Pros: Cheap. Onboad Video is not terrible. Win8 had all the drivers so you can build it quick.

Cons: two DIMM slots. Old-fashioned BIOS. Cheap.

Overall Review: Easy to build. Solid so far.

Pros: They work and are easier to use than screws

Cons: not easy to use in tight spaces like front fans on some cases.

Overall Review: I like pulling this through better than using a screw. As for the noise reduction, I did not think it was that much different than with screws.

Pros: Super Fast at everything you do. My PC multitasks like you cannot believe

Cons: None.

Overall Review: I put it on water with a Cooler Master Seidon 240M. 4.5 ghz is super stable.

Pros: Looks great, runs fast and stable, easily overclockable

Cons: Killer NIC and Soundblaster are not really that much better than what you typically find with built in NICs and sound.

Overall Review: I don't like the new mouse-able BIOS's but that just may be me being old. I thought I would but I don't. BIOS flash it and download the NIC drivers before you load Windows. Win8 does not have a driver for the Killer NIC. This is not a full fledged Killer NIC. It's just a regular NIC with a QoS at the application level. When I tried using it, my pings went up by about 10ms so I quit using it.

Pros: I love my Cooler Master Seidon 240M. It idles silent and it takes a pretty hefty CPU load to get it to spin up loud enough to hear it. It keeps my i7 4770k nice and cool. My temps are usually around 30C. Installation was not terrible. I have it in a Corsair 600T and that required it to be in a pull configuration but so far I have not seen any drawbacks to that.

Cons: The blue LED cannot be turned off and the hose length could have been just a bit longer. Those are really minor complaints though.

Overall Review: I like this a lot better than the tower cooler on my last rig.

Pros: Complely silent. I put this on a reference XFX R290 and it went from sounding like a vaccuum cleaner to no sound at all. Great universal cooler and far superior to the reference AMD cooler. My GPU temps never exceed 50C now. Before it was hitting 95 and throttling all the time.

Cons: Crazy hard install. No kidding, if you have any doubts about your ability to install this do not buy it. It was hard and required some creativity since the R290 didn't even exist when this cooler was designed. I did make it work and I did not need extra parts and all of my RAM and voltage regulators have heatsinks. But it was far from easy. The difficulty with the install was the cause for the minus one egg.

Overall Review: I got this for $100 and the Radeon for $400. For $500 total I have a great single GPU solution. If the install scares you buy a non-reference R290 for just a bit more (since the price has gone up) and you will get similar results for a lot less hassle and just a bit more money. Also XFX does not void the warranty on my R290 for using this but other manufacturers may.