Pros: Upgraded from a Sapphire Vapor-X HD 7970 3GB card. Very noticeable improvement in noise, performance and power usage/thermals. The 8GB helps in games that can utilize the extra VRAM like GTA V. A lot quieter than my Vapor-X, especially under full load using the stock fan settings. I did not try overclocking as there doesn't seem to be a lot of headroom and if that's really an issue for you, you should wait for the non-reference cards coming out by the end of July. Price and performance puts this as a direct competitor to the GTX 970.

Cons: - Crossfire is still a hit or miss; GTA V hated crossfire. Even with the second card disabled in the the Crimson software it still acted screwy by causing a memory leak and stuttering throughout despite playing around with the settings both in game and in Crimson. (Not a big deal as dual GPU setups are fickle from game to game) - The PCIE connection should use a 8 pin connector instead of a 6 pin. The power draw is a little high for a 6 pin, though AMD is fixing the issues related to the PCIE lane drawing too much power. (To be honest, this was a non issue for me but I know this will worry people out there)

Overall Review: If you're coming from an older generation GPU, like the HD series, it's a no brainer of an upgrade. AMD really addressed the issues that plagued their previous lineups in terms of heat and power draw and the numbers fall closer in line to Nvidia. If you own a R9 390+ or GTX 970+, there's no reason to buy this card other than maybe HDMI 2.0, DP 1.4, HDR and DX12 support and even then you would still take a hit, performance wise. Make no mistake, this is not a high end card; rather it's a very feature rich card for it's price point. With the sales of the RX line very high, look for Nvidia to drop their prices on the 960, 970, 980 and for the release of the 1060 to come sooner than expected. Also, be on the lookout for the non-reference line of the RX series to be showing up in the coming month. As with any GPU purchase, do your due diligence and take into account what's on the horizon and decide if this card is for you or if it's worth waiting for something else.

Pros: BIG heatsink, and fan runs around 2300 RPMs according to the motherboard at full tilt.

Cons: Installed this on a MA-790GPT-UD3H motherboard w/ a AMD 550 BE chip. The whole installation process isn't right, I don't much approve of the whole clip and screw thing. Found the best way of installing it is to attach the clip with screws before hand, then place over the CPU and hold it place and tighten the screws, otherwise it just slides off center and the thermal paste(I used another brand of TP) just spreads unevenly. Also, cooling wise, I couldn't get this to cool down the 550(unlocked to a B50 quad) down to more than 31C idle, 54C load @ 1.312 vCore. At normal vCore(1.408) I was approaching 66+C load, 35C idle with room temp being around 66F. Take all of this with a grain of salt though, as I never even bothered with the stock HSF, and can't compare it to stock temps. But still I was hoping to run a little bit cooler.

Overall Review: I would say overall it does its job. It looks well built, I just wish the installation was designed better. I'd imagine a better fan on this thing would help it be all it could be.

Pros: - For how cheap this case is, there were no sharp corners inside

Cons: - Arrived with the top PCIE slot cover missing - Mounting holes for PSU make it so you can't reverse the PSU...my 600W EVGA would only mount with the PSU fan exhausting into the case - Fan mount screws on the front are mostly trash. Tried mounting 2 120mm fans and it's impossible to use all 4 screws to mount a fan as some of the screw holes either don't exist or aren't full holes, more like 3/4 holes with the remaining 1/4 part of the 'vents' in the front - There's a spot on the bottom of the case for a fan but can't fit a 120m. - The attached 80mm fan on the rear is powered by molex only - The IO shield from a Tomahawk MAX B450 wouldn't sit right and would pop out with the lightest of pressure - There's no way you're mounting a fan on the top part of the case due to where to PSU sits and the length of wires - HDDs and SSDs are mounted vertically to the case w included screws. Barely enough clearance to plug the SATA power cable in for the SSD

Overall Review: This case would probably work for someone just looking to throw a smaller than ATX board in with no additional parts. Anything else and this is just a bad design. It's a shame because it's decent looking at this price range.

