Pros: It's about as fast as a 7200RPM drive (maybe a little faster) after it has intelligently analyzed the programs you use the most and put them into its NAND flash. Cold-booting the system with this drive was fast. Other regular operations like opening my regular web-browser and other often use programs (iTunes, Photoshop, Visual Studio) were much faster as well. The drive is thin (physically the size of a standard laptop hard drive) and runs cooler and more quietly than a standard desktop hard drive. The price is good for what you're getting.

Cons: It's still not as fast as a pure SSD. Also, the caching only happens for frequently used *.exe files. If you write files to the drive frequently, you will notice the 5400RPM spindle speed. The caching feature works well, but with only 8GB of NAND flash, it really won't cache that much all at once.

Overall Review: This drive is great for the average user. The average user is someone that uses the same programs daily. In this usage scenario, their daily used programs would be cached in the drive's 8GB of NAND flash and so launching them and running them is much faster than it would be on a standard platter only hard drive. If you're someone that often writes alot of data to your drive, you will feel that this drive is slow, you will notice the 5400RPM spindle speed since the date you're writing is probably something you don't frequently access / use on the drive (this data won't be cached on the NAND flash). It's a nice upgrade though from the often slow (5400RPM drives) you would find on most laptops sold these days.

Pros: - Good airflow - "Front" fans blow air across RAM to keep them cool - Side and top panels are easy to remove - Front mesh is magnetic and easy to slide out - Case doesn't use up much desk space since it is tall instead of wide - Good selection of front ports - Orientation of the case makes external cable tidying, easy (they point down instead of straight out the back) - 360mm and 240mm radiators can fit (one on the front and one on the back) - Can fit up to SFX-L power supplies (they come in 1000W variants now) - Pre-installed Corsair fan hub and iCue RGB hub - Can fit full, three-slot GPUs - Video card faces down (its ports face the ground). This is the optimal position for video cards if not the standard right-side-up orientation

Cons: - Lots of plastic instead of more premium steel or aluminum - Wire management isn't as good as some of the competing cases in this category. Built-in fan and RGB hubs add alot of wire mess

Overall Review: I recommend this case if: - you are looking for a tower style ITX case that doesn't take up much desk space - you are not able to find a more premium competing case (like the Hyte Revolt 3, Mesh-licious, etc.) - Want an ITX case that can fit full-sized hardware (with exception of the PSU since it's limited to SFX-L). - Are already using Corsair iCue enabled hardware. Decent case all around though I feel it's priced a little high.

Pros: - Standard install. Remove current NVME drive and insert this one in its place. - Pretty fast drive. A full Windows 11 23H2 install only took 15 minutes. - Benchmarks are pretty solid. The drive is fast and doesn't overheat. - Crucial makes quality hardware.

Cons: The only cons I have are: - Gen4 instead of Gen5 - No heatsink or thermal sticker like Samsung's Pro. drives.

Overall Review: The drive is good overall. It's fast enough for most people and because it's made by Crucial, I know the quality is good.

Pros: - Aluminum construction is light. - Mesh fan grill at top can fit a 240mm radiator. - USB ports are easy to access up top. - Slot for slim-line optical drive. - Five expansion card slots so dual slot card can be used in the last / bottom slot in a mATX board. - Window on side-panel can show off CPU cooler. - Brushed aluminum surface looks good. - Minimalist look. Two USB ports up top and just the single power button near the top of the front panel. A ring LED lights up in white and flashes red with disk activity. - Multiple cutouts in motherboard tray for routing cables cleanly.

Cons: - Fan grill up top can fit a 240mm radiator, but it's a tight fit and difficult to mount. - Only USB type-A ports. No type-C ports. - No Reset button. - Holes for routing cables, but only around 11mm of space between motherboard tray and side-panel. - Small screws that mount the side-panel are easy to strip. - Using the drive bracket blocks some of the window. - Power outlet is up top instead of down at the bottom of the rear. - Mesh fan grill up top can only be removed by opening the case and loosening it from the inside.

Overall Review: The case was overall fairly easy to build in though being a mATX case, it is a little more cramped than your run-of-the-mill case. It looks classy with it's brushed aluminum finish and the blue model I received is a looker. Very unique looking. I was not happy with the the lack of space between the motherboard tray and side panel. Made it difficult to hide cables back there. Also, the larger your PSU is, the smaller the video card that will fit. PSU and video card space conflict. If you like, neat, minimalist, small form factor computers this case is a nice one to build in.

Pros: - 14" screen is the sweet spot for most people. Not too small, not too big. - 1080P resolution is just right for the 14" screen. I didn't have to change the scaling options because things were too small or too big like fonts. - It has a USB type-C port! - Solid state drive in a budget laptop like this is great. That's usually the biggest performance upgrade you can make in a budget laptop, but this one comes with it already. - The RAM is user-upgradeable. I was able to add an additional 8GB of RAM. - For a budget laptop, the shell is surprisingly sturdy. I wasn't able to flex it much. - The CPU and GPU perform decently well. I was able to play Diablo III with graphics settings set to medium levels and the frame-rates kept up staying close to 30fps. - Has an empty drive-bay where a CD/DVD drive would go. Can be fitted with a CD / DVD drive OR an extra hard drive / solid-state drive.

Cons: - The shell is plastic, not metal like higher-end laptops. Then again, this IS a budget laptop. - Wifi card is only capable of connecting to 2.4GHz networks. I wasn't able to check if the card is upgradeable. - It's a little heavier than more premium laptops, but again this is a budget laptop. - The webcam's image quality is a little sub-par. Its image is kind of grainy under most lighting conditions. - It doesn't have any biometric authentication for Windows Hello (no fingerprint reader or IR camera). - Battery life is kind of short. I charged it to 100%, set the performance slider in Windows to maximum performance and ran Windows Update. It lasted a little less than 4 hours. - The fan noise was audible when I tried playing games on it (Diablo III which is an older game seemed to tax its CPU and GPU). - The keyboard is not backlit.

Overall Review: Overall if what you need is a budget laptop, this one fits the bill nicely. It'll let you run your average work applications. I was able to run MS Outlook 2016, Word 2016, Excel 2016, Firefox with a number of tabs open and games all simultaneously and still got respectable performance with all of that running. The laptop is fairly rugged. It's thick and plasticky and was able to withstand being thrown in a backpack and taken with me during my work commutes, to the gym, etc. for two weeks. After the two week period, it still looked like new. I'm sure if you tried to, you could warp the case or cause it to crack in a couple of places (around the screen hinges and some of the ports). If all you're looking for is a daily work laptop that can also be used for some media consumption, this one does just fine. It's not the slimmest or highest-end model out there and it annoyingly doesn't have a fingerprint reader or IR camera for Windows Hello, but for the price you get something that will let you do the basics and then some.

Pros: - Decent quality like most higher-end Asus boards - VRM heatsink is integrated into the backplane cover and is massive - backplane cover is "built in". No fussing around with snapping into place in your case - Decent overclocks with my 9700K - RGB header and built in RGB lighting along front edge of board - Nice selection of ports and headers

Cons: - UEFI has no options whatsoever to power the sytem on via keyboard keypress or press of a mouse button. All of my past Asus, ASRock and Gigabyte boards have had this option. Hopefully it can be added via UEFI update - When it was first listed at Newegg and other major retailers the listing mentioned that it had a twin 8-phase VRM design. There were a number of technical sleuths at forums like overclock.net and Reddit that found this to be false. I wish I could return the board, but I'm now past the return period. I don't like being lied to about a product when it's as expensive as this one