Pros: - 4GB of memory!!!! WOOOOOTTTT!!! - Powered through the PCIe, so no power cables from the PSU! - super low power consumption - the small form factor works well with my budget mITX computer - Very efficient, quiet fan - Single-point performance is unmatched at this price point. The comparable NVIDIA card (Quadro K1200) is 1.08 TFLOPS vs the 1.42 TFLOPS on this card-- most like attributable due to the W4300 having 210k more core transistors - 768 Shader units, 96 GB/S memory bandwidth & OpenCL 2.0 support (K1200 only has is 512, 80 GB/S & OpenCL 1.1)

Cons: - The screw that attaches the board to the backplate is located in a barely accessible location. It ships with the slimline bracket installed, and I switched it to the full-size bracket, which took a frustratingly long time - fan ducting requires regular cleaning. Not a big deal, as some canned air will clear out the dust, but it does start to throttle when it gets clogged, especially due to the size. - Slightly higher power consumption than the Quadro K1200

Overall Review: - Drivers for the AMD have come a long way; their recent overhaul of catalyst and the pro support you get with this is a far cry from years past. Not perfect at all, but still very good. For example, the drivers thinks this is a W5100 (maybe it is, just without double-point float support? not sure...) - If you are utilizing CUDA cores, then obviously you'd choose an NVIDIA card, but for most of us rendering or CAD on a budget, this card will provide way more performance. - I use a GTX 780Ti in my other playing build, so I wouldn't consider myself a fanboy of either company-- it all comes down to performance per dollar, and this little guy is phenomenal. - This is matched with: an i5-3570k from a previous build on an ASRock Z77 mitx board with 2x8GB 1600 DDR3 dual channel memory, a Lian-Li T100B case with a Corsair H55 water cooler and a Silverstone 450W SFF PSU making the graphics card the most expensive part of the build. Obvously not an ideal Xeon with 6 channel ecc memory, but this was part of a build where I scraped together a lot of parts to make a small workstation in a tight schedule. Renders for 3D assemblies was cut from hours to a few minutes at higher quality, and support for photo-realistic effects barely made this card blink. I'm very happy with the purchase. Techpowerup has a good summary of both of these cards if you want more details.

Pros: - Intel ethernet - Bulldozer support - Great color scheme - de-bug led's let you know when something is wrong.

Cons: From the Beginning: When I placed the order Newegg recommended 8GB of a G_Skill memory for the board at a cheaper price than the memory I was going to order. When I got it I did a reference to the approved vendor list, and found Newegg recommended an incompatible memory (disappointing because I was going to order the correct memory too). I call Newegg and they appologize and do a RMA while I order the supported memory I wanted. The new memory didn't work much better, and when it did get past POST (it happened about 25% of the time) I couldn't get more than two minutes into a windows7 install. I checked to make sure ROG was off, auto-overclock was off, things were inserted/plugged-in correctly, checked each memory slot and all possible memory configurations, etc etc etc, but to no avail. I call ASUS Support and they said what I expected: a bad memory socket/controller/something. Only one thing worked: drop my memory speed to 333 MHz with super low stepping. But not what I paid fo

Overall Review: Bottom line: this board was a waste of my time. Fool me once: shame on you. I will never again accept a recommended Newegg bundle assuming that it's going to work. At least I didn't have to pay a re-stocking fee for the first set of sticks... Asus hung up on me twice when I called them, and none of the "American support staff" spoke clear English. If you can't properly use a phone and supposedly be the American support in the US, I questions why the board was so expensive. I had high hopes for the ASUS, but I am now using a Gigabyte 990fx UD5, and I couldn't be happier. Better performance, cooler temps and easy instructions from a much cheaper board without the reliability issues and questionable support makes me a happy customer.

Pros: - Supports AM4 socket CPUs, such as the Ryzen 1700x I have in my build, which can do 16 threads!!! absolutely amazing - Ryzen isn't the best overclocker, but the board so far seems to provide stable power for intensive loads. - 32 GB of memory supported, which comes in handy for rendering and CAD applications I need. the memory is running at 2933ish MHz, instead of 3000, but it's still butter smooth. - M.2 NVME is fantastic, and I like that it is on the back of the board, which I can access with the back panel of my case in a breeze if necessary. It also means No sata cables creating a birds nest on the board, as it's the only internal drive I need. - Rock solid PCI-e slot with the reinforcing - Plenty of Fan headers for ITX-size systems. - I won't be using them, but the RGB is something people seem to like

Cons: - It appears the type C connector is not 3.1 speeds... I was hoping to use a fast external drive with Type C 3.1 speeds, which is a bummer, but not a showstopper by any means - The red. I can't stand the red accents. It's very high-quality, but I really wish it was just all black. - the antenna ports are right next to the PCI-e slots, which limits where I can point the antennas while not interfering with the monitor cables. I would have liked them at the top of the IO, where the PS-2 port is

Overall Review: This is not a gaming rig computer review. I wanted to build a practical, but small, workstation computer for CAD applications. This fit the bill perfectly. My GPU is a Firepro W4300, a great little monster for the applications I use, but isn't a gaming card by any means. I have it in a Lian Li PC-TU100 case, which can fit a corsiar H60 cooler and ITX GPUS, and I am quite a happy camper. You just can't get this from intel at twice the price. I just switched from a Xeon build, and I must say the Xeon computer is quite underwhelming compared to this! I also don't know why anyone would need the X370 version of this-- the only difference is the PCI-e and SLI support, but considering this only has one slot, the extra functionality isn't useful. I also purchased this on a promotion, which included an incentive to write a review for a rebate. This review is for the ASRock review rebate program.

