Pros: There are many. Looks great, good price, very powerful, runs cool, quiet, more than adequate for current online games at ultra/maximum/movie quality settings. Runs cool @ 53-58C all the time. The AMD Catalyst Control lets me auto-select to keep the frame rate at whatever I want. I set it for 60 FPS (it runs War Thunder at about 200 FPS otherwise) at all the settings I want maxed out completely. The software throttles back the GPU speed to save power and lower heat and fan speed while keeping FPS steady at 60. It's a very attractive and solidly built card. I couldn't ask for more. Backplate? It doesn't need it and I didn't care to pay extra for a card that has it. Backplate is totally not needed or wanted here. Build quality is perfect. The card isn't at all flimsy, droopy or saggy. Absolutely no need to OC this card. Ran perfect right out of the box (I had already uninstalled the old driver and then installed the new one. It just works perfectly. I play War Thunder which is an online WW 2 airplane simulator game. The game has built-in benchmarks. I upgraded to this from an MSI R9 270X ITX version (that card was perfect too BTW). I ran 4 random benchmarks from this game with the 270X. Then I ran the same 4 with the 380. Results were that in these War Thunder benchmarks, the R9 380 scored 250% higher than the R9 270X. Seriously. With some settings turned on or set on high, the 270X would drop to about 37 FPS - still OK. I used to run the game at about 100 FPS with the 270X with almost everything set on high. The 270X is more than adequate for War Thunder, WoW or SWTOR and gives a really great gaming experience for lots less money. I run this with an EVGA 750 PSU that's 80+ gold certified. I have zero psu issues and it runs cool. This is more PSU than I need - and this vid card doesn't require this much power but I got it on sale and I like the modular high quality PSUs.

Cons: I didn't need this much graphics power after all. But it's really nice and will be ready for higher res monitors and more demanding games later on.

Overall Review: The picture quality didn't really improve ( it is ever so slightly richer looking) as it was already really good. FPS potential drastically improved but wasn't really needed for me. GTX 960 vs R9 380? Flip a coin. These days, a $150 vid card is all a person needs for a great MMORPG gaming experience. This card truly satisfies, though, because it's always comforting to know you have reserve power when it's needed.

Pros: Great cpu. Runs surprisingly cool - according to the mobo utility. Never goes over 53 C. Usually high 40s in 3d gaming. Idles high 20s with cooler such as Black Knight. It has no performance flaws and is faster in games than ANY current consumer grade AMD chip - I WAS an AMD fanboi in the day.

Cons: Try finding a nice socket 1155 mobo -especially mATX. They are all over-priced. The availability is going away. You can find some on eBai but that is risky business. Basically it's obsolete. It's been made that way by Intel due to their new CPUs not being backward compatible with earlier sockets - AMD gets high marks for that one.

Overall Review: If you have one you're using, keep it because the 4690K isn't much of an upgrade = waste of money. If you're building a new system, go with socket 1150 simply due to current cost and availability of quality mobos. I docked 2 eggs simply due to obsolescence.

Pros: Good quality switches. Very positive tracking. Very quick responsiveness. This mouse grew on me. I have 2 now on 2 different PCs. Logitech switches are really nice. I've used this mouse daily for 8 years!

Cons: This mouse is on the small side. After many gaming sessions, I went back to my Anker 8200 DPI gaming mouse. I wanted a Logitech because I like the on-the-fly option to freewheel the scroll wheel. Can't do that with the Anker. It always has the "clicky" scroll mode. But the Anker fits my hand better. Therefore it works better for me. Other Logitechs have been larger and I didn't have this issue. But I went back to this because the Anker was not as good.

Overall Review: If this mouse were larger it would be great for me. Since I can't use it for its intended purpose, I originally took off 2 stars. Disappointing. I have never had this issue before except with the type of OEM mice that come with a new computer. I have hands that use large to XL men's gloves. My hands aren't huge. I am 6' 2" tall and my hands are proportionate to my body size. I did acquire a taste for this mouse and it's been my daily driver for years. Can't ask for more than that.

Pros: Easily 3X faster, super quiet - nearly inaudible, stays very cool, runs War Thunder on 27" 144 hz monitor at 1440p in g-synch of 144 fps on movie settings with i7-9700k w/ 0 oc on card or cpu.

Cons: Got on sale @ $749 but that's still over MSRP and that's 3X the price I've ever paid for a graphics card.

Overall Review: I'd been running a RX 590 for about 3 yeaars. I upgraded my monitor to a 27", 144 hz monitor with 1440p native resolution. I had a normal 24" monitor at 1080p with 60hz. The new monitor looked great but the RX 590 struggled and ran very loud to keep cool and was annoying - plus wouldn't maintain 144fps without running greatly lowered graphics settings. This 3070 ti is so awesome. Disregard those on Youtube who might insult this card. It's large. The heatsink is super good. The 3 fans are just right to keep it cool. In gameplay my cpu is at 25-30% utilization and the gpu is 40-60%. Temps run 45-60 C. Wattage usually is just below 200. In Time Spy wattage can go to 305 very briefly but usually is about 200. You must use 2 8 pin connectors from 2 separate channels on your psu. The 6 pin to 8 pin types work fine too. One power cable to psu won't work. In short, I love it and was happy to be able to get it. UPDATE: I upgraded CPU to i5-13600K. Playing War thunder at "movie" settings. CPU utilization about 15%, GPU utilization 98%-100%, FPS normally 200-300. This is on 27" `44hz monitor at 1440p. I even ran the game after turning off all but 1 P-core and all E cores. LOL. 13600K is just crazy good.

Pros: I bought 2 kits of DDR4 3200. Each was 2 sticks of 8 gb totalling 32 gb. Everything works well. These were gotten to go into a Z390 MB with a 9700k. Since I've not put that all together, I pulled my 32 GB set of Ballistix 2666 and installed these. Granted, this is a B365 chipset that won't go to 3200mhz...but the timings...I got 13-14-14-28 out of it stably with no voltage changes. It's running at 2666 like my earlier set but everything's noticably snappier. Got these on sale and I am very pleased with the deal. I am very impressed by Teamgroup products now; these were my first from Team and I'm looking at their m.2 drives now. Can't wait to run these at 3200 on my upgrade mobo!

Cons: none

Overall Review: Just really good.

Pros: very fast speed of service. improved my cpu and gpu heat characteristics noticeably.

Cons: none

Overall Review: easy to use product, works well, fast shipping, good price. the 1 g tube was enough for re-paste of cpu and gpu.