Pros: LED Screen; very thin, low heat output from screen, crisp image, cinematic dimensions. HDD; 500 Gigabytes of space that you can either leave alone or partition up, you will never run out of room with this notebook. VIDEO: Dedicated video card, ATI card works awesome with the AMD processer, also enabled for hyper memory access and control as needed to expand video mem. HDMI Out: A lo of video options here. CPU: Triple Core mobile processor rivals or exceeds the capabilities of similar but more expensive Intel chips. Compliments the ATI video and permits Hypermemory to the video subsytem. Excellent performance ratio/dollar spent. Various others: Numeric keypad, super quite, lithium battery pack, lots of USB ports, memory card reader, dual layer DVD, enters and exits standby mode MEGA FAST!

Cons: Webcam is lower end, sluggish at higher resolutions using the cam. It gets the job done though, if you are a big webcam person you are probably better off using a high res external USB 2.0 cam instead. A little big, I would say this is best as a semi-permanent desktop replacement notebook instead of one you take to Starbucks or school. Although the weight is low enough to tote it around you will need a larger bag/pack to carry it safely. Some bloatware installed. No complete reformat needed though, can remove all unwanted programs from the add/remove programs list. Once you get that done use your favorite registry/startup cleaner to wipe out all the old registration/auto run files associated with the bloatware you removed. Took me 30 minutes to get the notebook where I wanted it to be...

Overall Review: This Notebook has the speed, long term storage, memory and graphics capability to do anything you want. I've loaded up several recent games on it and it played them like a champ (Torchlight, Runes of Magic, Free Realms, Aion, Modern Warfare 2)... When you take it off battery power it will run longer if you are doing web surfing online or typing up documents. The battery drains as specified when you are watching videos or playing games. The performance you get out of this for the price is off the charts. If you need to replace a multipurpose notebook that you do everything on, this is the one to get!

Pros: Fast, good tweaking ability

Cons: Something is wrong with the sound on this motherboard. Using the soundblaster recon chip, sometimes the sound will go metallic and become distorted. The only way to fix it is reboot. It has happened at least one a day this week.

Overall Review: Gigabyte must address this sound glitch or the board should be considered defective.

Pros: Fast on all fronts. Using external monitor, mouse and keyboard and never notice I am not gaming on a desktop PC.

Cons: It is heavy to try and carry around, it is not a laptop, it is a desktop replacement. It also needs extra external cooling to run at highest performance for extended time.

Overall Review: This was a great deal back when 3080 GPUs were over priced. May want to make sure the price matches the performance now that the GPU market has crashed.

Pros: connections, sound quality

Cons: 3.5mm connection wiggles when plugged into PS4 controller causing static in sound, not a quality connector. used other headphones and buds and never had this issue. width of comfort zone is small, good for a child or small adult head, not good for large male head. Not very flexible for width too rigid. over the ear design, but were need to be smashed into containment area, not comfortable.

Overall Review: cheap. skip the temptation to save a few bucks and buy something with at least 30 four egg reviews, I doubt all these reviews are legit

Pros: Upgraded from I7-3770K OC'd to 4Gz. Huge difference. Way less heat coming out of the PC. Uses less power Runs like a champ. OC'd to 5ghz with 1 BIOS setting.

Cons: Not much of an upgrade from the I7-6770K CPU, only worth it if you have a older generation processor.

Overall Review: Upgraded the cooling to the Corsair Hydro combo cooler. Mounted it on the top of the case, exhausting air. Fans pushing air up into the radiator and out of the top of the case. OC'd to 5Ghz and CPU won't go over 55c.

Pros: Upgraded from EVGA 780 GTX to this 1080 GTX Hybrid. Wow, what a difference! -Doom using Vulcan graphics API, max settings everything, 60 FPS synced and GPU is at 30% utilization. This card will serve you well for YEARS to come. -RUNS COOL! My past rig was basically a heater in my office. I had to run the AC constantly to the keep the room cool between the OC'd 780GTX and the OC'd I7-3770K. Now, I am actually cold in my room. -QUIET and COOL. If you are tired of your PC being a heater, then this is the card you want.

Cons: - The radiator fan does not offer monitoring for speed, the GPU connects directly to the FAN/Radiator and controls the speed through voltage based on heat of the GPU. I disconnected the radiator fan from the GPU and plugged it into a motherboard system header that allowed ME to control the voltage based on my choices for fan speed RPM/Loudness.

Overall Review: I run the radiator fan at 60% voltage till 40c, then up it to 80% at 44c till 50c. If it goes over 50c my RPM ramps to 100% voltage to bring down the temps. When I stress the GPU, it has not exceeded 44c with OC Scanner X from EVGA's GPU stress tests. This is overclocked as well. Running at stock, the card never went over 42c.