Pros: Fast.

Cons: None yet.

Overall Review: I am not too sure but my computer is reading it as a quad core. May be motherboard. Not sure why this is. May be causing issues too in games as I can't seem to play too many older ones as fast as I should.

Pros: Fast drive. Great when it works. No BSOD with Windows 7 64 bit doing games, editing, graphic design, and video processing, etc.

Cons: Drive died 2.5 months after using. No clue how. Computer didn't have issues, didn't do anything out of the norm. BIOS just stopped recognizing drive. Trouble shot the heck out of it ranging from BIOS settings to special programs to special hardware connections and nothing would get it to recognize. Also, the back up I made of the drive was corrupt so I lost quite a bit of information ranging from a $10,000 client project to some scripts I've written. Pretty stressful situation that cost me quite the pretty penny.

Overall Review: I've read up on these drives and found a pretty large group of people experiencing the same issue. Not just with Corsair but all SSD's. To me, they seem to know about the issue but released these drives anyway knowing people will lose data pretty quick. I've even talked it over with two different tech guys at Corsair and they know about the issues. So why sell the product if you know it is going to break almost immediately? I got the RMA process going, but I'm a bit frustrated over the fact I now have to pay for shipping, then I paid new price for basically a refurbished drive I'll be getting here shortly. Didn't give me a discount or pay for shipping or even offer a data recovery reimbursement plan. If it happens again, I'll be writing off SSD's, regardless of their great speed and reliability with normal operations.

Pros: -I had a 31 C drop from a cleaned stock fan with fresh premium compound before and after for accurate comparison -is pretty quiet, mostly -cheaper than liquid cooling

Cons: -set up was a pita -instructions not entirely clear as markings on hardware and instructions were a bit off -very large, see "other" for info on this -orientation in the case isn't customizeable as it currently blows hot air about 30% directly to a wall rather than out a vent port

Overall Review: Don't let the 3 egg rating fool you, this is a great heat sink and fan set up. I knocked it 2 points because installation was unreasonably difficult and the instructions could be a bit clearer. I build PC's all day long for work and this was the first Hyper 212 I've touched based on reviews and it was a tad of a learning curve. I accidentally mounted the bracket incorrectly due to markings not being clear from instruction to hardware. I also tried orienting the fan to be pointing towards a case vent, but found it wouldn't mount properly that way. As it stands, it points about 30% into a wall, and the rest is towards a case vent. I'd be willing to bet cooling would be better if I could point it backwards towards my case vent and fan, or fully push air out the top. I also think the price could be lower if they offered options and hardware for JUST Intell buyers or AMD buyers. There are a lot of left over parts and I shouldn't have to pay an extra $5 for parts I will never use. Knocked the rating for that, too. The sheer size of it is both a good and a bad. Good for cooling and noise reduction, bad for space. It literally rests on top of one of my RAM sticks. As I have a full 4 sticks in there, I can't relocated the RAM one spot over to prevent this. I also have short RAM. If you buy RAM with a heat sink or some fancy design, I would not have been able to install this heat sink as it would have smashed into the RAM. I use a micro ATX board and case, so maybe a larger board would be a better fit for such a cooler. One last negative is that my fan seems to click a bit in pattern so something is misaligned on the fan itself. maybe just a manufacturer defect but the click is annoying. I'll take it a part at a later time to try and address it. The way this is set up, you do NOT want to constantly be trouble shooting faulty parts because the install was so complicated and task-heavy. Be sure to measure your RAM and the size of this thing BEFORE buying it. If you can shoe-horn it in, it does an amazing job. 31 C drop from my stock fan and I was even able to OC a bit after that. Other than the click, which has to be a manufacturer defect on the fan itself, this thing is quiet. Runs at about 250 rpm during idle and I haven't seen it get above 1000 rpm during gaming and rendering. Old fan would spin at ridiculous speeds and make the usual stock-fan noises.

Pros: Smaller than other graphics card "equally as powerful." Quiet.

Cons: Have had graphic lag, problems with crashing rendering software, and slow start up or changes of things requiring the graphics card. Also, tech support has been responsive, but ultimately avoiding the fact that the card is needing to be replaced with something else, as Nvidia apparently has issues with ALL RTX cards. I took a gamble and am now paying for it.

Overall Review: Go with something that isn't RTX. I've been playing a handful of low-graphic games and if I do that while listing to youtube music, or browsing, every time you change a tab or song, the game lags for a solid 1 second. Editing in Davinci Resolve and I've had several crashes in just a week of editing compared to my old card which never crashed out of 5 years of editing. Literally. Never crashed until this card was put int. Also getting odd start up issues or lag when alt-tabbing to other open programs that may use the graphics card. It doesn't seem to handle any 2 things very well, at all.

Pros: 4 gigs of ram, triple core processor, and a built in graphics card for photoshop and some rendering abilities. Qiet on the inside.

Cons: Integrated graphics card is weak at best. Couldn't run too many games on it on the lowest settings other than stuff before 2006. On top of that, it only reads 3 gigs. Don't know why this is unless I misread but I thought it could take a full 4 gigs (2x2G). On top of this they are reading ddr3 when they are ddr2. Also, my triple core is communicating as a quad core. And I think that is causing issues.

Overall Review: Will try and solve the RAM issue, will need better graphics card. Will need to figure out why things don't read correctly when I look at hardware and PC Wizard tools. Maybe it is my lack of knowledge, maybe not. But I never had issues with RAM like this before and I used to rebuild cases quite often...

Pros: It does what it needs to do with minimal wires.

Cons: Horribly loud. I don't know if there is something wrong and I can't seem to turn the fan speed down but it is almost as loud as my vacuum with just as much suction...

Overall Review: Will probably sell this and get something else. If noise doesn't bother you or your computer is in a place where you can't hear it then great. I have not had it long enough to determin the reliability.