Pros: -It's a no frills, cheap 3-pin fan controller -You can adjust the power from OFF to 100%.

Cons: Not really a con, especially at the price but tuning the dial is guesswork. It takes a little over 3 full rotations on the dial to go from 0 to 100.

Overall Review: Would pay more to have a labeled dial telling you the power % for accuracy.

Pros: Solid chip, you get what you pay for. Went from A8-3780k to this. Good gains felt all around. Overclocked to a stable(Intel burn test and prime95 pass) 4.5GHZ (200 x 22.5) at 1.292 Vcore using a Corsair H80i closed-loop water cooler. CPU max temp was around 43C, idle at around 21C with the ambient temp in the low 20s C. Could go higher if I played around with the settings more but this is good balance of power and longevity as the max temp hit 62C (on a brutal summer day where the ambient temps were in the 80s in Fahrenheit). The right combo of motherboard, RAM, and cooling you can definitely get this in the 4.8-4.9 range without dealing with some serious temps. But....

Cons: You get what you pay for. While this may have six cores and can be clocked pretty high, it's still not comparable to the intel chips in raw speed/power. In a straight GFLOP comparison, this PC overclocked is getting about 33GFLOPS whereas a comparable Intel is at least double that.

Overall Review: Slightly disappointed at how slow this is compared to an Ivy or Sandy bridge but I knew that beforehand. I've always bought AMD but to be honest this'll probably be my last one. To sum it up though, it is a solid chip and it's a good price for a six core that you can very easily overclock but for true performance you might want to get an Intel dual core and do the same.

Pros: This is my updated review with overclocking the FX-6300. It works well and quietly for the most part(see CONs). Overclock settings: CPU/BIOS RAM at 1866 1.5V ( Using the XMP profile) 4.5ghz (200 x 22.5) stable (Intel Burn Test and Prime95 pass) 1.296 Core V All power and cooling settings off(Cool N Quiet, C6, etc) ASUS BIOS settings for LLC, tweaking, etc: extreme CORSAIR LINK Fans set to quiet mode RESULTS Ambient temp : ~18C CPU idle(1-4%) : 20-22C CPU max(Intel Burn Test) : 43C With the fans on quiet mode, usually sits at around 1100 RPM during low loads, the fans went up to about 1300 RPM and were barely audible. Did some more benchmarking on a more typical summer day (~96 F outside, 80s inside) and max temp hit 62C which is about right with the ambient temps and the fans were slightly humming at around 1600 RPMs. The hardware side of the H80i is pretty sound but...

Cons: The software, now that I've used it a lot more, is so incredibly buggy. You'll have the icons from your saved profile show up as all zeros and have a brand new set of the SAME icons working properly but not placed. It makes no sense. Sometimes changing the fan speeds in CorsairLink doesn't do anything or takes a while for it to register. Changing to the BETA version of the software didn't do anything.

Overall Review: My revised final thoughts on this are: If you don't mind the software(which is pretty bad, considering how big of a corporation Corsair is) it's a great functioning cooler. The pro reviews have this as one of the best CPU closed-loop coolers out there and it performs like it. With the way it's designed you won't see much cooling on the idle side but you'll see it in the max side. I still recommend it but if you can find something else comparable in the price range of this ($86) you might want to give it a shot because these software issues have been around for a while and it doesn't look like Corsair is going to fix them anytime soon. Build: Asus Crosshair V Formula Z AMD FX-6300 overclocked to 4.5GHZ Sapphire Vapor-X 1 GB OC GHZ Edition Radeon HD7770 G Skill Sniper Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) CAS 9 DDR3 1866 RAM Mushkin Enhanced Chronos 90GB SATA 3 SSD Seagate Barracuda 1 TB SATA 3 HDD Raidmax Blade ATX Mid Tower w/ 500 PSU