Pros: Wolfdale for cheap. Sign me up. High multiplier (x12.5) is good for giving older motherboards some new life if you can find a BIOS update to support it, though beware half multipliers aren't supported well on older 965 and 975 boards so you may get "stuck" at "only" x12. This is a chipset limitation, and not the cpu's fault.

Cons: Lack of Virtualization support makes Parallels run slower on your Hackintosh. Lack of SSE 4.1 might irritate you when movie encoders possibly begin to support it in a year. Many people run into FSB walls when overclocking. Mine won't POST over 320 but might be my older motherboard - though it ran 420fsb with older e6750. The stock heatsink... is probably good if you can run stock. But seriously why run stock if you have a choice and the knowledge?

Overall Review: Using on old Asus P5W-DH v1.02G which forces a minimum of 1.45v on this chip - later revisions (ie 1.05) don't have this problem. Thus running 305x12=3660mhz since overvolt anyway. Running 24/7 under load using an old stock Intel e6600 heatsink (copper core) with temps around 65C. Apparently there is a way to get the x12.5 mult to "kinda" work on this board. Drops to x12 if machine sleeps, but since this machine is always on not an issue for me. Was going to write that 2Mb cache is a possible con, but after running Rosetta@Home for a week on this it doesn't seem to unduly hurt performance. This is surprising since Rosetta is cache happy. Lastly:April 13th Intel is rumored to start shipping a newer e5200 stepping (M0 -> R0) which will need a BIOS update. This only matters if you get one and your older mobo does not get an update for it. Probably will also change OC behavior of this chip. Let's hope it makes e5200 even more clock happy, or at least make FSB wall consistently go awa

Pros: The front panel really is the showpiece - and it looks good when everything is together. The glass side panel screws actually are pretty neat for what they were working with. Basically, if you're building a machine for someone else who won't be working on the innards themselves, this case will be a fun box for them.

Cons: So for the poor soul who actually has to assemble a machine inside this case - be sure to factor in the price of a good handle of liquor to go with the build... No metal where you need it - The mobo tray is too thin to hold the motherboard standoffs. They will strip out if you snug them at all. Do yourself a favor and just threadlock them with superglue from the start else you /will/ be doing the dance where when removing the mobo, the entire screw/standoff comes up behind the mobo since the screw has more "grip" on the standoff than the standoff ever will to the tray. Missing case hardware - So speaking of those standoffs... my case only came with 8 standoffs and 8 matching screws. Please note that if you have an full ATX motherboard you kinda need at least 9 if you cover the full ATX footprint. Luckily the mobo I was using was mATX but that missing standoff would have halted the build until you can source another compatible standoff or jam an eraser behind the last corner or /something/ =( That said, after my mATX experience with this case, if trying to put a full ATX board into this case be sure to high-five Dante on the way to the newly formed 10th circle.... Cable management - ha. ha. hah. So take a good look at the picture of the inside of this case. Did you assume there would be cutouts along the bottom of the mobo for things like USB or front panel connections? Well put that silly thought to rest now because there aren't any. The only hole you (officially) get on the bottom is already going to be crowded with all your PSU cables trying to fight that 180 turn to go behind the tray. Even with a modular you still have the ATX and 4/8pin power down there. Oh you have some drives to hook up or maybe even a USB3 PCIe card needing power? Good thing everything is fully windowed and lit to show off that cable spaghetti! Alright but you think, there are the cutouts along the "front" of the mobo, so obviously just go there right? Well take a wild guess where the only 2.5in mounting spots for this case are located? If you guessed that using a SATA SSD like a man-hole cover to block the only remaining opening you had to route minor cables like... the ATX power connector - congratulations, darkFlash has a job opening in case design for you! Remember that bottle of liquor I told you to have ready? Pour a few as you ponder who designed this thing. Did they only use M.2 drives? Did they somehow pioneer powering an ATX motherboard wirelessly? Whoa buddy, put down the glass, save some for the "final assembly" ... Top radiator mount - alright, so you finally got that motherboard in there, wired in a way that doesn't look totally hideous in your glass fronted show case. Because you read that this case actually has a top mounting location for a twin 2x120 radiator you did that, cause we're building this too look cool right? So you mount your AIO cooler's pump/block to the processor, then ssssquueezzzee in your radiator into the top position. It's tight, because they only left 1 inch of space from the top of the mobo to the case top, but the radiator fits and everthing is lookin good! Except you know, for some crazy reason you might want to put FANS on that radiator. Bonus crazo if... what? Inside the case WITH the radiator? You nutter you! So just when you thought you were done, if you're really unlucky and your motherboard "foolishly" has something like... heatsinks or... memory slots close the top edge you're pretty much hosed for space here. This last one really is a design oversight, other cases either are a little taller so the mobo is further away from the top, OR even better, they simply offset the radiator mounting holes away from the mobo tray side of the case an extra 3/4 of an inch. So if you run into this, you then get the fun of removing the motherboard and discovering the first issues about the mobo standoffs I started with above - with the addition that the cables you so painstakingly routed now all have to loosen out and my oh my that liquor bottle is getting mighty empty at this point... And as a last post-script, remember that USB3 card I mentioned? Yea well I think the USB3 front-panel cable on my case is also bad. because of course it would be (Now where IS that bottle)...

