Pros: Very powerful Great Overclocker Voltage Unlocked Runs Cool Great Value

Cons: Don't care for Crysis or Bioshock (That's the only bad I could say)

Overall Review: I've been an Nvidia fan for a long time, but this card has completely changed my mind. It is more power than a GTX 670 for 100 less! Been running BF3 at 1080p Ultra 2xMSAA and getting between 70-80fps. Before I have heard a lot of bad things about AMD drivers, but I haven't had any issues. This is certainly the BEST card you can get for the price. The voltage is unlocked so it can have some pretty powerful overclocks, not that it needs it. Currently have mine clocked at 1000mhz with fans at 45% running about 58C. You really can't go wrong with this card. I may upgrade to a second card later because many benchmarks show two HD 7950's beating two 680's in SLI. Here's a winner.

Pros: Great Price Decent Specs Quality finish

Cons: Horrible touchpad Feels slow and laggy

Overall Review: I have been looking for decent ultrabook to take to grad school with me this fall, and after I found all the 5 star reviews for the Envy brand I was fully expecting to throw 5 eggs this way as well. Just to dive into it the biggest problem with this laptop is the touchpad. It may seem harsh to dock it 3 eggs for a touchpad issue, but honestly a bad touchpad can completely destroy your experience with a laptop. I saw a comment before about the touchpad having too much friction and kind of laughed at the comment before brushing it off. Well I am not laughing now. Instead of sliding across the touchpad, your finger drags across it. Now I could get used to that, but the worst part is that the touchpad pretty much chooses when it wants to work. Two finger scrolling turns off mid-scroll and will turn back on a couple of minutes later for no apparent reason, along with all other multitouch gestures. The touchpad will also just stop responding to touch-- all the time. Its almost reliable that when I open a webpage or need to move the cursor that the mouse will cease moving. Whats weird though is that the pad will still respond to physical clicks and two finger clicks when it does this, which makes me wonder if it is a driver or hardware issue... Although reinstalling the drivers hasn't helped at all as of yet. Now I'm usually not one to write bad reviews- I usually pick the best product, which is what I pegged this laptop to be, but a bad touchpad just gives you a horrible experience and I wanted others to be aware of this issue. After some searching, it seems to be a fairly common issue with the Envy line. Take it for what you will. Other than that the laptop generally appears to be slow and laggy. Keep in mind I'm not doing anything serious with this-- I have a desktop for the intensive stuff. Opening new windows or starting iTunes really makes me wonder about these low-voltage i5's. Although I'm suspicious that the real culprit is the single channel of ram. Pop another DIMM in there and the performance boost should clear it up-- although I will probably not have this computer long enough to find out. The good for this laptop generally seems to be everything else you may have read about. Build finish look outstanding and the keyboard feels great on the fingers. Small, light, affordable. The speakers are loud, but I certainly wouldn't call the audio quality great. It will manage for an on-the-go laptop though. The specs leave out what kind of screen this is, but I'm definitely certain its an LCD display. Sitting in a decently lit room inside my apartment the brightness is at 90%. My old Mac's LED display would normally be at 40 or 50% as a comparison. Should anything change for me in the next couple of days in regards to the touchpad issues, I will update this post and add any solutions I may have found. Hopes this helps someone else. Best of luck!

Pros: Cheap Reliable Dual Bios Quality mSata

Cons: Not for gamers Poor OC's Only 2 Sata 6 ports Only 2 USB 3.0 ports on back of board No voltage control VCORE

Overall Review: All in all this is a pretty decent board, but I would not recommend that anyone who is trying to make a decent gaming PC buy it purely because of the poor OC's. My 3570K can only OC to 4.2, which is a shame because I have plenty of thermal headway to spare. And yes, this is a limitation of the board not the CPU. Just don't have access to the Vcore to give it any more voltage. If you aren't a gamer or just aren't interested in wild OC's then buy it. It will serve you well. It's definitely a quality built board just not suited to what I would've preferred.

Pros: Picked it up when it was on sale for $49 16GB Looks cool

Cons: High timing No overclocking headroom

Overall Review: Works like a charm and really can't complain about anything considering I picked it up when it cost $49. Was a little disappointing that I couldn't overclock it to 1866mhz on stock voltage, bu I was able to lower the timing to 9-9-9-27 so that will work for now.