Pros: Does a great job on my Intel E8400. I'm gearing up for a new build and wanted to play with overclocking before doing a new system. Overclocked from 3 gigs to 3.6 gigs and temps never go over 60c ever after running prime95 for 4 hours straight. All test passed. Currently keeping my voltage set at 1.25 volts which was a great stable setting. While experimenting, I went up to 1.3 volts and was still staying in the mid 60's, and even at 1.36 volts my temps didn't go too far about 70c. Especially for this price I couldn't be happier. Didn't want to go overboard on an older processor.

Cons: Didn't help My Little Pony: Season 3 come any faster!

Overall Review: Had an interesting grounding issue with the back mounting plate. Don't know why but my bios wouldn't even load at first. Took the back mounting plate off, used plastic washers for the mounting bolts, and everything fired up no problem. Wouldn't take anything off because I'm pretty sure that just a design incompatibility with my nforce 780i sli. The stock cooler was way worse for tweaking my board than I had ever experience. This cooler doesn't preasure the chip near as bad. Did some research on cooler benchmarks and noticed that the difference from these 212's and other more expensive air coolers is a couple degrees celcius at best. Becuase of that, I plan on using the 212 evo for my upcoming 2011 socket cpu without a doubt. From what the forums were saying, unless you plan on red-lining, this cooler is by far more than enough for average overclocks, and water cooling seems the better choice for red-lining anyways. Hope the comments help other hardware adventurers such as myself!

Pros: Alright, I've been through a lot! Check other if you want to see my experience with 990FX boards. This board is excellent. The BIOS is great, with just the right amount of features and support to make setting up things like UEFI boot or overclocking good, without too much to get confusing. The quality is just downright amazing, especially for this price. I love the PCIe reinforcement, the heatsink, the way each component snapped into place, everything felt like it was top notch. This board has everything you need to keep moving forward and while you sacrifice the backwards compatibility, you do save in dollars. <br><br>The FX-9590. Finally, a new board that legitimately supports it! If you just want to drop the chip in the socket, use defaults and play games, this board will do great and you won't get throttled. Check out the cons for thoughts on extra headroom, but this board will do everyday use just fine.<br><br>Stability was also great. My system just ran smoothly and I have to say that I don't think I've found a better board that brings the components together the way this one does. My OS booted up great, I had smooth interactions with loading up programs and games worked great as well. This is definitely what I consider the best 990FX board in existence when considering everything together.

Cons: I might have done a 4.5 egg if I could, but I also think the bug issue will be fixed. I noticed that my LLC was doing the opposite of what it should. At idle, the vcore would raise up, and on a stress test the vcore would drop. This could have been related to a bug involving overclock settings, but it was strange none the less. I'm sure a BIOS update would fix it though and it was pretty easy to just set the Vcore higher and watch it drop to the proper level.<br><br>While I do believe this is the best board overall, this is not the best overclocking board. With a bit of direct airflow on the VRM heatsink, you might be able to push the 9590 up a bit, but you might notice some throttling on stability testing because of the heat generated. If you have heavy CPU loads as well, you might need some extra airflow to keep from throttling, but this only applies to the 220w chips and overclocking. Gigabyte easily wins and you still have some decent overclocking room for chips like the 8370. A 6350 would work great.

Overall Review: I've not only owned multiple 990FX boards, but I've been reviewing hardware for about a year now. The more I progress, the more I try to figure out what's best for situations important to how I like to build. I pumped some pretty heavy amounts of voltage (1.5-1.55 vcore) through each board I own and the Asus Crosshair V Forumula-Z is the only one that doesn't throttle at all. It makes up for that by giving me other headaches that involved hours of research into BIOS settings to get it just right. The Asrock Extreme9 overclocks a bit better than Gigabyte with the VRMs, but both run much smoother. The GA-990FX-Gaming is by far the most advanced and easiest board I've used compared to the two and while MSI's 990FX Gaming board is pretty advanced as well, it can't handle the power delivery nearly as well.<br><br>Don't try to run a 220w CPU in boards with less than an 8 phase VRM. I've tried several of these boards because I thought they could handle it, but ran into instability or throttling issues right away. Stock 125w and below will be fine though. My favorite board is easily the Gigabyte GA-990FX-Gaming. Even though it won't work for all of my testing needs (due to overclocking) it is still the best board I've used. I highly recommend it!

Pros: Where do I start? Set up was super easy. Connection works excellent. I've yet to see it drop any of my wireless connections in my house. The range is great so that even in my back bedroom, my phone doesn't have any trouble connecting in the living room. I do home networking and move video files across the wireless and everything is fast. I liked that it uses Gigabit connections for the wired ports as well as the wireless. It's the best router I have ever used.

Cons: I can't fry an egg on it like I could on my old TP-Link! =P

Overall Review: I haven't had to set up any port forwarding or other advanced features though I've heard some people mention that the advanced features aren't as good. But if you just need a simple wireless router, I highly recommend this one. I have my main comp wired in and a media comp, two smart phones, a Wii U and Kindle fire on the wireless.

Pros: What else can I say? These fans look great, feel good, sleeved cables, very quiet, great air flow...I couldn't think of a way to improve them. I really like the shade and brightness of the blue LEDs as well.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Just realize that these are TRUE 200mm fans versus others that are usually 193mm. That means unless a case was designed with these in mind, the holes probably won't line up. My Phantom 820 obviously was because there are two sets of screw mounts for either 200mm fan at each location, but since it's a newer case by NZXT that make sense. If you don't mind drilling your own holes though, then it may not be a problem anyway.

Pros: Really easy to set up. My G skill sniper ram and fx-8350 clocked out perfectly on first boot. The bios was really easy to sift through, though there isn't a ton of features. The overclocking utility took my cpu to 4.2 pretty easily. Also, set up three hard drives in a raid 0 just for fun that works great. All around, this is a great board for the price if you only want some minor overclocking and have one gfx card or only need simple crossfire set up.

Cons: The fan controlling part of the bios wasn't that great. It works, but it's not very intuitive and doesn't off very specific control. Still, it works good enough that for the board, I'm not dissapointed, but would like to see that work a little better.

Pros: Best pro was these were one of only a couple purple led fans I could find. I really wanted to get something other than blue, green or red this build, and the color on these is really great. They move a good amount of air and over all, they aren't too noisy. The 3 pin connector will not control well from the motherboard, but with a fan controller, these are very easy to control. I have 5 of them in my Zalman Z9 controlled by a NZXT Sentry Mix 2 and they all look great together! =D

Cons: I hate to say it but these really aren't the quietest fans I've used, and really not the absolute best airflow. I debated taking an egg off, but the aesthetics really do make up for it. That being said, the airflow is decent, but it isn't very focused. Also, especially with that fact all 5 are this way, at max speed, they have a decent amount of motor noise. It's actually louder than my Cooler Master Seidon's pump noise, but not so loud that it drowns that or anything else out. That is just a bit too noisy for me but the fan controller works great for this. In comparrison though, I also have some Cougar fans that are near silent at max and have great focused airflow, so they really don't measure up to cougars.

Overall Review: If you are purely for airflow and quiet, these definitely aren't the best fans, but if you want something that has some nice flash with good performance, these really are perfect for that.