Pros: This card exceeded my expectations. It is a huge improvement over my old video card. I was actually surprised how much improvement it gave me in even dx 9 games. It runs DX 10 games extremely well too. Sure other cards are somewhat faster, but they cost more, and I have an older system. The card didn't break my bank, nor did I had to upgrade my power supply, mother board, or case to use it. The card is very quiet, runs cooler than expected. Crysis is an actually playable game!

Cons: Only 256 megs of ram, so I had to scale back texture memory in Crysis. Its a trade off I can live with.

Overall Review: Never tried HIS brand products before. Came in a nice attractive box with all the cables and adapters you should need. Ultra fast shipping on the part of newegg. They never disappoint this impulse shopper!

Pros: Looks attractive, sounds really good, comes with all the cables, small size, and a decent price

Cons: The on off switch broken in the on position after a week of use, The volume control doesn't work with headphones plugged in, and the sub woofer connect caved in and its hard to make a connection.

Overall Review: Can't argue about the price and they do sound good but I've only owned this set for a month and two things are broken. I will not buy another set in the future.

Pros: It is an ESATA card. I plugged it in, it works. My external hard drives run like internal hard drives.

Cons: There is a cd. You would think it was a driver disk. Instead its a pdf of a tiny manual. Rather bewildering but inconsequential.

Overall Review: If you need one, get this one.

Pros: Probably the best looking Dell I've ever seen. Lights are a minimum, the lines are pleasing, almost silent operation, and the over all construction is top notch. The system performs near the level of top end gaming pcs without the ugly case nor the ridiculousness prices. I replaced the AMD 7770 to an EVGA 660 GTX but even with the AMD 7770 video card, games ran great. There is a 32 gig ssd in the system but it isn't being used the way you would expect. Some systems based on H77 intel chip sets can use an SSD as cache to speed up your most used files. After a few days of use, the hard drive will start performing within 80% of a true SSD. It is the best of both worlds. I'm really happy with this system.

Cons: I'm taking one star off for something that has a solution but it was an annoying thing to diagnosis. As shipped, the pcie 1x slots don't work. When ever I get a new computer, the first thing I do is upgrade all drivers, bios, and firmware to the latest revision. On Dell's support web site is said I had the latest bios, A06. After a couple of days trying to get my Esata cards working, Dell support told me that there is another more uptodate bios, the A09. It isn't linked anywhere on Dell's xps 8500 site. However I did upgrade the bios and then all my pcie 1x slots started working. For myself, this is a non-issue. There was an issue, there is a fix, everything is good. I can see how others would get very frustrated and think the system is broken. Other minor issues. The optical drive is rather noisy and feels cheap but I doubt I will ever use the drive beyond creating and using recovery disks. Also the keyboard is very cheap in look and feel but once again, I probably will never use it. The mouse on the other hand is decent. Last thing, and I don't feel its a con: The case will not take super huge video cards. The 660 GTX is 9.5 inches long and it was a tight fit. I doubt you could fit in a 10 inch 670 gtx. Im totally ok with this. I rather have a case with a smaller foot print and a great video card than a monster case with a monster video card.

Overall Review: A rarity these days. A computer that is attractive, fast, and reasonable priced. Almost the anti-Alienware. I would recommend this system to any one getting a computer for gaming. It is a good work computer as well but I think there are better deals than this one if you aren't a gamer.

Comments: I've been using this motherboard for over a year. Very reliable and stable. I took a point off because I'm not 100% happy with the bios or the board layout. Not that these are bad things its just that I can see areas it can improve

Comments: This is the first CPU I can think of that I've not been longing to upgrade a year after I bought it. It was crazy fast last year and its still fast. It was also my first AMD chip after 18 years of intel cpus and I'm 99.9999% certain my next cpu will be from amd as well.