Pros: -Performance greater than my old RX 5600 XT or even my son's RX 6600 XT. -Double-width and not 2.5 width like other cards (I bought the RX 6600 XT for me, but it hit my PCI-E WiFi card as the 6600 is a 2.5 width card, so it went to my son instead as his case and MB are larger). -Quiet when watching movies/shows, and still mostly inaudible when gaming -70FPS gaming on ultra settings and 4K resolution on a 50" LG TV

Cons: -Computer sat with a black screen after I swapped the 5600 out for the 6650. Had to force-reboot. It was fine after that, and the existing drivers had no issues.

Overall Review: This is the fifth ASRock component I've used, and have been very happy with all of them. I have a B450 ITX board, two B550 boards and one Intel ITX board from them, plus this graphics card. All have done exactly what they advertise and I cannot complain about their pricing. I paired the Challenger 6650 with an ASRock B550M-HDV board, R5-5600X processor, 16GB ram and a 1TB Samsung SSD. I am not disappointed with this machine and it's capabilities. This review is for the ASRock review rebate program. But I would not have changed my review even if I didn't go for the rebate. Seriously.

Pros: Great price for new hardware, great specs.

Cons: Fans seem to barely run, possible thermal management issue?

Overall Review: This thing looks great, and while it runs it runs great. It will cause system crashes in War Thunder and Star Wars Battlefront II. I need to keep an eye on it, but it seems that the fans barely run. To get any sort of reliability out of this, the graphics settings had to be turned down quite a ways, far far far lower than what the RX 6600 XT was running in the same games. Installed on an ASRock B550M board with Ryzen 5 5600X and 4000MHz RAM. Case has two inlet fans and one exhaust fan. Inlet fans custom curve set to keep at a minimum of about 35% ramping to 100% speed while the exhaust fan runs at a minimum of about 65% ramping faster to 100%. Processor temps are totally kept in check in the 35-45C range at idle and 50-70C while gaming.

Pros: Two DB9 ports, drivers updated through Windows Update (however it worked out of the box with the included drivers), gives a laptop back its functionality in the field (many industrial devices require RS232/DB9 connectivity).

Cons: Pulls out of the PCMCIA slot on my Inspiron 6000 easily, most of my usage will be stationary however.

Overall Review: Only issue was due to the PLC I was connected to, some times they cannot handle the high baud rate of even an on-board/built-in DB9/RS232 connection so I was not surprised. Can always drop the baud rate down a notch or two or just retry.

Pros: Small, light, inexpensive. Burns +R media at the advertised 8x speed (a Sony laptop wouldn't burn it at all). Drive is quiet, software package is nice (Nero).

Cons: My Aspire One will power the unit with one USB port, so the 2nd plug is redundant and can be annoying (I am going to try another cable).

Overall Review: Played several DVD's on my Aspire One while on a B757 with my 2yo son, which kept him happy on the 4hr flight, and therefore me happy!

Pros: Small, light, easy to travel with. I can play movies (assuming you have a D/L service or a way to get your movies on the harddrive), a few games I like and even run AutoCAD. I've used it on airplanes, works great.

Cons: Battery life of the 3-cell is only 2.25hrs, but they have larger batteries now either from Acer or other battery suppliers. I've only wished for a longer battery on one particular airline flight.

Overall Review: I use this every day for personal email, web surfing, documents (Open Office), and have even done a full 4-view layout of our house in AutoCAD (with and w/out a mouse). The trackpad and buttons get a bad rap, but honestly they are pretty easy to get used to. I usually use my left hand to click and my right to move the cursor.

Pros: Bought it when they had a MIR available, so after shipping it was a great deal (but still, the current price is pretty good for a B/G/N router). We only have low-speed DSL, but the old linksys B router just wasn't cutting it with two laptops online. I downloaded a few larger files over the past few days and got the full 300+ kb/s even with my wife and I surfing the web. Normally this would have slowed both of our connections down.

Cons: Odd configuration problem even with the wizard, had to change the router IP address (and therefore network range) to match the old router. After that it's worked perfect.

Overall Review: Using MAC address filtering for the wireless association to keep my neighbors out, works well and no "keys" to worry about. Have not tried the connection in the basement, but I would assume that even with the router upstairs in our spare bedroom where my desktop is won't be a problem.