Pros: For the budget end of the Z87 skew, this is a very well featured Motherboard. Very adaptable UEFI BIOS, and almost everything you would need built right in.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: This is my 5th ASUS build (P5LD2, P5E, P8P67 LE, P8Z77-Deluxe, and this one, the Z87-A), and they have all been great. This build was for a friend who's old Pentium 4 machine died of electrical surge and was un-salvageable. He needed something for his home office work, mostly Word, Speadsheet, and web) and was on a budget, so this is part of a Shell Shocker Combo deal. (And this motherboard is the main reason I considered this Combo deal.) This is my first build where I did not have ANY expansion cards of any kind. The motherboard handles all the audio and LAN, and the i5 4760K handles the graphics plenty well for his purposes, even with a dual monitor setup. About the only thing someone might need to add would be some form of a WiFi adapter (which comes built in on the higher skews of this MoBo, but in his case he is hard-wired to the router with a LAN cable, so didn't even need that. Looks kind of funny with no cards in the expansion slots, but the motherboard has taken over most of those functions internally, and works very well. While we are not planning any overclocking for his application, there are plenty of options in the UEFI BIOS, from pretty extreme overclocking to energy efficiency. For the customers purposes we set it up for CPU adaptive energy savings, and watched as the CPU dropped unused cores to 0 volts, and rapidly adapted up and down with load. Runs cool and should be very efficient and way more performance than he is likely to need for many years to come.

Pros: Direct Contact heatpipe coolers are supposed to be more efficient.

Cons: On Asus M5A97 Motherboard with A3+ FX -8320 CPU, could only mount horizontal, not vertical. Not a big deal as I intended to have heat blown out the top of the case. Installing the Universal Mount hardware was complicated and confusing. Instructions were nearly worthless, YouTube was much more help. Why can't they design an adapter to work with the factory installed heat sink brackets on the Motherboard rather than having to change the backing plate and front side hardware? With only 2 ways to do it, I managed to mount the heatsink upside down. While I'm sure it would have worked just fine, my customer is a Feng Shui master, and having the Cooler Master name upside down was just bad Feng Shui. So, I pulled the cooler off to turn it over. GOOD THING I DID!!! It was obvious from the Arctic Silver grease pattern that the contact area was NOT FLUSH or level. I cleaned up the grease on the contact area and the CPU, and with the case on its side set the cooler on the CPU. It rocked back and forth significantly, over 1mm at the top of the cooler. Put a straight edge paper card across the pipes, and the pipes were high in the middle with significant daylight on either side. No amount of Arctic Silver is going to make up for that much of a gap. It could have fried my CPU.

Overall Review: I am hoping this was a one-off defect, the cooler has received good reviews in other places. I suggest you check yours with a straight edge card looking for light gaps, then install once, remove, and check the grease pattern. If all is well, clean everything up and install again. The FX-8320 8-core runs hot with the stock heat sink, looking for another cooler, but a bit shy of the Direct Contact heat pipe type right now. Will probably get a conventional copper plate contact area type to finish this build correctly. Anyone know of a good one that uses the stock motherboard mounting brackets?

Pros: Went from around 220 Mbps to 280 Mbps (275 Mbps rated connection) over older BGN router. Get virtually the same speed over WiFi as with direct LAN cable connection. Mesh pretty simple to set up. Everything in set up was pretty automatic. Basic functions were pretty much covered in the app.

Cons: Everything in set up and configuration was pretty automatic. This frustrates a tweaker like me who likes to configure things like shutting off WAN side configuration access, turning off UPNP, LAN Cable only configuration access, turning off WPS paring for added security, setting up a personal VPN (still haven't figured out if that is possible like it was on our old router). Haven't found an option to turn off WiFi in the middle of the night, say Midnight till 6 AM. Still trying to figure out how to access more granularity than the App provides. Not as aesthetically pleasing on the Mantle as the older black Router, which kind of blended in. I miss the Status Lights telling me what is going on with the Router.

Overall Review: Mesh Satellite covers the upstairs bedrooms and office, which are at the far corner of the house from the Cable Modem/main router location. These rooms used to be weak, slow, and sometimes drop out. Strong signal, simple set up, not too easy to fine tune.

Pros: Very solid construction, looks and seems very durable. I love the auto-disconnect feature, can leave the iPad on the charger overnight and not worry about stressing the battery by cooking it when it is up to full charge. The smart cable just simply shuts off the power when the device is fully charged.

Cons: Indicator light on cable tip is a bit bright at night. (It goes out when fully charged). I just turn it so that side of the tip is down or away from me so it isn’t shining in my face as I go to sleep. They could reduce that indicator LED by a few lumens.

Overall Review: Looks like it should significantly outlast the stock Apple cables at a fraction of the price.

Pros: Under counter model eliminates the hassle of hooking up, turning on, & remembering to turn off the counter top model. No leaks, keeps up with our usage needs.

Cons: This unit is big, took up a lot of the storage space under the counter. They should give dimensions for the unit and tank individually so you can measure fit better.

Overall Review: Had a Plummer install to reduce chance of leaks and errors. Had to mount tank on its side rather than vertically (manufacturer was helpful with this question) and lost half the useable storage space under the sink. Got new faucet with pull down sprayer, and used the old sprayer hole for the R/O faucet.

Pros: Has worked pretty much flawlessly for the past 2 1/2 years. No failures that I can attribute to the modem. Supported by Xfinity, saves on monthly equipment rental.

Cons: Slightly older specs, Docsis 3.0 (not the newer 3.1) and only 8x4 channels so limited to something like 343 Mbps down, 123 up, but I still find that plenty fast for the household with 250 Mbps service and showing 288 yesterday when laptop plugged directly into LAN from modem.

Overall Review: If looking for what is now a solid budget modem this one has done us very well. If wanting more speed or to future proof (if I were buying today) I would probably spring for Docsis 3.1 and more channels.

A week after all other items ordered at the same time, this item still showed "Label Created, awaiting pickup". Finally inquired with the seller, who did follow up and said the package was misplaced by their carrier. They shipped another package, which arrived a couple of days ago. On line tracking still shows Label Created in one place and shipped in another even after delivery, so tracking doesn't reflect reality here unless that is the original shipment. Perhaps they should develop a means to track that shipments actually get delivered and be proactive before we complain that it didn't arrive. Other than shipping issues, the proper product did arrive and they did respond to my inquiry.

These speakers are a counterfeit knockoff. They are "Acoutic", the legit brand is "Acoustech". I didn't notice until my son pointed it out to me. Very deceptive. Newegg needs to evaluate if OnlyFactoryDirect.com is doing this on purpose or if it was a mistake on their part. If OnlyFactoryDirect.com is deliberately moving counterfeit knockoff products, Newegg needs to sever it's relationship with them in order to protect their own reputation. It will probably cost more than it is worth to ship the speakers back, in a case like this the seller should pay the return shipping. I am not happy with OnlyFactoryDirect.com