Pros: At first, I was somewhat skeptical of the design, but, that being said, I've not owned many non-stock heatsinks. The 92mm fan is sandwiched in the center of the aluminum fins which are connected to the copper base via the copper heat pipes. Not sure why, but I decided to use the thermal compound that came with it. I must say that I was very impressed when I overclocked my Q6600 quad core to 3.2ghz, and it still idled at 30C. According to RealTemp, the highest temperature that any of the four cores reached was 51C while doing 3dmark06 CPU tests.

Cons: Spent about an hour polishing the base with #0000 steel wool before I could see my reflection in it. Upon reflection, using steel wool wasn't such a good idea because of all metal fibers that are left behind to do nasty things to your motherboard. Anyways, the only con here is that the base isn't perfectly smooth, which isn't really a con; it's just me complaining.

Overall Review: I can't really tell how loud it is, because my four, 80mm case fans seem to drown everything out. I don't really understand how such a relatively small fan moves 74.41 CFM, but I like it.

Pros: Upgrading from a Geforce FX 5700 Ultra AGP 8x, the transition was like night to day. I've tested the card with Assassins Creed, Bioshock, Call of Duty 4, Crysis Gears of War, Team Fortress 2, and Unreal Tournament 3. Granted that I'm running Windows XP, and therefor DirectX 9, all of these games ran flawlessly on highest settings at 1152x864@75hz. The only exception being Crysis, of course, which did not allow me to select any of the "Very High" settings, Which I'm guessing is due to a lack of DirectX 10. Sill then, Crysis ran fluidly on it's "High" settings, that, in my opinion, put Call of Duty 4's highest settings to shame.

Cons: It really doesn't ship with much. What you see is what you get. I'm not really sure what I was expecting though. Maybe an SLI bridge?

Overall Review: If you're wondering why I did not use a higher resolution, The monitor that I am using is a 4:3 CRT with a 17" Diagonal. --System Specifications at time of testing: CPU: Intel Q6600 (at default clocks with G0 stepping) Motherboard: MSI P45 Neo3-FR LGA 775 System Memory: G.SKILL (2 x 2GB) DDR2 1000 (PC2 8000) Hard drive: 500gb Samsung "Spinpoint F1" Sata3.0 7200rpm 16mb cache