Pros: Antec has chosen a unique design integrating the radiator fan with the water pump. Although perhaps not the quietest solution, it is worth it to me for getting rid of the questionable practice of putting an electromagnetic device (a powerful electric water pump) DIRECTLY on the CPU, or having to go the full nine yards and go with a full-blown water loop. I believe I have observed a water pump (from the 'other guys' that make all-in-one water coolers) which mount directly on the CPU cause some sort of interference to integrated graphics firsthand. Whether it was a proper observation or not, -just the risk of any kind of unwanted corruption was enough to sell me on Antec's design! This device will keep an FX 8350 at or below 55*C running Prime95 on all cores at 4.0 ghz and will still have plenty of headroom on its fan/pump.

Cons: Installation, just as others have reported, is very cumbersome and takes a lot of patience. It just is.

Overall Review: Its little brother, the 650 works very well, too, and is actually a tiny bit simpler and easier to install, but may not quite be able to keep up like this one can on the monstrous FX8350.

Pros: A dual-core 3 ghz Phenom II with lots of cache. No pesky extra heatsink! (Shouldn't someone offer a recycling program for all those pesky stock heatsinks without a home??)

Cons: Revisiting the C-2 revision...less room for error with voltages. Even at @ 1.36v and stock speeds/coolQuiet off this puppy runs a bit of a temperature. Not really convinced it is even CoolQuiet Able. Recommend leave overall core volts alone on this one. Mebbe 1.2625 on cpu-NB volts for ram stability. Not an overclocker. Not an unlocker, either, at least not this time. Why force the issue? Oh, and watch out for the pink anti-stat stuff getting stuck in the pins! A piece of printing paper wielded edgewise can gently rake them all out. Be careful!

Overall Review: Feels like sorted from a batch of pre- X3 720 chips. Price is alittle high. Would recommend considering an Athlon II X2 265 over this one for the same price. Much newer architecture. Even though smaller overall cache, they just might have less latency in their cache design. In fact, bigger 1MB L-2 cache per core on those.

Pros: After much internal debate, I chose this unit on sale over another major brand with nearly as good a reputation which had a hefty rebate. I have not been disappointed. Quality, fit and finish is first rate. Operation is silent and even running a large 3080 FTW it has barely gotten warm or in any way flinched under load. Care has obviously been taken not to slather silicone all over the place holding internal components down that could block airflow. And on the other hand I find nothing vibrating or rattling around inside whatsoever. The comments that the cables are rather stiff I feel are unwarranted. I've seen much worse. These feel durable. Yes, there are capacitors within the cables. Don't know about you but I want the maximum ripple attenuation they provide. This unit is stellar so far. Will update at a later date after some significant time has passed, but with capacitor quality such as employed here,- that may be ten or 15 years from now.

Cons: None so far.

Overall Review: Having had a 9 year old OEM -built-by-Superflower bought used still working flawlessly, it has been reassuring to see the same quality as well as the steady improvement in design.

Pros: ...hitting DDR 3800 fairly easily at just under 1.4 volts. Mostly tight DRAM Calculator suggested timings. Overclocking these really makes a difference with Radeon integrated graphics on my Ryzen 7 5700G. Everything RAM just getting easier these days, but, these seem to be on par, possibly outperform a couple of kits of Crucial 3200 and 3600 Ive owned...

Cons: none.

Overall Review: These are wonderful, especially on sale.

Pros: can be used with OBS, as a Webcam etc. and is recognized as a USB Composite Device , Video Device and the audio too as a (microphone) USB Audio device. Captures my Gopro Hero 8 w. Media Mod using the micro HDMI out to full HDMI, -both audio and video out that same cable, up to 4K 30 fps. Would like to say its doing 1080p at 60fps when asked to as well. Nice and simple.

Cons: What stumped me for awhile is that different motherboards would not hook up the device at USB 3.0 speed (USB 2.0 connection seems to be a no-go... Speed shown under Bluetooth and Other Devices. ) The motherboard I first had success with is an Asus Prime B550M-A (wifi). Even though no native USB C on this mobo, I simply bought a small USB C Female to USB A Male Adapter paired with a longer than normal usb C cable I wanted and functionality ensued. However, turns out I got lucky. There is only one way that adapter setup can work. You will have to try plugging the USB C into the capture device one way, then the other (flipped over) to see where you get full USB 3.0 speed. Turns out the (somewhat short) 3.0 Male to USB C male cable the unit comes with does indeed have AN INDICATOR ARROW EMBOSSED ON ONE SIDE OF the barrel of THE USB C, so, if unit is seated in normal feet down position on your desk, the embossed arrow must be on the top side for proper orientation and full 3.0 performance. I daresay many motherboards already with USB C ports will need to be tried in both directions as well. Not all motherboard implementations may have full symmetry...?

Overall Review: This does seem to be a very steady unit, and I like the audio quality as well. Lets face it, USB (C, Thunderbolt, what-have-you can be a mess. Really not sure every not so new motherboard you will run into with a usb C out will have true symmetry like it should as well. Thus, I can forgive these guys for doing things this way.

Pros: It works in a cnvi M.2 E key slot. It comes with the leads / antenna terminals with nuts and washers to screw into the holes provided by your mobo backplate. It comes with gargantuan antennas and extra long antenna leads. It gets recognized immediately by Windows 10. It says "intel" on it. Would guess It will most likely work on many Z390 / Z490 motherboards with same M.2 E key.

Cons: This thing took forever to get here. The tracking showed it stuck in an LA airport for weeks and weeks. It was in the midst of Pandemic and Trade Wars. It was a bit overpriced when I purchased this, and have since seen a kit offered by "Gaga-bite" for about half the price on another big reseller site.

Overall Review: Seems good. cnvi wireless should have less resource footprint /cpu overhead, and hopefully the advanced Bluetooth features will be great, although I have to admit I've yet to use them. This may still be desirable over a wifi 6 chip as there are not many wifi 6 routers deployed yet which are necessary to take full advantage of that new standard.