Pros: 10x SATA 6gb ports (8 via chipset, 2 via ASMedia chip) Lots of USB 3.0/3.1 ports ATX form factor 5 total 4-pin fan connectors M2_1 is not obstructed or covered by the PCIe x16 CPU slot M2_2 *might* be obstructed by the second PCIe x16 slot depending on the width of the video card Flash BIOS via Internet live while in the BIOS! (I've previously only seen this feature available on Enterprise server motherboards) The primary factors for my purchase were great previous experience with an ASROCK x77 motherboard and 10x SATA ports, and 4 chassis fan connectors. My upgrade was from a Supermicro C7Z87 Haswell board running an i7 4770k processor in a Supermicro pedestal server EATX chassis. This is the chassis: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811152135 The Supermicro chassis has 4 x 5k midplane fans with a ducted air shroud to focus air from 3 of the fans to the CPU and RAM. This chassis paired with the Taichi board and the Noctua NH-L9x65 SE-AM4 CPU cooler fit perfectly in the chassis while being able to use the ducted air shroud! I have 10mm of clearance between the shroud and the heatsink. This Noctua also has 2 pair of mounting brackets to let you choose the orientation of the heatsink. There is plenty of clearance on the Taichi board to orient the Noctua cooler such that the fins will point front to back allowing airflow to flow directly through the heatsink to exit the chassis. I might be able to get by without having to use the CPU fan on the heatsink, I have not tested my temps for that yet. My build is rounded out by the Ryzen 1800x and 32GB of Crucial Ballistix DDR4 - 2400 RAM. The Taichi board supports 2 pieces of dual-ranked DDR 2400 and 2667 RAM in slots A2/B2. The build was a snap. I had no issues installing the board and building the system out with the hardware. I populated CPU and RAM prior to installing the motherboard as the Noctua cooler requires removing the plastic mounting brackets and replacing them with their metal kit. I found this process easy to do with the motherboard out where I could work on it. I was able to flash the BIOS on the first boot via Internet with no issues and was up and running within 10 minutes of powering up! I haven't had a chance to really dig into the system yet, but so far it's quicker than my Haswell just in real-feel work tasks. After letting the fan system detect my fan speeds, my chassis fans are running at a quiet 2k RPM under medium load. I still need to stress it to see how loud it goes, but so far it's quieter than my Haswell build while also putting out more heat. My RAM was detected at 2400 speed automatically on first boot and the system moved it automatically to XMP profile 2. The RAM kit is not on the QVL, but I have had really great luck with Crucial Ballistix RAM in the past on various other builds. The kit number is BLS2K16G4D240FSC 32GB Kit 2 x 16GB DDR4 - 2400. I've doubled my processor cores and RAM on this build, so now I need to do some media encoding tests to see just how fast this sucker can go!

Cons: Initial boot time of the board is slower than my Supermicro C7Z87. That is an ATX 'server' board though and an Intel chipset, so I don't know if it's really a con or not. There is an ultra fast boot option supported if you run Windows 8.1 or later, but I am running Linux on my system so I haven't tried it. My boot drive is a Samsung 840 120GB SSD, about 4 years old. Perhaps POST time will improve with a future BIOS update.

Overall Review: Honestly, I love this board! The black and white design looks awesome and by accident I ended up with white DDR4 RAM so it looks extra cool! As the pictures show, there are blue LEDs around the southbridge heatsink that look really cool. It's a shame I can't see the board through my server case. There is a standoff for each of the M2 slots installed on the motherboard. One of my standoffs was loose in shipping and when I opened my board, it fell to the floor. It was accidentally swept up into my kid's legos, which I later found by pure luck. Honestly, I'm sure ASROCK would have sent me another one to replace it if I had asked. Just be mindful when taking the board out of the static bag to check to see if the standoffs are present. Also, a note about the rebate program! In addition to the $20 rebate offered here through Newegg, ASROCK is offering an additional $10 if you submit a review like this and submit a copy of the review with your rebate submission. I'm considering building a Threadripper system later this year. I'm very interested to compare the x399 Taichi with the x370 Taichi to see how they compare! I'm very happy with ASROCK. I left AMD builds 10 years on socket 939 when I had 3 motherboards fail inside of 18 months from another manufacturer. From the build quality of this board, I am confident it will last me a long time.

