Pros: 1. Haswell architecture with 10EU integrated graphics. 2. Small unobtrusive form factor. 3. Inexpensive 4. Energy efficient 5. Virtually silent on normal usage (not gaming or benchmarking) 6. Easy internal access: 2 thumbscrews and you're in, even the HDD bay uses a single thumbscrew to secure the drive

Cons: 1. No wifi. 802.11 AC was advertised in the product description 2. No way to integrate wifi internally. 3. No mini-PCIE or msata slots 4. Creaky plastic construction

Overall Review: This is a very basic do-it-yourself barebones. Very easy to put together, It took me about 5-10 minutes to installing the OS from opening the box. It does not include 802.11 AC wifi as was listed in the specifications section and there is no way to add wifi internally as it does not have any mini-PCIE slots or onboard connector. If you want wifi you'll have to use a USB adapter. Glossy black plastic lid is a fingerprint magnet. When plugged in but not powered on, the power and disk activity light glows red, switches to white when powered on. The BIOS looks similar to the graphical type you see on recent Asrock or Asus motherboards, but does not appear to allow mouse control. Interesting options including a "low power mode" for the onboard GPU. It may be a dealbreaker for some, but I didn't need wifi on this. I did take an egg off for the lack of it though (it was advertised as having 802.11 AC wifi) and the inability to install it internally Added 4 GB of DDR3 (2x2) 1600 memory and a 128 GB SSD I had left over from a laptop upgrade and windows 7 installed fairly quickly. It took the longest unpacking the files which is CPU dependent. Downloaded the drivers directly from Zotac's website. installed it all in one go and on to the desktop. Just using the box for basic prodcutivity, web surfing and media consumption it was very snappy and I felt it was more than adequate for the job. When pushing the CPU on big spreadsheet calculations or packing or unpacking compressed files, you can definitely feel it. Viewing 1080p Hi10bit test videos was flawless in both MPC-HC and VLC media players averaging 10% and 35% CPU usage. Even the Walt Disney pictures magic kingdom intro which can drive low powered systems to their knees, displayed without dropping frames on MPC-HC Benchmarking: Passmark 8 reports the following: CPU Mark: 1619 2D Graphics Mark: 400 3D Graphics Mark: 377 Memory Mark: 1168 Power consumption: .5 Watts Power off 8 Watts at idle 26 Watts highest peak during benchmarking Its a great basic box for someone who's building their own for the first time. Great for use as a secondary computer, web browser, media box, terminal...just without wifi.

Pros: Gigantic capacity. comes out to roughly 3700GB after formatting in GPT. Aside from the size, it features self-encryption when data is written to the drive. When the time comes to retire or send the drive in for servicing, you send it a command that resets the encryption key (not that I figured out how to use that feature yet) Large 64MB cache, In my testing, it seems to write just as fast as it reads which is a little weird but it could be the encryption controller.

Cons: The main problem with this drive is that it is slow. The 5900rpm combined with the self-encryption slows this thing down a lot. In my tests, this drive was the only drive in my server that couldn't saturate the gigabit ethernet I was using for network transfer testing, The other drives I had on hand, a bunch of 1TB Seagate 7200rpm consumer drives with 16MB cache were each fully capable of hitting transfer speeds of up to 150MB/s when testing transfer speeds. The Seagate ST4000NC000 could barely maintain 80MB/s even when transferring single large files like a bluray rip. The performance drop-off for smaller files were actually worse than my older drives. It also ran a little warmer than my older Seagates, about 2c higher which is within line for a higher platter count drive. And what's up with the 3-year warranty? If this is an enterprise-class drive, it should have a 5-year warranty. Reading the glowing reviews from my fellow reviewers, I think I may have received a bum drive. I'll continue stress testing it to see if it does go bad soon and update my review.

Overall Review: Between the slow performance and the high cost per gigabyte, I couldn't recommend this drive for the average user. However, if your needs include encryption and quick erase capability or your physical drive bay space is limited, you might want to give this a second look. Just keep in mind it is not a true enterprise grade drive, not with only a 3 year warranty.

Pros: 1. It's nice and compact at 45mm in height, but so is the Wraith Stealth if you take off the fan shroud. 2. The contact surface is nicely machined. 3. Looks and feels like a fairly high quality product. 4. It's quieter than the Noctua NH-L9a, about the same as the stock AMD fan.

Cons: 1. The mounting mechanism - It uses it's own. 2. Performance - It's worse than the stock AMD Wraith Stealth cooler. 3. It didn't have very good contact the first time I installed it.

