Pros: Excellent XFX packaging, warranty, & customer service. A truly massive and impressive looking card. You can feel the quality of assembly when you hold this thing. It dwarfs the 4870x2 that it replaced. So far performance has been excellent despite immature driver support. GTA IV @ 1920 X 1200 all settings maxed = 70 fps Crysis Warehead in eyefinity mode @ 5760 X 1200 (3 24" monitors) all settings @ gamer no AA = 30 FPS These results are all at default settings, I have not O.C. this thing at all. I'm sure that performance will increase even more as drivers become better. Last but not least, the cool factor of owning the worlds most expensive & highest performing graphics card!

Cons: Immature driver support, will not fit in many smaller cases (including many mid towers). If your currently running a 4800 or 5800 series card and its a tight fit, this one might not make it.

Overall Review: Was trying for almost a month to find a 5970 in stock @ the egg and actually purchased this on my iphone pulled over on the side of the road after I refreshed the page and saw these in stock while sitting @ a red light! lol Bottom line, if you have the cash don't hesitate. This is one awesome card. My system: i7 920 DO stepping @ 4 GHZ Watercooled 6GB G.Skill perfect storm DDR3 @ 2000mhz Asus Rampage Gene II Corsair HX 850 PSU XFX 5970 Black Edition Cooler Master 840 ATCS Case

Pros: Hands down the best CPU I've ever worked with. I've been building computers for years and have worked with nearly every Intel enthusiast grade CPU they have released in the past few years. This CPU runs cool, is extremely fast, and has massive overclocking headroom. This 200$ CPU destroys the 1000$ I7 990X.

Cons: Not that I'll be using it but the included cooling solution is inadequate.

Overall Review: As impressive as Sandy Bridge is, it gets me excited about the upcoming Ivy Bridge releases. If Intel continues to build upon what they have going here AMD's Bulldozer CPU will have an uphill climb when it releases.

Pros: Meets advertised specs paired with an ASROCK Z68 Extreme4 Gen 3 MOBO and scores a 7.9 WEI

Cons: None thus far

Overall Review: Would have loved if G.skill included a RAM cooler with these.. not that they run hot.. just for the added value and fun factor.

Pros: MOBO has met all advertised specs and I've had zero problems thus far. Board posted and installed windows 7 without any problems. Connected my 2 GTX 570's, 2 SSD's, 1 HDD, and Ram without any hardware problems as well. My ram is running at its rated speed as well (G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB DDR3 1866 Model F3-14900CL9D-8GBSR) MOBO has an overall nice look and feels sturdy. The included overclocking utility works and the BIOS tables are clean and easy to use. I haven't used any of the other included software or drivers however.

Cons: No front panel e-sata hook up (not a big deal but my case supports it). VGA cards cover the sata ports. This board would have benefited from an E-ATX form factor. These are all minor complaints and I'm overall satisfied with this ASROCK board.

Overall Review: I've been building high end systems for years and have typically gone with ASUS ROG boards. But at 180$ with an impressive list of features and a decent level of future proofing this board was hard to ignore. This MOBO definitely isn't an ASUS ROG board but its really not that far off. Unless you really need all the bells and whistles save yourself 150-200$ and purchase this board. That being said.. I'm sure I'll eventually end up swapping up to another more expensive board once the IVY bridge and socket 2011 CPUs drop! LOL

Pros: Purchased 3 of these for an Nvidia surround gaming set up. *No dead pixels and excellent vivid colors on all 3! *The low cost and thin bezel design makes this monitor an ideal choice for surround gaming.

Cons: Only negative is the lack of more connectivity options. An HDMI connection would be nice. Not a big deal though.

Overall Review: I've purchased many different ACER monitors over the past few years and I'm yet to get a single dead pixel. I've also found my ACER monitors to have excellent vivid colors when compared to a few other brands I've had. Keep up the good work ACER!

Pros: Replaced a Vertex 2 as my boot drive on a windows 7 64 build and is noticeably faster . Installed without any issues with TRIM enabled by default and meets advertised specs.

Cons: None so far.

Overall Review: Another quality product from Corsair.