Pros: Installed a pair of these on a H8DCL-iF because I didn't like the prices on the xeon E5-2643's. Was I shocked, for compiling with gcc, linking,running gzip (for packaging) and general integer work these things are incredible. This machine is literally the fastest thing in the lab beating out quite a number of significantly more expensive Intel machines. Basically, the price/performance of these processors vs the intel E5s is crazy.

Cons: None yet...

Comments: I have a Gigabyte K8N-Pro motherboard (was using cxxsair and and generic ram just fine). I recently purchased two of these sticks. With just one stick the timings are 2-3-2-5 and the system is stable and memory tests will run for 20+ hours. Putting the second stick in the machine with the first stick causes the timings to fall to 2-3-2-8 and the system won't even boot windows 64 with those settings. Memory tests fail anywhere from a minuite to a hour into the tests. Bumping the RAM voltage by .1v stabalized the system. As with all partially stable systems the machine ran for about a month and now the RAM is apparently overheating and getting memory errors again. So i'm again trying to stabalize the machine now by slowing the timings down.

Pros: I haven't giggled about a piece of computer hardware this much in years. Took me about an hour to "fix" the firmware, most of that was building a _DOS_ setup that could access this device. Beyond that it seems pretty solid. I've been using it a few times a week for the past few months and no issues yet.

Cons: The "content mafia" is dumb. This drive should work properly out of the box, but instead everyone has to waste a bunch of time working around their stupidity. Hundreds of millions (billions?) of dollars wasted, and billions of consumers inconvenienced and all it took was a "buggy firmware" to solve the problem.

Overall Review: I'm thinking I might have to buy another, as a backup.

Pros: Its in a heavy duty case. Seems pretty solid, you don't get this much metal in most modern devices. Takes more modern drives, last year I swapped a pair of 10G drives into this and now it can backup my newer NAS...

Cons: Its a bit noisy, but I use it as a backup solution plugging it in every month or so. The noise reminds me to unplug it.

Overall Review: Yes I got it during some massive sale. Worth every penny. I really wish it had USB3 now, but i'm not willing to pay for a newer enclosure that gets used for 8 hours or so every month.

Pros: Replaceable battery, SD and dual sim's! FInd another decent phone with those features! Plus the screen is darn good, and the battery life is pretty decent. Pretty premium product given the sale prices on it.

Cons: Android sort of sucks, between the strange glitching if I turn off my car and transfer the call to the handset, to the random reboots once a month or so. This isn't unique to this phone, but seems to be common with most android devices I've used. Asus like pretty much every android phone manufacturer except google does a very poor job with updates.

Overall Review: I'm a pretty happy camper with the phone in general, although it would be nice if cyogenmod ran on it!

Pros: I purchased this board in 08 and its been my primary desktop machine for nearly 8 years now. Along the way its had 3 GPUs (now a 650ti) and two CPUs. Its now running a phenom x2 550 BE @ 3.3ghz for the last few years, and four or five HD setups (now an intel ssd+wd 2tb spinner) The only real issue was the chipset started overheating a few years ago, which was corrected with a new heatsink/fan. Along the way its been running almost 100% except for going into standby every day. it still handles most games at decent resolutions, and would probably work fine if I upgraded the now ancient windows XP OEM I initially installed on it.

Cons: chipset heatsink needed upgrading Also it seems to be pretty picky about the RAM that is installed since I upgraded to the phenom II (the model I'm using is not actually supported although others are) Also the bios doesn't seem to like most sata 3 ssd and runs them at sata1 speeds instead of sata2.

Overall Review: I've replaced it with a x99 i7 5930k and a m.2 x4 ssd, and it hardly feels faster. I'm attributing most of that to newer windows but it seems sad that the newer machine spec wise kicks the pants off this old Pile but boots at about the same speed and feels slower just browsing the web, and doing other basic tasks.