Pros: I've had this card for about 2 weeks, and it'll run just about anything I throw at it at least holding above 40fps under the heaviest loads. It's just barely small enough to fit in a mid tower case, and it has the ability to stay very cool. People say it only has 3.5 gigs of memory but I'm seeing memory usage past 3.5 gigs using precision x. Card is very well built, the backing plate is a thick 1/8th steel plate, so it's not gonna warp or whatnot. People have complained about the drivers for these cards, but I've bought and used 4 various GTX cards and never had a problem, just do a custom download, and only install the drivers, and physic driver, stay away from the Nvidia Experience thing, it breaks the driver. But so far it's worth every penny of what I paid for it.

Cons: Thick card, heavy, and you could cook an egg on the backing plate if you let the card run on it's own temp range. It wants to run at 80 degrees C, which is way to hot in my opinion, so get a program like Precision X and it'll hold the temps around 65 C under full load. Doesn't have any coil whine, but when using Precision X to keep the temps down, under full load it does sound like a jet engine. But at least it's keeping cool, so I don't care how loud it gets, especially when you can feel the amount of air it's pushing(which is quite a lot).

Overall Review: I got this card to play Fallout 4 when it comes out, needed an upgrade over my GTX 760 and this was the most cost effective upgrade. As powerful as it is, it still wont help Castle Wolfenstine: The old blood as much as you'd expect, appears that game is terribly optimized. Bit of a disappointment, but it still makes it look alot better than the 760 did. If you do have a mid tower case, it'll be a bit of a trick to fit it in, but it will fit, if you're SLI'ing it right next to another card, I'd pick a different one, the backing plate makes it a bit too thick and the fact that the plate gets so hot it might cause you problems. And make sure you have exhaust fans, the amount of air this thing will push, it'll build a lot of pressure in your case, or just leave the side off like I do.

Pros: Never used a sound card before. I've always used the motherboards sound or my keyboard sound(Logitech G510). I was impressed and still am impressed by the quality of sound coming out of this thing. I currently run it though some RPM3 monitors or my Tascam TH-300X headphones, sounds fantastic though both. The software is also pretty awesome and live up to Asus's simple to use software thats effective for me. Card looks cool but is a bit big. The PCB is coated in some kind of rubber compound which seems to give it durability. Has a fully adjustable EQ on it, I run it on the metal setting with the lows dialed down a bit, has a bit of flubby narrow low end.

Cons: Well, it worked great until one today when playing subnatica it decides to start making popping sounds and cracking sounds, but I still haven't ruled out the sound card for that one, cause it still plays music fantastically. I should also mention that it crashed Crysis 3 with audio cutting in and out until the game gave up on life. So, I did what any amp and guitar effects builder would do, the second I saw it had a replaceable OPA amp in a cradle, I changed it out to a OPA 2134. Didn't fix any of the game issues, but it did give the card much needed balls in the lower end. I should mention that the chip it came with was an outdated and no longer manufactured OPA 49720. The one thing that got me when I first got the card was the need for a 6 pin power source....I mean what on Earth does it need that for? It's a sound card, not a graphics card. I found it amusing as well, but I have a power supply that can handle just about anything so it didn't matter that much.

Overall Review: I've normally never had a problem with Asus products, this sound card was a bit of a disappointment for causing my gaming issues after about 2 weeks of use. And the use of outdated parts means that they only have a limited amount of these things with this chip. I wouldn't recommend buying this card, I know it's a decent price, but I should of just bought the more expensive one.

Pros: Very well built, clean looking and plenty of fan headers. Sturdy and has very nice north and south bridge cooling heat sinks. The Bios is easy to navigate and functional. Does the job I need it to do flawlessly, which is play graphically intensive games for long periods of time. Don't know about it being able to power the 220 watt AMD cpu, but it powers my 8350 without toasting the mother board, which is what happened to my other motherboard.

Cons: The pciex16 slots are way to close together, would of been nice if they included some specs on the spacing, cause I had to remove my soundcard from the system since with my two 970's in there it covers up one of the pciex16 slots, the pcie slot, and the pci slot, so all I have plugged in is my net card, and the two graphics cards. Built in audio is a joke, my Logitech keyboard has a better sound circuit than this motherboard, but it is quiet. The USB 3.0 port is also in a bad location, it's right above where the second graphics card sits. I mean, you can plug it in and it works, it's just gonna be pressing hard against the card and possibly break off the connection from the board.

Overall Review: First MSI product I've ever used, and I'm not disappointed, the price point was right, and it functions good enough. Its a bummer I can't use my sound card, now I got two of them just sitting around. Didn't use the software included since from my experience it's usually junk, learned from my ASUS board that it causes more issues than it helps with.

Pros: Huge, huge and huge. This thing has space...I may be overselling it a bit, but it's got alot of room. It also has an awesome hard drive rack system and peripherals rack system that I love. And the side panel is easily removed so you can constantly change your wiring routing and adding hard drives without pulling the entire thing apart. Has a fan control switch on top that's pretty neat too, and do low, high, or just have them off if you don't want the lights on, but the fans don't spin either in the off position. The front pannels are removable with out taking anything apart, and the filters are awesome since two of them are removable without pulling the thing apart. And it's very well vented. All the PCI slot panels have vents in them, and aren't tack welded in. Also has a Mini solid state hard drive slot on top of the tower, which is neat. Also has solid metal thumb screws for removing the side panels, instead of those stupid two piece plastic ones.

Cons: Not all the fans light up, the ones on top are just green colored, but not led. Also, getting to any other fans other than the side fans and the cpu fan are difficult. Have to take the entire case apart to remove them or replace them, but they are of good quality. Doesn't have removable filters for every fan slot, just two of them. Also, very heavy case.

Overall Review: Matches my keyboard, mouse and mouse pad, needs to be more green and black computer cases in the world. May not be super flashy, but it functions and looks solid.

Pros: When it first came, it was a monstrosity. Thing is huge. But once you get it wiggled into place, the thing can cool. I would only use it in a full tower set up, the tubes aren't exactly flexible and the pusher puller fan setup takes up some room. But it keeps my overclocked AMD FX 8350 at 40 c at full load. The radiator is pretty high quality, rubber coated aluminum and just feels solid. The hoses are pretty stiff, but solid. The pump is also pretty huge, but that's ok, just more capacity to pull heat away. The fans it comes with are also of high quality. You can even select the fan speed on the fan itself. Seems pointless, since everyone is going to set it to high anyways, but it's a nice thought.

Cons: The size is one thing, but I understand why they built it the way they did. Other than that, no cons yet...till it springs a leak and blows up my computer, catches my house of fire and burns down my neighborhood.

Overall Review: If you're looking for a good watercooler that's built to take abuse, then this is the one.

Pros: Currently have it mildly overclocked to 4.3 ghz on a water cooled system and it stays at about 40c under load. Runs just about everything I need it to. Runs Fallout 4 at about 40-50 fps in the city which is most taxing on the cpu and gpu. Handles everything else I throw at it like a charm. I've always had good luck with AMD processors. I know they have limits compared to Intel, but for what you get, can't beat the price. Easily equivalent to a $300 Intel processor.

Cons: It's actually a 4 core processor with 4 virtual cores, kind of misleading, but I guess the technology doesn't exist for an actual 8 physical cores that fits in the FX platform. The heatsink that came with this thing is the most intense stock heat sink I've seen for a processor, but it's still not enough, thing is a bonfire waiting to happen if you don't use a larger one if you plan on overclocking or running it hard for a long period of time.

Overall Review: Would buy again, even over an Intel processor.