Pros: No Mans Sky in VR is the most demanding game I play. I went from needing to turn down the resolution to get 50 FPS with my 3080 to running at 150% resolution at 90 FPS with this card, and temps are in the low 50s C, easily 10 degrees below my old air-cooled card. Its quiet, too. I was worried about power demand and overheating, but its yet to draw over 300w.

Cons: Its very expensive. In hindsight, a 5080 probably would have been enough for what I do, even VR. Ive yet to do anything that causes the card to draw the full 600w, which indicates I didnt really need this much performance.

Overall Review: I dont regret buying it - who really regrets having too much GPU power? - but Id only suggest buying this if the price isnt a hardship.

Pros: This card delivers 6 Gb/s cheaply for older motherboards like mine which only have 3 Gb/s SATA controllers. It was nearly completely transparent - my Asus P6T saw the drive immediately, but wouldn't boot from it initially because the motherboard put my data drive higher in the boot order. That's minor, and more about my motherboard than the card.

Cons: None, really.

Overall Review: You may not really need 6 Gb/s to get almost everything out of that new SSD. With a 240 GB Intel 330 drive, I saw an improvement from 263 MB/s to 377 MB/s for sequential reads, and 167 MB/s to 206 MB/s for random 4k reads. That's not much, and the limit here is clearly not the 5 Gb/s for a single-lane PCIe 2.0 board.