Pros: - Great performance - Low TDP - Backwards compatible with older cooling solutions - 12 cores - I am using an AM5 Asus board and was upgrading; I upgraded the BIOS to make sure I had the latest greatest, took out the old processor and put in the new one. Simple. - It's rock solid and just works. Plain and simple.

Cons: - I upgraded from a Ryzen 9 7900x to this one. My main games are [currently] Battlefield 2042 and Flight Simulator. I am getting about 10 fps uplift in each of them. Good but not great. Modern games rely on vid cards more than CPU so I wasn't expecting much thank goodness. If you are upgrading like me and looking for a major uplift, you won't get it.

Overall Review: Unless you have an older system, if you focus on just performance you will be disappointed. The performance uplift alone, going from a 7000 series CPU to an equivalent 9000 series, isn't enough to justify the price and effort. What you do get though from such an upgrade is everything else you get such as lower TDP. The 7000 series had 170W TDP while this drops to 120W. The result is a CPU which runs cooler and uses far less power. This leads to fans running slower leading to a much quitter system. I can't believe how quite my system is now compared to when I had a 7900x; my gaming experience is really enhanced. I can't hear anything at all anymore. Plus, there is far less heat coming from my system so my room is cooler. So, there are benefits that go beyond just a mere increases in FPS during video game play. Ultimately, those benefits combined with the performance uplift you do get results in a total package that's hard to beat. Keep that in mind if you are simply upgrading from a 7000 series to this. For new installs or persons upgrading from ancient equipment, this is a no brainer.

Pros: - nice black, solid metal item

Cons: - I should've seen the other reviews for this product when I bought it but didn't. As everyone else noticed, the side screw holes which are used to mount this inside the 3.5" drive bay are not standard size. My screws didn't work. Normally, this would not have been an issue as I could have used the included screws. Alas, my case requires the use of ridiculously long screws to secure anything in a bay. The included screws were to short while the screws included with my case would not work as this adapter used non standard thread screws. STANDARDS EXIST FOR A REASON!!!

Overall Review: Some products, if you are concerned about them, you can give a 4 or 3 stars to. This type of product either works or it doesn't. Since it didn't use standards threads in the holes, this product simply didn't work making this the first time I've given a product a 1 star on newegg. It is a shame. This product is very well built and solid. It just simply didn't work. You've been warned.

Pros: - Great performing card, visuals are awesome and frames per second relatively high and smooth - Freesync 2 support is rock solid and works advertised. I hate the trendy phrase "Game Changer" but HDR is a game changer. It turns Battlefield 5 into a new game. Freesync eliminates visual tears and such. - AMD includes great customization tools inside their drivers so you can over/under clock the GPU and voltage while also allowing adjustment of fan speeds (see below in cons for more on this). It's amazing how far AMD has come in their drivers. They used to be garbage. In the past 2-3 years, they have gotten a LOT better. They may well be better than Nvidia's particularly when you add in the powerful customization you can do through the included Wattman tool. Nice stuff AMD, nice. - Priced right.

Cons: - Card runs hot out of the box as per every review on the 'net. Mine was mid 80's at one point, perhaps even pushing 90C. The fan is whisper quite out of the box which is normally a good thing. In retrospect, AMD should've done some more work on the fan curve so the fan would ramp up and down appropriately with the temps. Their stock fan profile is way to conservative. Luckily AMD's [excellent] driver includes tools to tweak the card. Using Wattman inside the drivers, I was able to set my own fan curve. The GPU temps stay in the low 60s now. Prior to making fan changes, my system was slightly unstable and I would see some texture degradation in games. Adjusting the fan speeds to keep the GPU temps under control resolved these two issues for me and now my system is awesome. - Since the fan is now running faster to keep the GPU cool, the system is louder. It's not as bad as the Vega 64 before it, but its bad.

Overall Review: It's a shame out of the box AMD didn't have their fan and GPU temps under control. Give this card a cooling solution which doesn't sound like a rocket taking off to the moon while keeping the GPU temps under control and keeping its respectable price and awesome drivers, you would have great card and I would give it five stars. Instead, AMD’s timid out of the box fan curve with the noise coming from increased fan speed to handle the heat knocks the score down to four. If you are looking at this card but can wait, do so. Perhaps the aftermarket cards will have better cooling solutions which would make this GPU rock!

Pros: - Finally get to enjoy Freesync 2 with my recently purchased monitor, a 27" Samsung CHG70. HDR and everything looks fantastic as do visual effects. - Image quality does seem to actualy look better than what my Nvidia 1070 FE card produced. I'm quite impressed and the increased visual appearance has helped me enjoy games more. - I was worried when I got the card if the increase in frames per second (FPS) compared to the Nvidia 1070 I had would be enough to help justify this card. It was. I am getting roughly 20 FPS more compared to what I had. - Drivers worked great. Just downloaded the latest greatest from AMD's website and I was good to go. The card does come with a drivers CD but went to AMD's site to be sure I got latest.

