Pros: Despite reports of poor performance, I liked the design ideas of the new AMD CPUs. I replaced my 2600K system with this (and a good build around it of course) CPU and am not regretting it. You will find that it is slightly slower in some things than an i7 (and perhaps an i5) but it is also faster in some things. And when it is faster, it tends to be a lot faster. Unzipping files, for example... the speed gains are significant. Some things are slower but only slightly so, and should not be something you notice or are bothered by... for example when I do a system build, it takes a little longer (large Java application) because javac doesn't exactly lend itself to multi-threading. Playing games I see no difference. I play Skyrim on Ultra+ settings with tons of mods. It behaves no differently than my i7+670 build did (this is fx-8350+770). When Steamroller comes (assuming it will be AM3+ backward compatible) I will upgrade to that CPU and still spend not much more than I would have for a new i7. Windows 8 gives me 7.9 for the CPU.

Cons: For Windows 7 users you might have to download a patch to improve multi-core use in apps.

Overall Review: I had a LOT of negative thoughts for gaming on a variety of sites. Individuals denied those claims as did one site, Teksyndicate (I think it was) who did a series of tests against i5 and i7 builds and found that the gaming performance was excellent. Always get a second opinion! :)

Pros: 1440P! Not too expensive. Good color. Good brightness levels. Simple on-screen controls.

Cons: Despite having gone through Windows display calibration process twice, and despite fiddling with my NVidia driver settings as well, I cannot get good, sharp font rendering. There is always odd hinting and ghosting. Images are fine, just fonts... Went to Samsung to see if there were drivers, there are none. No ICC profiles either. Their support was not very good as they wanted to take control of my computer and "check things" but they wouldn't or couldn't tell me what those "things" were. So here I am to share that their support is questionable, and for whatever reason (perhaps a driver will be produced for windows at some point) fonts do not look as sharp and clean on this monitor as they did on my Asus 1440P monitor (which had the "capacitor" issue and I just couldn't stand it any more).

Overall Review: I use this monitor for light gaming, watching videos and programming. The font rendering (weird high lights, ghosting of sorts, stuff like that) are not a big enough deal for me to go through the pain of returning this and getting a different monitor... but it is very disappointing. Never feels good when you go from a superior monitor to one less than superior.

Pros: It was great while it worked! Fast, not a bottleneck with my hardware.

Cons: After, what, 6 months? It failed... HARD. I leave my computer running, dual boot between Windows 10 and Linux. Both operating systems are on separate disks. This morning I went to resume my windows 10 session and my system rebooted. It came up to Windows login, I logged in and it hung, then rebooted again. I thought "Uh oh, bad disk" and booted into Linux (which is on a separate disk) and Linux hung, then rebooted as well. I downloaded MEMTEST86, burned it onto a USB drive, rebooted. It ran initial diagnostics fine, then started testing memory ... BOOM. A series or RED TEXT ERRORS and the system restarted.

Overall Review: My system runs cool. The case is wide open with plenty of circulation (well placed case fans). The case was not dusty. Not sure what happened but my memory died. Hard. Very suddenly.

Pros: I was hoping this would be as awesome as I had read. Seems it might be DOA.

Cons: Device Manager says this: This device cannot start. (Code 10) An I/O adapter hardware error has occurred.

Overall Review: I would neither recommend or steer anyone away. Many people love this device. I might have to return mine.

Pros: Booted Kaveri even before I updated to P2.40. Seems to have a lot of features.

Cons: I specifically, carefully choose the appropriate G.Skill RAM for this unit to run at 2133. Won't. I select manual timings and speed and it won't boot. I use the preloaded settings and it won't boot. I get a big red 50 on the digital read out on the motherboard. Don't know if it is an update thing, but CPU-Z, HW Monitor and other apps all indicate that my CPU is running much slower than it should be. But I am able to run games alright so I am guessing/hoping they are misreading. Also, after following the procedure to reset CMOS, I had all kinds of boot problems until I did it a second time. I let computer sit 30 seconds then leave the jumper on 10 seconds... still had issues. Eventually it worked tho'.

Overall Review: Error 50 indicates a memory problem. This is a new RAM kit and I took all precautions installing it. I have never had a problem with G.Skill before and Windows thinks I've got a full 16GB of RAM going ... everything runs fine at very slow RAM speeds. I will try shutting down and reseating the RAM but I am not so sure this isn't a motherboard issue as well.

Pros: While it was working properly it was pretty awesome. Quiet, fast, handles everything.

Cons: Started throwing hardware errors. I see at least one per day, often 3. Especially noticeable when playing a game like Skyrim. Screen starts to slow and stutter, then it becomes a green checker board, goes black and comes back. Windows then tells you there was a video hardware error.

Overall Review: The card REALLY is nice. And it is amazingly quiet and runs very cool... but I don't know what's going on with the hardware failures. It could be bad VRAM... but I don't know.