Pros: Very quiet and extremely powerful for such a small video card.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: Kind of surprised Windows 7 rating tested at a 7.4 rating for both Graphics and Gaming Graphics, higher than I would have expected.

Pros: It's a fan and it circulates air and is quiet while doing so.

Cons: Ordered two and one has clicking noise.

Overall Review: I plan to order more of these in the future, hope the clicking noise was a fluke.

Pros: This so called budget chip is above par compared to the previously branded core 2 duos. It is amazing what Intel continues to do in such a short time span.

Cons: Less power required, less heat produced, better performance... Is this a con?!

Overall Review: My previous Intel CPU is still going strong and exceeds my needs, this is for a secondary build in an HTPC used for casual gaming and obviously home theater use and seems like it is overkill yet it's a budget chip??

Pros: The Nvidia chip seems well designed and for a low profile card and has great potential for most graphical applications including decent gaming.

Cons: ASUS somehow found a way to tarnish the quality.

Overall Review: I say somewhat high on tech knowledge because I work on about 30 client PC's a week and I have been working on PC's long enough to know nobody has a high enough tech level to have witnessed everything in PC troubleshooting. I have personally had a highend ASUS laptop fail on me twice the second failure was just outside of the MFG. So the same issue I had 3 months prior, mainboard failure, was outside of warranty, so I was left with a $1300 ASUS brick. I didn't want to be biased because ASUS use to mean something when you were talking about quality pc parts. Apparently not anymore. I received my card put it into my new HTPC build and when I finally powered it on the noise was beyond acceptable for a HTPC. After testing everything individually it was easily narrowed down to the ASUS video card. When I took it out for inspection the fan on the heatsink was missing a single blade, as in broke off, right out of the packaging. I knew with this not having any reviews I should stay away but the Nvidia name and the price loured me in. I have constantly seen these laptop gaming abominations made by ASUS fail on clients and I never pushed my bias on them. Things change, such is life and quality control with ASUS. I will never be duped by them again, stay far away.

Pros: Phenomenal piece of hardware for what it is and what it does.

Cons: The price, although it is completely dependent on hardware, Apple always puts the highest quality and most efficient pieces of hardware together, is too expensive for most to afford.

Overall Review: chrisheets, for what you received you paid a more than a fair price. The memory you are talking about using up is actually RAM memory (temporary memory used by the CPU for running programs) and can be upgraded from 8GB to 16GB, the max amount for this computer, for less than $100. The memory space that you use for your data (or in your case photographs) is the hard drive. The one you have is actually 512GB SSD hard drive (the cheapest SSD or HDD of that size is roughly $400), which leaves you plenty of room to save and edit photographs. I mean no disrespect with this post, as I could not begin to educate anyone on photography, I just thought you should be aware of what you actually purchased.