Pros: just being Asus makes its a pro. But if your looking for the best board that's not an ROG board, here it is. I have a FX6300 in it with 16g of Gskull 1866 ramm and a EVGA 770, it screams threw everything. BF4 is 100+fps in ultra

Cons: none

Pros: none

Cons: everything.... 1st drive failed in a week, RMA'd it, second drive failed in about a month. Don't ever buy refurbished drives people. EVER!!!! if I cycle my computer on and off 100 times it might show up, and it will boot and work as long as its on, but as soon as you shut off the computer you have to start all ovcer again.........JUNK!

Overall Review: ALWAYS!!! buy new on SSD's

Pros: I'm waiting for them to release the 6gb GTX 780Ti version so I don't have to pay 1000 bucks on the black. It's awesome the give you the 6gb version for pretty much the same price as the base 780. People that have the first Titian are prly p o'd now lol.

Cons: none

Overall Review: I have the 780Ti right now and glad I waited for it to come out than buying the base 780. BUT, a single 1080p monitor still uses 2g of ram on my card in ultra BF4. Pretty much what I play the most, and I wanna to do triple monitor soon and 3gb will be taxed I think. plus newer games are reaching the 3g buffer easy. IMO they should have done a 6gb card to start with.

Pros: Baller, top of the line, smokes everything, destroys all games out of the box in ultra with all the extra extra stuff on, etc. I OC this thing from power up first time. 1150mhz all day long. use evga software. plan on aleast two more later.

Cons: none, I wish 3 more came out of the box???

Overall Review: have a good PS, they will draw 450w if you let them. I've never let this thing get hot, have the fans kick on 100% at 60c "130F" if they get that hot, they do, fans have no problem holding it there either, BF4 ultra all day long, Baller

Pros: this compound has got it on lockdown! but really, best stuff ever! use this on my 9590, never breaks 120s F with a H110. With my old generic, local computer store, heres some free paste whatever..... don't do that, use this stuff. will never go back

Cons: none

Overall Review: was seeing 70C on hot days with some cruuudy cpu generic paste. Now, never breaks 120s F, whats that, 30c's, ya it's worth the 8 bucks. both tests were on BF4 ultra, and a 780ti, 9590 no OC, asus CH 5 F Z, 16gb Gsk 2400

Pros: Everything, everything is fast about this thing. Ok, seriously, I've wrote a couple reviews already about how hot this thing runs blaa blaa blaa. USE GOOD CPU PASTE! I used cheap **** figured, meh, it'll be fine. No, Not with this cpu. Used Acrtic Sivler 5 HighD. I leave my fan controller on as low as it goes and most games get it, 110F. BF4 Ultra 120F. I was hitting 70c on a hot day in a warm room. Now it hard to crack high 30s C. I'm doing high 50s F!!!! writing this at idle. I'd struggle to keep it 100F idle before. I'd say paste was the problem. My system -Asus Crosshair V Formula Z -AMD 9590 No OC turbo boost on 5gggghhhhhhhzzzzzzz <--- Arnodd voice -Corsair H110 still using junk stock fans..... -16g of Trident Gskull 2400 ramm. strange enough this ramm, my friends has this same ramm and same board but he runs a 8350 oc to 4.7. The thing is, his ramm will run all day 2400, but mine will quit games all day long unless I run mine in 1866 or 2133. Just some fyi. -Gigabyte 780Ti OC ed and ya I run it to it max which is 1150 on this card. -Samgung 840 Evo SSD 120g for OS and stuff -WD 320Gb blue Game drive -WD 3Tb green storage -All in a Rosewill Ultra gaming case with a replace plexiglass window instead of mess ****.

Cons: None. will do as said and say cool doing it hahaha, no, but really, if you're not gonna buy good cpu paste, don't even buy this, that's the lesson learned.

Overall Review: yes, the extra 150 bucks was worth it, and they hang real low.