Pros: Chipset features out-of-the-box Godaveri support Played nice with GSkill Trident XMP profile Awesome UEFI ("BIOS") layout and flexibility overclocking options to one's heart's content. a very solid board overall.

Cons: The system this board was in came back with networking unusable (even after reinstalling windows/drivers) and a pronounced "coil whine" coming from the motherboard specifically. I've built a couple of APU-based systems and had one other come back with nearly identical behavior, which turned out to be due to bad VRMs. I was surprised to have that problem from an ASUS board. HOWEVER, see my other thoughts as to why, although annoying, it wasn't the end of the world.

Overall Review: It is important to note that while the board that came back with the same problem before this one was a different manufacturer, this board is already in RMA, and the ASUS RMA processes was so much simpler, quicker, and overall more pleasant to handle that I will continue recommending ASUS over the "other manufacturer". The RMA process seems to be pretty fast overall, too, which is keeping my customer happy.

Pros: Inexpensive

Cons: After two months of being installed, but having only been used twice, the unit has died. I've been getting "USB device errors" for a couple of weeks now, and a quick test of several ports on the unit confirms that it is dead.

Overall Review: I have the RCR-IC001 in two customer builds, and they report it functioning perfectly fine, one with heavy use more than a year later. It seems the sudden-death issues may be confined to this unit specifically. So many other Rosewill products are of excellent quality that I don't consider it a ding against Rosewill itself, but more so this particular product line.

Pros: - I use this card to accelerate DCC (Digital Content Creation) work (thanks Adobe!), to game (Mass Effect, Assasin's Creed, and EVE Online), and to mine Cryptocurrency when the computer is idle (hey, it pays for the electricity it uses when not idle at least). - By comparison to an old HD7970 that it replaced... it draws far less power, frame rates are insane, everything can be cranked up to the absolute max setting, and is so much quieter thanks to the hybrid cooler. - It mines about $9.00USD/Day ... or would I guess, if I left it go all the time. -Packaging. EPIC packaging. No seriously, my local UPS/FedEx guys love to do their best to destroy anything that comes along, and despite the Newegg box looking like it'd just been through a world war or something, and the outside of the EVGA box having a few dings because of it, everything inside the over-wrap was in pristine condition! -The card is some-how much more power-efficient than 3 other 1080ti's I've worked with on customer builds. absolute full load, graphics driver is about to crash and recover because you're pushing it too hard is 289W in my system (this is with Precision X set to 117%/89C power and temp. targets). By comparison, with identical power/temp targets on the other three cards -one calling itself a "duke", one made by the yellow Z, and one under the moniker of "armor oc" this one will consistently out-benchmark, and out-real-world-perform the other three while drawing that 289W - the other three, in order, draw 318, 305, and 312W, and only the "duke" comes close in performance.

Cons: - It's a minor gripe, I know but... Terrible documentation. Seriously. EVGA, you guys are my go-to-Rockstars, and all it came with was a generic quick-start guide that applies to ANY EVGA card. This is your second-highest-end card in the 1080ti lineup. There was so much bling in the box, you could have thrown a sku-specific user guide or quick start in with it and likely at minimal additional cost -- you'd only have to add TWO pages (to each language)! There are no instructions or guide offered on how to mount the radiator, other than a small slip of paper warning not to mount the radiator lower in the case than the graphics card. -Insanely tiny screws for mounting radiator to case. The threads don't quite match up with any of the screws I had on hand from the bag of goodies my case came with, and these dinky little things barely make it through the wall thickness of the case, let alone biting in to the threads of the mounting points on the radiator. I went to the hardware store, matched their metric size, and picked up four pan-head screws that not only were long enough to do the job, but also let me use my case's rubber anti-vibration grommets. Including a baggie with screws is nice. Including a baggie with screws that will work on more than 5% of the computer cases out there or heck, EVEN ONE OF YOUR OWN (EVGA branded) CASES!!, would be nicer.

Overall Review: -This card is HUGE. A tripple-fan card is only about a half inch longer. For not having the traditional gargantuan heat sinks and fans, it's still a beast, and weighs in at nearly 4lbs. - now I know why newer motherboards have steel armor or 3D print mounting points to support these beasts. -As a side thought, I've noticed now that cards running samsung and hynix memory tend to perform cooler, and at lower power draw than others when doing memory-intensive tasks. I can only imagine that the reason every manufacturer doesn't use those memory providers must be cost. I firmly believe that EVGA sank their development money in to coming up with a crazy efficient, quiet, and stable card (lots of money in power components) vs. the 5-10% gain in memory intensive tasks. Given that my "memory intensive" use is generally DCC, or mining when the computer is otherwise idle I honestly haven't seen a discernible performance difference.

Pros: Lower power than some spinning drives; WD reliability and warranty.

Cons: None to speak of.

Pros: It just simply does what its supposed to. Read/write speeds are as advertised and quite quick.

Cons: None that I can think of.

Pros: Drops boot times from a spinning drive dramatically Improves performance overall Small, light, low power and low heat load Great maintenance software, too.

Cons: None really; Price I guess could still come down a bit, but that's due to an awful lot of factors that aren't so simple as me saying "make it just as good, but cost less!"

Overall Review: I really do hesitate to do a client build without one of these, or the pro variant any more.