Pros: Fast fast Fast! Loaded windows from a USB 3.0 drive. Never even saw the individual percentages between 0 and 100 Also I think I got one of the exceptional ones. According to a popular user bench, my particular drive is performing way above average for the same exact model.

Cons: It's so tiny! I wish it was huge and bulky so I feel like I really got something for my money! J/K I've got no cons!

Overall Review: Installed in a place where my side intake fan can add additional cooling to help reduce the chances of temperature throttling

Pros: The second one worked. Not really, read below.

Cons: I had to RMA the first one. It throttled the CPU to .8Ghz, and nothing I tried was able to correct it. Updated BIOS version, changed settings, including OC settings and c-states. Even tried options under windows power management. The motherboard was stuck throttling the CPU to .8Ghz. This was a frequent problem with the Z170 boards from MSI as well. Many people suspected the slow mode switch. In the Z270 version, they replaced the switch with a set of jumper pins. Following their troubleshooting advice, I even tried jumpering and unjumpering the slow mode pins. No change. I contacted MSI, and in broken English they advised that I try the same exact trouble shooting steps I told them in the support ticket that I tried. It was like they didn't read what I told them. They even told me to toggle the slow mode switch. There is no slow mode switch on the Z270 because they replaced it with jumper pins. I found the user manual to be uninformative and not organized very effectively. Newegg replaced the defective motherboard and the second one worked fine without any unusual tweaking. But even after receiving a good motherboard, The MSI Gaming App software does not change the Motherboard LED colors at all, nor does it allow me to turn them off. Edited review after using the replacement RMA: Works fine when it works. About once a week I receive a message at bootup that a new CPU is detected and BIOS defaults to original settings. All OC settings are lost, XMP is turned off, Fan Profiles in Hardware Monitor are deleted. Even my preference that a certain sata drive be hot swappable is removed. MSIDDR service occassionally uses a lot of CPU time. It is a random occurrence that happens at startup, there is about 15% CPU activity on all cores. When this happens programs like CPU-Z and HWMonitor take forever to load. MSI Gaming App only controls the onboard lights about half the time. I have to manually change the color back to what I wanted then reboot my system and hope it sticks, otherwise I just shrug it off and put up with the default red. This is not the behavior I expected. MSI Gaming App does not play well with CorsairLink. When installed and ran separately, the individual programs work ok. When both are installed, MSI Gaming App will not change lighting at all. And CorsairLink will always default to white at startup and need to be changed manually. I can't control both the MSI LEDs and the Corsair cooling block LEDs at the same time. So I opted for the motherboard LEDs only, and uninstalled CorsairLink and I've been using the onboard Hardware Monitor to set my fan profiles. Which brings me back to my first complaint about the RMA replacement. About once a week it forgets all my settings and the fan profiles return to default. (As well as my OC settings, XMP, Etc.) The M.2 shield is useless. The coolest spot for my M.2 SSD is slot 1, above the Video Card. Slot 2 is a hotter spot in my case. In Slot 2 without the shield it runs 2-3 degrees cooler. In slot 1 without the shield it runs nearly 5 degrees cooler. I bought this motherboard knowing that people complain about the bright red status LEDs on the motherboard. I vowed I wouldn't let that get to me, it's a little thing for all that this motherboard is supposed to offer. But now, it's bothering me. They should look like status lights. Not bright red glaring in your face something's the matter warning lights. They are too bright and alarming.

Overall Review: If I could rate Newegg separately, I would give them 5/5 eggs for this transaction. When I contacted Newegg (After MSI failed to help me) They approved an RMA within minutes. I had RMA paperwork and a paid shipping label within minutes. The only delays were due to shipping. When FedEx delivered the defective motherboard to Newegg's warehouse, I received a notification from FedEx and from Newegg. And 30 minutes later I received notification that Newegg had accepted my return and they were preparing a replacement shipment. The new motherboard was on its way the very next morning!

Pros: Installed on Intel i7 7700K, overclocked to 4.8Ghz. Reaches temporary peak temps of 80degrees while overclocked and stress tested. Average temp while stress tested is closer to 60degrees. Idle temp quickly drops to mid 30's

Cons: It's not the cooler's fault, but installed in an Antec Twelve Hundred with the optional side fan installed it physically interferes with the side fan. Motherboard is an MSI M7 Z270. I had to dremel off one of the corners of the side fan to get it to fit under the edge of the Cooler's heat sink.

Overall Review: Even if I was building a duplicate of this system, I would make the same choice.

Pros: It's pretty snappy. Overclocked on air cooling to 4.8Ghz with no issues. Reaches temporary peak temps of 80degrees while overclocked and stress tested under a Cryorig H7 air cooler. Average temp while stress tested is closer to 60degrees. Idle temp quickly drops to mid 30's

Cons: None, I'm satisfied

Overall Review: I reduced my overclock to 4.7Ghz and the temps are even better. Under stress test load, 74degrees temporary peaks, with average of mid 50's At idle, lower 30's

Pros: Performs as expected. Runs so cool that the fan rarely turned on. I set the fan to a minimum setting using their onboard Corsair Link software just for the peace of mind of seeing it turn! Fully Modular! All cables were long enough to reach inside a pretty large case, even routed properly for optimal air flow.

Cons: None, I'm satisfied with my purchase

Pros: Performs as expected. No cooling issues!

Cons: None, I'm satisfied with my purchase!

Overall Review: Some of the earlier releases of this card had trouble with the VRM burning up. The cards Newegg is currently selling all have the correct thermal modifications to address this issue. I was able to register my video card on EVGA's website and search to determine if I had the updated card. My card was fine, and if you buy after I did, yours should be too!