Pros: In the past year I have upgraded Graphics cards twice, from a GTX 640 to a 750 Ti and then to this Card. I recently started using a 1080 Monitor and the extra two gigs of V-Ram are quite helpful when playing games where FPS matters. I play ArmA 3 and this card is great for it, I also have a heavy duty processor to be fair (FX 8350) so FPS is helped by both. I run the game settings in Ultra and have my Anisotropic Filtering between x8 and x16 with no frame loss, usually 45 to 60 FPS (ArmA players will know this is actually really high). All other games I have played, old or new that have optimization or lack there of have performed beautifully as well, always in the High, Ultra, or High Ultra (because there is a difference?) and have exceptional frame rates. I'd definitely recommend this card to any enthusiast who likes amazing graphics and great FPS in there games.

Cons: I honestly have no criticism for this card at this time, it has served my well thus far and hasn't yet left me wanting.

Pros: For the first 2 and a half to 3 months this router worked really well for me. Fast, responsive, easy to navigate admin page.

Cons: At month 3, this past December, I started having connection loss and had to unplug and plug the device back in to get access. This continued for about a week and then stopped, figured that was the end of it. Next system to act up was the Ethernet controller, devices that my splitter would recognize wouldn't register as connected, then the internet in stopped working and now after 2 weeks of trying to get this to work I've retired this router and have gone to a Linksys E1000 that I'm borrowing from a friend. This will make device 3 in then purchase that has failed that had remarkable review for performance and quality that has failed and all of them are ASUS. 1 Sabertooth Z77 motherboard, 1 GT640 Nvidia on ASUS card and now 1 ASUS RT-N56U router. Gotta say this is my first branch out to ASUS and I'm not very impressed at the longevity. Overall quality assessment, 3 months or less of life. I hope this is just a batch of lemons.

Pros: I upgraded from an i5-2310 on an ASRock P67 to this build, an ASRock 970 with an AMD 8350 and have been very impressed with the performance gains, I'm running Windows 7 and a 7200 RPM HDD mind you. The boot times are excellent, usually under 20 seconds with X-Fast Boot and only 30 seconds with the standard boot enabled. I'd highly recommend this board to any enthusiast who enjoys gaming.

Cons: With all good things must come the bad. By default this board comes with no RTFS support, so no Windows 8/8.1 (not much of a loss if you ask me) or 10 (the former applied doubly so) so make an update flash handy if you are going to a new OS. I have had this board since January 2016 (now May 2016) and have started to have some fairly obnoxious, but still nominal problems, such as boot hanging when a gaming mouse is plugged in. After reading the ASRock forums and its 3rd Party counter parts I can only ascertain that the band-aid on a broken leg methodology is available for the moment and differs from case to case. In mine, I need to unplug my mouse and keyboard until after the machine clears POST or it will take a long time to complete its boot-up. I consider this to be a minor inconvenience as I have a USB hub on my desk but if I had to continually climb down to do this it wouldn't be so Okay. Even after updating my BIOS to current these problems persist, albeit with less consistency. Hopefully these problems will be figured out by ASRock in the near future (fingers crossed). *Update My problems with the board have only become more and more frequent. I now cannot run this mobo with the CMOS battery installed as it just won't POST at all now with it in. Research, trail and error have yielded no interesting means of correcting this either. I can no longer update this board's BIOS at any consequence. I will be getting in contact with the ASRock shortly to see if there is anything that can be done on their side, otherwise I am about to write this on off as a bad board.

Overall Review: Otherwise a very nice and easy to work with motherboard. Hope this helps anyone interested.

Pros: Card runs smoothly, even in Arma 3 I got pretty decent frame rate. Reasonable pricing helped in the decision making process.

Cons: I purchased this card on 4/24/15 and had it installed by 4/31. About 2 weeks ago it started having random memory dumps and then random shut downs during gameplay. Pretty weird to go from seeing Arma 3's visceral environments and then go to my POST screen because the system crashed. I updated drivers, pulled and re-seated the card and have identified through trial and error plus internet research that it is a defect with the 750 ti chip type. This doesn't seem to be just EVGA (which I have had good luck with before), but ASUS, MSI, to name a few more. Card's out of help from newegg or EVGA now. So I will be hunting for a replacement.

Overall Review: I hope Nvidia works on this and mitigates the problem, I really like the card when it is behaving.

Pros: I have a tester for the hardware thankfully.

Cons: On this build this now makes 2 DOAs. Come on guys, I've had two parts in a build that were bad, but two of the same part is kind of overboard. To all those who are looking into purchasing parts from Newegg, I would recommend getting testers that let you know whether a part is defective if you don't already have one. I know it's not Neweggs' fault, but they can only cover you for 30 days which is enough for one defective part, not two. As for Corsair, this is my first real problem with them, I have PSUs from them that have lasted for a years and I've always trusted them, maybe its time to give Apex a try.

Pros: I used this board for a first time build at the recommendation of a friend. He was not mistaken in his choice, as I am very pleased on the performance. I downloaded the update for the BIOS and it boosted the performance while in it. Overall I have been very happy with this purchase and would recommend this board.

Cons: None at this time