Overall Review: Overall I did get a system put together in this case and it did end up looking pretty good if you don't look too close. And for the intended recipient as a surprise "we got you a computer and it looks like THIS!" it most definitely gives the razzle dazzle and smiles to the end user you want! But if you're looking at this case as say a first time builder? No. No no no. Also I got this case on sale when it was $20 off thinking "hey that's not bad price" but honestly after fighting with this case and the stupid things like missing standoffs and bad design it still honestly felt overpriced ... to be fair maybe you're paying for the glass? It really is the journey with this case that makes it awful - but if you can get to the end it isn't so bad! How's that for a messed up moral? Thanks for reading and hopefully this will give a chuckle and maybe be useful for someone. Good Luck!

Pros: So these work great at their rated speed and timings with my 3800x on a AsRock Phantom Gaming 4. It's 32GB at CAS16 on a budget... well maybe "less costly" might be more accurate ;p

Cons: So this is a correction to my earlier review - my earlier CON was not being able to tweak timings down at all for more performance. Which again - I don't dock that as a fault of the memory since it worked 100% fine at XMP settings. With a bit more experience with these bigger sticks, and some BIOS / firmware revisions there is a bit of room to play. The important one though is with luck 3800 works now - but at least for this board tWRRD must be 2 or more or no-POST.

Overall Review: This is a revised review - but I want to stress even in my original "disappointed" review I still gave this memory full points before because it worked flawlessly at advertised XMP setting from the get go - and my complaints were mostly just from a desire to goose a little bit more from it - but again that's not a fault. Now with a bit of experience and a couple updates later, it turns out there is some room to play with these - which is excellent. The big "one" being able to run 3800mhz memory with a 1900FCLK which seems to be the sweet spot for 3xxx and 5xxx Ryzen. Honestly I wish memory makes would just "create" a DDR4-3800 segment (CAS 16 and... 14 would be awesome) but hey, until that happens this kit seems to have a really good chance of getting you to 3800 CAS 16 w/o breaking the bank. Thumbs up G.Skill!

Pros: Performance has been good on older systems. haven't had any failures yet in 4 drives spaced over a few months.

Cons: I've read that it can be a bit of pot-luck on what controller and/or NAND you will get in some of the Team Group models. This unfortunately makes it a bit difficult to write recommendations\reviews since you won't know which "flavor" you'll actually get and you can't really make the assumption that they'll all be the same. I don't think I can direct link in a review, but search for: The Anandtech review : The TeamGroup L5 LITE 3D (480GB) SATA SSD Review: Entry-Level Price With Mainstream Performance

Overall Review: Again I don't want to spread FUD - the 4 of these I've used so far have been performing and working fine. I just wish Team Group had some clearer way to distinguish versions. I just don't want them to inadvertently pull a Kingston SSDNow V300 style fiasco - something that I still boycott Kingston to this day because of.

Pros: Works well in the random Toshiba laptop I tried it in. Inexpensive.

Cons: none that I found

Overall Review: I bought this memory mostly as it was the most inexpensive 2x4Gb DDR3-1333 SoDIMM set available for a laptop we weren't sure actually worked (basically salvaged but memory had been stripped). And it worked just fine. Yeay! I just wanted to write a review in case others were concerned that this memory might ONLY work in the specific Panasonic Toughbooks listed.

Pros: Modern layout that actually easily facilitates cable management Still has 5 1/4 bays if you need them The window is surprisingly nice - also since it's not glass it doesn't weigh a ton The paint is well done and it comes in some fun colors Comes with a little Philips to 3/16 hex adapter which is easy to miss (used to tighten/remove mobo standoffs)

Cons: The motherboard standoffs are easy to strip out if over-tightened - but if you do this an easy fix is just use some super-glue as a threadlocker to keep them from backing/falling out. The mobo tray is a bit flimsy (thus the stand-off stripping) but it's kinda the norm for this price segment. About the only way they could avoid this is with threaded inserts (or thicker tray metal) but again - that costs money.

Overall Review: It's nice to have a budget case with modern sensibilities for cable management. Many budget cases use old layouts where you basically must cut your own holes to route anything and/or have nonsensical layouts - a common example where the top front bay can never be used since that's where all of the front panel switches are. Recommended.