Pros: Loads up my games faster than my Intel 520 series drive. For the specs it was one of the best priced drives. I got mine on sale, but seeing the current price at the time of this review it is still a good buy. 5 year warranty. Gigabyte like Ultra-Durable standards according to their test claims.

Cons: Have not noticed any issues so far. Though from what I researched I doubt I will have any. The only issue I had was figuring out the motherboard controls to be able to see and use it. Once I figured that out everything is as it should be.

Overall Review: I cant comment on the reliability of this drive yet. But with a 5 year warranty iam going to assume it should be fine. EDIT: Its been several months with tons of use. The drive is still performing like day one.

Pros: If you bought on a sale then you saved some money.

Cons: The effort is not worth the savings. Took about 30 minutes to get a manager to make the card work.

Overall Review: Considering how this works you would think you would see a permanent discount due to how holding money works. Much like a bank until you actually use the card they have the money on their holdings acquiring interest. The amount of money that never gets used is mind boggling. They count on us losing the card or something.

Pros: Works, so its probably tested.

Cons: No mention if it is new, or used AKA refurb which just means tested. New egg is much like e bey these days so if its not sold and shipped by new egg just expect it to be a refurb.

Overall Review: The price reflects my expectation so there is that. Shipping was in reasonable time frame.

Pros: You get a GPU that can't be purchased otherwise. Decent parts, but a few things could be better for next to no cost if they chose a different Mobo.

Cons: 2 channel sound. If you are using 5,1 sound that could be an issue. Annoying lights that are not easy to disable. Water cooled my be a pro top some, but its a problem waiting to happen.

Overall Review: I needed a better GPU, and with the current trend of GPU's being impossible to find at even close to MSRP this seem like the only option. I didn't really need a second machine because my first one is pretty op.

Pros: Solid design. Metal back plate. The power ports on on the top. Looks nice. It's probably one of the best AMD built cards exception of the bios switch location. It's not all flexible like most other cards.

Cons: The bios switch button is in a bad spot you could easily break it when installing the card. It should not be where it is. The fan blade finish shows dirt easily. This will hurt the resale value later. Performance is a bit underwhelming.

Overall Review: For $269 it was an ok buy. I am not breaking 60 fps on GTA 5 or Just Cause 3 maxed out at 1080p. I had to tweak the setting for the magic 60 fps. My old card (Gigabyte HD7950) was getting about 20 to 30 fps at minimum settings for 1080p on these 2 games. I still feel the need to upgrade, but at least I can play 2 games I could not play before. This card claims 4k performance, but there is no way. I knew that when I bought the card, but I was really hoping to break 60 fps on all my games maxed out at 1080p. I have not had time to install all my other games as this card was dropped on a new System Gigabyte SLI-X99 Intel E5-2650 v3 10 core Xeon 64GB DDR4 2100 G Skill Ram Plextor M8Pe M.2 SSD 512 GB Intel 520 Series. SSD 480 GB EVGA 750GS Sapphire Nitro R9 Fury I do not overclock my cards. I increase fan speed, but that's it.

Pros: Come with thermal paste. Nice kit with all sorts of ways to mount it. The copper base is spread across most of it unlike the newer and older model. Quite for now. At least it was cheap, because its not a proper execution for socket 2011.

Cons: Does not cover the cpu completely. This is a big deal to me. The bracket is flimsy. Getting it to line up is a bit tricky. Overall a terrible design for mounting.

Overall Review: The base of this needs to be big enough to cover the cpu either direction it is installed. I would not recommend this if you intend to overclock a 2011 cpu. I am a little uncomfortable using it for my 2011 cpu for stock clocks. I cant over clock the current cpu because its an es xeon sample. I did not buy this for that purpose. I did expect it to completely cover the cpu die. Set on a Gigabyte X99 SLI 2011v3 mobo with a E5- 2650 v3 Xeon ES chip.