Pros: -Very large -Smooth mouse tracking -Relatively easy to clean -Surface consistency is top notch -Keeps your mouse clean -Fairly durable

Cons: -Stains are hard to remove

Overall Review: This is the best mouse pad I have ever used. I've never really put much thought into how the pad might improve my performance in games until I discovered this little gem and decided to give it a whirl. I do not regret this purchase. It's probably the least expensive way to eliminate inconsistencies in your gaming by giving your mouse a smooth, consistent surface to glide right across on, and boy does it glide. It also does a great job of preventing debris from getting built up anywhere on the bottom of your mouse. I know some pads after using them awhile can leave a black residue on the underside of your mouse but not with this pad. Things are clean and smooth almost a year later. I've spilled a few things on it and dropped this and that on it here and there and it has stayed in great shape. So I'd say it's fairly durable too.

Pros: -Incredible sound depth -Easy to use software -Wonderful range -Better than my Sound Blaster Z for music/movies/general media consumption

Cons: NOT good for gaming. If you put this card into a system with a high-end video card there will be interference. When I watch YouTube or listen to music this sound card is incredible. But when I play games or use any application that stresses the GPU the card produces a hissing/buzzing sound that is simply intolerable. I attempted to swap PCI-e slots, change power sources, change USB ports of my equipment and even unplug everything from the machine. This card sends a hissing noise through my 3.5mm headset when I stress the GPU. Such a disappointment.

Overall Review: If you're using this card to game, don't. I read about this issue in a review before I purchased it but I was hoping I wouldn't run into the same thing. Alas I have and am now returning it in favor of the newer Creative Sound Blaster AE-5. I wanted to give EVGA a chance but this ain't it, Chief

Pros: -2200Mhz -G.Skill quality -Fast

Cons: -Doesn't run at advertised speeds in my system

Overall Review: Before buying 2x of these kits (32GB total) I was running 32GB of 1600Mhz G.Skill Trident Z - the same exact brand but slower. I figured a nice upgrade to 2400Mhz would help alleviate some frame rate stability issues I was having, and it did! But I could only get the PC to boot with the RAM set at the 2400Mhz and advertised timings with 2 8GB sticks installed for a total of 16GB at 2400Mhz 11-13-13-32-2T. I tried everything I could: OC my memory controller, removing CPU OC, increasing voltage to RAM, swapping DIMMs, even returned the sticks and got new ones. My PC with an Asus P8Z77-Pro and a 3770k @ 4.4Ghz powered by a 1200w Corsair PSU would not run 4 sticks at 2400Mhz and 11-13-13-32-2T. After about 40hrs of troubleshooting I gave up and decided to live with only 16GB. It worked for a time but my games started crashing again with just those 2 sticks! So, I decided to relax the timings and downclock the memory to 2200Mhz. It worked. So I added the other 2 sticks I had laying around and now I have my 32GB again. This was not a significant downclock, but still, the RAM is not working at advertised speeds. 2400Mhz is SCREAMING fast for DDR3 and on the borderline of frequency support for most high-end motherboards (without exotic cooling solutions). So I suppose I can't complain too much. But since this kit is advertised to work at a certain speed I can't in full faith recommend these because... they don't run as advertised. Thus 2 stars. TL;DR RAM will only run at 2200Mhz with 11-14-14-33-1T timings and 1.66V.

Pros: -Great airflow -Keeps my overclocked 3770k under 70c -Sturdy construction -Decent looks. The color ring is classy and accents my hardware well.

