Pros: The screen was cheap. It has worked perfectly, with a nice bright picture and reliable mechanicals.

Cons: I can tell it's flimsy. Maybe I will get a couple more years out of it? So far it has worked fine, but it is obviously loosening up with time. There are minor sparkles.

Pros: Initially worked well, reasonable price for Ryzen-compatible memory

Cons: More memory failures in four sticks than I've ever seen

Overall Review: Do NOT get this memory. I had at least two failures out of four sticks. I did an upgrade of my personal PC and was looking to put some of the old parts together for a friend. I've always had good experiences with G.Skill, and these sticks showed up as compatible on their site. Picked up two of these modules, installed Windows, no issues. Got the system to my friend, and after a few hours it starts getting crashy with lots of bluescreens. Ran a memtest86 against the memory, one bad stick confirmed. I knew RMA would take a little while so I ordered a second set, figured why not have 32 gigs? Installed the second set when it arrived, helped them get going, all was good for a few days. Then the machine stopped booting nine times out of ten, just giving a black screen. Clear the BIOS and it would usually but not always boot, once. After troubleshooting I determined it was likely to be the motherboard, so I ordered a replacement motherboard. Got it installed, reinstalled Windows just to start fresh, and put in the second set of RAM that had come back from RMA. It was again good to go ... for a few weeks. They let me know it had started bluescreening again. Suspicious, I brought over a memtest86 USB and ran it for a while. No errors. On a whim I bought two 16 gig sticks of Corsair locally and installed them - not a bluescreen since. At this point I have four sticks of this garbage sitting on my desk, which I will probably just throw away. Yes there is a warranty, but it doesn't matter as I have zero trust left in the Fortis sticks to stay reliable. If I could still return them, I would. Instead I'll chalk it up as a rather expensive lesson, and never buy or recommend G.Skill memory again. Oh and that motherboard? It's fine with other memory. Turns out maybe I didn't need to by a replacement board after all.

Pros: Nine of these replaced ten 1TB drives that had been running since the 1TG Greens came out. The Greens needed a total of three replacements in that time, all three for SMART pre-fails. None have needed replacement after the first year and a half, as expected. They were replaced to increase capacity. None of the nine failed their 72-hour initial load test.

Cons: The sale I purchased these on had quantity limits or I would have bought more. They do not have a substantially higher transfer rate than the 1TB drives they replaced, so with 3x the capacity it will take longer to do RAID recoveries when one fails.

Overall Review: Everyone has a favorite brand; I've had drives fail with Western Digital but thanks to backups and RAID never experienced data loss. Their RMA process is top notch and replacement drives have been as reliable as new drives.

Pros: Supported 45nm processors after a flash to BIOS 0703, lots of onboard features, good layout, great overclocker.

Cons: Sometimes resets the CMOS or refuses to boot due to a Chassis Intrusion error. Do some forum searches, this problem is common. It's more a light annoyance than anything.

Overall Review: Seriously, this board is a great overclocker.

Pros: It was cheap and reads discs my other drives have trouble with.

Cons: It's slow at ripping audio, and noisy unless you run DriveSpeed or some other throttle-back app. My previous NEC was far quieter and ripped audio twice as fast. Wasn't as quick at data, but was still plenty quick.

Pros: Runs cool and fast

Cons: Fan is a little noisy compared to previous AMD stock CPU fans