Pros: I bought one of these in late June, price was right, quiet drive, and because my case was well ventilated it ran cool. loved it so much I bought another one about a month ago. both work fine, no problems or failures.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Its OEM so be prepared to find some screws and cables if you dont already have them available. if you dont have parition software it is freely available on Seagates website. make sure your drives also have plenty of airflow.

Pros: *Fast *Lots of space

Cons: *Ordered 2, one was DOA. see other thoughts. *not exactly what I would call quiet, but these are performance drives afterall. In most high performance builds other noises like fans will drown out the sound of these hard drives. Still way quieter than the drives of the late 90s.

Overall Review: I was going to pair 2 of these in RAID 0 with an Intel 510 Elmcrest 120gb SSD but unfortunately one of them arrived DOA. Awaiting the replacement from Newegg, I will update my review when I get the new drive and get these guys RAID'd up. I will say this though, the one I do have that works and is currently used as temporary storage is working fantastically. Even though I had bad luck with one of my drives (Personally I blame the big brown shipping company for tossing the box real good), you definitely can't go wrong with a Caviar Black!

Pros: - Build quality is excellent! This isn't my first Phanteks case and it won't be my last - Plenty of room for my build: I went with a Supermicro X10DRI-T dual CPU EATX motherboard and it fit perfectly! A standoff for every hole. The markings on the case didn't line up with the correct holes for this board but EATX is kind of a wonky standard so I'll let that slide. - ATX PSU fits perfectly, nice to have the option to run a server PSU if I wanted to shell out for one. - hard drive cages are a good design! I like how they stack up.

Cons: - For a server case, there are no rack mount options at all. It's too tall (or wide) to fit on a rack sideways even if you intended to put it on a shelf. It's about 23' tall standing up - If using this for file storage, there is some wasted space where more hard drives could have been mounted. - Not many places to hide cables except between the motherboard tray and the side panel. Really don't recommend getting the glass version of this case! Solid panels for me!

Overall Review: I really liked this case but it's not perfect. This case was aimed at the potential GPU cryptominer when that was a big thing. Almost seems like the ability to put 10 HDDs in this thing was an afterthought. I had trouble mounting the extra fan thing where I wanted to. Instead of putting it behind the hard drives, I mounted it in front of the air inlet on the side panel. I have a single fan blowing on a few high heat server components (10gb NIC, HBA, and old PCIe pre-NVME SSD) but it keeps them nice and cool. The case doesn't come with any fans at all which I thought was kind of odd. I've got 3 140mm Noctua Redux fans at the front, a single 120mm redux fan on the side intaking air cooling the PCIe cards, 1 120mm on the back and top for exhaust. That many fans consumes every fan header on my X10DRi-T. I ended up using a pair of Noctua NH-D9DX to cool the pair of Xeon e5-2690 v4 which, given the fan constraints above, tend to hover around 34 - 37 celsius during normal operation. I'm running ESXI 8 on this box. I have a TrueNAS VM with an LSI-9300-8i passed through controlling 8 3.5in HGST 4TB 7200rpm SATA drives. A 1.2TB PCIe (Pre-NVME) SSD handles my VMFS storage, a 120gb SATA SSD is my boot device, and I threw a spare 1TB SATA SSD for some extra VMFS storage should I need it. Currently powering all this with a 750w Seasonic Focus Gold PSU. Had to split the CPU connections but my power draw and amperage from the pair of Xeons is well within spec with plenty of overhead. Needed cable extensions because this case is so large. This is my now condensed all in one homelab, self hosting server, and NAS!

Pros: - It's a 3080 TI...it's fast, it benchmarks well, it does a pretty good job at 4k, what else can you say. - This particular 3080 ti is "available" at MSRP for a 3080ti. A rare happenstance considering some board partners are charging a premium for their versions of RTX 30 series cards.

Cons: - Price to performance, a 3080 is a better buy...if you can actually find one that is.

Overall Review: I'm ecstatic that I finally got my hands on an RTX 30 series card after so many "Sorry, you weren't selected" emails and missing listings by seconds because of bots. I'm beyond lucky in that regard and I realize that. However, if this card was sitting on a shelf next to a 3080 both at their MSRPs, smart money says you pick the 3080. I know I would. That's why I'm only giving this 3 out of 5 eggs. It's a good card, it does its job well but if it was a couple hundred dollars less, it would be even better. In an age of plenty, this card would be $899.

Pros: It's free, what more could one ask for? It should at least provide a few minutes of entertainment.

Cons: the paper it comes on really can't be used for much else.

Overall Review: You go to AMDs website, type in a code, give them your email, and in a few minutes you got a Steam activation code in your inbox. you then log into Steam and type in your code. Not hard to do if you can follow simple instructions. I noticed on my card it listed an expiration date of 12/31/2011. I think this has been extended to May 2012 according to the AMD website. I had no trouble getting my code.

Pros: *PCI Express 3.0 *easy to use BIOS *SATA 6gbps

Cons: *Wish it had more SATA 6gbps channels *Software would not install, had to use Google to find a patch. It doesn't lose an egg for this because I really feel that the software is optional.

Overall Review: This is definitely the most money I've ever spent on a motherboard, and so far I think I've gotten my money's worth. Someone at ASUS needs to be seriously commended as they designed this board with large CPU heatsink/fan combos in mind. I've got this paired with an I7-2600k sitting underneath a Cooler Master 212 EVO. Next to the 120mm fan on that is 4 DIMMs worth of Corsair Vengeance RAM. There is less than a mm of space between the fan and one of the DIMMs but they're not contacting. Even with a massive 7950 installed, I still feel I can comfortably fit something in the top PCIe 1x slot.