Pros: Feature packed Small form factor Decent overclocking ability

Cons: No coax spdif out on the back panel just a header on the board

Overall Review: I managed to wire a wire a female RCA plug to the spdif out header on the board to get a working coax spdif output. I have this board paired with an i5 3570K and 2x4GB of Gskill sniper low voltage DDR3. I followed the advice of several ivy bridge overclocking guides but I was seeing temps over 70deg at 4.5GHz. I had better results disregarding the guides and going with core LLC set to normal, C3/C6 enabled, C1E disabled, EIST disabled, and setting a core voltage offset rather than setting a fixed voltage. The voltage reading in CPU-Z was higher (1.3v peak) but I was seeing significantly lower temperatures than when I had LLC set to turbo and a fixed voltage. End result is a 4.5GHz ivy bridge system that runs at 65deg under full load with a $20 Hyper TX3 cooler all packed into a little Micro ATX case. Great motherboard.

Pros: - It's still working

Cons: - Dog slow - Less than three years and it's already showing signs that it's about to fail

Overall Review: I bought this thinking it was like other drives I've had from WD over the years... it's not. This drive is trash. I just ran a surface scan and several regions of the drive are now reading at less than 30MB/sec and I suspect that the drive will fail soon. After WD passed this "SMR" drives off as a regular drive on me this will be the last mechanical drive I ever buy from WD. I'm hoping to have better luck with a Toshiba X300 series drive as a replacement.

Pros: Never crashes Runs everything like butter

Cons: It was expensive but with things as they are I don't expect the value to drop much within the foreseeable future.

Overall Review: I've owned this CPU for almost a year now. I have mine limited to 120 watts via PPT and used curve optimizer because I like fast and quiet. It maintains over 5GHz all core while encoding x265. Rendering, transcoding, compiling, gaming, low latency audio work (somehow I get no clicks or pops with a Scarlett 2i2 even at the lowest buffer size, 3ms round trip latency) ... it's strong everywhere. I hung on to my old four core 4.2GHz Ivy Bridge system for over a decade. Hopefully this holds up as well but there's also a decent chance that a worthwhile drop in AM5 CPU upgrade will come alone before then.

Pros: - Fast CPU - Fast GPU - Decent amount of RAM and it's in dual channel - Empty spot for another NVME SSD - High refresh rate screen with support for both freesync and gsync - Display port output to drive external variable refresh monitors - Num pad

Cons: - Heavy (unless you're particularly small or weak it really shouldn't matter) - Default settings make for short battery life and too much fan noise

Overall Review: Buyers should understand that while on battery the dGPU is limited to 20 and 30 watts for quiet and balanced modes respectively and performance mode is not available. Pressing Fn-Q cycles between three power profiles (power button LED turns blue, white, or red to show the active profile). If you care about battery life you'll need to switch "hybrid mode" on using either the BIOS or Lenovo Vantage software and then install drivers for the AMD integrated graphics. Then apps can be set to use either the integrated or discreet GPU via the list of apps in settings > system > display > graphics. If you care about fan noise while gaming (they can get pretty loud) be sure to set a frame rate limit either in game or in the display driver control panel for whichever GPU is running the game. Using power or clock speed limits to control fan noise will cause noticeable lag and stuttering in most games. Also be sure to change a few settings in the control panel that can be found by searching for "edit power plan" and then the link "change advanced power settings". To prevent the fans from constantly spinning up during normal desktop usage edit the "Legion Quiet Mode" profile's "processor power management" max processor state to 99% or less to prevent boosting or unlock the hidden "processor performance boost mode" control and set it to disabled. Nice machine overall.

Pros: It both fits and works.

Cons: none

Overall Review: I doubt any of the one piece type adapters would have fit because there is very little clearance around the mini HDMI output on my video card.

Pros: Works exactly as advertised. Quiet fan.

Cons: Lock can be opened easily with just a finger.

Overall Review: Hot swap works with windows 7 x64 Ultimate and "Hotswap!" utility by Kazuyuki Nakayama. Hits 37 degrees C max with a TOSHIBA PH3200U-1I72 2TB 7200 RPM drive.