Pros: I bought this apu for my build out of curiosity. It's pretty fast and I can play skyrim at 1080p in the mid 30's with my settings on high and a high res texture pack installed. This would make an excellent htpc. This was my first apu so I had no way to update the bios .Fortunately the gigabyte board came with updated bios so it was plug and play.

Cons: The cooler included is junk. I have a slightly better cooler installed and I still get random crashed in skyrim. I assume it's due to heat so another cooler is on the way. Also, the list of video cards that can be set up for a dual configuration is short. Only two so amd needs to come out with a few more cards. Drivers are still beta so I expect to get a bit more performance as time goes by. Don't buy memory slower than 2133 or you won't get the performance this apu is capable of. Price needs to come down at least 20 bucks for this to be a great deal.

Pros: Lasted for 5 months. It's all over the net that this is a substandard psu because Corsair went with a Taiwanese manufacturer that used cheap Chinese caps. I should have researched before buying but I went with the Corsair name. That has resulted in my computer being down for a few weeks and having to pay $14 for shipping for return of the psu. At least it didn't take out my computer when it died. Corsair refused to ship me any other model that this one as a replacement. Hope when the replacement fails I still have a computer left. Lesson learned. Don't buy any thing without extensive review.

Cons: Failed after 5 month. Cost me time and money even to get a replacement.

Overall Review: No!

Pros: Caught this on sale last week for $99. It has ended up replacing my old 125 watt 8320 that I sold to a friend. This cpu is only 200 megahertz slower that my old cpu but runs on 95 watts. Plays games, compresses video with handbrake, and cruises the net. Oh, and it's unlocked so if I want I can overclock it. $99 for 8 cores is just crazy value from AMD. Intel can't touch the performance for price in this cpu.

Cons: Not much of a con but the included cooler is barely adequate.. And the AM3+ socket is pretty much a dead end since AMD is introducing AM4 in a few months. But if that doesn't bother you this cpu is a great value.

Pros: Ran at 1866

Cons: In my earlier review I noted that I bought 16G of this memory(4x4G) Two of the sticks refused to run faster than 1866 regardless of what I did. I contacted the Manufacturer and was provided information to allow me to tweak voltages in an effort to get it to run at advertised speed. It refused to run above 1866. The other two sticks ran at 2133 but I had numerous crashes. I realize as a Manufacturer you are trying to do damage control when some one gives you a bad review on your product but I have been playing with computers since the TRS-80 and building them for many years and this is the first time I couldn't get memory to run at the advertised speed. Funny how all my problems went away when I changed to a higher priced brand of memory.

Pros: Put it in my board and it runs stable at 2400.

Cons: A bit pricey.

Overall Review: Never had a return with any Corsair product.That's why I was willing to pay the some what higher price.