Pros: Stays cool and quiet. Fast fast fast fast fast!! Ready for Battlefield 2042!! It's a 3080 what else needs to be said lol.

Cons: Not really a con... but only 10GB of VRAM? Would've liked to see at least 12GB especially coming from a GTX 1080 Ti with 11GB

Overall Review: It's a great card, runs everything like a dream that I throw at it. Earlier this year I upgraded to a 3440x1440p ultrawide monitor and while my GTX 1080 Ti was still pretty capable. It was showing it's age. Now everything I play is well over 100 FPS with a 144Hz monitor. I played the Newegg Shuffle for months and finally won. Between the miners/scalpers/bots it's been incredibly hard to acquire a new card. Cant wait till everything goes back to normal for PC gaming. While the price is a bit steep even coming from Newegg I couldn't pass up the opportunity on this card. Wish all my fellow gamers looking for a card to hopefully get one soon!! Btw this thing is huge.. completely dwarfs my EVGA GTX 1080 Ti SC Black Edition that I had.

Pros: Well what can I really say about this chip and Ryzen having owned it for a year now? This CPU is a great processor!! It hasn't let me down once in anything I've thrown at it. My previous CPU was an Intel i7 3770K. The 3770K still works great at 4.5Ghz overclock delidded. While it still is a decent chip it was showing it's age a bit in more modern games such as Battlefield 1. There would be random stuttering at many given times during a match online and the campaign. I knew then that I had to upgrade to something more than a quad core for my next CPU. Even with Hyper-threading these quad core CPU's aren't enough these day's. While it didn't make the game unplayable.. I wanted to have a smoother experience gaming. It had been four good years with my 3770K anyway's. I was considering the 7700k at one point.. but seeing and hearing about it having stuttering issue's in Battlefield 1 as well it would have been just a side-grade with slightly better IPC and overclockability. Haha, looking back now it would have been a big mistake going for another quad core! Having said that, my 1600x is just awesome! I've overclocked it up to 4.1Ghz on my 240mm liquid radiator on a Asus Crosshair VI Hero X370 motherboard. Running the latest non beta bios Version 3502. I have my Corsair Dominator Platinums 32Gb kit at 3000Mhz. Battlefield 1 runs so much smoother along with my other heavily threaded core hungry games. Even in just normal every day usage in Windows everything is snappier. Opening and closing multiple programs at once, game capturing, 4K video rendering, an unlimited amount of tabs it seems can be opened in Chrome lol. You name it, it get's the job done with no hiccups whatsoever. I honestly don't see the need to upgrade for another two to three years from now.

Cons: Would have liked to see more overclocking headroom. It seems with anything Ryzen they all top out at 4.1Ghz. Hopefully in the future AMD will address this with the next CPU iterations to come. Either way, the time I got this chip for $249 having six cores and twelve threads? Yes please :)

Overall Review: I'm glad AMD is back!! The CPU market has changed so much in the past year. AMD really shook things up. It's great to have competition again finally instead of having to pony up the dollar for an overpriced/performance ratio Intel CPU and motherboard. Six and eight core CPU's are now becoming mainstream. Thanks AMD :) Unlike Intel, these Ryzen chips are all soldered. Instead of using low quality TIM on a $300 plus chip. Really Intel!? Get it together and don't be so freaking cheap! You need to go back to soldering your processors! The last time I can remember they were soldered on mainstream processors was Sandy Bridge and that's going on almost a decade ago now! I was thinking of getting an R7 1700. But I wanted the guaranteed higher clock speed with the 1600x. At some times I've seen this chip faster than the 1700 despite it having two less cores. It's nice to know AMD will be supporting the AM4 socket up to 2020 (unlike Intel with their sockets -_-). Maybe then I'll make the leap to an 8 core on Zen 3.