Pros: It has a nice black case. It has every wire connector needed for today's computer hardware.

Cons: It takes a while to get the "octopus" under control in the case. There are a lot of connectors, maybe too many daisy-chains that need to be tied off and out of the way.

Overall Review: It's better to have more connectors, than to run out of them.

Pros: It performs great in BF3 and SWTOR (the only 2 games I've been bothering to play that are new). 12.10 drivers haven't given me any problems with it. It looks bigger in the pictures, and it has 2 6 pin connectors that are easy to manage (plugging in and unplugging). The fan if anything is too efficient *see cons.* I prefer rear exhaust fans, and this was seemingly the only choice of the other 7870s. It's black and red, like ATI's should be also. Lately the prices dropped, and well I had to pick one up.

Cons: The fan is like what others say "a Jet taking off." I have the fan speed locked at 40% on Overdrive, and the 7870 only gets to 76C under heavy load (RC5-72 OpenCL client). With the fan on auto the card won't get above 75C, and the fan doesn't go past 50% anyway.. So 40% seems to be fine. Both the games, BF3 and SWTOR, don't even get the card to 70C even with the fan locked at 40%.

Overall Review: ~Folding@home: 11xxx WUs give 7,800 ppd. ~RC5-72 OpenCL client (beta): 1,900,000,000 keys/sec or 45,000 blocks/day.

Pros: High performance. Gets 28k ([email protected]) to 31k ([email protected] using the ASUS TPU) in 3dMark06, without the card being overclocked. *tests done in a 32C room temp aka comfortable (don't need a coat to play games)* Fan controller at automatic, actually moves with the heat increase (like if at 50C it's at 50% fan speed), unlike my GTX285 which starts speeding up the fan at 80C. At idle it sits at 32C or room temp. EVGA is my preferred choice, not just for the warranty, but mainly support and performance.

Cons: The card is huge. It may not fit some cases, or OEM boxes. Two power connectors, one being a 8pin (just to have 2 more grounds?) and a 6pin. Expensive

Overall Review: Once the prices drop, I may get another for SLI Before buying, I almost gave in to a AMD 7950, note almost. I got this for my new system: i7 3930K ASUS P9X79 Pro Corsair XMS3 8GB (4 x 2GB) Sound Blaster XFI Titanium Western Digital WD6401AALS 640GB 32MB Cache (had for 3 years Antec 300 case, modded PC power and cooling 910W PSU

Pros: It looks nice. Feels sturdy. The front door is nice, not flimsy feeling. Normal CD-ROMs fit, and if using a PCI card with the mini ITX, the CD-ROM should hit the card either. Normal 3.5 hard drives fit. Mini-ITX boards fit easily (and should). It looks like a micro-ATX will fit too, just not enough PSU power for such a board IMO. It looks smaller in the pictures, but the size make getting the wires easy to tuck and keep out of the way.

Cons: Heavy. It is bigger than I expected. 2.5 hard drives, like laptop drives have no place to mount without some kind of adapter or case modding. The motherboard mounting bulges look real close to shorting against solder joints on my micro-ITX board.

Overall Review: Mods I would recommend: Changing the 80mm fan to quiet one, or just using the stock one with a speed controller. If laying it down in a HTPC entertainment center, cut a hole on the opposite wall for another 80mm fan, and have both 80mm fans blowing in with the panel vent exhausting the heat. A 140mm fan can be put on the side cover too.

Pros: They are running at 667 with no issues on my ASUS P9X79 Pro motherboard. Low profile. I somewhat needed the low profile size it fit under the water-cooler radiator.

Cons: none

Overall Review: I bought these for 4 channel use. 8GB is more than enough.

Pros: I bought this motherboard to replace my aging DFI LP UTX58 motherboard, and I wanted more than the aging dual-channel RAM seen on LGA1155 boards. I know at the moment programs would notice the quad-channel ram, but I see in the near future there will be plenty of support (I remember when many dissed dual channel). I was immediately able to install the 906 BIOS version. I installed Windows 7 64 Pro without any issues. All the drivers I needed installed, though all of them I downloaded off of ASUS's website. I did not however, install the overclocking or extra software. Too much added bloat for my taste. The BIOS great having a mouse to click everything with. It's kind of cool. Settings in the BIOS were not over bearing either.

Cons: Cost IMO the memory slots could be above and below the CPU socket, since radiators for liquid coolers are very close to the rear memory slots by mere mm's. Blue heatsinks, what can I say, like like red and black. The VRM's above the CPU socket need a fan blowing on them at all times. The integrated Realtek sound is OK, with minimal noise, but the FP connector could be moved to the front of the board layout. It didn't come with bolt on rear headers for USB, or USB 3.0. in which a 3.0 plate would be great since I am using a somewhat older case.

Overall Review: It has a lot of features. I ended up disabling the sound (using Soundblaster XFI), bluetooth, and the lower SATA Asmedia ports. I thought it might give me many issues due to all the iffy reviews, but the board hasn't given me any problems at all. Most reviews on Newegg just seem like angry people raging about what they bought, at least it seems like lately. It is setup with: i7 3930K (that I had to get from another source) CORSAIR XMS3 8GB (4 x 2GB) 1 Western Digital Black 640GB 32MB cache hard drive (temporary) Zotac GT 440 1GB video card I heard many issues with RAID, but I haven't bothered trying yet due to the hard drive price craze.