Pros: Fast, inexpensive, dependable, trustworthy brand. Good price per MB.

Cons: It wasn't free.

Overall Review: For some strange reason people believe that parts only fail when it's someone else's part. Hard drives are flaky. They die. Sometimes right out of the box. It's ok. The sky is not falling. Moving parts only move so many times before they fail. A good bump during shipping may have caused the drive to fail shortly down the road, at no fault to WD. 1 out of 4 will fail. Just accept it and move on. A 75% success rate is great for hard drives. I've been building for 13 years and I've tried many brands, but Western Digital is the only one (with perhaps Seagate coming very close) that has been 75% or better on non-defective parts.

Pros: I'd been waiting for the right card for my price/performance needs. When this card dropped, I paired it with an AMD Vishera 8320 and 16GB of Gskill ripjaws. A modest build on an MSI 970A-G46, it far exceeded expectations. The card I used previously wasn't a sloucher. I was using a Galaxy GTX 465 and it was running fine. I upgraded because I wanted to future proof my system and I was building a second computer to put the GTX 465 in. TL-DR: If you don't want to spend 400+ on a higher end GTX card, this one will do just fine. It's fast as h3ll and it runs cool/quiet.

Cons: I ordered mine months ago and missed the Metro: Last Light coupon. Oh well.

Overall Review: You won't be disappointed in this card. It's extremely fast and stable. I'm looking into grabbing a second for SLI soon.

Pros: I have been using a Phenom II 970 for a while now and decided to future proof my rig a bit by dropping in a newer CPU. Honestly this thing crushes anything I throw at it to a fine dust. This CPU is trading blows with the Intel i5's, which are slightly more expensive. If you buy this expecting it to smoke a top end i7, you're gonna have a bad time. Even still, it is on par with a mid range i7 in many benchmarks, and significantly cheaper. Paired up with the Zalman CNPS9500A-LED 92mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler (also purchased from Newegg) it runs quiet and cool. Shipped on the day I ordered it and arrived the next afternoon.

Cons: 8 integer cores but only 4 floating point units is why this CPU is something of a disappointment to some enthusiasts, acting more like a quad core with Hyper-Threading, because at this time many applications will only utilize the first integer core per FPU. To be clear, this is not really a fault of the hardware. It's a radical departure from previous architectures. If software was developed to take advantage of the Piledriver's two integer cores per FPU, it would very likely be comparable to a top end i7.

Overall Review: If you want plenty of horsepower for a low cost and you have a good power supply, it's really hard to beat this right now.

Pros: Easy to install - as long as your case has room for it. Extremely fast in current games. Crysis 2 on maximum detail rarely stutters, same with The Witcher 2. Runs cool (60 is as high as I've seen it go). Mini-HDMI (cable included!) Very secure packaging, the best I've seen a video card come in yet.

Cons: Physically huge. Heatsink shroud looks like something from Star Wars. Requires two 6 pin connectors.

Overall Review: My system: AMD Phenom Quad @ 3.4GHz/core 8GB Memory Asus AM3 board with integrated GF 8300 (disabled) This Video Card. I do only play at 1440x900, since that is my LG LCD's native resolution. It's not large screen. If you're driving a huge 30 incher or something you may want something more powerful, but so far it's chewed through everything I've thrown at it with scarcely a hiccup. I have run it at 1080p with the included HDMI cable on my roomies big screen and it ran fine with medium settings even on a huge screen. It reminds me of switching out my old GeForce 2 for that Ti 4200.

Pros: Running Phenom 9850 Quad at 3.4GHz, 8Gb RAM, GeForce 8800 GS (waiting on the GTX 465 to come in..) and Windows 7 Pro x64 works fine. Runs 24/7 and has never shut down or blue screened. AM3 compatible.

Cons: Only one PCI-E slot, but honestly, what did you expect? Coming from an 8800 GS SLI build this sucked a bit, but the increased RAM and CPU horsepower more than made the difference. I do not miss SLI, and I don't foresee going back honestly.

Overall Review: The people complaining about this motherboard either had a DOA (get over it people, it happens..), fried it by doing something dumb (I am guilty of this, but I don't try to blame it on the manufacturer), or are running inferior operating systems. Windows XP (any version?) lulz. Ubuntu? Why are you trying to use these fossils on recent hardware and expecting it to all work perfectly? I've never used the on board 8300, but I will run hybrid SLI when my GTX-465 comes in for PhysX. I was a big fan of SLI back in the 7800 GTX days when it made a real discernible difference but after completing Crysis 2 with medium quality at high resolution on my old 8800, I don't see the necessity for it anymore. Use this for what it was made for, realize that XP is ancient, and that there is always a margin for error on the assembly line. You'll be fine.