Joined on 12/22/04
Been a PC enthusiast for nearly 25 years now.
Okay for the price

Pros: Good price and good build quality. Plays most older and most new games great.
Cons: Drivers are still not where they should be. Linux support is not 100% and you have to use 6.2 Kernels to even use it. Looks like we will have to wait until 6.4 to really use its full potential. Not many long-term distros are on the new 6.0 Linux Kernels so it might be a year or two before we see that.
Overall Review: Good card for what it is
Not so great for Quad GTX 295 SLI

Pros: Everything went great with my build...at first. The only issue I had was trying to get 2x GTX 295 SLI cards to run properly. It took about 20 mins to boot into windows once I installed the other card in PCI-E slot 2. For some reason the board also wants to run the monitor off the second card and not the first. I was finally able to boot into windows once after waiting forever but the system response was extremely delayed and slow. I could not even get the start menu to respond. At first I thought I may have had a faulty card but it would boot fine and run with just 1 GTX 295. I used the update utility on MSI to get the newest bios in hopes it would solve my problem...but it did not. I "hope" it is just a bios issue due to the fact that the cards are newer than the current bios. If not I just waisted 500 dollars on a second GTX 295.
Cons: major let down for Quad GTX 295 SLI. Killer NIC network cards also cause it to freeze during Vista x64 initial boot.
Best air cooler

Pros: Works about as good as a 360mm AIO. I do not think you can get a better air cooler than this besides the ones that are similar. I was having heat issues with my 14900KF, but this did the trick. The extra mount allows you to add another fan in the front for a three fan solution.
Cons: It is very large so make sure you have a big enough case. The front fan can me moved up a bit to accommodate the shielding that is on most mothers if it is too high. It can be a bit loud, but this is expected. If you plan to OC you will still want a 360mm+ AIO, but for normal operating or low OC this does the trick.
Overall Review: Great product all around, but it is HUGE.
Works great

Pros: Fast and works as advertised. There are several bad reviews, but I can tell you from experience nearly all the failures are most likely caused by heat issues. Fast M.2s can get excessively hot in the right situations. If you do not have a heatsink with your slot or good airflow with your motherboard then they will almost certainly run slower and possibly fail. Always use a heatsink with M.2s even if they do not come with one. You do not want to risk failure due to high temps by not having a heatsink to disperse the heat.
Cons: Nothing so far, but I will update if issues arise after extensive use.
Overall Review: Good product for the price.
Best way to add multiple M.2s without bios requirments

Pros: There are not many M.2 expansion cards that support Non-Bifurcation. This is a big deal if you have a motherboard that may not support M.2 drives or only supports a limited number in the bios. Cheap M.2 expansion cards almost always require bios support and usually do not work correctly on older motherboards. This card will allow you to run M.2s on even a PCIE 2.0 board with fast speeds. Standard M.2s only use x4 speeds on the PCIE bus. This card will allow 4x M.2s to run at x4 dependently. It also supports software RAID. This means if you only have a PCIE 2.0 board and RAID 0 fast M.2s you could get close to 8GB speed over PCIE 2.0 and up to 16GB over PCIE 3.0. Most motherboards may only have additional PCIE slots running at x8, but that is still 4GBs over PCIE 2.0 and 8GB over PCIE 3.0 when RAIDed. This is a big deal if you do not wish to upgrade and still want great speed out of your storage medium.
Cons: Being able to boot to the RAIDed drives would be nice, but this card does not support that.
Overall Review: Great product for the right situation.
5:4 aspect and LCD

Pros: I needed a newer monitor that supported 5:4 aspect ratio for some old retro equipment. It works great.
Cons: none
Overall Review: Does everything I need. Works great with my old retro gear.