Pros: Great performance in all games @ max 1080p settings. It came with a bonus: The card actually has 8GB of ram and I was able to flash vbios to utilize extra ram. Fan is pretty quiet under heavy load.

Cons: Runs hot under load. 80+ degrees Celsius. Not experiencing power draw issues but manually undervolted card to be safe. hopefully new driver release fixes issues others have had.

Pros: - Great looking design and pairs perfectly w/ Fractal Pop Air Case - Fans are quiet and thermals are great. 5800X3D maxing out around 78 degrees at full load running cinebench. On average while gaming, temperatures hover between 60-70. - Fans and ARGB cables daisy chain which made it easy to cable manage.

Cons: - Radiator mounted pump can get pretty loud at 100%. Set a curve in the BIOS to have pump running around 40-50% voltage in the BIOS and cannot hear it at that speed. Set it to only run at 100% if CPU temps go over 80 degrees. - Fans also get pretty loud at full speed so set them to run between 50-60% and only hit full speed if the CPU gets really hot. - The ARGB Cable for the CPU block is a little unsightly. Tried to hide it as best as I could by wrapping it around the block and then sending it out to back of the case. Can't really think of a solution to this issue unless you have an ARGB header right next to the cpu socket.

Overall Review: Overall I think the Fractal Lumen is a great product. If you're bothered by the loud pump or fans, some tweaks in your BIOS can get it to quiet down and still perform great. The ARGB works great especially when paired with a Fractal Case or Fractal fans. Keeps my 5800X3D cool without issue so should be great for CPUS around the same power output if not greater.

Pros: Very Stable. Running w/ X2 3800+ overclocked to 2.4GHZ (240HT) w/ 1.375 core voltage. Ram is running at default 200MHZ speed with BIOS set to DDR333. Can't seem to overclock any further. Probably because of the chip. Hope to test out an Opeteron 165 on the board as I heard those overclock better than the X2 3800+. Gigabit ethernet screams and the SATA performance is just as good. My computer just feels faster with this new board. Upgraded from a MSI RD480. That board was very unstable and didn't overclock well at all.

Cons: Very tight placement of the bottom right screwhole which is right next to one of the IDE connectors. Had to use a screw smaller than the rest of the others. CPU socket somewhat cluttered and might cause a problem for those with large heatsinks.

Pros: I bought this board back in January in order to upgrade to a faster CPU without having to replace my Radeon X800 Pro AGP card. The board installed with ease and I had it up and running after updating the BIOS and Windows drivers to ensure stable opperation. I was able to take my then new Athlon 64 3200+ 939 from 2GHZ up to 2.4GHZ w/ no problems and no voltage adjustment. I recently retired my x800 for a brand new All-In-Wonder x1800 PCI-E card which installed w/out a hitch. System has remained stable w/ the overclocked CPU and new video card.

Cons: The only problem I had with the board was configuring the memory timings with the CPU bus speed. I did not want to overclock my memory and keep it at its rated DDR400 speed and it seemed this would only work with certain HTbus speeds. The memory runs at default speed with the 240mhz HTbus but with other settings like 233mhz, for some reason my ram drops down to 185 or so mhz. Maybe its just the ram which are Kingston HyperX Dual Channel DDR400's 2.5 Cas.