Pros: This card blows the doors off my XFX 9600GT. I'm finally playing Crysis at High resolution. I was thinking that i would buy another one of these to run CrossfireX, but at this point i may wait until the price comes down a little...

Cons: At fan speeds above 50%...wow! I have 6 120mm, a 220mm fan, and a Zalman over sized cpu heatsink w/ a fan, so i'm not really that sensative when it comes to noise, but at 75% it is absolutely intolerable. I have heard a couple of times, at high usage, some high pitched whining...we'll see about that one...

Overall Review: My system: Cosmos S (6x120mm/1x220mm) Asus Maximus Extreme E8400 @ 3.2 w/ Zalman 9500A 4x1g Corsair TWIN3X2048-1333C9DHX 3x750g Samsung Spinpoint

Pros: Huge. Soft. Helps with the accuracy of my Deathadder. Was using a thin harder pad and my wrist would hurt after extended gaming... so more!

Cons: Not really a "con", but it is pretty expensive for a track pad...but I knew that going in and I dont regret it.

Pros: Connected without a hitch. Programmable wheel. Small enough for travel. Pretty stylish. Matte finish for grip... frankly I am very very happy.

Cons: None so far...we'll see how long the batteries last.

Overall Review: Bought this for use with my MSI GS70 while the figure out the trackpad issues and while traveling... So far, so good.

Pros: I got this last night, so I haven't played with it all that much; however, I already have a couple of things. -For my first 17” laptop this is almost as heavy as our 15” Dell (which now that we have a new laptop I am going to set on fire). -Very thin! I am really impressed at the thickness of this laptop. The other laptop I was considering was the Razer Blade (14”), but I was underwhelmed by the screen resolution and the price and specs when compared to this thing. -Raid 0 SSDs are always awesome, but the real story to meet is how much storage is in this thing. I will probably not do a ton of gaming on this thing, but will use Ableton, Serato, and Traktor. I have a tons of stuff that I need to store on this thing and having the speed of the SSDs and the storage (and decent speed) of a 1TB 7200rpm…that’s hard to beat! -The keyboard is really comfortable and pretty attractive to be honest. -VERY QUIET and very cool. Our Dell with a i7-720QM was hot and loud…and generally a piece, but that’s for another review… -The screen is really great. Little to no glare. Everything looks pretty clean. I will have to play something on here to see what it can really do.

Cons: Now on to the cons… I don’t particularly care for Windows 8. Honestly, I am going to spend a couple of days attempting to get this thing worked out and then I am going to either load Windows 7 (if possible) or I am going to send this back to MSI…its that bad. I have an Acer Iconia W700 with touch and Windows 8, which is pretty good… So, keep that in mind when you read the following. -First off the touchpad is intolerable. It doesn’t always pick up your finger movement, but it does a pretty good job of picking up on your palm or arm while typing…this is annoying. Also, the cursor moves super slow at the 80% fastest speed. When you turn up the cursor speed the cursor seems to blink out…not sure what that is all about. Also, at full speed it does like to stay in one place, so you cant select anything while its fast enough to use…this is frustrating. -In general this thing is almost completely unusable because of all of the switching back and forth between different programs. When you put the cursor in the top right and try to get the cursor down to the settings there is a panel that comes up at the bottom and the right side bar disappears…infuriating… The same happens when you attempt to move the cursor right to left (it may be the other direction). It will start swapping from program to program if you have more than one open…anger… I had to shut off almost all of the finger movement options for the track pad just so that I could use this thing. In general, besides the trackpad, I biggest cons are Windows 8. I have fought off the iZombies for as long as I can, but I am getting tired of Windows one good, one bad track record (XP, Vista,W7, W8…W9 will be good maybe). I have a Windows 8 tablet that is pretty good, but if you take away touch their OS is s**t… Windows should really think things through with W9. I have friend in IT that are furious about the server/enterprise version of W8 and now I understand why…

Overall Review: We will see where this goes. I will be spending the next week trying to figure out how to make this OS suck less than it does now. If I can figure it out I will repost and let everyone know. If I cant do that I will be attempt to install another OS on this thing, send this thing back to MSI (I may cry a little) or sell it (I may cry when I do this too)… Windows 8 in its current iteration is unbearable without touch…and frankly I am not buying this laptop to sissy foot around with touch.

Pros: This thing is super fast! I was expecting for it to be slower than our laptop (i7 Dell), but I do believe it’s faster. I know that it is because of the SSD, but this thing is responsive. FULL Windows 8 64-bit and USB 3.0!! It is somewhat lighter and cooler than I thought that it would be. I knew that if I needed a tablet for more than just content consumption I would need more hardware, which means more weight generally, but I was pleasantly surprised at how comfortable this is to hold for moderate periods of time. The temp, even after extended use, is low. I can tell if my hand is heating the case or if its the i5!! Lastly, this comes with a docking station that expands your 1 on board USB 3.0 to 3 and has HDMI; Bluetooth keyboard; and a really nice sleeve (although I am not a huge fan of the color) for $750-$800…that is just crazy. I paid $747 from another site. An iPad is that much without any extras (not to mention, besides the display, the lackluster hardware).

Cons: The cameras suck. I expected the front facing to suck, but the rear 5MP camera is pretty bad as well. The 5MP is fine for FB pics, but anything else you will still need a camera. Windows 8 is still young. There are still a LOT of apps that will not work on Windows 8. My wife has to have Square for taking CC payments and there is no support from Square on Windows 8… this is just one example of the app problems we have been having. It will take a little while for Windows to catch up with iOS and Android in the touch/mobile device arena.

Overall Review: We have had ZERO wireless issues. I am not if we got lucky or if Acer fixed the problem, but we have had no issues. I will update if we start having issues.

Pros: This thing brought my i7-930 stock clock (2.8) temps down from high 70’s with a V10 during Prime 95 to max temps of high 50's during Prime 95 overclocked at 3.6! I never felt that the V10 was really that bad, but this thing blows the V10 out of the water on so many levels. I replaced the fans with Scythe Slipstreams and the noise went way down (see cons).

Cons: 2 cons: 1st: The fans are very very loud. I have a Coolermaster Cosmos S case and they are way too loud for a case as open as mine. Replaced with some Scythe Splistreams and the problem was solved. I have heard that I should use other fans, but I had these in the case already. 2nd: This thing was a little bit of a PITA to mount. The lines are pretty stiff and too short to mount further away from the socket. With the push/pull its too think to mount close to the socket… Ended up getting everything in there, but I purchased a 120 x 12mm fan to place next to it in order to have all 3 top fan positions filled. Placement ended up in the very front top fan position. This meant that I had to relocate my drive down a few 5.25 slots.

Overall Review: All in all this is a great cooler...just wish that I had bought the H100i now that I have it in there.