Pros: Start screen is a bit more customizable. Doesn't seem to be as resource-intensive, using a little less RAM than Windows 8. Overall performance feels to be a little better.

Cons: Still can't customize start screen tile color. Windows pretty much picked whatever color it wanted to use as I manually added shortcuts to the start menu directory. Unfortunately I now have a lot of ugly orange tiles, that seemed to be the popular pick for Windows at the time. But in truth, I can't think of anything else to complain about. I like Windows 8 and the 8.1 additions are just some gravy on top.

Overall Review: At its core, this is still Windows 8, so don't anticipate any major revelations or game-changers. But seriously, people need to back off with all the FUD about Windows 8. It's not as bad as everyone insists on making it out to be. But alas, people don't like change. I get it, but that's no reason to trash the entire caboodle. Otherwise, you might as well trash Windows 7 too, because it's effectively the same OS. As for the first review, of course you can't install it *on* Linux. This is a full Microsoft Windows OS. Not an app to install on or over Linux... I don't think Newegg and/or Microsoft are obligated to explain this in any further detail. Clear Linux off the drive and install this from scratch, then you'll have Windows 8.1 and you didn't waste your money. Or you can repartition the drive and dual-boot to get the best of both worlds, perhaps? Please do some research on computer operating systems before making a blind purchase, then complaining about wasting money on something and blaming the reseller/developer for not fully informing you of what you were buying. The consumer's own neglect of proper research and attaining knowledge of a perfectly non-defective product before purchasing is absolutely no justification for a one-egg review on this site, that's not the reseller's/developer's fault. For the record, I bought a copy of Windows 8 from the Egg a couple of days after it went retail and I downloaded the 8.1 patch from the Microsoft Store when it went live last week, so I don't own this exact product, but there's no difference, 6 in 1, half dozen in the other...

Pros: Decent graphics, though this ain't no Witcher 2. I guess the gameplay is what you would come to expect for a Diablo game.

Cons: I waited 10 years for this game. It's been the biggest disappointment ever. I waited 10 years... For THIS?!?! Voice acting: Blizzard is notorious for this. The worst voice acting EVER, reminiscent of terrible, juvenile anime (yeah, I'm looking at you, Dragonball Z) cartoons. This goes back to the first Diablo and StarCraft games, perhaps even further, though I don't know since Diablo was my introduction to Blizzard as a developer. Story mechanics: Oh Blizzard, give it a break. Every story from every game Blizzard makes is the same. One of your trusted companions is a two-faced liar, the guy in the last town you visited is a two-faced liar, and your character is always stupid enough to listen to these chuckleheads. It's always about betrayal, betrayal, and more betrayal. Someone is always betraying someone and in the end they all betray YOU. Even Blizzard betrayed YOU for putting the Diablo name on this steaming pile. Persistent internet connection: required even when playing single-player campaign. Seriously??? Really??? UNNECESSARY AND OBNOXIOUS. RMAH: 'nuff said. When you bring real-world money into a game, the fun is pretty much gone. Cartoon graphics: Blizzard has always had the "cartoony" thing and juvenile animations going on with their games, but this became much more prevalent since WarCraft III (another steaming pile to complain about elsewhere). I, for one, can do without the cartoony nonsense. Blizzard could really learn a thing or two about art direction from the likes of CD Projekt Red and Bioware. Character classes: only one I've grown to like so far is the Demon Hunter. I used to be a Barbarian fan in Diablo II, but, well, sorry my meat-necked friend, you've been ousted by dual-wielding hand crossbows that never run out of ammo.

Overall Review: I received a closed beta invite for this so I've been playing it since last November. I was so excited, I've been waiting for this for a DECADE!!! Then I downloaded and played it and just wanted to cry. This IS NOT what I've been waiting for. It's a shame. This game could've been a whole lot more and it pains me to think that it was in development for as long as it was. Diablo II had such an incredible magic to it for me. Very few games can do that for me. I was expecting the reputable Blizzard Entertainment to blow my mind with Diablo III. Instead I ended up with probably the biggest disappointment in my PC gaming history, and believe me, that goes all the way back to 1986 and the Commodore 64.