Pros: - FANTASTIC viewing angle - Much more accurate color reproduction and contrast compared to TN monitors - USB ports galore, multiple input options, and a standard power cable - Good power savings - No Dead pixels and VERY LOW backlight bleed (very impressed with this) - Tilt, swivel AND ROTATE to portrait mode! - Vesa compatible without modifying the monitor

Cons: Honestly, I can't think of one reason why to get another monitor. period. Maybe you don't like Dell, but that's a pretty bad reason since I'm not really a fan either... until now.

Overall Review: I originally purchased 3 Dell P2311H, which is the non-ISP baby brother to this monitor, for a crossfire set-up. One of them failed after about a year of use and couldn't process digital (DVI) signals. Since they got the warranty, I contacted dell for a repair/replace. As they don't produce the P2311's any more, They sent me the immediate better, aka the U2312. All I can say: I wish I could replace the other two. This is amazing. I use the monitors in portrait mode, and the viewing angle becomes immediately apparent with the IPS. I can move my head around and the picture doesn't change, whereas the TN screen gets darker and lighter as my head moves from side to side. No more moving my head back and forth to better see darker images and video :) But the U is also more vivid, warm and genuinely nicer to look at. The TN's seems more harsh to look at now that I have something to compare them to. I can't tell the difference in refresh rate between the monitors, and once I messed with the brightness and contrast settings, I got this monitor to look beautiful. The power efficiency is great due to the LED back-lit tech, and the design updates from previous monitors with the rounded corners and cleaner stand really stand out. If you're looking for a new monitor and don't want to wait for a fancy (read expensive) 4k monitor to hit mainstream, this is THE monitor for you.

Pros: - all ports work, including the microSD one, which is awesome! - I finally have memory stick support on my desktop, and a front-facing esata port just in case - no hard-to find drivers or controllers needed, just plug and play! - Uses only one sata power for two drives helped with cable management - black plate matched my system perfectly. - Install took maybe fifteen minutes, mostly because I needed to thread the cables.

Cons: - The pictures didn't show this, but the hdd/ssd sticks out of the slots about a half inch. I understand you need this to remove the drives, but I wasn't expecting that when I ordered it, so now you know - I have three sata cables going to it, plus a usb cable, and a sata power cable. It helped with cable management but also complicated it at the same time...

Overall Review: I have my main OS ssd as well as my linux distro ssd in the two slots. To back-up my OS disk, I simply remove the linux distro (it's AHCI enabled and as such hot-swapable) and plug in another drive to mirror the os onto it. It then goes back into the safe. No extra cables, adapters, or external enclosures with power bricks that I need to keep track of. It's the fastest way to do a back-up, and it's also the cheapest and easiest!

Pros: -Full storage support with Raid so I don't lose my data when a drive fails -Has a full suite for data management, back-up, and syncing capabilities across multiple computers -Can be used as a web server, a printer server, a personal cloud server, and a iTunes airplay/DLNA server -Completely flexible for security and network adaptation -Use it as a webcam/security system hub and record video from around the house, and watch anywhere remotely -Literally this list goes on an on. These were the ones I found most impressive. -The biggest PRO for the system is it's active development by QNAP. They released a firmware update recently that allows the server to act as an airplay server for my appleTV. I now can access my ENTIRE library without having to turn on the computer and run iTunes. I did some research with the other companies for NAS'es, and QNAP doesn't disappoint. They even have mobile applications to access and use it remotely.

Cons: There is a learning curve to these, and it takes more than four hours to figure it out. Once I figured out how to map the network drives, I had my little breakthrough, but it took a few hours to accomplish. -The fan is loud. I put mine in a spot where that doesn't really matter (garage) but may affect some people -The web UI is very un-intuitive, and takes a while to learn. Patience and a good beer is necessary when setting this up! -the power brick isn't internal, and it's huge. no chance hiding it anywhere...

Overall Review: I originally purchased this so I could access my data from two computers in the house and allow my main computer to go completely silent, as the HDD's were the only things making noise in the computer. Now I have it set-up so my appleTV can access directly without iTunes running, I have the ability to sync my music to my phone from anywhere in the world with no 5GB storage data limit, and I have it all set-up so when I plug my external esata hard drive to the back it automatically backs everything up, and I don't have to touch a button. If you only give this thing 4 hours to set-up, you're going to RMA it because it has a learning curve. For me I was having the hardest time determining the right ip address for my network, when in reality it was DHCP and didn't require any static address, so I just set it to what the router gave it internally in my network, and it works flawlessly. But now that I've had it for a while, I would never go back.