Pros: Now that AMD has apparently come to their senses with pricing this is a good choice if you want to go AMD. A ~$500 dollar price drop as well as the addition of what is essentially a Antec Kuhler H2O 920 closed loop cooler (~$80 value), makes this a solid selection.

Cons: The supplied cooler (Antec Kuhler H2O 920) has absurdly poor installation instructions. Its like trying to install something based on ancient cave drawings.

Overall Review: If you do buy this, do yourself a favor and just throw away the cooler installation instructions and webserach 'Antec Kuhler H2O 920 installs'. The cooler also requires the Chill V software to be pre loaded in order to control the fans- not really possible with a fresh build. Just connect the power to the unit but leave the USB header off until you've booted and are able to install the software. Don't worry, it defaults to 'extreme' cooling without any USB input.

Pros: Price Comfort Style

Cons: Mediocre sound (expected at this price point but worse than it should be) Very bad quality adjustment mechanism design.

Overall Review: The ear cups began to separate from the head arch within 2 weeks of first use. They can be forced back on easily enough but eventually the plastic wears out from the repeated action. Then you will be left with headphones hanging by only the driver wires, then those too will fail from the stress. Tape can only do so much. The Mute/On/Off selector failed about 4 months after first use and this is the end. Overall the item was good for the price, Lasted one year with some jury-rigging.

Pros: Boosts to 1999MHZ at default settings. Max 2113MHZ is this particular card's wall. Coil whine is nearly imperceptible. Fan noise is acceptable below 70% Backplate should help with preventing sag. Dual bios. Slightly wider but no longer than reference pcb: Would fit into my other mini ITX SFF builds.

Cons: PrecisionXOC software is clunky and just plain bad compared to peer applications. RGB controls are way off. I never intended on using them but I did test them and was disappointed at the functionality. I ended up disabling them entirely which you can do without the PrecisionXOC software via the NV geforce cp.

Overall Review: Like most 1080s this one is capable of 2000-2100MHZ. I was unable to get anything over 2113MHZ to be stable with the default bios. Hopefully something will come out down the road to stretch it out. The ACX 3.0 cooler is not the best solution out there but is capable of keeping this card below 70*C with acceptable fan noise. This results in no throttling and maintains a mid 2k MHZ (+97 gpu) boost clock while gaming in my mid ATX build.

Pros: Long length, competitive price, only available 15ft toslink on newegg.

Cons: Be careful if you plan to run this in conduit or any application with bends of fixed radius. All my previous optical cables were capable of 105mm bends or even less, this cable got refraction errors and eventually failed completely at this bend length.

Pros: Strong single 12V rail, quiet rear fan, uninterrupted cables (no modular c*rap), EPS12V, and the price cant be beat.

Cons: None

Overall Review: This is the 3rd Silencer PSU Ive bought over the past few years and have never had a problem with any of them. I do miss the plain white box that they used to come in, the new box isnt ugly, I just appreciated how it stood out as a utility no b*s product in a sea of neon lights and hyperbole

Pros: Great price, quieter fan than single slot cooling solution.

Cons: Cooling solution doesnt cover the ram

Overall Review: UPS estimated 3 day shipping should be called guranteed more than 5 day shipping. They always seem to make it to a weekend too, and add a few more days.