Pros: I had two GTX 980 cards, ASUS Strix. They ran hot, and sometimes games don't work right with SLI. This card runs cooler near as I can tell, faster on most games.

Cons: Manual is not helpful

Overall Review: GPU Tweak II does an ok job of overclocking the card. The lastest version didn't work at all though, had to use an earlier one. The card seems to keep under 70C. And is pretty quiet. To get the LED lights to sync with Aura, you must dig through the Asus page for a specific download. Once I installed that, lights will sync properly, no need for any additional connection to the motherboard. The card seems physically solid when installed, I was concerned that heavy of a card might have issues. This card seems like a good fit for my ROG motherboard in terms of design. Occasionally, and so far only in Doom, the video will freeze, along with the sound for a few seconds. Has happened 3 or 4 times, in 10+ hours of play. Not clear what the cause of this is. That never happened with my old video cards. My PC locked up while playing Civilization 6. I can't point fingers at the card, because I don't know if I was using stock settings at the time. Overall there's some slight concerns, but I don't like to raise the alarm unless I am seeing repeated issues at stock settings. It's not obvious the card is having issues as I have played Doom for many hours on it, with no issues, other than the random and uncommon freezes. Card passes 3D Mark Time Spy extreme 10 minute stress test, which I deem pretty good. This card can't play all games at 60hz minimums at 4k, but that's obvious from the numerous bench tests online. But the only other obvious option is the MUCH more expensive 2080ti, so the resolution is to lower some critical settings, or play in 1440p, or live with 40fps or so ( my typical average for poor performing games.)

Pros: Well, it kind of works :)

Cons: Bad design. For example, if, for some reason, the two units stop communicating, only a local reset seems to fix it. A local reset is VERY impractical in my case, involving me getting on the floor to try to reach product behind a dresser. You either unplug it, thus restarting all devices, one of which is Tivo (which takes minutes to restart,) or you have to try to use nearly impossible to use inset reset button which is ON THE BOTTOM of thing. Did they TRY to make it as hard to reset as possible? And why can't it recover from a simple failure, such as one of the devices becoming powered down? Also, at one point, my whole network stopped working because one of the boxes kept losing it's connection. This could be the fault of my Apple router, but something seemed very odd with that. Also, 500 Mb/s is probably a theoretical max. Actual speeds I have seen were as low as 80. Not too good. And yes, I connected both directly to the wall. Make sure you don't use a power strip, which could effect performance. ALSO, it's design could be better, or at least include an adaptor to make it more flexible. In my case, I have a switched outlet, with the switched side being on the bottom. The device can't be plugged into the switched outlet, as that controls my lighting. But if you plug it into the top, it blocks the top. Either make a rotating connection, or include an adpator which would let you turn it upside down, and plug it into the top outlet. I think bottom switched/top unswitched outlets are pretty common, so why not think ahead on this one?

Pros: Software seems good Owners manual seems good Drives are easy to add

Cons: Like most complex software, sometimes I can't figure stuff out, but there's usually online help via goggle Synology wants you to use their overpriced drives, and expansion stuff 2.5 G/s requires $100 module, and this is in 2024

Overall Review: For background...I bought a WD NAS not long ago. And started realizing I didn't know a lot about NAS. So after watching more videos, I realized the WD was ok for basic tasks, but limiting, with overly simple user interface. After deciding on a 4-bay, and watching videos, I settled on this NAS. I added three WD Pro 6 TB drives. This was really easy to do Some weeks after buying I added 8 GB of RAM ( and going to replace existing 4 GB with another 8.) HAD to buy their network expansion card for painful $110 or so. If you read this review, note that out of the box, it's limited to 1000 Mb/s (1 Gb/s)! You must buy the expansion, and it's a painful $110 USD, to repeat myself. It supports up to 10 Gb/s with the expansion. In 2024, it's not that pricey to put 2.5 Gb/s switches into your home, and if you already have Cat 5e cable, it will probably work. Gigabit ethernet ( 1 Gb/s,) can be limiting. I can write close to 300 MB/s to the NAS after doing the work ( spending money) to goto 2.5 Gb/s. Before that, 100 MB/s. This may matter to some people. It's sad IMO, but it's also my fault that I missed the caveat. Moving on, love the user interface. And installing packages is easy and fast. Read the manual, and normally you can google any questions, as Synology NAS are popular, and they share the same DSM software. I hate Plex by the way, it's an annoying solution to serve up music. I am going to try Audio Station which I just learned about. I can't say good things about the backup software. I played around with it, and gave up as it didn't really do what I wanted to do. My option is to run Retrospect on my PC. The solo version works just fine, to backup PC to the NAS. There's a learning curve for Retrospect, but it has a good manual. Admittedly, I used it years ago, so I didn't have to relearn everything, and my uses are simple. Synology photo is easy to use, but also feels basic. For example, it wants to import photos. Why can't I tell it where to look? If I can, I did not figure it out. But with the understanding it's basic, it's still a way to share photos with people, without Flikr, etc. YOU control the photos. There's some helpful youtube channels on various Synology topics, which I found helpful, but the hardware and DSM manuals are quite good. In summary, this gizmo feels quite "professional" for home use or small office. If it's hardware holds up well, I will never have buyer's remorse. Owning a NAS makes life easier, when you have multiple PCs you want to backup, or have shared data for. It can be a cloud, to share stuff like photos and music, and when you are upgrading computers, providing you backed up the data to the NAS you deemed critical, you won't be as anxious. Sure there's cheap external drives, but you know where your NAS is, and it has reliability like RAID 5 (or 6) and data scrubbing and such.

Pros: 3.5 GB/s sequential transfer speed. Reasonable price

Cons: None

Overall Review: It's a new world out there, with affordable M2 NVME drives. Bought this on sale, so got about .2 GB per dollar. Unless this developed faults down the road, it's perfect. Using it for Steam games.

Pros: GTX 780 seems to be the fastest card at it's price point. It's like a $650 Titan, which itself was based on the same GPU used in a super computer. The GK 110 is stripped down a bit. If that's not clear, it's one of the fastest GPUs on the market. It's the fastest at it's price point that I know of.

Cons: It's a $650 video card. Consider that my GTX 670 was able to play Tomb Raider on the highest settings and looked smooth doing it (at 1920x1080.) You likely don't need this card - benchmarks can be your guide here.

Overall Review: The cooling impresses me. I was messing around with some overclocking, and if I set the fan mode to manual at 100%, it did not seem to hit it's thermal limits - it would either work at the OC, or fail, but not go into limiting. In auto mode, it will declock, but who cares - it's a 780 - you probably did not need that power anyway. I bought two of them, but there's no rational need for them. I am a foolish benchmark chaser. If you have multiple monitors or a super high rez monitor, you might be able to take advantage of one of them. So far no problems at all, but time will tell. Oh, I did not get too much of an OC on it, but it was already factor OCd. And there's only so much room to move on Kepler with stock cooling, etc. But there's no rational need to OC this for most people.

Pros: It puts out power!

Cons: It's pricier than some comparably rated supplies, but specs can be misleading.

Overall Review: I bought this because- (a) My video driver kept crashing, and power supply was one possible factor (b) The power supply was well review at Hard OCP who does (supposedly) real load testing. After putting it, in, I tried both of the old cards under various conditions, and the driver never crashed. That could indicate a (possibly complex) issue, that is resolved by a more stable supply. I had ordered two new cards which also solved the problem. But I wanted a new supply, just in case, as I spend over 1k on two new GTX 780s, and I wanted to be sure they were getting clean power.