Pros: Runs quietly and reads disks rather fast, good price to performance ratio

Cons: none really, does what is advertised to do

Pros: Sound itself is quite good especially considering the size of these speakers and their price. Hooked up to a sub-woofer and the bass is very good. For games they are simply fantastic and the lighting effect is just superb.

Cons: The cords are rather short especially considering they originate from the left speaker. The bass on the speakers themselves can sound somewhat flat, and I list that here as it can be considered a con. But considering the bass on these is designed to be passive it's generally not that bad, and can easily be mitigated by hooking these up to a sub-woofer like any that come from the 2.1 speaker sets. The volume control being in the back is a minor pain but not enough to knock an egg for.

Overall Review: These speakers are really good for the price. Powered via USB and having an led effect they look rather nice. Connected to a 2.1 speaker sub-woofer the sound is amazing on a desktop. When hooking it up to a woofer you will need to adjust the speakers volume as it can create an electrical feedback sound. It isn't all that loud so turning the speakers themselves down just a tad can make it go away without really effecting program volume.

Pros: Amazingly Spacey Amazing airflow Looks awesome Great cable management options

Cons: Heavy. I know the handle can support it but I just can't get it out of my mind that the thing could snap (not shoddy construction just the thing is a monster with all hardware in it). The back panel seems to not have a lot of room. There are lots of ways to snake cables but the most efficient seem to cause some trouble when attempting to place the back panel back on. Compared to the Level 10 GTS which had larger spacing in the back panel it seems strange they lowered it for this one. Panel still fits but just takes a bit of pressure to put back on. The headset stand feels a bit flimsy. It only sort of locks into place. I guess they wanted it to be removable but just comes across as feeling a bit cheap. Not enough to knock an egg for but just a point of contention. Call it nitpicking but not integrating the two USB areas into a single header is slightly frustrating. Liquid cooling system needed one USB header so until I get the necessary part some of my USB ports are nonfunctional.

Overall Review: With those 2 main cons I still didn't feel the need to knock an egg from it because what is does it does AMAZINGLY well. The airflow capabilities are just astounding with this thing and it's monstrous fans and several ventilation ports. Most of the complaints are just, considering, trivial and more convenience vs function.

Pros: Great air flow LED's are not too gaudy but visually pleasing. Have not noticed them being loud in the slightest

Cons: None

Overall Review: Used them to replace the stock fans on my Thermaltake Water 3.0 Extreme (sacrificing some CFM for aesthetics because I am OCD). The sacrifice has been negligible allowing me to overclock my CPU up to 4.55 ghz and remain stable and have a rather good thermal margin. Bought 4 of them and after upgrading my case to the Thermaltake Level 10 GT placed 2 on the radiator and a third as a bottom intake fan. All I can say is that these things just work.

Pros: Very great cooling. Price isn't outrageous. Larger surface area of the radiator allows for better heat dissipation.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Running with with the AMD FX-8320 overclocked to 4.55 ghz. Thermal margin for idle is 50-45 C and under extreme load (IBT testing) doesn't go under 15 C even with a vent blowing hot air near intake fans. After load is gone the thing blows away the heat like a champ. As I have put my hand right above the exhaust and felt it amazingly quickly go from feeling warm to cold (span of about 30 seconds). I did replace the stock fans with Rosewill RFA 120-BL fans (same RPM range with lower CFM but with blue LED's because hey I am OCD about this). So that being said I am sure the heat dissipation and temp would be better had I left the stock fans in (higher CFM meaning better air flow). Case is the Thermaltake Level 10 GT which is great with space in allowing this to be placed as exhaust at the top with that huge 200 mm side panel intake fan keeping cool air flowing into the system.

Pros: Fast easy to overclock great price for performance Overdrive utility works great with it

Cons: can run really hot with air cooling when under load. Overdrive more of a test bed before going into BIOS to overclock

Overall Review: If you are going to overclock this thing I would HIGHLY recommend a water cooling system as air cooling just isn't going to cut it. While you can OC the thing in Overdrive I have never gotten it to stick on a restart. That being said AOD is great for testing performance and stability before entering BIOS and adjusting there. Adjusted up to 4.55 ghz maintaining a thermal margin of 30-20 C during AOD stress testing and 20-15 C with IBT stress testing (much more rigorous and that was even next to a vent giving off hot air which is a good idea for how it will do ambient where I live). Under idle the margin is between 50-45 C. As mentioned in the cons this thing can run rather hot even in air cooling when under load (failing stress tests easily). But once you water cool the thing then jebus it becomes a beast. MB is the ASUS Sabertooth 990FX/Gen3 R2.0 Case is the Thermaltake level 10 GT Cooling system is the Thermaltake Water 3.0 Extreme