Pros: Big, Glossy, Easy to set up, EXCELLENT picture. Overall just a really good 24" monitor for the asking price. It simply dwarfs my other monitors.....the 21" WS Acer, the 19" Dell lcd, and the 21" Viewsonic CRT. And it has a better picture than them all. No dead/stuck pixels, like an earlier review said, it really helps to immerse you into the game if that's what you're getting it for. You won't be dissapointed with any of the current popular games, plus it's HDMI port means you can simply plug a PS3 into it and you're good to go. I'm loving this monitor.....I think I'll name it Sally.

Cons: Very minor stuff, I do wish that it was more adjustable. It will only tilt forward or backward, no rotating or height adjustments on this monitor so if that's an issue then you might want to look into getting something to set this monitor on. 1 Egg knocked off due to this, but again it's pretty minor considering how nice the picture is...

Overall Review: Don't let the fact that this monitor isn't as adjustable as you might want it to be sway you from getting it. Monitor arrived in excellent shape on time....once the part of my order that's shipping from CA gets here (New P45 mobo, 4Gb RAM, vista 64ult, e8400, 850W PS) this monitor along with my 8800GTS 512mb and that stuff ought to make a pretty decent gaming computer. Definantly a step up from the single core socket 939 setup I've got currently.

Pros: When it works, it's an absolute beast. I am able to play the BFBC2 beta at it's highest settings and maintain framerates above 70 at all times, usually in the 75-95 range. Plays all other games I own exceptionally well framerate wise at the 1920x1200 resolution I demand.

Cons: Now for the bad....WHEN IT WORKS is the key phrase in the above pros. After a few days of use the card began exhibiting symptoms of the dreaded GSOD crashes that have been plauging these cards (not just the 5870) for a while now. I updated to the 10.2 catalyst driver and get the crashes just as often as before. I've done everything short of reformatting my HDD to no avail. It's getting extremely annoying to have a game (any game) lock up and go to a gray screen every 10-15 minutes.

Overall Review: I've got a few more tricks up my sleeve to get this thing working because the card runs great when it's not crashing every few minutes. I just wish AMD would fix the issue once and for all....

Pros: Recently ordered 2 sets of this (8Gb total) to replace a 4Gb kit of ddr2 1000 same brand. Unfortunantly one stick of the old ram went bad on me so I had been running for several months on 2gb which just doesn't cut it for the gaming I do. So hopefully a full 8Gb will be just what the Dr. ordered.

Cons: The first set of DDR2 1000 had a bad stick after no OC'ing and only about a year of ownership with very good cooling in my PC case. I'm hopeful that one bad stick was only a small hiccup in a history of great purchases from Gskill. So far in the last 3 Gskill purchases I've made the 4gb kit before was the first bad ram I ever had. Gskill is usually solid as a rock.

Overall Review: Don't hesitate over to purchase if you still use ddr2. Great ram and gskill have been very good to me in the past with the ram I've purchased. Of the total of 6 or 8 sticks I've had only the one went bad after a year of nightly use at stock speeds. I had much worse luck with corsair, ocz, and kingston in the past.

Pros: Nearly doubled my framerates in Battlefield Bad Company 2 from previous with identical components besides the proc. BFBC2 is able to use all 4 cores with this proc so I immediately noticed a very large performance increase going from my old E8400 dual core. The quad core runs much cooler than the old dual core ran under identical conditions.

Cons: Not enough programs out there will use all 4 cores, especially where gaming is concerned...hopefully that will change going forward. No cons at all with the processor itself.

Overall Review: Upgraded to the quad core from a dual core E8400 (stock clocks). I also recently upgraded my graphics card from an 8800GTS 512Mb to an HD5870 that I had to RMA due to GSOD. Using the e8400/8800GTS combo I was getting @ 15-35fps in BFBC2 retail on a full 32 man server at medium settings 1920x1200 res., sound at "War Tapes" setting. Using the Q9550/8800GTS combo those framerates went up to 25-50fps at the same settings. Using the E8400/HD5870 combo in BFBC2 on high settings at 1920x1200 res, War Tapes sound I was getting 40-85fps Using the Q9550/HD5870 combo in BFBC2 at high settings same res & sound as above my framerates jumped to 60-100+ fps. Obviously a huge difference from the E8400/8800gts combination. Very well worth the money for the Q9550.

Pros: Underwater feature, "beauty' feature, TOUGH (my wife keeps this camera in her purse so she doesn't have to carry her DSLR camera bag around with her everywhere she goes). Very compact, fits easily into a medium sized purse. Easy to turn flash on and off.

Cons: XD only makes it just a little tougher to find the right card and the xd format's largest capacity is a 2GB card. Really have to watch what setting the dial is on or picture will be flawed (blurry). Flash doesn't reach out too far.

Overall Review: Still learning the many features this camera has, especially looking forward to our first underwater excursion with it to REALLY test out the waterproof-ness and the fireworks feature as well.

Pros: Upgrading from an evga 8800GTS 512Mb (G92) to this card. Previously I was getting framerates in the BFBC2 PC beta of between 20 and 40 with the occasional hit below or above. Plugged this card in and updated to the latest drivers and started up the beta and now I get framerates in the high 60s to the low 80s at the exact same settings (medium) as with my 8800gts 512. New card also idles at 29 C and hits 48 C under full load which is much, MUCH cooler than my 8800GTS. So far not a single hiccup from this card. Very pleased to have purchased it. Delivered exactly what I hoped it would....now I have to go play the rest of my games and see the improvements in them.

Cons: Not much else in the box than the driver cd, a few connectors and the usual literature. If you're expecting more, then you'll be dissapointed in that. Just barely, and I mean BARELY fits into my trusty old Chieftec Dragon case. I've got about 1/4 inch between the back of the card and the removable drive cage, but even then I could have removed the drive cage and had plenty of room.

Overall Review: Specs: All components are running at their stock speeds, no OC'ing. MSI P45 Platinum motherboard E8400 proc. 4Gb Gskill 1066 ddr2 RAM Antec TPQ 850 and obviously the new HD 5870 at stock speeds. Also using an Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro7 for the CPU.