Pros: This is one of those installations that really had to go right the first time. When you are putting a Hyper 212 on your CPU, 4 GB of heavy DDR3-2000, and a GTX 460, all of which have to be in to test. Well, the GENE came through! Booted up on the first try. Has lots of features for overclocking. Fun lit logos and LEDs inside. My i5-760 is running at 4.2 GHz and my OCZ Reaper DDR3-2000 is running at 2000 MHz. All squeezed inside an APEX Micro-ATX case with handle. Can you say portable Starcraft II system?

Cons: Doesn't overclock all that well unless you upgrade BIOS. At first, it would not read all of the memory profiles, forcing me to 7-7-7-20, or 8-8-8-24, kind of at its will. Obviously, this made it really hard to clock the memory correctly. It would never engage my XMP profiles even when I selected XMP overclocking mode. Upgrading the BIOS at least fixed it to where it selected timings based on the memory frequency setting. Got the 9-9-9-24 correct and now mem runs at 2000. Still won't engage XMP, but who cares if it can read the correct profile for 2000? - Only 1 eSATA port (I like 2 so I can copy eSATA arrays) - PCI-Express slots are too close together (can't SLI my Palits) - You lose a PCI-Express (rather than PCI) to a 2-slot graphics card - No SATA-6GB/s or USB-3

Overall Review: System: - APEX TX-381-C Case - Corsair HX-620 Modular Power Supply - This board - Intel Core i5-760 at 4.2GHz - Coolermaster Hyper 212 using a single fan - OCZ Reaper Edition DDR3-2000 2x2GB kit - Palit Sonic Edition GTX 460 1GB - OCZ Agility 2 90GB 3.5" SSD - Fedora 13 XFCE

Pros: This monitor is great. It's thin, image quality is excellent and it has an audio output so that you can feed directly to speakers when using the HDMI input. I don't know why you would want to use anything but HDMI for this. Bezel has a nice, brushed sheen to it and the screen is matte, so no glare. And neither surface attracts fingerprints.

Cons: I let my roommate use it to play StarCraft II and now he has lost all interest in women. I notice when I come in at night the monitor has disappeared.

Overall Review: All monitor makers that aren't going to put speakers in their monitors absolutely must put an audio output on there so you can output the HDMI audio. Thank you for this, LG.

Pros: Small! It is only as big lengthwise as an old 8600GT. Quiet! It has a huge fan right in the middle that doesn't need to spin all that fast to provide adequate cooling. THE HDMI PORT IS FULL SIZE! You don't need an adapter! And most importantly, FAST! It is over 1.5x as fast as the GTX-285 while being half as big and half as loud. There is an eerie smoothness to the graphics provided by the Fermi architecture that I have not seen on other cards. I liked it so much I bought another at a local store to replace a GTX-285 in another computer. The card has dual DVI, VGA and FULL SIZE HDMI, which I use on both of my cards. I have heard the adapters are very iffy and the signal can cut out. This card has a nice 700MHz clock speed. Makes it nice and fast while still running cool.

Cons: What could possibly be a con? For the price and size, the speed is perfect.

Overall Review: I use Linux on all of my computers and both of the computers using this card get excellent framerates on Starcraft II running in Wine. This is a testament to the fantastic work done by the Wine crew and the excellent drivers provided by nVidia that are able to accomplish all of the same graphical effects in Linux as in Windows with no appreciable decrease in speed.

Pros: Small. Has a handle. Holds drives pretty effectively. Has nice top-front mounted USB and sound ports with a little door to cover them. Relatively light without being cheap-looking.

Cons: This case was used to build a portable Starcraft II computer which uses an overclocked i5-760 and a Palit GTX 460. The case held all of the components except for my Hyper 212 fan. The tips of the heat pipes go beyond where the case ends because the motherboard sits on rails that are slightly above the back surface. Also, you will have to ditch the CPU fan chute if you want to use a stand-up heatpipe fan.

Overall Review: The handle comes in very handy and the case is light, even though my power supply, CPU heatsink and video card are not. Just make sure to use a 92 mm heatsink-fan unit and you will be in good shape.

Pros: When I first got my board (ASUS Maximus III GENE), it didn't play all that well with this memory, so I couldn't be truly objective about it. I was pleased to find out that this mem could almost sustain the settings for 1066 when clocked at 1600. The board wouldn't use the higher speed profiles. It isn't truly stable at that speed, but you can get about 1500MHz out of this stuff if you want to keep the timings at 7-7-7-20-1T. Once I upgraded the BIOS I had a lot more control and it read the memory profiles much better. Now I have it at 9-9-24-2T at a solid 2000MHz with 1.6525V.

Cons: This is not memory for beginners or people not wishing to use extreme overclocking. The memory controller in the LGA-1156 CPUs runs at most at 10X the base clock. So you will have to run your BCLK at 200MHz to even get into the ballgame with this stuff. You will need a board that has tracings sufficient to keep up with that speed as well. I would suspect that almost all complaints about memory this fast have to do with improper board tuning or preparation.

Overall Review: Please remember that any memory faster than DDR3-1333 cannot be used at the advertised speed without overclocking. The memory controller was only designed to run at 1333MHz. All DDR3 memory defaults to 1066 initially to ensure that it will boot.

Pros: Great ownership experience with the cool black box and gold writing. Mine came with DVI-HDMI, DVI-VGA, SPDIF Cable and Component Cable. nVidia Linux driver 177.80 officially supports this card. Works great in Ubuntu 8.04. All native mode games play extremely well: ETQW 1.5 at 1680x1050 is smooth as silk. So powerful I can play COD4 at 1680x1050 in emulation! nVidia Linux driver has lots of great features to tweak display settings. Image quality is incredible. Totally satisfied.

Cons: Draws so much power I had to up my NB and FSB voltages to maintain my CPU overclock. This threw me for a loop at first and makes me very glad I went to stock settings before installing the card. Size not really a con because I have a CM690 case. Also, everyone should realize this video card is about 25 times as powerful as the computer you are putting it in, so really it is quite small by comparison.

Overall Review: Did not buy this here because I had credit at another store. Got this to replace my 3870 because its Linux driver is not very mature. Computer is Foxconn X38A at 1600 FSB, Q6600 at 3.6GHz, 4x1GB Kingston HyperX DDR2-800 at 3-3-3-9 2.1 V. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on Maxtor 500GB.