Overall Review: Short version: This is a good value when it's on sale-- if you have the patience to do some tweaking using AMD's Wattman tool. Once optimized it's performance is equal to an overclocked GTX 1660 Ti. Long version: Out-of-the-box this thing runs hot and loud. Even the "Balanced" setting that caps the power draw to around 165 watts will need to spin up the blower fan well beyond 3000 RPM to maintain ~80 degrees C temps under load. Using these default settings on a fresh install of Windows I could only achieve a graphics score of around 6000 in 3dMark's Time Spy benchmark. The good news is that there is a tool built-in the Radeon software called Wattman that can allow you to get BETTER performance at LOWER TEMPERATURES and QUIETER fan settings. First of all, I confirmed using the TechPowerUp GPU-Z program that my card uses Samsung memory. That means I was able to use Wattman to increase my memory frequency from 800 Mhz (stock) to 950 Mhz with no affect on temperatures or stability. Second, I was able to lower the GPU voltage from 1200 mV (stock) to 950 mV using Wattman. This makes the card run MUCH cooler. Finally, I changed the fan curve in Wattman so that it ramps up far less steeply and maxes out at around 2400 RPM (38% speed) at 75 degrees C. Stress testing show that I remain right around 75-76 degrees C under sustained load with these settings. I found that leaving the frequency control set to auto (0%) in Wattman gave me slightly better performance than trying to tweak the speeds myself. YMMV. Wattman and GPU-Z indicate that with the above settings I average around 1350 Mhz sustained GPU clock speeds / 950 Mhz sustained memory clock speeds with no thermal throttling. It's worth noting that when undervolted, this card can easily sustain 1450 Mhz GPU clocks under load by also increasing the Power Limit % in Wattman, but then you'll also need to increase your fan speeds to keep the GPU temperature in check. Personally, I'm fine with sacrificing a couple frames per second in exchange for keeping the noise levels low so I left the Power Limit at 0% (165W). In the end, I managed to increase my Time Spy score by 10%, from a graphics score of 6000 to 6600, with lower operating temperatures and less noise than the standard "Balanced" profile I started with. That puts it ahead of a stock GTX 1660 Ti and on-par with an overclocked GTX 1660 Ti.

Pros: Worked fine out of the box. Plenty of connectors and nice, long cables. Relatively inexpensive for a "brand" name power supply of this wattage.

Cons: Unfortunately, after about 3.5 months it developed a delay between hitting the power button and actually powering on the system. The delay started small, a second or two, and then got very long-- over 10 seconds. Finally, the power supply just refused to turn on. I replaced it with another, known-good power supply and my PC powered on immediately and ran fine.

Overall Review: I haven't tested the power in my house so I don't know how "dirty" it might be, but I do know that my previous power supply before this one (I had to replace it when I got a newer, more power hungry video card) worked without an issue for almost 2 years.

Pros: Good price-performance ratio. Simple to install (four screws). Includes a relatively quiet cooler.

Cons: Runs hot with included cooler. Idle temps bounce between 40-55 degrees C. Load temps between 85-90 degrees C.

Overall Review: I don't have any brand loyalty when it comes to computing. I buy purely based on price/performance. Over the years I've gone from Celeron to Athlon to Phenom to i5 to i7. The new Ryzen's have brought be back to AMD. The Ryzen 5 3600 has more or less the same single-core performance and much faster multi-core performance than the nearest equivalent Intel CPU, the i5-9600KF. The 3600 is cheaper than the i5-- and the 3600 includes a cooler which you have to buy separately for i5-9600KF. That said, if you want to overclock, the i5-9600KF is probably better choice. The included cooler with the 3600 barely keeps temps under control at stock speeds, so you'd need an aftermarket cooler, removing some of the price gap between the 3600 and the i5-9600KF. Also, online reviews seem to indicate the the overclocking ceiling is much lower for the 3600 than for the i5-9600KF. If you only plan on running at stock speeds, though, the Ryzen 5 3600 is easily the better choice.

Overall Review: Used with a new X570 motherboard and Ryzen 5 3600 build. Just go into the BIOS, select the XAMP profile, and reboot. Memory will run at 3200 with 16-18-18-38.

Pros: The 2Ghz quad-core processor and 4GB of RAM mean that they can actually run Windows 8/10 reasonably well. Unlike some other ultra-cheap, small PC's, it's got an HDMI output, a USB 3.0 slot, a DVD-RW, and it uses an actual power supply (not a laptop power adapter)! Also, very low power usage means we'll save money over time vs a standard desktop CPU.

Cons: The hard drive is slow. No built-in WiFi. The keyboard and mouse are literally just tossed into the box so they bounce around during shipment. Like a couple of other reviewers, I had to reattach a few keys that had fallen off the keyboard. Some crapware, but nothing malicious or that you can't uninstall.

Overall Review: We ordered three of these at $140 each. All of them worked were in like-new condition and worked fine out of the box. They're running "Windows 8.1 with Bing". After installing all the updates (1.4GB) I was offered the free upgrade to Windows 10 (another ~3GB). Be prepared to set aside several hours setting everything up. You're not going to be doing any video editing or gaming on this low-powered machine, obviously, but these work great as simple office workstations. We use them to run Office, Firefox, Thunderbird, and that's about it. They're really a steal at this price if you don't need a lot of power.

Pros: Upgrading from an old Radeon HD 4770. My motherboard only support PCI Express 2.0 (not 3.0) so this GTX 560 is about the best I can find on Newegg. It's benchmarking (using 3dMark) at about 2x the performance of my old 4770 so I'm pretty happy, especially at a cost of $109 shipped. So far I've run Battlefield 3 and Mass Effect 3 on it and I'm getting smooth gameplay at 1680 x 1050 with the highest quality detail settings. Under load the card runs at about 75-80 degrees C. I can't really speak to the fan noise of the card because the stock AMD CPU fan is so dang loud that it drowns out any other case noise. The card does require two 6-pin PCI-E power connectors. My power supply only had one, but I had an extra 4-pin to 6-pin adapter and that worked fine. The manufacturer recommends a 450W power supply, but mine runs fine with a 400W power supply. I haven't experienced any driver crashes or "pink screens" that some of the other reviewers below have. Maybe Nvidia's latest drivers fixed the problem, or maybe I just got lucky on got a good card.

Cons: I thought the card was DOA at first because all I got was a black screen all through boot up. The computer would start, Windows would load (I could hear the starting sound), but my monitor said it wasn't receiving a signal. Turns out that the DVI cable I was using with the old 4770 just wouldn't work with the GTX 560. When I swapped it with a new DVI cable everything worked. Strange. It's not really the fault of card, though. I only mention it on the off chance that someone else runs across the same issue and reads this review.

Overall Review: My system consists of: AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0Ghz 95W CPU ECS Black Series GF8200A (V1.0) Motherboard 2 x 1GB CORSAIR XMS2 DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) 2 x 1GB G.SKILL DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive ASUS 18X DVD±R DVD Burner FSP Group ZEN 400 400W Fanless ATX 2.2V Power Supply