, or when it was shipped, or if it even made it out of the factory with a charge like that on it. If it were like a typical computer case, the metal support structures would be grounded and would protect the guts from stuff like this, and it looks an awful lot like impact damage to me. No point in lying about the static thing. I'm quite sure I followed standard electronic handling practices, I've never once had an issue of this sort with any other piece of hardware I dealt with, monitor or otherwise, in all the years I've been buying stuff from newegg. I've had a hard drive arrive DOA, but shipping companies ruin those all the time. I will give this thing ONE more chance if they let me RMA it, and the next one I get will be tested with a multimeter against a solid ground, on video, before I even get it out of the box. I hate to give 1 star reviews for things like DOAs that are often brought on by poor shipping, especially in this time, given the circumstances. If it wasn't the shipping that killed it, it was almost certainly the electric mishap. I'm quite sure I was electrically neutral, leaving only the option that the monitor wasn't. Newegg needs an option to post a review without giving an egg count, I don't want to ruin the score of what might turn out to be an OK deal, assuming shipping doesn't run it over with a barge on the way. I'm not that upset because it was really cheap, and frankly, I wouldn't have bought it if I wasn't ready to deal with something like this, I'd have opted for something more local.

Pros: - Fast fast fast - Lots of great reliability features like power-off protection

Cons: - I honestly can't think of anything

Overall Review: I have 2 of these set up in RAID1 on my haswell-e build. Posting takes a while, but once it's finished I go from first seeing the windows logo forming to login screen in just a few seconds. I don't have much in terms of detailed specs yet (I'll post a follow up review with that stuff), but the WEI for this configuration is 7.9 (the max).

Pros: - Easy overclocking - Easy RAID setup - GUI uefi interface - The features are mostly pros - Lots of useful status LEDs - The monitor's debug hex codes are in the manual (booklet 2), and the manuals are all posted online - There is an additional online guide to all of the overclocking settings and what they do

Cons: - Kind of a slow POSTer (10-15s) - RAID defaults to off, so every time you bork your overclock you have to turn it on again BEFORE trying to boot - Doesn't seem to honor speed stepping overclocks, I've so far only observed clock speeds at whichever core setting is set lowest

Overall Review: I paired this with a 5930k and 32GB of gskill 2400mhz. I've got a stable overclock of 4.5GHz on it (though I might dial it back a bit for power consumption and cooler noise reasons). I use a pair of intel 730 SSDs in raid 1 as a boot device. I accidentally let it boot once after resetting the CMOS and it booted successfully and damaged the integrity of the RAID. I had to drop the second disk from it (thus degrading the RAID) and re-add it (which re-imaged it from the first disk). It's a bit of a time waster, and without a bit of knowledge of raid safety, I'd have lost the install and needed to reformat. It would be nice if the SATA controller defaulted to RAID mode so that didn't happen. I know there's a firmware update out for it, maybe that fixes some of the weirdness with the speedstep settings... at this point I'm unable to set a higher overclock for a 1-core load, because such loads still top out at the lowest of the n-core-load settings. I'll post another review if more information is available.

Pros: - Works at higher-than-advertised speeds (you may have to adjust the timings) - No bad sticks

Cons: - Costs a lot

Overall Review: DDR4 RAM is at about a 30% premium over DDR3, just like DDR3 was over DDR2 at launch. I expected this. I knew it would be like this months before I bought it. But it still hurts... :( I have run this at speeds up to 2666MHz and currently have it running at 2500MHz. I could probably keep it at 2666 if I felt like mucking with it for hours, but I have other things to do.

Pros: - Easy to overclock - I'm not going to parrot the numbers on the side of the box but most of them are pros - Screamingly, facemeltingly fast

Cons: - Power consumption - One core seems to get hotter than the others (10C or so)

Overall Review: This is my first splurge on a CPU costing more than $500. I don't regret it. I overclocked this chip first to 4.0, then to 4.3, and I'm now at 4.5GHz. I'm hoping to get a bit more out of it, but it doesn't look like I'll be able to do that without additional cooling (it gets pretty hot at full load, tops out at around 85C. Cinebench 15: 163 single/1310 multi (4.5GHz)

PROS: * All of the necessary bells and whistles * independently configurable dual band wireless * adjustable antennas are always nice. good idea for initial config is to point them all in different directions * no well known security issues thus far CONS: * the giant red check in the middle is sort of out of place. maybe put a light under it, or make it the WPS button? I don't know * the WPS button is the same as the reset button. Tap for WPS, hold for reset. a little nerve wracking. good thing I don't use WPS. * Restarts after changing any setting. This is an egg offense. I can't stand devices that do this, if I could find a single other thing functionally wrong with it this would be a 2 egg offense. OTHER: * setup was easy, plug it in, login to 192.168.2.1, configure as needed * features match the price * has been in continuous operation since it was installed roughly 2 weeks ago, 100% uptime (cannot say the same about Comcast's DNS server which yoyos a few times a day)