Pros: It was cheap, and it controls three of the low-amperage fans in my Lian-Li case. Looks 'stylish' once the sticker's been removed (no easy task).

Cons: That 10w rating on the controller is a bit generous. The voltage regulator Xigmatek used is only really good for one fan, since it's low amperage. On top of that, it has no heatsink (and therefore overheats quickly even under normal usage). I have a feeling a lot of the failures people experience are due to thermal overload releasing all the magic blue smoke. That's a pro-tip to Xigmatek. If you make a v2 of this controller, bump the voltage regulator up a notch and put a heatsink on it. I would rather have paid $15-16 for this with those upgrades, rather than having to do them myself.

Overall Review: To solve the thermal overload (three .21A fans made the voltage regulator quite hot), I used thermal epoxy to attach a heatsink I cut down from one I had in my junk drawer. This is a simple mod that should greatly increase the life of your controller. Note that you can buy heatsinks that attach to that chip type with a screw at any electronics retailer for cheap (probably more ideal, since it isn't permanent like my fix.) I just didn't feel like going shopping.

Pros: Did a good job of running an extra display off of my Radeon HD 6950 for a little under a year; I was surprised by the low amount of screen tearing for a cheapy active adapter.

Cons: It failed after less than a year, and ofc it couldn't of just died completely to make my troubleshooting easier. Firstly, it's been randomly cutting of video to the monitor connected to it (which I attributed to it getting hot from the air coming out of my GPUs.) Worse yet, during any sort of GPU load, it causes atikmdag.sys to timeout, in turn causing a scrambled BSOD. At first I thought it was everything but the adapter (GPUs themselves, motherboard, PSU, RAID card...,) but on a whim I removed it and ran Furmark for 12 hours without issue. Plugged it back in, and after ~16 minutes of a burn-in test, my computer gave me a BSOD again.

Overall Review: I might have an isolated case, but be prepared for yours to prematurely fail.

Pros: +Relatively quiet even at full speed, especially compared to the fans they replaced. +Dropped my temps by ~2C

Cons: +Oddly, the cables are a bit too long for me. +Air pressure leaks around the oddly shaped frame if you use them on a radiator, unless you use tape to seal them off.

Overall Review: I used these to replace the fans on my Antec Kuhler H20 920. The stock ones were rattling like a 12 valve Cummins because the bearings ran dry, and Antec helpfully melted a plastic slug over the bearing so you couldn't relubricate them without using a drill to break through. Obviously, that's a recipe for destroying your fans further. I was originally going to use Noctua NF-F12's, but due their price and several reviews about how they're not really that great at the static pressure thing (and the fleshy coloring,) I ended up with a 2 pack of Corsair SP120 fans instead. So far so good.

Pros: $90 for a Polk product? Irresistible. Even at 40% volume, this sub is powerful enough to rattle things off the walls/shelves in my 10x16' room. It's a little overkill for such a small space, but I've never heard MitiS sound so good. Glad I live in the sticks. Bass quality is great except for the few moments that the vent gets overwhelmed (and makes flatulent noises.) Could easily be fixed with some more polyfill and a voided warranty, but I very rarely hit that limit.

Cons: Takes up a lot of room for a 10" sub? I had to use some seriously bassy music to track down all the things around the house that were rattling, and either move or secure them. Pet peeve. Don't know how people can throw 12" 500W subs into their hooptied out Pontiac GrandAm, blast rap, and not get irritated by the clattering sound of the car getting shaken to pieces.

Overall Review: I'm running this off of my SB Audigy 2 ZS with a 200Hz crossover frequency. Turned the crossover knob on the sub all the way up, since I don't plan on using the speaker connections. Running the subwoofer signal to the non-LFE input using an RCA->2xRCA cable. I upgraded from a 6" Cambridge SoundWorks sub that blew its amplifier. The difference in bass response and clarity is worth the amount of space this sub takes up in comparison with the old one. Definitely recommend, especially if you get it on sale.

Pros: -It is indeed silent. Can't hear it over the woosh of my radiator fans. -Heavy. I judge computer power supply quality by weight, and this one delivers. -Handles my power hungry setup with nary a complaint.

Cons: -Cables are a bit short if you use a bottom-mounted power supply config; I didn't because in my case (Lian-Li PC-A71) it interfered with the heatsinks on my RAID card. -Non-modular design with lots of cables. Not really an issue for me, I used pretty much every cable (guess I'm a 'power user.')

Overall Review: I'm running an overclocked AMD FX-8120, two AMD Radeon HD 6950's unlocked to 6970 shaders, a dedicated RAID card and many hard drives. This PSU hasn't flaked out once, even under unrealistic hardware loads (furmark/prime95 running.) I would definitely recommend PC Power&Cooling stuff, even if they're owned (I believe) by the OCZ group now. They've been around for a looong time; remember using a PC Power&Cooling heatsink/fan on my AMD 5X86 way back in the day.

Pros: -Unlocked to 6970 shader levels with RBE. -I get stupidly high framerates in Just Cause 2, among other games. -Draw a surprisingly low amount of amperage for their power. -Running 3 19" 1280x1024 monitors in eyefinity without so much as a hiccup. -5 year warranty if you register. Site only lets you register one card per session; clear all the cookies for diamondmm.com to fix that.

Cons: -All monitors have to be plugged into the first card for Eyefinity, which means I had to go buy a mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter. kind of irks me. -DisplayPort lag. Get a 1-2 second lag when exiting or entering games on the monitor attached to a DisplayPort. -Didn't come with a Crossfire bridge. Not a problem; borrowed one from a friend who isn't a meathead who wants to run dual GPUs.

Overall Review: -Upgraded from two EVGA GeForce GTX 465 1GB cards that had massive stability issues in SLI. The upgraded VRAM makes a noticeable difference. -If you peel the Diamond sticker off the blower wheel, the AMD sticker is still there underneath. I actually peeled all of Diamond's stickers off. I'm sorry Diamond Multimedia, but you may like the 3D rendered scantily-clad women plastered on your products, but that's gaudy to me. It's something that was in style in 1998. -One card has the vendor ID from XFX, and the other is AMD/ATI's ID. Neither had Diamond's vendor ID in the BIOS header. Silly rebranding.