Pros: The power in my area is really, REALLY terrible. The power has the bad habit of turning off for a few seconds and then coming back on, as frequently as every few weeks. This UPS has saved my new computer numerous times from being taken down. I have even heard the UPS switch to battery mode and then back when I didn't think there was a power anomaly, only to deduce that there was just some ripple or something to that effect. There are lots of outlets, and the unit can run my high end computer for a while before dieing.

Cons: It's poorly shielded electrically, so it buzzes really loud when it's in battery mode. This is almost a Pro, though, since it makes it more obvious that a power event is occurring so that you can shut down the computer safely in case you didn't hear the alarm. It's heavy, but that's lead acid batteries for you. The big thing, though, is that it heats up while in regular use. The engineer in me can't help but note that that energy is coming from somewhere, and that that somewhere is almost certainly the wall outlet, and in turn my pocket. It's a small price to pay for protection, though.

Overall Review: It seems really dumb for me to have a large unit that takes AC and rectifies it to charge a battery, so that in the case of a power outage I can take the DC from the battery, invert it to AC for the PSU of the computer, then rectify it back to DC for the internal components of the computer. When will some company make an integrated PSU/UPS that skips all of the inefficiencies of all of the inverting and rectifying and just rectifies the wall current once and is done with it?

Pros: This heat sink is huge. It is sleek. It moves a lot of air, and with it a lot of heat. I'm running the standard push/pull, and managed to get 4.2 GHz on an i7 930 stable (although this admittedly required using outside air while it was cold outside, ~0 C). I even got 4.4 GHz to run for a few hours under similar conditions.

Cons: I will temper my success story by stating that I have had less spectacular results when OCing using ambient air. I can run 3.8 GHz without danger of CPU throttling, but I worry about long term effects on my system. I have mounted the heat sink several times using the supplied thermal compound, opting out of a 3rd party compound on the theory that the aluminum based compound that Prolimatech ships will interface better with the aluminum of the heat sink. I am questioning this theory. If I get a 3rd party thermal compound and it substantially improves my results I will upload a followup review.

Pros: I've had two of these fans on my heat sink in push/pull configuration, and I've been able to get some good overclocking. While my build is loud, it is not deafening, and I easily sleep in the same room as this computer, even while it runs at 100% CPU, with the side panel removed. Noise is very manageable.

Cons: Not silent? But if you want a silent fan with this kind of performance then take out your faerie dust and sprinkle a little bit onto a sample of unicorn horn, then let it cure under the full moon. If you have difficulty procuring these items, settle for less performance or the muffled whoosh that these fans produce.

Pros: This was the cheapest optical drive that looked respectable, so I got it. I don't use it a lot, but when I do it works just fine. With so many optical drives out there it's mostly a matter of finding one that's cheap and works unless you do a lot of burning or ripping; I'll throw a vote in for "works." It is also worth note that this is among the quieter drives that I have had, and has a particularly smooth action when opening.

Cons: Minimalistic packing? It's a bare drive, so that's expected. There's really just not anything to complain about from a user who only uses his drive for loading software and the like.

Pros: Using this in conjunction with a 1TB Baracuda (for storage). I have a really hard time bogging this thing down. As soon as solid state technology is cheaper than hard drive on a GB to GB level, hard drives will quickly become obsolete. If you want to see performance, look at the benchmark results (just search for hard drive benchmark). This drive has consistently held one of the highest positions since its introduction. I run GSkill memory, and now GSkill storage and I don't regret it.

Cons: Doesn't run quite at the advertised speeds, but nothing does. (Turns out the real world is not as ideal as some of the testing environments.)

Pros: 80+ Gold Lots of Power connectors (I don't care to count them, but I could connect more add-ons than I can afford) Lots of Power Very-and I mean VERY well packed I have yet to hear the fan over the rest of my (admittedly noisy) build. "And I even like the color."

Cons: Not quite completely modular. While it is fair game to not make the Motherboard or CPU cables fully modular, the PSU includes a 6 pin and a 6+2 pin connector that are not modular. I am not (yet) running SLI or XFire, and my GPU (FirePro v7800) only takes one 6 pin, so that leaves one connector not connected. Also, if you want, for example, 1 Molex connector (same for SATA) then you have to plug in a cable that gives you several. Not a big deal, but I don't like to have connectors dangling.

Overall Review: This is really a top notch PSU. If you have the cash and want the power, this is a PSU for you.