Pros: Update: 4-20-20: I now have 6 of these builds on this board to friends and customers and it is my go to build for anyone looking to break into pcie 4.0 nvme drives. One of which was with a 3950x and a 2tb Sabrent rocket that hits 5100mbs+ write constantly, those are the kind of days I live for. Honestly one thing that I am so over and done with, I get why people build to overclock cpus and graphics and anything they can and I love it too but I prefer reliable builds that hit strong numbers every day and do it for years but the reality still comes down to the biggest two bottlenecks we face daily are still storage and networking. We are finally breaking storage barriers that have plagued us for years as the biggest bottleneck in mainstream PCs. The one I am waiting to see is the new Adata Sage nvme (SEARCH THIs 7000mbps read and write speeds) they showed at a trade show recently. At this point, unless I need more than 2tb of storage in a single device I am done with sata anything. Sata is still more economical for large storage archiving devices and chances are good it will be for years to come but NVME OWNS the productivity side of the market now and theres no reason to run sata for windows drives anymore. I take back any bad thing I had said earlier about this board. It has proven itself for over 6 months now. I dont overclock so if you do your mileage may vary but 6 rock solid builds with 3900x s and 3950x s running 3600mhz ram every day in high production and gaming rigs with absolutely no issues speak for itself. Just buy it. If you are still running sata drives waiting to pull the trigger on a new build you are wasting time. NVME is the future and make sure you are buying strong drives capable of hitting the 5000mbs mark. The best drives I have seen are the Corsair mp600, the 2TB Sabrent rocket and the Seagate 520. The Seagate proves its better at smaller file writes than the others and is now my preferred windows drive. There are a lot of budget nvme drives barely making 2000mbps. You get what you pay for. Get a good one the first time and dont buy anything twice. PCIE 4.0 and nvme bring mainstream PCs into a whole new era. You need to get at least a 1tb nvme drive to get this speed as they have more nand chips to write to simultaneously. Put it this way. You are here reading this because your looking at a pcie 4.0 board, then get a CPU made for it and spend the little extra for the better bigger drive. 500gb and under just cant do it and its seriously worth the extra $. This is the new high performance PC era and the cpu ram and drive are the very heart of the system. Everything else is the icing and the cake once you get to this level. Because of both Asus and Newegg replacing the bad boards promptly I have now updated this review to 5 full eggs. This is a good, solid board for the money and is a good choice for getting to PCIE 4.0.

Cons: I had said earlier I wasnt crazy about this bios and I am still not but it has proven itself over time and that is the real bottom line here.

Overall Review: Considering how badly I raked Asus over the coals with the 1st review they deserve better, I had said this is a well built board but has bios issues, and I must admit I am still not crazy about the bios but the board lives up to its design and the Asus reputation when you finally get a good one, that being said, I think some quality control issues need to be addressed, 2 bad boards out of 8 is not great but I can honestly say now that I have run a working one daily of my own and have 5 others out there, its a good board and would buy it again and I plan to. Both Asus and Newegg made both of those right as fast as they could. One last thing here, Do yourself a favor, DO NOT CLONE! CLEAN INSTALL A FRESH O.S. with the proper drivers! Its worth it no matter what your building! The only time you should ever clone is when you have software that can not be replaced. You want the full benefits of your new hardware then dont be lazy. Do it right. The corners you cut will be the performance you lose.

Pros: When these arrived I was somewhat impressed by the quality at first but was skeptical about the thin flat design. We bought a few 3 ft jumpers to use with all of our IT switchers and devices in the IT room for a factory and office. Engineering was impressed with the speed and signal but they were purchased to change routing devices and paths so they were being moved from port to port a couple times a week.

Cons: My concern in the beginning was they wouldn't last and I was right. About 3 months later we had to replace them

Overall Review: For the home user that only needs a short jumper and its put in place and left alone they would probably be ok but if you are moving things, constantly changing ports or devices for whatever reason or in a situation where it must flex I would look at something else. The thin flat cables my be pleasing to the eye and convenient but past history has proven they are not very durable. I definitely would not put one in a structure or wall.

Pros: I purchased this monitor to be one of a wall array of 6 monitors I use in my home office and it was not planned to be a primary monitor but one in the upper row of 3 to upgrade an older Acer monitor of the same size. It has the newer features I wanted and it also has a display port input which was one of my primary reasons for the purchase. When connected to an AMD free-sync card with a decent cable the card recognized it and it went into its mode easily enough but you really could not tell a "major" visible difference. As monitors go its not bad and I cannot knock its performance but that's where the good part stops.

