Pros: Incredible Read Speeds. Mini-USB port is a nice feature (requires no additional power). Cool to the touch, no noise, low power consumption. Nice looking drive and packaging.

Cons: Compatibility with older systems may be an issue (didn't work in my Sony VAIO SZ notebook). Read speeds drop considerably while writing to the drive. You can get 5x the capacity for less with a regular 2.5" disk drive.

Overall Review: I needed to do some repairs to my Sony VAIO SZ 360P laptop and I figured I might as well try out an SSD. Unfortunately the drive was incompatible (not really G. Skills fault, the SZ has SATA I and has limited HDD options in the BIOS). I decided to try out the drive in my desktop (Core 2 Quad Q6600, ASUS P5K WS motherboard). I don't think I'll ever be able to go back to a regular hard drive. I was expecting good read speeds and terrible writes, but this thing gets incredible reads and decent writes. Vista boots up incredibly fast and programs open near instantly. It does slow down if you're writing to the drive, but under most conditions its not a problem. I don't think these drives are quite ready for mainstream use. The capacity and price/gigabyte needs to drop some more and the write speeds need some improvement, but for an early-adopter product this is fantastic.

Pros: Gigabit ethernet, wireless N, reasonably priced. Fast and stable when it was working.

Cons: The ethernet ports on the first unit I received were dead. Not a big deal, it happens. I RMA'd it and received a brand new, fully functional router. After a couple months of stable use the WAN port on the replacement unit has died.

Overall Review: After 1 DOA and 1 failure I'm starting to suspect that there's a problem with whatever hardware ASUS is using in these. I'd stay away.

Pros: Good GPU, decent CPU for what it is. Plenty of RAM.

Cons: Stock SSD is slow. The CPU feels a little slow when it comes to opening things on the desktop (web browsers take a few seconds to open), but Metro apps are very snappy.

Overall Review: Windows 8 works great. I installed the latest AMD chipset/graphics drivers and downloaded the rest of the device drivers from MSI's website. You also need the Windows 7 version of MSI's 'O-Easy' software to enable automatic screen rotation. Upgrading the mSATA SSD is easy, just remove the 6 screws (two at the power jack, 4 under the pop-out rubber feet) and run your fingernails between the grey/black plastic to gently pop the screen off.

Pros: Everything, this board is loaded with features. I have my FX-8120 running at 5GHz/1.525v.

Cons: No dual ethernet?

Overall Review: The F6e beta BIOS adds the ability to turn off AMD's 'application power management' feature. APM automatically drops the CPU multiplier when CPU power consumption gets too high, so this is a key feature for FX owners who are overclocking/overvolting. Without APM disabled the CPU will rapidly jump back and forth between 2 GHz and your overclock when multiple cores are in use.

Pros: Stable at 5GHz on water @ 1.525v! Your mileage may vary, of course. 4.8Ghz/1.45v is stable and very manageable with water cooling.

Cons: Power consumption/heat output is ridiculous when all cores are overclocked to 5GHz. I don't think I could run this at 5Ghz all the time. Whenever Gigabyte fixes their APM bug I'll use turbo to overclock two cores higher then the rest. Clock for clock this thing is quite a bit slower than the competition, though the ridiculously high frequencies make up for it.

Overall Review: This is the most fun I've ever had while overclocking.

Pros: Sounds good, I can really tell the difference between this and the Realtek HD integrated audio I was temporarily using. I've used an X-Fi Xtreme Music and an Auzentech X-Fi Forte in the past, this box sounds just as "clear" to me as those cards did. Seems to work fine with Alchemy (I installed the latest beta version). Alchemy enables EAX in older games on Vista/7. The headphone output drives my Sennheiser HD555's and Audio Technica AD700s fine. I haven't tried recording from the inputs yet, but the "What-U-Hear" recording feature found in other Creative cards works as expected.

Cons: No equalizer. Not even simple treble/bass adjustment. It's a feature in other X-Fi products, why did Creative take it out? I like to tweak the system-wide EQ for different headphones and speakers.

Overall Review: Other than the lack of EQ it seems like a pretty solid device. Maybe Creative will patch the EQ back in later on.