Pros: Typical no frills design, as expected from MSI's Ventus line - No hard-lined "gamer" appearance, no RGB LEDs. This is subjective, but a plus for me. Very powerful GPU, 32 GB of GDDR7 on a 512-bit bus. Support for the latest DLSS/FG technologies. Modest factory overclock, though this is an interesting thing - reference boost clock is 2407 MHz, this card is advertised at boost clock of 2437 MHz, however I see this card regularly running at upward of 2700+ MHz while actively gaming. I'm not overclocking it at all, just the latest "game ready" Nvidia drivers. That's pretty crazy. Temps have been quite good, I don't recall seeing GPU temps go much past mid 70s on occasion under heavy gaming load, and the highest I've noticed the VRAM get was like 86c. Not bad for a 5090 on air. Smaller form factor compared to some of these other RTX 5090 behemoths out there and can be beneficial for those with chassis constraints. Even though current pricing is less than ideal, this is one of the cheapest RTX 5090 options available, as MSI's Ventus line usually is in general.

Cons: Price - This card would've typically had an MSRP at or near Founder's Edition. It's a shame MSRP no longer seems to be anywhere near Nvidia's paper launch price back in January. Heavy - This card is a little over 4 lbs, so be prepared to support this thing with something. I personally use the Lian Li GB-001, though I am considering something more in addition, just to be safe. Hot - Even though I said above that temps are good with this GPU on air, I also have a large chassis with cooling to support it well enough. You should definitely make sure to have lots of good airflow over the card to keep the temps at bay. Power hungry - 575 watts! Never thought I'd see the day that I own a video card that consumes that much juice. And believe me, under heavy gaming loads, it will use every bit of that 575 watts. Make sure you have a good, high quality PSU with a high 80+ efficiency rating to support it. 1000 watts minimum. Zero RPM fan issues - I'll try to keep this brief - Zero RPM does work with this card, but only under very specific conditions. In all fairness, from what I've seen around the internet, this seems to be an issue with multiple AIB cards, not just MSI. It seems to run into conflict with Corsair iCue. If I don't have iCue running, the fans drop to zero RPM when the GPU gets into the high 30s and seems to function as you would expect. However, if iCue is running, the GPU could get all the way down in the low 20s, yet the fans are still at about 30% (1200 RPM). I have to close iCue all the time after anything that causes the fans to spin up, wait a minute or so for the fans to stop, then relaunch iCue. Wash, rinse, repeat, every time something causes the fans to spin up. This is terribly annoying for me because I am majorly locked into the iCue ecosystem and I can't just not use it. I've seen chatter about this indicating it's because Nvidia drivers reference power draw rather than temperature to determine when the fans spin up or switch off, but it seems a little suspect that the zero RPM function seems to work as intended as long as iCue isn't running. When iCue is running, the power draw from that software isn't that high. I've tried other things like MSI Center, Afterburner and Fan Control, spent so much time trying to figure it out, nothing worked for me, and besides, I really shouldn't have to spend the time and depend on other apps to control zero RPM fan functionality on a video card, it should just work... So yeah, that's the single largest annoyance I have with this card, though I'm still not clear if it's the card I should be annoyed with - I've not had issues like this with Ventus RTX 3080 Ti, RTX 4080, or RTX 5080 models, or any other video cards with zero RPM functionality, for that matter.

Overall Review: It's a powerful GPU, hands down. It's the best consumer-level 4K gaming GPU available at this time. I can max things on games that I could never do with previous GPUs I've used. This card was the one I wanted since the RTX 50 series was announced. Not the price I wanted to pay, but I don't see things improving anytime soon, so I pulled the trigger on it. Only live once, right? Now let's just hope there's no melting power connectors in my future. At least I have a Ventus RTX 5080 to fall back on if worse comes to worse and I have to RMA this thing.

