Pros: Card is all black, square, and small.. Price is very good when moving up from a much older Nvidia card. Runs Guild Wars 2 on high settings with FXAA auto detected. Frames are mostly 60 FPS with lows in the mid 40s in lively situations. Boss battles are much smoother than before.

Cons: Drivers cause artifacts and checkerboard patterns to appear on Guild Wars 2 after you alt-tab out to a browser, leave it running, and alt tab back into the game. Requires restart to fix. Sometimes when browsing the screen will just go black, yet sounds continue to play. Requires restart to fix.

Overall Review: I like the space that is saved inside my case from this being superior hardware and shrunk die compared to larger but older parts.

Pros: Not really much to say. No big improvement coming from R7 260x

Cons: Not much of an improvement to Guild Wars 2. If anything, I would say the minimum FPS was a bit higher. I saw a low of 26 FPS with an i5 4570.<br><br>Also there are faint wavy lines of interference on screen which I have yet to resolve.<br><br>No DVI to VGA adapter included.<br><br>Fans sure do rev up when playing games, to the point where they spin faster when an explosion or large puff of smoke is on screen. Fans do slow down when you hit a loading screen or when viewing the world map. Not a good purchase if you want a silent machine.

Overall Review: Thought I would leave a little update on the wavy lines issue. I fixed this by buying a DVI-D cable. Guess the VGA port is bad. Cancelled my RMA as the card functions perfectly. No lockups, no graphical corruption and wavy lines are gone. Still not a big leap over my previous card the XFX R7 260X. Guild Wars 2 seems to pause for a few seconds as the fans spin up. I have to run the game at the same settings as the old card, and it still dips below 60 FPS.

Pros: Quieter than old junky fan I had in the power supply than before. More cool air coming out the back. Used the 3 pin to molex adapter.

Cons: The rubber anti vibration plugs are useless. Too smushy. Not stiff enough to force through the screw holes.

Overall Review: Motherboard LED temp display seems the same as before. 36C while browsing.

Pros: There is a lot that I like with this case. The metal is rolled and smoothed so you can't cut yourself. The metal sheets that cover the expansion slots are separate pieces with extra large screws. You don't have to work them back and forth to loosen them. The top slides off easily to provide extra room to install fans to their headers by reaching in from above. The front USB ports don't overhang the motherboard area. I had no trouble installing my videocard. The side panel can slide off without fully removing the thumbscrews, so you can't lose them. It was easy to install my SSD in the front horizontal tray, no brackets or adapters needed.

Cons: NONE!

Overall Review: All the screws are colored black.

Pros: Looks way better than a massive round Zalman 9700 Cu. Rather than a big radial fan this one is stacked vertically. Takes up less space, looks like just another module in your tower.

Cons: Evil push pins were invented by Satan. Broke all 4 of them trying to install. Both thumbs sliced up. First and second knuckles scratched from the sharp aluminum fins. Finally just ripped all 4 plastic pins off, inserted long screws, and re-used a backplate I had from the fan this is replacing. For an aftermarket cooler I expect better fasteners. Thankfully I am resourceful enough to make it work, otherwise I'd return it.

Overall Review: Although the diagram on the box shows the fan blowing out the back of the motherboard, for socket 775 the only way to install it is with the fan facing downward or up. Because the brackets are of a fixed length, and the holes around socket 775 aren't an equal square, it is not possible to mount this with the fan facing front or back. I wouldn't want to remove and reattach it again.

Pros: This is a good upgrade for an older Core 2 machine I have. I could never get 4X1GB of mixed memory to work, but these booted just fine first time, no boot fails, and they were detected properly. Been testing them on some games, pretty good improvement.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Arrived 1 day late via Fedex. Newegg was nice enough to refund my card the shipping cost.