Pros: How's about 4.27 GHz on air 24/7. 1.4125 Vcore. SuperPi in 10 seconds. Sandra scores in orbit. 1200 jump in 3DMark 06. If your not an Intel fanboy, this thing WILL convert you. Resistance is futile.

Cons: Do You have extra 1500 bucks lying around? Do you want the fastest CPU on the planet? Cough it up, the best of anything ain't cheap.

Overall Review: Don't even think about buying this thing without a motherboard that can't handle 1600 FSB native! ASUS P5E3 (X48)Prem. will take you to 1800 to 2000, no sweat. DDR3-1800 is a MUST! SuperTalent X Project 1800, 55ns latency @ 7-7-7-21, If your keeping score, that's IMC territory (Mem bandwidth 9576 m/sec)

Pros: First, let's get this out of the way. It runs under XP with the XFX supplied 8.6 drivers. (Other reviewers had me peeing my pants) Perhaps it runs better under WIN7, but that remains to be seen. If Crysis is any objective measure of performance, then the results were stunning. Detail which I have never seen before. Everything was automatically selected/detected at HIGH settings. For $379 this card is a no brainer. I'm going to retire this machine for a new 32nM, WIN7 extreme machine next year anyway. By that time I'll buy another one of these suckers for CF. Nvidia, be afraid, very afraid.

Cons: I did have a few lockups, I suspect the XP/WIN7 issue or imature drivers may be the root causes. Hot? You bet. I manually set the fan at 60%. The fan noise doesn't bother me during gameplay, however, other more sensitive types may take issue. Size does matter. I had to pull out the hard drive fan bay of my Lian-Li 70B case 1/2 of an inch. So it sticks out the front a bit, big deal. I've done worse over the years.

Overall Review: Size does matter, I had to pull out the hard drive fan bay of my Lian-Li 70B case 1/2 of an inch. So it sticks out the front a bit, big deal. This card is reminecent of the ATI 9700 series years back, another quantum leap fot ATI. All said, this was an excellent purchace. QX9770 (3.8 GHz), P5E3 Pre X48, SuperTalent 1800 Mem, PC Power and Cooling 1KW PS, 2 Raid 0 Raptors Oh yeah, It doesn't get better than New Egg.

Pros: Man, its back to school with this badboy. The DRAM parameters are exceptional and complex. There are a host of CPU power states I've never seen before. Its fast, stable and very flexible. All said, it will take quite sometime to fully understand this overclocker's dream come true. A (GO) stepped Q6600 running at 3.2G @ 33C was absolutely no sweat, warm to the touch (Zalman 9700LED), 1 hrs after 1st boot, and quite incredible, sweet. I'm glad I waited for this board. The QX9770 comes next. GET FAST RAM, 1600, AT LEAST! If your don't your wasting your time and money on this terrific piece of hardware.

Cons: I wish they went to more detail on each BIOS parameter, at least in the manual.

Overall Review: This is a winner.

Pros: I blew up another brand, read the reviews, gave the stuff a shot at $179. I'm glad I did. Clocks up 16x Mult. @274 x 4 FSB. 2 Gigs is THE way to go! Pretty little lights, too! Works great and stable @ 5-5-5-15, 2.35v. CHEAP!!!!

Cons: NONE

Overall Review: Wish I had these things a year ago.

Pros: RAID 'em and bite the bullet. 150 M/B sustained. FEAR Game Loads? 15-20 seconds. Bread and butter apps ? Click, your open. Defrags? Virus scans? Cake. Boot ups and shut downs? Snap to attention and salute. GREAT DRIVES.

Cons: Stop whining and crying, if ya can't afford 'em. Ya get what you pay for. That goes for anything this good.

Overall Review: I have an Asus P5WDG2-WS w/PCI-X slots. I thought about an SAS card and drives. (I can afford both setups) These Raptors in RAID for a home machine/game machine is the hot setup, the smart setup.