Pros: Very snappy. Six cores are especially good at threaded applications. And it's cheaper than the eight core cousins. Unlocked Comes with a heatsink

Cons: While I never saw it fail, the CPU does get hot with the stock cooler. I really wasn't comfortable overclocking it at all, because it would elevate over 60 C under a load. I was surprised to find out that, though it supports DDR3-1866 memory, it won't do dual-channel at that rate, instead if you want dual-channel, it only does DDR3-1600.

Pros: This is an affordable card that gets you some nice performance. No need for a CrossFire bridge

Cons: It only has one fan, and similarly priced cards can get you another 10% or so of performance with more fans. CrossFire doesn't actually always increase performance. In some games, it actually is significantly worse than a single card.

Pros: Cheap Functions

Cons: Not actually 1866 RAM. It's 1600 RAM that's got a heatsink and includes factory overclocks. Unfortunately, even at these timings and voltages I can't even get it to POST. Only when I set it to 1600 speeds does it actually POST. Granted, I can bump it up a little if I OC the FSB, but so far the highest I got to POST was 1725 mhz with 11-11-11-33 timings, nowhere near the 9-10-9-28 at 1800 mhz. I'm using 2 x 4 GB sticks in dual channel mode.

Overall Review: Perhaps if I bump up the voltage, it will work. But I hate doing that, especially if it's advertised as much better RAM.

Pros: It has a heat spreader, and can run at low latencies due to overvolting and overclocking. It is cheap, and performs extremely well, noting that low latency and lower Mhz is just as fast as high latency and higher Mhz.

Cons: It is an overclocked version of higher latency 800 RAM. It's like 5-5-5-15 at 1.8V, but then they put a heat spreader on and overvolted.

Overall Review: Solid RAM, good price.

Pros: This is a very nice hard drive. It has low response time, high transfer rate, and high spindle speed. In lots of instances I have seen benchmarks where it isn't even hardly outperformed by the velociraptors.

Cons: It's not a solid state drive, and there is latency to it.

Overall Review: I really think this is a best-bang-for-your-buck kind of a deal. If you want more speed, I would consider RAID with these.