Pros: It's a SATA cable, what else do you want? It's strong and shows no signs of falling apart.

Cons: I really dislike the movement towards the right angle connectors in the industry; for people with medium to large hands it can get really problematic if you only do your SATA connections after everything's already wired into the case. In addition, I'd look at your mobo's layout before buying any right angle SATA: on mine I had to leave the front panel speaker unplugged because the right-angle sata cables were pushing against it and it made me nervous.

Pros: It's relatively small for a "serious" aftermarket cooler. Keeps a lot of heat off the CPU; the heatsink sucks up a ton of heat. It's also so quiet I sometimes wonder if it's even on. Heat without breaking in the Arctic Silver 5 went from 38c to 32-33c idle. In my case it looks very elegant.

Cons: It is a 92mm fan. Please don't expect this baby to solve all your cooling problems: you will still need to make sure you have the proper airflow in your case to ensure that cool air gets to the fan and there's exhaust fans available to suck the emitted air from the heatsink.

Overall Review: I used Arctic Silver 5 that I already had on a dot-application method. This isn't to say anything bad about the preexisting grease, I just messed up seating it a couple times (I was working with the mobo already inside the case) so I used that. Also, keep in mind that the fan is an INTAKE and not an exhaust. This bears 2 considerations: 1) If your ram is approximately at the 3 o'clock position to your CPU and you have large vertical heat spreaders on your ram, this cooler will likely not fit. 2) Because the fan is blowing cool air through the heated fins, there isn't a ton of outward air flow. Make sure you have fans (like a 120 back exhaust fan) to move air out of the case, or else you're likely to see your temperatures go up because oh baby does this heatsink hold heat well.

Pros: For prices that many would consider "bargain bin" I can't imagine someone not picking this up if they're in the market and price range. It has a good heft to it, although it doesn't have adjustable weights like many high-end mice. It is a fairly light mouse so if you need a brick in your hands it might not work well for you. I have rather large hands and I have no difficulty like others state with hitting the DPI switch. Perhaps it's just tight seating, but my model actually makes a small noise when I hit the DPI switch: it's a great audio reminder of which version I'm on. The wheel is snappy enough for single-notch moves like changing weapons on the fly in FPS's while being loose enough that I can spin it rapidly for zooming purposes in other games. It has only two additional buttons which to some seem to be the hallmark of a "gaming" mouse, but I'm just fine with it. If you absolutely need 5+ buttons on the side, look elsewhere.

Cons: The back end of it is rather wide, which is typical of gaming mice but if you switch from a normal Dell/Logitech mouse to this one you might need to make sure that your hand is large enough to comfortably place your palm on the back. That's a personal thing, however, and certainly not worth knocking an egg off for.

Overall Review: Other reviews have mentioned being unable to map the side buttons to other programs like games: I've had no difficulty with doing this even without the use of things like xmouse and games like WoW picked it up immediately.

Pros: Plug and play is basic, it has a very solid tray and after about 5 months it hasn't showed any signs of 'rattling' as it comes out as I experience with some lower quality drives.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: It's an optical drive and it's cheap, what else do you want? Unless you're actively working on software it's unlikely you use CDs much these days anyways.

Pros: Priced to move, DX11-ready. Some people may poopoo this card because right now it gives sort of middle of the line performance compared to what you could probably get for $20-$30 more, but developers are likely to embrace DX11 more than the flop DX10 and it will be ready to take advantage of those games.

Cons: It generates a lot of ambient heat. The card's able to take some pretty harsh temperatures and is really a very sturdy card so I'm not afraid of it shorting out, but I'm more concerned with now needing a couple side-fans so it doesn't heat up the rest of the system. :P It has eyefinity support, which is really neat, but if you're seriously doing an eyefinity setup for gaming, you might want to look at a higher-level card.

Overall Review: I'm a fairly harsh judge, so I'm sure someone else in my shoes would have given it a 5/5. Supposedly it gets a pretty high increase via Xfiring it (some sites are seeing up to a 66% performance increase) but I won't be trying it with my rig.

Pros: Was easily recognized by mobo, it has its multipliers unlocked like all BEs, and is pretty darn speedy for less than the 965 3.4ghz.

Cons: It runs a little hotter than I'd prefer. Maybe it's my airflow (stock cooler, 1 front intake, 1 exhaust other than the GPU/PSU fans) but it runs a good 45-50c under load and seems very touchy to the ambient heat around the case (such as GPU; I bet this is largely the stock cooler's fault; might get replaced one day). I've seen it jet up to 55-57 before, which is still underneath the peak operating temperature of 62c, but I get nervous and I tend to watch temperatures pretty actively the first few months I have a system. It's not worth knocking more than an egg for, and if you're ready for it, just consider this a 5/5!

Overall Review: Apparently it can be easily overclocked using AMD Overdrive so right out of the box with a few clicks it's just as good, if not better, than the more expensive 965. I won't be trying it until I get a few more fans to accomodate the heat my 5770 gpu seems to put out, but it's definitely something to consider when thinking of futureproofing.