Pros: OK, after having 8 of these Toshiba drives in a RAID5 array, using an HPT 2720SGL card, I have had 4 crashes and array rebuilds during the last year. I had thought the drives were bad/going bad, but I finally figured out that the controller does not give them enough time to spin up from sleep when the computer running Win7 64-bit pro wakes up. So the controller usually flags drive 1 or drive 4 as "failed" and then wants to rebuild the array. AFAIK there is no way to program the controller to take more time during spin up. So instead of having Win7 turn off the hard drives, I just let them keep spinning. Cheaper than buying a better controller card!

Cons: None, seriously. I just ran the SMART diagnostic and all drives have the same # of reallocated sectors as when brand-new.

Overall Review: If I had some, I'd sell 'em for 1 cent apiece..

Pros: Seems like a fast mobo if all the features would work.

Cons: Updated BIOS to latest version 1502, and now I only get 3 boot drive options and my boot SSD is not among them. So it boots into UEFI and I have to manually select the SSD. Will have to downgrade to the previous version which worked. Also, the mobo driver disc is incompatible with Windows 10 on my new build. I cannot install the WIFI driver, and Asus has just a few Win10 updates on their web site. Despite Win10 builds being available for months, Asus is clearly not ready for it with their flagship mobo.

Pros: I've had this card since August, with no problems of note. Gets decent frame rates on just about every game at 1080 resolution. Since NV had the better card during my last build, that is what I went with, instead of AMD. There's a few differences between the NV and AMD cards - in some older games like Kingdoms of Amalur, which has lots of distance/atmospheric effects, the 980 makes them much more noticeable than my old AMD 7970, I guess due to the driver differences. Took a bit getting used to, but now I enjoy it.

Cons: The latest Win10 drivers seem somewhat flakey - I will get the occasional Win10 system message that the driver stopped and had to be restarted. However I haven't seen this in any games so far, maybe just a Win10 update at fault. I notice that IE 11 seems to crash and restart a lot lately since the last couple of Windows updates, which is about the same time that I started getting these graphic driver system messages too.

Overall Review: Hope Newegg gets these back in stock soon. I just bought a 48" Samsung SUHD TV to replace my wimpy 27" display, and am now gaming at 4K resolution. So I need to SLI to get decent frame rates. For anybody who has a multi-monitor setup, a 48" curved TV at 240 Hz native refresh (although the card only goes up to 60Hz at 3840 x 2160 resolution) and zero bezel edges should be on your short list of upgrades for a seamless, totally immersive gaming experience sitting 3 ft. away. I got the curved Samsung 6.1 sound bar to go with the TV, so the only thing better would be a total VR headset.

Pros: I've owned various Zalman coolers for years now. Bought this one for my new 2011V3 build with Corsair Dominator DDR4 that comes with the clip-on coolers, as it is thin enough to use the clip-ons on both sides of the CPU. My original choice - the Noctua NHD14 - was too large. Zalman looks better and cools almost as well according to the stress tests I've seen.

Cons: The manual is wrong - says to orient the cooler so that the thinner side faces the rear, but the picture next to the text shows the airflow passing from the thinner side to the thicker side. So obviously you want to orient it with the thinner side facing the front of the case, to avoid conflicting airflow patterns. The online manual at Zalman.com shows the same thing. Guess Zalman can't be bothered to correct the error.

Pros: With 7 USB3 ports plus 2 charging ports (1A and 2.1A), this makes an ideal hub for those lacking one, say at the monitor. I do some video editing and I have an HD camcorder, a digital camera and an HD webcam and only 2 USB3 ports on the front of my tower PC, one of which is usually occupied with an external backup hard drive that I use for transferring files to other machines. So with this hub plugged into the back of the machine with a USB extension cable, I have 7 more ports available. The 2 charging ports are great for a quick recharge on my phone and tablet, although not being able to transfer data means I have to plug them into one of the active ports afterwards. This hub is about 2/3rds the width of the older version that had one charging port, and the ports are on the top instead of arranged along both sides on the older one. It also has indicator lights next to each port so that you can verify the connection is working.

Cons: None

Overall Review: While a 4-ft USB cable would be handy instead of the supplied 3-footer, I would still need an extension cable for my setup, so not really an issue.

Pros: I connected this to the front USB3 port on my tower PC (Asus P8Z77 mobo with a 3770K cpu) and within 15 seconds Win7 had downloaded and installed all the drivers, including the Ethernet driver. Couldn't have been easier. I have an older C2Q machine in the same room, connected via 802.11b Wi-Fi to the network, so file transfers between the two machines is seriously slow for large files. The gigabit Ethernet-to-USB3 connection speeds it up tremendously, even compared to a wired connection via the Verizon gateway which for some reason is limited to 100 Mbps. This is much more convenient as well since I don't need to unplug cables from the back of the tower, roll it out and then plug an Ethernet cable into the port on the back. Not that I do daily file transfers, but still convenient and fast. Since my monitor doesn't have a USB hub built-in, I'll probably wind up using this as a hub for plugging in my HD video camera as well as an HD webcam for videoconferencing. My computer desk is L-shaped with the tower on the far side, so stringing cables everywhere is not an option.

Cons: N/A

Overall Review: Ethernet indicator lights would be handy to make sure connection is established.