Pros: Price: When i purchased this the price was around $180 which is GREAT considering an AMD FX-8150 with a stock air cooler was the same price as this. Also, a comparable closed liquid cooling kit like the Corsair H80 runs around $105 and that is just the cooler and fans, no CPU included. Performance: So far everything is running as well as i expected. CPU is plenty fast for everything i do and the cooling performance is good as well. One thing to note though... i have noticed that a lot of other peoples reviews say that this is keeping their CPU around 40 degrees Celsius, which i have found is a bit misleading. When i was testing my rig i found that the included software (Chill Control?) did show around 40 degree Celsius when my processor was running prime95 for about 20 minutes, but if you look the 40 degrees that Chill Control is showing is referring to the temperature of the liquid in the cooling loop, not your processor. my motherboard is the ASUS Sabertooth 990FX AM3+. this board came with some software tools, one of which allows me to monitor my core temps. while Chill Control showed 40c, the Asus monitoring suite showed my core temps around 55c. The cooling is still superb in my opinion considering the core temp was only 55c after all 8 cores had been running at 100% for over 20 minutes. it was a stable 40c and 55c respectively for those wondering, it had not raised another degree on either monitoring software for about 5 minutes.

Cons: As many others have said, it is a little tricky to install, but don't let that scare you. so long as you don't try and force anything you should be fine. just use the instructions, and if you have trouble im sure there are DOZENS of help videos of people installing this on youtube.

Overall Review: I would strongly recommend this for anyone who is looking at upgrading their CPU and also wants to try out a closed loop water cooling system. Simply put there is no beating this price for what you get. If you are wanting to upgrade to the newest FX-8320 or FX-8350 Vishera processors, and plan on purchasing a separate closed loop water cooling system, then be my guest. That is exactly what i was going to do before i happened across this deal.... Just know that you will be spending around $100-$150 extra for only slight gains. Check out the benchmarking comparisons between the FX-8150 and the FX-8350 and you will see what i mean.

Pros: Card is just about to have its 5th birthday and its still in use. I upgraded my computer since it was getting dated and i gave my old rig to my GF. she is still using it to play games and it does well (for a 5 year old card). I did have the replace the stock fan though...

Cons: After about 2 or 3 years the stock fan/heatsink started making a horrible sound. I believe the bearings wore out. I replaced the stock fan with an ARCTIC Accelero Xtreme 7970 cooler and it worked great. For what its worth, if i had known about this and had the money i would have installed this cooler much earlier. The temps were amazing after this installation.

Overall Review: Was a fantastic card for the last 5 years and i expect it to continue working for at least one or two more. The card definitely doesn't owe me anything. If you can find one of these cards used for cheap (~$20) and you are looking for a budget card this would be a decent choice. I was using it until about 2 months ago and i was able to play newer games on medium settings without much issue. No comparison to my new Sapphire R9 390 though ;)