Pros: I'm running this on a Ryzen 3800x installed on an Asus x570 TUF Gaming motherboard. The RAM worked at 3600 on the first reboot after setting the configuration. This is my first experience with OLOy so I didn't know what to expect. So far, it's been doing very well. I really like the orange color, it's a really nice contrast to my black motherboard. The price on a shell shocker deal was outstanding. I have a couple other systems to upgrade shortly, I will be looking to OLOy again to supply my RAM.

Cons: No cons yet. Two weeks of operation with no problems of any kind.

Overall Review: I would absolutely buy this same 2x16GB kit again. I highly recommend this RAM to people looking for a fast kit to support Ryzen processors.

Pros: Cost. Got mine on sale for $200. Every retailer I saw had the same deal, so I went to Newegg! Speed. Coming from a Samsung 840 2.5" SATA SSD that tops out about 550MB/sec read speed. Packaging. WD retail box package. WB Black product sticker on the SSD itself indicating manufacture date. Warranty. Standard 5 year manufacturer warranty typical of WD Black series storage devices.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: Definitely recommend this product if you're looking to get into M2 SSD or upgrade an older unit. This thing is fast. I see some people docking points for 4K sector performance. This is *not* a 4K sector device, it is 512 bytes as clearly indicated in Linux. My Samsung 840 is also 512 bytes. I used dd in Linux to migrate my 840 drive. Here are the speeds from that migration: Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/sdf: 111.8 GiB, 120034123776 bytes, 234441648 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Toshiba 4TB 4K drive for comparison: Disk /dev/sdg: 3.7 TiB, 4000787030016 bytes, 7814037168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes dd < /dev/sdf > /dev/nvme0n1 blocksize=512b* 120034123776 bytes (120 GB, 112 GiB) copied, 222.485 s, 540 MB/s dd < /dev/nvme0n1 > /dev/null blocksize=512b* 500107862016 bytes (500 GB, 466 GiB) copied, 245.054 s, 2.0 GB/s *correct flag for dd to represent blocksize is interpreted by the review filter as an abbreviation for a profanity.

Pros: It's a continuation in the series and continues the adventure from the first installment.

Cons: Some have complained that it's too short for a stand-alone title and seems more like it should have been DLC for the first game. I can understand that sentiment. I love the series though and the length is not a huge issue to me, probably because I'm coming in later to the series and the price is lower now.

Overall Review: I wrote an initial review where I vented a bit because I was upset that my game arrived early and while it was well-packaged for shipping, the game was broken in the shrink-wrap and the disc was cracked. I was upset because my order indicated I couldn't return for a replacement so I felt hosed. So I posted a rant and looked for other options to get a replacement. One day customer service emails me and offers to ship me a replacement! I've never experienced that before! They shipped me a new copy out no questions asked! I was really impressed! I've been buying from Newegg since the early days when they had promotional swag with certain orders. I still have my t-shirt.

Pros: 3tb, 64mb cache, 7200rpm, great reliability. I'm running 2 software RAID arrays with 5 of these drives in each array. I've only had 1 drive fail in the 5 years I've been running these. One array is my 24x7 file server array and the other is my backup array. I was a big fan of Hitachi drives and the quality of these drives is consistent with Hitachi from before the Toshiba acquisition.

Cons: I haven't had an issue with these drives.

Overall Review: I recently bought the 4tb model for use in my home PC. I'm interested to see how the larger drives measure up.

Pros: True 4k support. Using this to connect a Samsung 40" TV to my laptop for an external display. All resolutions on the TV are supported and my laptop audio defaults to the TV via HDMI.

Cons: No cons

Overall Review: I highly recommend this adapter. It's exactly what I was looking for.