Pros: - Outlook, Visual Studio, Internet Explorer, Office 2010 much more responsive. My dual core laptop with 2G beats my desktop with 8G RAM on Office tasks - Best price/size ratio (when on sale) - No compatibility issues with Lenovo T60 - No firmware upgrade hassle for TRIM on Win7

Cons: - Not great at long sustained writes. Small builds in Visual Studio are ok, but large builds aren't any faster than HD. On my gaming & video editing rigs, I would pick a faster SSD for fear of slowdowns - No noticable improvement in battery life

Overall Review: When I bought this, it was the cheapest 64G on the market. Intel & Sandforce may be faster, but this gets the job done. I couldn't upgrade the RAM on my laptop past 3G, and this made a big different in overall usability. Lenovo T60, 2G RAM, Windows 7 Enterprise X86, Bitlocker - not a single problem. The laptop spends more time on BIOS & POST than booting Win7, but that's a problem with this series laptop.

Pros: Silent, fast performance on video (SD & HD content). I can upsample a DVD to match my 1080i television with 20% of my lowly Sempron 3100+. Vista Media Center for DVD & Netflix are usable, no stuttering. 1440x900 in TeamFortress2 with high settings is very playable - noticably faster than my 6600gt.

Cons: HDMI audio is finicky at best. It's impossible to troubleshoot, and some people speculate it requires specific driver versions, and/or a reformat to make it work. Search Asus support & avsforum first. 2 weeks out, I'm still trying, and that's working with ATI.

Pros: - Performs well - Spends more time at boost frequencies than I expected - Best gaming performance you can get at 65w TDP - perfect for a small gaming rig

Cons: - Failed after ~1 week of use - The included cooler needs to run at 100% speed if any cores are boosted. Loading most web sites will go into boost long enough to spin it to max, as well as Windows background tasks. You'll hear it ramping up and down constantly

Overall Review: Get a Nexus NH-L9x65 cooler. It goes from silent to just barely audible with the CPU under full load. Huge improvement over the stock cooler and it will fit in most ITX cases including the Silverstone Raven series. Running a core or two at boost doesn't increase the noise level so it will be essentially silent in browsing & office work (Update 11/1/2017) After passing burn-in tests and using it for about a week - things started crashing. PassMark Memtest86 found memory errors even at JEDEC timings. I replaced the RAM, PSU - no change. All errors were isolated to a specific core and the other cores passed if tested individually. I used another i3-8100 CPU with the same motherboard & RAM and all tests pass. This is the first time in 20+ years of building PCs that I've had a CPU fail. I RMA'd it and am now stuck with a credit waiting on this to come back in stock so I can get a replacement.

Pros: - Works at DDR4-2666 native speed on Coffee Lake - 1.2v stock voltage reduces heat and could increase reliability long-term - In qualified vendor list so of course it works flawlessly in ASRock Z370M-itx/AC

Cons: - Lower latency (14/15 CAS) would be nice at this price

Overall Review: If you want a faster module, you probably need to bump up to another module with 1.3 or 1.35v to get CAS 14 or 15 at this clock speed.

Pros: - Good price & performance. Noticeably faster boot and data access compared with similar SATA designs like the Crucial MX300 - No data loss at unexpected power outages, and no performance penalty if using RAID/VROC which needs flushes - Simple setup with no hassle on Intel Z270/370 motherboard and Windows 10. No extra drivers needed

Cons: - I wish there was a >1TB model available. Small form factor systems usually only have 1 m.2 2280 slot so they're limited to a single drive if you don't have room for another 2.5" drive.

Overall Review: There are faster drives like the Samsung EVO&Pro, but they are more likely to lose data in a power loss due to the volatile RAM cache and will be slower if you use them with VROC or RAID which force flushes.

Pros: - Probably the shallowest 500w+ ATX power supply on the market - fits even in tight caseslike the Silverstone Raven RVZ01B-1 / RVZ03 - if the fan spins I've never heard it. With i7-8700 and Geforce GTX 980 Ti at full load drawing ~300w continuous I can't even feel air moving from the fan - No coil whine

Cons: Since this fits a niche for narrow mounting depth flat cables would have been perfect. The modular cables add another 20mm so you're really looking at about 140mm depth. Flat cables would have put it at about 130mm

Overall Review: If you need 300+w and are considering a SFX power supply don't. I've used the Silverstone ST450 SFX (sounds like a hair dryer) and Nexus Value 430 which is the same depth, and this is the quietest supply of all at 300w draw