Cons: The vesa mount is not centered. EVERY flat screen I own and I own several, between me the wife and kids there are 17 monitors in our house and all mount in the center of the back panel. This one mounts on the lower third so it cannot line up with any other 24 inch screen on a mounted array and there is no mention of this anywhere as not being a standard mount. So I docked it 2 eggs for that, 1 for not being normal standard and 1 for the manufacturer not mentioning it anyplace. I should have taken a closer look at the pictures but I never expected it not to be normal standard. Can't blame Newegg for that since they can only print the information the manufacturer sends them. Most monitors have settings and power buttons on the front or the sides. This has one single rubber toggle that controls everything but it is on the rear and had the mount been normal I would not have had any access to it once it was mounted in the array, also it came shipped with an hdmi to hdmi cable but this is backwards thinking as display port is the future and hdmi is slowly going the way of the dinosaur. So I docked it an egg for the lack of a display port cable and the location of its only control button. I kept it to use as a stand alone monitor on a single system I have elsewhere at home so I will still use it but overall this whole thing was very disappointing and it is not built to the quality level equal to most Acer monitors I have had in the past but then again this is also its cheapest entry level offering so you get what you pay for.

Overall Review: It's not a bad monitor and it looks good but not like "WOW" great. Ive read several reviews where people were complaining about the sound, well its a thin flat screen and there's not much space for speakers here so don't be shocked if it cant keep up with larger speakers, its typical of its size and price point. The only way you could use this in any kind of array is if you bought more than one of these for the array. The off center vesa mount does not match any normal other flat screen I have ever encountered but if you wanted to do 3 or 4 or 6 of them as long as they would all match then your good. Standalone on a desk or table it does what it's expected to do and not a bad price but I wouldn't consider this a "Gaming" monitor in the competitive sense, but more like for simple low level gaming and typical pc graphics it's ok. My oldest son ran it on a half dozen games and said "it's not bad" and was typical of its price point so that's O.K. as opposed to "completely freaking awesome". On a scale of 1 to 10 I'll give it a weak 4 and as an owner of a computer store and repair shop I have seen and dealt with hundreds to judge by. Your mileage may vary.

Pros: I purchased this to upgrade a 1060 SSC that I bought used a few years ago and it is impressive and was the last "weak link" in my latest build and daily driver. I do audio and video and graphical editing and some things in virtual worlds and VR. It stays constantly cool, have yet to see it above 35C and it did solve my graphics memory topping out sometimes as it has 2gb more gddr6 ram than the SSC which was a gddr5 spec. The bus rate on this card is double the SSC which does help quite a bit. My various DAW's and DVW's fly thru this like water however it really did not affect rendering times which isn't really a surprise since its a LHR card, all in all its a good product, well built and designed and the GPU Tweak II works well for what I use it for as I do not need to overclock but I did want a custom fan curve. All that being said please read the cons below. I have non-mining applications that could have used a non LHR full power card but the prices are completely out of my reach so I had to settle for this, though no fault of this card.

Cons: I had expected more and this is seriously overpriced even with what I paid and the discount I received. There was no improvement whatsoever on the video quality of anything and if anything its worse since I am forced to use hdmi instead of dvi on my main monitor and true black has become grey now and nothing I can adjust changes that, just a bit more headroom since it does not have to work as hard as the SSC did. There was some improvement in VR but none in virtual worlds. Again since its a LHR card it did nothing for anything that required or could use mathematical computation assistance from the GPU. So if you are a hardcore gamer that can actually use the power this has then it is a good one, however if you are more task oriented and thinking this may solve any lag or FPS issues not that I had any, day to day against the 1060 SSC I had for my uses it was only a slight improvement because of the increase in graphics ram size, type and bus speed which was predictable by numbers but no real visual difference really. Kinda disappointing for all the cost and the wait for things to get within reach so I am glad I waited but it was nowhere near the hype or hope I had expected. There is no USB C for headsets on this card but that wasn't much of a bother since I have it on the mobo.

Overall Review: If you need this kind of power and speed its built well, benchmarks show it does everything it's supposed to do and slightly beyond whats on paper and keeps itself cool no matter how hard I pushed it. Clock rates and fan speeds boosted nicely and predictably under load and the card performs excellent. If I was a serious gamer I would most likely be a lot happier but for me it was kind of disappointing considering the price of the unit. Since I run 4 monitors all the time it does all of the things I need it to extremely well at an idle and barely wakes up for my uses. Now I have to upgrade my main monitor because the DVI looked so much better on my old card than the hdmi does so there must is an issue there since none of my monitors are hd or uhv but that's typical in a hdmi vs dvi setup as DVI is more accurate for workstation/creation type use. So I gained headroom and power but really nothing else. It is what it should be however the price does not justify the need for my uses but at least I am future proofed for a few years and I know this was new and not used so I have no doubts about its past history or abuse, so now I can rework the 1060 SSC, get some fresh pads and compound and upgrade my backup tower. Had I come up from an older card maybe I would be more impressed. Your mileage may vary, all in all its a great well built and designed card, I just didn't see 700$ worth of improvement. Seriously overpriced and definitely not worth all the hype..don't buy into the marketing psychology, do your homework first.

