Pros: I'M HOOKED FOREVER!!! Extremely clear and deep with the right speaker and headsets. The control panel has alot of options, but is very easy to use even without instructions. It's not an X-Fi!!!

Cons: Absolutely none...

Overall Review: I order this sound card from Newegg late mourning Thursday and figure with the holiday was over. It arrived at 9:30 a.m. friday mourning. It was purchased to replace a Creative X-Fi Xtreme audio that came with my MSI 780a SLI motherboard. After all the driver issues that Creative hasn't fixed when using Vista or W7. I'll never gat another Creative. It died final after a year or so of suffering. This seems to be a winner, but still very early in the game with it. I'll update if any issues later.

Pros: Cooled my AMD X2 5200+, chipset, and vid cards great... While it lasted.

Cons: I bought this unit 4 months ago to install in my gamer... Today the pump is just an ugly paper weight... Lucky for me a have a flow meter and level indicator, so I was able to catch the failure when it happened... Still that was way too close for comfort.. NOT HAPPY AT ALL!!! I'm not trying to blow a at the time $xxcpu out the side of my rig... Now I have to pay another 65-90 bucks for a good replacement... I should have gone Swiftech I the first place... That what I get for trying to save a buck... Do yourself a favor and save yours... THIS IS NOT THE UNIT YOU WANT... Everthing else with this unit works fine... Doesn't do much good IF YOU DON'T HAVE A PUMP!!!!

Overall Review: Look away...

Pros: Don't own this mobo, but want more info on it than is provided so I can decide to get or not for my son's build. Even though it's not one of the bigger names out there, ECS has been around for a very long time. Always made affordable hardware.

Cons: No idea...

Overall Review: The details of this mobo state that it run crossfire, but makes no mention of it runs SLI or not. I want to run a 3-way SLI set up for this build, but I have no idea if the third PCI 16x slot is 16, 8, or 4. It's not even stated on the ECS site what the specs are. I think this is the same mobo that ECS was selling at the AM3+ socket release for something like $249. There was no way I was paying that for this mobo. With the right specs $169 can be done. If the people at Newegg could also find and list these specs too that would be helpful.

Pros: This card is very fast. HD 7870's fit into a slot that Geforce hasn't tapped into yet with anything new. Low power consumption compared to older cards with alot less processing power.

Cons: None... I installed this card into a friends rig and he'd date it if he could. He did finally step up from his old 4850 though.

Overall Review: As far as it outbenching the GTX 580... No. It just squeaks out the GTX 570 by a few frames. The only game for the most part that it benchmarks higher than a GTX 580 is Starcraft II. This game is optimized for AMD/ATI cards from the start. It is fast... Silly fast. Beating a GTX 570 is no joke. I run three in mine pc, and I know what one can do. Don't build it to be more than what it is though.

Pros: Still have 8 gigs working...

Cons: That the 8 gigs of ram I still have is more Crucial Ballistix.... I was very happy with performance when I got two sets of this. They appeared to be extremely stable and really quick. After a couple weeks one stick self-aborted. It happens so I began the RMA process. Something told me to hold off so I wait to send it in. I continued to run 12 gigs. the way I figure 12 gigs is still 12 gigs, but I started get BSOD everyday day mainly on start up for the past three days. It may take me 3 or 4 times tto get it going correctly. Tis mourning I fired my pc up and the same issue. Once it booted I took a look at my all cou meter and it read that I was running only 8 gigs of memory. I could see if I beat the ram up with crazy OC's and ran it there 24/7, but I don't. In fact even set my BIOS to auto so it runs at 1333 Mhz instead of 1600. So I know heat is not an issue. They're fast, but not for long.

Overall Review: I have only used Patriot and /or Mushkin for the pastalmost ten years. That includes 8 ground up builds and several upgrades. No less that 22 individual sticks of memory had been used, and I never had not one go bad on me. Many of these sticks are still being used in my older pc's or given to friends to help upgrade their pc's. Some as old as 6 years old that I completely brutalized with overclocks in brutal Las Vegas summers are still going strong. Leaving Patriot and Mushkin and buying these was like messing around with the cute girl next door behind your devoted wife's back... It may be alot of fun at first, but you gonna end up with the S@#$ end of the stick in the end. Just stay away form these.

Pros: Near GTX 570 speeds for the price of a high end GTX 560 Ti. Overclocks pretty good in a case with good airflow. Temps aren't as bad as some say.

Cons: None really... He should've bought a third one and bigger psu??... He paid too much getting them at F*y's... That about it.

Overall Review: I built a pc using these card in SLI. They seemed to have no issues with drivers ,and just blasted BF3, BF:BC2, and MW3 with game settings maxed out. I could see them gettinga little warm if used in a case with bad airflow, but I put these in a Rosewill THOR V2 with 4x 120mm case fans mounted in the side panel. One thing I will say is that if you're using a smaller power supply, it not about the wattage... It's about the AMP's. You can have a 500 watt psu, which they say is go to go, but most lower end psu's may not give stable and stead power,(AMP's). I just wish companies would put how many AMP's it takes to run vid cards vs. watts. Running these with a NZXT HALE82 850W psu.