Overall Review: If you want something that does better than the stock AMD Wraith Stealth cooler, this isn't it. Save your money and look to the louder and more expensive Noctua NH-L9a or the Cryorig C7.

Pros: -Fast -Small -Relatively quiet -Only requires a single 6-pin PCIe power -Has the firmware that doesn't shut down the fan -About 10-15% faster than the EVGA 970 SSC

Cons: -I payed MSRP. -It won't make me a cup of coffee in the morning nor give me a hug when I'm feeling blue. -I think it's dying...every now and then, (no real rhyme or reason) the screen will fill up with a pattern of faint white dots and streaks. This may last for a few seconds up to several minutes, then everything will be fine again. Edit: It was the monitor that was dying.

Overall Review: I bought this to replace my EVGA 970 SSC which went to my little sister. I wanted something that was a little more power efficient and had a little more oomph. It certainly met up with my expectations, aside from the minor nagging problems with the patterning on the screen. Power consumption in gaming with my core i7 4790K rarely exceeds 200W at the wall.

Pros: 1. Display: It's a 14" fairly midling 250 nit display, but it's 1080 IPS which is definitely an improvement over most TN displays. 2. Very light weight: It's actually a little lighter and a touch slimmer than last year's Swift 1 SF113-31 models 3. Long battery life: These Atom based laptops last for a decently long time, I can easily get through a day on a single charge. 4. All aluminum construction: It's thin aluminum but it feels nice in the hand and the lid is very rigid compared to the Swift 5. 5. Performance: It runs fairly well considering it only has 4GB of RAM. light to moderate office applications and video watching is no problem. No stuttering, even on Youtube. 6. Spare M.2 slot: Supports sata and NVME drives this time around. 7. Fingerprint reader: It allows windows Hello login.

Cons: 1. Lack of availability: Newegg does not offer the US model brand new. 2. Only 64GB of storage. 3. Only 4GB of RAM. 4. Could use a little more performance, maybe a higher tier model with more memory? 5. It came with Windows 10 S (but upgraded to pro for free)

Overall Review: This laptop should not be your first choice if it's going to be your only computer. With that out of the way, for the money, it's a fantastic deal considering it has a spare M.2 slot available for possible upgrades. Actually, if you're not going to upgrade this laptop with an SSD, I wouldn't recommend buying it, the 64GB of storage is a bit too limited, but plenty fast enough. Edit: The condition it arrived in was pristine, aside from packaging, could not tell it was a refurbished laptop Some tips for people who want to upgrade it: 1. F2 for BIOS, F12 for boot menu. 2. If you want to change boot order or turn off secure boot, you have to set the admin password in BIOS. Took me a while to figure that out. No option to turn off UEFI. 3. Start from the back corners and work your way forward. 4. If you want to get an NVME drive, don't get the Intel 760 series. I hear they don't recognize in this laptop. 5. When I tried to take it out of "S" mode, the only option it gave me was for Windows 10 Pro. Sign in with your microsoft account to upgrade for free. Edit: It also did not recognize my Micron MX500 500 gb M.2 sata SSD as a boot drive. Also does not appear to recognize any USB drives I've tried as a valid boot drive. Will experiment with other boot drives and report back. Edit2: Appears to only recognize boot from UEFI USB devices.

Pros: Works at 2933mhz dual channel with minimal fuss

Cons: Tall heatsink, may get in the way of your CPU cooler.

Overall Review: Was afraid it wouldn't work at listed speed in my Ryzen 5 2400G APU build. Almost gave me a heart attack when the system wouldn't POST after I swapped it in for the 2400mhz place-holder ram. A BIOS reset later got me into the BIOS, set the XMP settings to on, memory speed set itself to 2933mhz and the system booted normally. If this is the first set of memory in your system, you should be fine. Ryzen 5 2400G Asrock AB350M Pro4 BIOS: 4.70 AGESA ver: PinnaclePI-AM4 1.0.0.1a If you get stuttering in games, don't forget to turn off "Core Performance Boost" (turbo boost) in the BIOS. There appears to be a bug where CPU would dip down to 544mhz and GPU would dip to 200mhz causing all sorts of stuttering, only in gaming. To set it: OC Tweaker > OC Mode Change Switch > AMD CBS Setting (If you don't set this, the Advanced section won't set) Advanced > AMD CBS > Zen Common Options > Core Performance Boost > Disabled

It's an assortment of high quality tools in its own soft-pack case designed specifically for getting into small electronics, like phones, tablets and laptops.

Bought the Dell Perc H200 to flash to IT mode. It was a PITA, but it worked. Buying more while the price is reasonable.