Pros: I've been in the market to build a new gaming rig for some time now, and I only had a limited budget to work with. After reading a lot of reviews (and finding this on sale), I was really happy to see this board fell into my price range. The features are amazing, and exactly what I was looking for. I've been an MSI fan for some time now, and I've only had good performance from any of their products. After putting everything together, the moment of truth came when I powered it on the first time. Everything worked from the start and the new BIOS came up immediately. I couldn't be more than pleased! After having built dozen of computers, I thought there might be some hurdles to work through. I was wrong! The board registered everything correctly, and installing updated drivers were a breeze. The installation disks were very intuitive and easy to follow. The BIOS also made flashing to newer versions a very easy process. Overclocking - I haven't had an opportunity to do this yet, so I can't comment until I get my hands in there this weekend and start playing around. From what I've seen of the BIOS and the associated MSI software, this should be pretty easy as well. Cooling - I was able to put a Coolermaster 212 Evo on the board with minor frustrating effort, which is only frustration on the cooler's part, and has nothing to do with the board design. The stock fan will need to be moved to pull air instead of pushing it if you want to utilize all for memory slots. The stock configuration uses slots 2 and 4 if you only have to sticks, so that made plenty of room for me right now. MSI Z87-G45 Motherboard Intel i5- 4670K Coolermaster 212 Evo G.Skill Trident X 2400mhz 16GB (2x8) WD Velociraptor 500 GB 10,0000 RPM Corsair Enthusiast TX850 power supply MSI GTX 770 OC 2GB

Cons: None at the moment.

Pros: For a mechanical drive, this baby is fast! Installing Windows 7 from scratch on a new build took no time at all. The black heat sink is very sturdy and looks great.

Cons: Don't be mislead by the reviews saying this is a quiet drive. It's not. But to put that in perspective, the sound is not what I would call loud for any kind of noise coming out of your PC, but it is noticeably louder than slower mechanical drives. When I installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 with this HDD, it was audibly very noticeable that the disk was hard at work installing software.

Overall Review: Down the road when SSD's come down a little bit in price I'll buy one for the OS and use this for file and game storage. Overall I'm pleased with this hard drive though.

Pros: These babies are quiet! I had to physically look and make sure that they were running because I couldn't hear anything from the outside of the case. The only time I could hear a tiny bit of your typical fan noise is when I forced them to speed up through my bios. Also, they push some serious air. Well worth the money.

Cons: The rubber pins were a little odd to work with, and there were ZERO instructions with the packaging. Not a single piece of paper, pamphlet or drawing anywhere to describe how the pins work, but they weren't rocket science and seem to do the job just fine after I figured them out.

Overall Review: I would definitely buy these again.

Pros: Way better than XP and 8 in my humble opinion.

Cons: I had to buy a new copy with a new PC build even though I've had it for years. Reading the product key in the new packaging was TERRIBLE. The key was only listed on the plastic case on a tiny sticker with major watermarking / background colors. I had to pull the camera up on my phone so that I could zoom in to read the key numbers clearly. It wasn't written anywhere else on the case or the associated booklet that came with the disk.