Pros: Noticeably faster than my R9 280x. My son needed something better than the ancient HD4870 he was using and I couldn't bring myself to pay for an "older-but-better" card that would still work with BIOS for him. I passed my 280x to him and grabbed this. I had wondered if I would need to upgrade my 2.5 year old AMD FX setup in the next year, but I can say that I have no reason to do so at this point. I run vsync because I can't stand even the slightest tearing so I'm really only judging by my system's ability to sustain 60fps@1080. Doom, Just Cause 3, Final Fantasy 14, and a few others - all max settings and buttery where I had to turn a few things down before with my 280x (or live with some lower frame rates.) There is one game I tried (still in alpha and under NDA so I can't specify) that I had to turn the shadows down one step from max. I have no beef with AMD and my choice of this over a 480 came to availability. I am seeing some benches that put this a little ahead of the 480 but the pricing seems to reflect that appropriately. This is a fantastic card for the MSRP. Don't pay gouged prices. Wait for the stock to level out if you need to. Unless you're doing >1080 or are serious about VR, this is the new sweet spot.

Cons: Had to replace all my mini-displayport dongles with regular displayport for my extra monitors. Wish they would stick to a standard from one generation to the next.

Pros: Works great, when it's working.

Cons: I RMA'd my initial unit just a month or two after I bought it for squealing/coil whine. I've had my second unit for just over 6 months and it just developed the exact same problem. I recently found a site that ranks certain power supplies and this one was in it - almost at the very bottom in terms of reliability. Run. Run far away.

Pros: Fast drive - used it almost exclusively to store game installs.

Cons: Died a little more than a year and a half after purchase. Seagate RMA page tells me the drive is out of warranty. Had to email support directly and send them my receipt and the store page showing a 2 year warranty. Hopefully I'll get a replacement. UPDATE: The RMA drive they sent me almost two years ago is now failing. Run from Seagate. Run far, far away.

Overall Review: The original drive had about 500 days of uptime and died. The RMA'd drive that is now failing has 1500+ power on days.

Pros: HD Video encoding maxes all 8 cores of my AMD FX 8320. This made the stock cooler sound like a vacuum cleaner when it spun up. The Evo 212 is FAR quieter during that same process and temps never got above 47c. At idle (15-20c) I can barely hear it running.

Cons: BIG. Fit in my Redbone case, but just barely. The side panel ends up resting against the top of the heat pipe.

Overall Review: I was apprehensive that this thing would be loud or not cool good enough. Just get it. Pay attention to the airflow on the mounted fan though. It's oriented to push air through the heatsink instead of pulling out. You might be tempted to point the fan towards the back of your case, but you'd end up blowing hot air towards your drives if you did that. Clip the fan to the internal side of the heatsink or remove the brackets and flip it to pull.

Pros: From POST to Windows (8.1) login prompt is about 7 seconds. We used the previous gen Samsung SSD's in our laptops at work and these are FANTASTIC drives. Get a 240gb or larger for the best speeds, but don't let the IOP specs scare you away from the 120gb if all you need is a boot disk.

Cons: NONE.

Overall Review: One of the most effective upgrades you can do if you're looking for a snappier PC and you've already got a semi-modern rig.

Pros: Stuck these on a gigabyte AM3+ board with a an AMD 8320 CPU. Just works.

Cons: None.