Pros: Great at overclocking Stable board Z68 Hasn't caught fire

Cons: Very poor audio isolation. Whenever the CPU/GPU kick up to full speed, I can immediately hear a LOT of static through the speakers. Just loading Minecraft causes this problem, but BF3 and other games also do it. Pretty ridiculous that I have to buy a separate sound card just because ASUS somehow *STILL* hasn't managed to figure out electrical isolation. It almost makes me think this is a half-way scam to sell more of those ASUS XONAR sound cards they recently started selling.

Overall Review: Great except the terrible integrated sound.

Pros: 750gb of space, speedy (although i will never know, as I have to use it through USB)

Cons: does not work with many SATA150 controllers and nvidia controllers

Overall Review: Do not buy if you have an SATA150 controller. This drive has no jumpers on it, and even if you try to put a jumper on it to force it to SATA150 mode, it will not work. Samsung has a patch you can apply in DOS with a FLOPPY, but even that garbage solution does not work. I have other SATA2 (3.0gbps) drives that work fine on my SATA1 (1.5gbps) controller, but this Samsung DOES NOT. I had to buy an external Antec MX1 enclosure just to make this drive function.

Pros: Free (this was thrown into my order without asking)

Cons: Have to specify 802.11g in the driver settings to get a consistent connection

Pros: Flashy new design. Still excellent sound quality. Just not as good as the predecessor.

Cons: This is strictly a comparison with the Z-2300, which this is a successor to: - Smaller subwoofer speaker - Smaller amplifier, no heatsink - Smaller subwoofer box (this is a bad thing acoustically) - Less wattage to satellites - No control pod. The control pod was a major pro to the z623's predecessor. Now all adjustments must be made by reaching toward the right satellite. Additionally, headphones must be plugged in there. This is a serious con. The control pod was my favorite feature.

Overall Review: If you can find them, try to get your hands on the Logitech Z-2300. It has been discontinued in favor of this. Such a shame. I suppose Logitech's marketing goals have shifted since 2003 (the year the Z-2300 was created), and this is the result: a cheaper, inferior successor product.

Pros: - Clever design. Two speakers snap together, with a "USB" (probably not really USB) link between them, using USB for power only. Comes with a separate USB "charge cable" which is a pass-through plug and must be used while the speakers are connected. - Still work while charging, which some of these portable battery speakers cannot. - Charge from USB - 3.5mm jack for sound - Fairly loud given their size and battery powered status - Seem fairly well built, nice rubberized plastic finish, seem strong enough to withstand a mild beating. - Wind up retractable cables in base of unit. Wind mechanism seems solid (I've seen worse by far), almost no chance of breaking the ribbon like cords by accident. Plastic caps protect cables on outside of unit, and also seem robust. - LED indicator turns red when charging or in need of charge, blue when on or fully charged.

Cons: - Some of the worst speakers I have ever heard acoustically. Way, way better than laptop speakers, but still worse than 6" tall standup computer speakers. - Pop-up "bass mode" is a joke and gimmick, doesn't seem to change acoustics or speaker properties at all. - Plastic caps on cables are annoying when trying to plug them into things. - While using the speakers and charging, there is a loud of background static noise. This quiets down to about 0 background noise when running off battery.

Overall Review: Easily twice as loud as my laptop speakers, these things are a life saver when you need them. They aren't the greatest for music, but you really should not expect the greatest for music from this small of a speaker that is battery powered. I certainly doubt any other small battery powered speaker will beat these for volume, clarity, or lack of distortion. This is about as good as it gets for this form factor.

Pros: + Excellent sound quality + Volume knobs are easy to use, accurate, and durable. The volume knob puts this unit head and shoulders above competitors like the ProMedia. It is EXTREMELY useful. I *never* adjust my pc volume in software anymore. + Volume knob controls headphone output + Decent bass response + Can go fairly loud, louder than I would ever want for my computer anyway + Would buy again if this set broke, without a doubt.

Cons: - Bright blue LED lights up room at night when system is on - Volume knob shifts sound to a single channel in the first 1/10th of the volume. Weird issue, but easy to get around by turning down the source volume and turning up the speaker volume. - No way to completely disable subwoofer. Bass knob brings sub down, but not off. - On year 5 of ownership, the headphone jack became flaky. If I put some pressure on it, it connects properly. I suspect an internal solder has broken. Still usable, and not worth replacing whole system.

Overall Review: I am a bit of an audiophile. I've spent around $800 on car audio, and most of that went into front speakers, not the sub. Sound quality is important to me, and I know the difference between garbage and fantastic equipment. This is not fantastic equipment, but it is very very good, especially in the computer speaker arena.