Pros: - Usual MSI quality, they've never really let me down for nearly two decades - Dimensions are a bit smaller and it's about a pound lighter than the Ventus 3x RTX 4080 - Generally understated appearance, doesn't look "extreme gamer" - No frills card, no RGB lighting - This is subjective, of course, but it's a pro for me - Modest factory overclock (2640 MHz vs reference 2617 MHz boost) - GDDR7 VRAM, 256-bit bus width - Support for the latest DLSS/FG technologies - Good temps at stock, highest I've seen on the core is low/mid 70s, no higher than low 70s on the VRAM

Cons: - Not a substantial performance increase over its predecessor - Only 16 GB of VRAM, same as its predecessor, would've been nice to see even a small increase - Taking the prior points into account, not much value for most due to current pricing issues - Current availability issues

Overall Review: I'm coming from the MSI Ventus 3x RTX 4080 OC Edition (non-Super model). Great card, I've been plenty happy with it, but I needed to free it up for other usage. I've been trying to hold out for the Ventus 3x RTX 5090, but between availability issues and obscenely prohibitive pricing practices on RTX 5090s in general, I've come to accept the fact that I'm probably never going to get one - The $2K paper launch MSRP was already a hard pill to swallow, but I'm certainly not going to pay $3K/$4K+ for one. I was able to get this card sold and shipped directly from Newegg for a "reasonable enough" price, all things considered these days. This isn't a big upgrade over the RTX 4080 by any means, maybe 15%-20% performance increase, though sometimes less, depends on the game. Hopefully some future driver optimization will help with that. Regardless, it is still a little bit of a performance upgrade, and I needed to free up my 4080, so there was value enough there for me. I'm currently using this GPU with the MSI Z690 Unify-X, Core i9 14900KF, 64 GB Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR5 6000 CL30. All in all, I'm pleased enough with this GPU. If current pricing isn't an issue for you, go for it, it's not a bad performer for what it is. However, if you already have a high-end RTX 30xx or 40xx card and you really don't have a burning need to upgrade, you might want to hold off because it's hard to recommend at current pricing trends.

Overall Review: It's a Samsung 990 Pro, not much more to say. One of the best performing gen 4 x4 drives out there, and it possesses Samsung's known quality and reliability. I've been mostly exclusively using Samsung's SSDs since the 2.5" SATA days. I was able to get my hands on this 990 Pro for a black friday price i couldn't say no to. It replaces a 2.5" Samsung 870 QVO drive of the same capacity, thus eliminating the last SATA storage device in my system, I'm running all NVMe drives internally now and this way outperforms the QVO SATA drive. Great deal!

Pros: - 38 inch screen - 144 Hz refresh rate - 1 ms response time - IPS panel, good color accuracy - 16:9 aspect ratio, no 21:9 nonsense

Cons: It's got some backlight bleed, but then again, what IPS panel doesn't. This is a minor con for me, it's really not that bad in my opinion, but worth mentioning. Not really any base/stand adjustment, but again, in my usage scenario, it's not a problem, just another thing that's worth mentioning for those that need such features.

Overall Review: I upgraded to this Asus panel from a MSI Creator PS321QR panel. I still have that MSI monitor, it's a fantastic 1440p monitor, using it for other stuff now. My goal was to bump up to 4K resolution with a screen size increase of at least 5 inches and still have the features the MSI monitor provided me: - IPS panel (not ready to dive into OLED yet because images on my screen can be static for long periods and I don't feel like dealing with burn-in risk and the hassle of pixel maintenance) - Refresh of at least 144 Hz - Response time of 1 ms at most - No curved panels, please... - Most importantly, not falling over into the 21:9 ultrawide nonsense I held out upgrading to 4K resolution because for the longest time, I found it impossible to find a monitor that ticked all the boxes mentioned above - Any panels over 32 inches in size would become 21:9 ultrawide, which is not anything I had any interest in. Then I stumbled upon this monitor - Just out of curiosity, I would occasionally filter-search Newegg with my requirements listed above, always found nothing, but then one day maybe a year or so back, I did it again and this monitor popped up in my search result, it was literally the only result. I knew this was meant to be, someone finally made exactly what I was looking for, and I had to have one.

Product actually showed up 2 days sooner than originally expected, product was as described/new condition/no shipping damage, no cons from my experience.

Received product well in advance of assumed shipping date and they contacted me to let me know, it actually showed up the day they contacted me.), thanks Selina! Great service!

Product was received as described in a timely manner, couldn't be more pleased, would definitely do business with them again.