Pros: Highest clocked Windsor available at a comfortable price, and the highest clocked Windsor that doesn't have a TDP of 125W (that's the 6000+). Furthermore, at 2.8GHz the 5600+ has an even clock divider so the RAM runs at full DDR2-800 (6000 and 5200 don't).

Cons: AMD cheaped out on the heatsink. Just your generic all-aluminum heatsink with an equally-generic fan on top. Doesn't befit a processor with a TDP of 89W. Attachment to the board took a lot of effort and time and forced me to worry about possibly breaking the motherboard from all that stress.

Pros: Worked pretty much as expected, except in terms of longevity. Seemed to be a bargain for the price.

Cons: After two months, doesn't recognize any discs. Included remote doesn't come with batteries.

Pros: I upgraded to this from an almost six-year-old Radeon HD 4890, and that was "enough" to play most of my games at 1920x1200, albeit with AA turned off. This thing is enough to play those same games at triple their framerates with AA maxed out. And they're mostly DirectX 9 games - tried out a couple DirectX 11 games (Assassin's Creed 3, Civ5) and it's still smooth as glass with everything ramped up. Card fans are effectively inaudible even at full load - card idles at 36C, highest I've seen it go is 61C.

Cons: As others have pointed out, the card is huge. Not a problem for me - I installed it into a CoolerMaster Cosmos full tower case so there was plenty of room, but it's definitely not intended for low-profile builds. Not gonna knock off an egg for that though, since it doesn't affect me.

Overall Review: Again, it was massive overkill for my purposes - I suspect I'd be just fine and have saved money if I went for the 2GB card, but I went for this instead from the perspective of "future-proofing" a rig that I've had for about five years now (i7-920, 12GB DDR3-1066). None of my games (with the lone exception of Skyrim, so far) use more than about 1.5GB of vram according to MSI Afterburner, but I expect this to change in the next few years (and I expect this card to last at least as long as my Radeon HD 4890 has).

Pros: Installed without a hitch. Equally as fast, if not faster, as a WD Raptor. Quiet. NCQ support is a big plus.

Cons: Took two hours to full format.

Overall Review: You could go cheap, save a bit of money, get as much space, but get a slower drive by buying a desktop-level drive. RE2's are enterprise-level, and support NCQ. Hence the higher cost.

Pros: It actually works in Vista x64. Got a signal and was able to watch a local station. Picture quality was excellent.

Cons: This card runs way too hot. The only place to install it due to the form factor of the card was sandwiched between two 8800GT's in a PCIe-x8 slot (the only available PCIe-x1 on my board is for small form factor cards). Its high temperature combined with the heat from the top 8800GT's fan likely did it in. Restarted the system once (to perform a memory test) and it disappeared from the DMI pool and Device Manager.

Overall Review: Excellent driver support, insofar that it actually worked in Vista x64, which is more than can be said for most TV tuner manufacturers, hence the extra egg. Yet for all intents and purposes, the card itself stopped working (and possibly fried itself) in less than half an hour, so I'm pretty certain I can't return it to NewEgg for a refund.

Pros: Picture quality average for an analog TV tuner, natively supported in Vista.

Cons: Vista x64 drivers a work-in-progress. Current drivers don't yet support 64-bit memory mapping, so it only works if I remove a 2gb stick of RAM from my machine.

Overall Review: Disappointing in that I have to gut my system of half its RAM to get this to work properly.