Pros: Fast. Faster than most i7s and all AMD CPUs. Overclocks better than any processor i've ever seen. At stock speed + turbo, uses ~53w at full load. Budget gamer's dream CPU.

Cons: Stock cooler. Low 70s at load for such a low power draw is unacceptable. Cooler could be much better at the same cost with a better design. No hyperthreading. Although, it does have 4 insanely powerful cores, so you won't notice it anyway.

Overall Review: No game in the next few years will demand more power than this thing has. Seriously, THE best ~$200 processor available.

Pros: Gobs of space, runs cool, quiet, and fairly fast.

Cons: I have purchased 3 drives since they were released. None of them were DOA, but 2 have died on me in under 6 months. Smart shows 100k+ load cycles for the latest failure.

Overall Review: I need large drives to hold all my data, and have stuck by Western Digital for many years, but this drive is driving me up the wall. Fortunately, I caught the signs early both times and was able to rescue all 1.9TB of data off each drive, but they shouldn't be failing in the first 4000 hours of operation.

Pros: Simple to setup and configure Contains power cords for high voltage outlets Cool and relatively quiet operation No need for esata port multiplier if you're using RAID

Cons: Slow - write speeds are 20-25% of read speeds. I have a 4 drive RAID 5 setup where each drive is capable of ~90MB/s transfer. Read speeds reflect this, sustaining over 200MB/s. Write speeds sustain a maximum of 36MB/s over esata. My software 3 drive RAID 0 blows this out of the water sustaining over 500MB/s read/write. The software array has faster drives, but even a single 10 year old drive should perform faster than this enclosure when it comes to writes.

Overall Review: Would I buy it again? Maybe. It does a good job of redundant backup storage, but it's not winning any speed awards.

Pros: Warranty Speed (Sandforce 2281 controller) Reliability (Intel firmware, released after a LONG time, presumably to fix bugs in the controller) If you're reading this review, you probably know all that by now, though.

Cons: Price - you're paying the Intel tax. Props to Newegg, though. Intel wants $500 for this device. OEM - as in not retail. As in, no mounting bracket for 3.5" bays, no SATA 3 cable, and no shiny blue box. Fortunately, OEM doesn't mean shorter warranty in this case.

Overall Review: Follow the SSD optimization guides and use the Intel SSD Toolbox tuner for best performance. You may also want to install a fresh copy of your OS when installing a new SSD. Queueing on this device is incredible. It's almost as if it was designed with enterprise use in mind. With a relatively high queue depth, this device outperforms pretty much any other SSD on the market, even other Sandforce 2281 SSDs.

Pros: Least expensive $/GB currently 12x LG BD drive with ImgBurn was able to burn these 4x disks at 8x successfully. 98% usable disk rate

Cons: Around 1 out of 50 have holes in the recording surface, making them useless for full images. Not a major con, as you can get 49 good ones for the price of 25 from other brands.

Overall Review: Nero software would not see the full size of these disks. I used ImgBurn instead, and found it to be miles ahead of Nero. Full functionality, able to see the full size of the disk, and, most importantly, free.

Pros: reaches far higher clocks than either of my 2600ks. 4.9 ghz at 1.43v! 75c full load on H80.

Cons: the 2700k is strictly for enthusiasts. and yet, it still comes with the worthless intel cooler.

Overall Review: for all those saying the difference in speed is not worth the money over a 2600k, you don't know who this chip is for. if you buy this processor and don't overclock, you are wasting your money. go with a 2400 instead. for the rest of us, the 2700k will hit 400mhz to 600mhz higher speeds than a 2600k, and do so easily.