Cons: - As other reviews have noted, this does have a loud fan. My system is in a place where the room temps are reasonable and the system is well ventilated. So, the fan speed doesn't get as loud as it could. How do I know how loud it can get? The GPU fan ramps up during system startup and I can tell how loud it can get. It can get really loud. For me, during normal gaming I can here it ramp up slightly but I have to really listen to hear it so its a minor annoyance at worst for me. For people with poor system circulation or if the system is in an area with slightly high temps, be warned; I can see how a system with this card in it could get too loud. NOTE: I don't think it's a problem specific to this card but all the air cooled Vega 64 cards. - The heat this card generates is due in part to the power it draws which means you need a somewhat beefy power supply. A 750 Watt PSU is the recommended minimum if I recall correctly. I had a 650 Watt PSU I had been kicking around upgrading for a while. The purchase of this card forced me to get a new PSU as well which created extra expense.

Overall Review: The two cons are not MSI's fault; these are issues with all Vega 64 Air cooled cards. Pay attention to these as both of the cons can sneak up and get ya. Otherwise, this a great card. The combination of finally being able to use Freesync 2 in my monitor, continue to use HDR, get faster frame rates, and what appears to be better visual quality makes me one happy fella. I anticipate getting multiple happy years worth of use out of this card.

Pros: Fast. I'm throwing everything I can at it and can't seem to slow it down. The thing is, this is not the top of the line card, the GTX 1080 is!! Yet, you wouldn't by how things perform on it. This card comes with Zotac's Firestorm software which enables the user to overclock, adjust voltage levels, and monitor temperatures. I don't care to overclock; I hate to push my card and wear it out for just a few extra FPS. For those who are into such this, this utility looks and functions great.

Cons: - Under heavy loads, the card can get hot. The thing is, the fan can start to get a bit loud as it speeds up to keep the GPU cool. I'm not worried as it is performing as it was intended and designed to do. This type of thing can be typical for high performance cards. Those of you with poor system cooling and/or a room where the temps are high. Ye have been warned. - When I got the card, it gave an odor off. The hotter the card got, the worse it was. It wasn't a foul odor (it kind smelled good actually...) so it was bearable. I never had a GPU do this before and it concerned me. I considered sending it back for a replacement as it is still under Newegg's 30 day return policy. I figured it was some sort of a burn in or break in period and the smell would go away. I'm glad I held off as the smell is basically gone now.

Overall Review: I'm not taking an egg off for the cons I wrote. The card is doing fine. I originally wanted to get a GTX1080. Short supply of those cards made me look at this GTX 1070. I'm glad I jumped on this. For those of you like me who have a 1080P, 60hz monitor, the GTX 1080 would have been a waste of money. So, I decided to save some money and get this card. Things worked out great!! I dare say you cannot get a better card for the money. The GTX 1070 sits in a perfect spot for people who got enough money to spend but don't need the most powerful card so would like to save a touch of money while still getting fantastic performance. I hope to move up to 4k gaming next year when HDR monitors come out and a new generation of HBM2 enabled video cards with even better GPUs to push them. Finances willing of course. Till then, this card will last a long time. I'm happy.

Pros: - performs great - CAS 12 while being overclocked to 2400. Not many memory sticks offer CAS 12 at all. This was the only pair I found in 4x4 16GB which offered that while also being overclocked. Nice. - Stuck sticks in motherboard with no issues. Enabled XMP in BIOS to get the speed, CAS, and other timing set right. Everything worked right the first time. Flawless. No fuss. The way it should be. - System runs rock solid with no issues. - Little to not heat. Low power too.

Cons: The heat sink/spreader on each stick rises really high above the memory making each stick rise really high above its slot. I was initially concerned about this seeing as how I own a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU cooler. Memory sticks and these wide, large coolers can sometimes bump into each other. This happened on my last system. The way I resolved the memory bump problem was I had to position the cooler fan a bit higher on the cooler than normal. It worked on my previous system and was no big deal. However, these sticks stick up so far I was initially worried. Luckily, on the X99s motherboards, you put the memory slots in the furthest slots away from the CPU first, one per channel (if you have four sticks like me). After sticking all four sticks into the motherboard as required there will be one empty memory slot between the memory sticks and the CPU cooler on each side of the CPU. If there hadn't been a spare slot, there would've been a bad problem. Beware of this. If you only get two or four sticks of this type of memory you should be fine as there will be plenty of room between any cooler you have and the memory sticks. However, if you fill all the slots up with the memory, then those with large CPU coolers will have a problem. I'm not taking an egg off for this. But HyperX, which appears to have the tallest memory sticks, needs to thank the designers of motherboards and Intel for bailing them out as 99.9% of people o8ut there won’t fill up all eight memory slots on X99s based motherboards. This could've been a disaster.

Overall Review: I don't know what happened but when I bought this memory the price was $240 before taxes and shipping. Now it's $285, even with a 14% discount. I was lucky: the price I paid for this memory was a freaking steal as I write this (all memory prices will fall in the future). Considering the current pricing, all is still good. However, watch the pricing as it appears it is all over the place. The pricing could go higher making other memory more attractive. Despite my observation of how tall the memory sticks sit in the memory slots thanks to the heat spreaders, this memory rocks. Get it.