Pros: Fast way to get direct web into a netbook, tablet or other device for upgrades. if you are not aware of this windows and some flavors of linux cannot upgrade all of their files over wifi-- once a month you need to directly connect to the web if you need bugfixes and want upgrades. it cannot be done over wifi, if you dont believe me dive into some microsoft support pages or get into a linux forum or just google it. some things just cannot be done on wifi, read your fine print people. this will fix what ails your netbooks and tablets and slimline lappys that have no Ethernet jack.

Cons: Should come with a type c adapter too but i had one and it worked for what i needed it to do, not enough to lob an egg for.

Overall Review: I would buy it again and again. Priced right, works fast, solves the problem.

Pros: Purchased for backups and consolidation. The drive does everything it claims its supposed to do and the write speed isnt terribly bad however it still goes to sleep constantly but if your just using it for backups thats not that much of a problem. If i actually needed constant performance id shuck the case and put it in a different one because its the interface in the case that calls the sleep command not the drive itself.

Cons: Rubber feet issues. They are only barely stuck on and they didnt remove the processing powder from the rubber before they added the adhesive so the feet practically fall off. they were off within minutes of removing it from the box. I nearly knocked an egg off for that but thats par for the course with adhesive feet. I have seen other reviews about the breathability and I have an open bottom rack for all my pc things at my daily machine so thats not a problem for me but your mileage may vary. its a 10tb drive, if your writing a lot its gonna get hot, no way around it so make sure it has plenty of air. This thing averages around 110-120mbs per which is typical. For the gamers out there if you add this for extra gaming storage and think its fast then you really need to get a look at the new nvme's and find a way to add one cause there's nothing fast about this one, its a backup drive and runs like a pack mule or a tug boat, aint gonna win a race but it will get you home every time when the others wont.

Overall Review: YES I would buy it again, its WD built and well done, and its actually a single drive done right, interface sleep still sucks but as I say, im using this for backups and not constant work so it does what its supposed to. I would recommend anyone that gets one of these to full format and test it first to make sure its working proper and to full capacity which is windows will show up at 9.09 tb because of 1024 based math in windows and your not getting ripped off, thats just the way the math works out. The total capacity in actual bytes is 10,000,795,693,056 bytes, divide by 1024 and you get 9.06. Remember there is no such thing as 1000 in a pc or phone or any other electronic device and the negative reviews from people that dont get it just makes me shake my head, 1000=1024, its that simple. For those of you still using any of that worthless backup software thats built in or comes with your antivirus you need to get educated. just save your files here. Dont worry about backing up windows, its too easy to do a clean install with windows 10 and things go wrong and if your more than one upgrade beyond then your backup wont work anyway and your going to waste half the drive backing up windows garbage that will not correct itself. PC's are an eraseable medium. the fastest fix for the best performance is a fresh clean install. Takes an hour and you get better than new performance every time if you read up and learn how to do it right. cloning and restoring is batting your head against a wall trying to fix an endless nightmare. clean install it and be done with it in minutes. All you need is an 8gb flash drive and its free.

This item was purchased for a customer of mine that wanted to make an internal 8tb drive useable for her new laptop. I ordered it Wednesday before thanksgiving. it is now Tuesday night and for the last 6 days tracking shows "shipping label created" and no other changes. She went elsewhere and got one locally. Frankly I cant blame her. this was for things related to her working at home. I know its the holiday season but some sign of life would have changed things dramatically. Christmas or not work still comes first and there are too many other options these days locally. I cant speak for the device as it never left the building it was supposed to come from. I cant give it zero eggs but I did try. C'est la vie, your mileage may vary.

I had ordered all new pwm fans for my older antec case as some some were 3 and some 4 wire (4-120mm and 1 140mm) and with my old crosshair v formula z I needed all the air moving i could get but the pc sometimes sounded louder than a vacuum cleaner. Now that I have the new ryzen 9 3900x & prime x540 pro combination i could actually take full advantage of some good quality pwm fans. For most of what I do in an average day you dont even know the pc is on. The mounting system was also extremely impressive. So far every "be quiet" item i have worked with has been above and beyond in quality and workmanship. Highly recommended. I honestly dont think any other company can match this quality with that price. My next case will be from them too.

Paid extra for 3 day delivery and it became double that. Id have been better off saving the money and let them do what they want and take the time they want because thats what actually happened. the product is amazing. I will have to consider purchases and how i do them from now on with Newegg. I couldn't even get the extra money I paid back.