Cons: -LOUD

Overall Review: These fans move a decent amount of air at the cost of being incredibly noisy. I originally purchased them knowing how loud they would be after reading many reviews and watching plenty of videos but the noise is so loud and so irritating that I'll be going back to my old set of AeroCool Sharks even though they don't match my build aesthetically. I can hear these things when I have my Samson SR850's on, even while gaming or listening to music! As for performance, I have three 140mm "quiet" fans (two intake, one exhaust) and two 120mm fans in push/pull on my XIGMATEK Dark Knight II air cooler. I have my 3770k overclocked modestly to 4.4Ghz and these fans with that cooler keep my temps below 70c under 100% stress test loads with Prime95 and other benchmarking software. These fans look nice, they're built well, and they work great but they are crazy loud even at lower RPMs. The noise they produce is an annoying kind of loud, it's very droning and highly pitched for a fan. I would compare it to a jet engine at very low dB. I put up with it for about a year but I can't stand it anymore. It's a kind of noise that just wears you down over time. I'll miss how nice they look but I won't miss the sound.

Pros: -Sturdy Construction -It's weighty, if you like that sort of mouse -RGB

Cons: -Feels like holding a baseball -Hard to reach buttons -Buttons do not come pre-assigned to the numpad or number row and must be configured manually using the poorly designed "Corsair Utility Engine" -Unintuitive software that is so hard to understand you have to watch YouTube tutorials to figure out -Unreliable (doesn't power on when you turn on the PC, must unplug and plug it back in every time) -Laser went bad after 6 months of use

Overall Review: Where do I start? This mouse was incredibly disappointing. From the software, shape, and ergonomics to general reliability I cannot recommend it for a multitude of reasons. I'll list the positives first since the list is short. It's a solid mouse and has some heft to it. The RGB works, looks nice, is satisfying to customize, and it has even lighting. The mouse tracks very smoothly on a decent pad. Now for the headaches. Starting with the software. The "CORSAIR Utility Engine" (or "iCUE" as they call it) was very hard to understand and there was no documentation explaining how to use it. After about 15 minutes of messing with it I had to go on YouTube and search "how to remap buttons corsair scimitar" to assign keymaps to the 12 side buttons (because they don't come mapped to anything out of the box). I had to bookmark that video for two reasons: first, even after watching it 5 times I still couldn't figure out how to remap on my own, and second the mouse would randomly reset and unmap my keybindings, sometimes multiple times a week. Oh, and periodically the software would crash, throw an error message, corrupt, and then upon attempting to relaunch would toss a prompt saying something was wrong and that the software required a reinstall. This was a monthly occurrence. I emailed customer support on many occasions but it got me nowhere. They only instructed me to reinstall and wait for an update to fix the crashing. The difficult keymapping I can get over. It was annoying, required the use of the worst gaming mouse software I've ever used, and it deleted my profiles whenever I updated or sneezed too hard. But I could deal. What I couldn't deal with is how horrible the laser was. The mouse cursor would randomly skip all over the screen during general usage or gameplay and if I tried to move the mouse very slowly in any direction the cursor would wiggle around in random circles only to eventually start moving in a direction opposite my mouse movements. You can image that fine aiming in FPS games was not a thing because the mouse tracked very inaccurately with those low speed movements (at high or low DPI with Windows mouse acceleration turned off). As for egonomics, this will depend on personal preference of course but it made my wrist tired and achey after a few hours of use. It's simply too big, to bulbous, and too heavy. It feels like mousing with a baseball. The buttons on the side of the mouse are hard to distinguish from one another and they have a very slippery surface as well as feeling squishy and unsatisfying to click. The pains don't end there however. It was not reliable. Every time I powered on my computer I had to unplug and plug the mouse back in to get it to work. I have no idea why it did this and no amount of software updates/reinstalls of the mouse software, the firmware, or even Windows could fix this. I had to unplug it and plug it back in... Every. Single. Time. Part of my routine for starting my PC became hitting the power button, waiting for my login screen, then unplugging and plugging the mouse back in. Icing on the cake? I used it for about 6 months before the laser went bad. All of the problems I listed above were not isolated to one mouse. They persisted across three different mice. My original Scimitar (who's laser died after 6 months), the "updated" replacement version I got when my laser died, and one my girlfriend bought. The Corsair Scimitar was not good to me and I would advise anyone looking for a new gaming mouse to avoid it.