Great budget performance
598001
Good PC, ran fairly quick out if the box including AutoCad. I immediately maxed out the ram and swapped hd for a ssd. Much faster now. Good for the price. Would be 5 stars except opening this thing up was a bi#ch.
2794975
After using the system for about a month, I can say that I'm happy with my purchase. The sound is great and the sound customizing options, although confusing, are robust. I'm having a problem with the TV picture getting all squirrelly on me, but I think that's a TV (older Philips LCD), glitch.
And the Dynamic Volume function evens the sound out so commercials don't seem so loud.
The surround speakers don't have a 1/4-20 threaded hole for mounting so I had to make modifications to use my pre-wired wall mounts.
All around great performance and priced right.
1513181
Using it right now, cheap and good performance.
3931350
This card in combination with my relatively cheap system actually performs very well. I can run BF3 at 1080P Ultra settings and achieve over 100FPS in some parts of the game as well as an average of around 45-55FPS. The lowest I've seen the FPS was about 35 or 40.

If you want a card and are on a tight budget I highly recommend this one. I bought this to replace my EVGA GTX 285 that UPS destroyed when I moved. I only had enough money for this card and it had some great reviews. Go out there and google this card and you will see how popular it's become. I've been using it for 6 months and haven't had an issue. My system specs are below.

Rosewill Challenger Black Mid-tower ATX
ASUS P8Z77-V LE Plus Motherboard
OCZ ZT 650W Modular PSU
Intel i5-3570k (OC at 4.2Ghz / 1.2V)
Hyper 212 EVO cooler
Crucial Very Low Profile 8GB 1600Mhz DDR3 (9-9-9-24)
EVGA GTX 650 Ti Boost 2GB
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB (64MB Cache)
LITE-ON DVD Burner iHAS124-04
ASUS PB238Q 23" IPS LED-lit monitor
Logitech g500
Razer Goliathus Alpha Fragged mousepad
Corsair K95 keyboard
Logitech G35 Headset
2264350
reasonable price.  great performance.  flexible rpm options built in, toggle LED.

white LED is bright, it what I wanted to keep my desk area fairly lit for late night sessions.

using two of these on Enermax's white CPU cooler running 4.3ghz on AMD FX-6300 (stock 3.5ghz).  keeps the chip cool and moves all the hot air out the exhaust on my nzxt phantom 410.

virtually silent on low, somewhat of a hum on mid, and air is really moving on high setting.  you can hear it, but not to the point that it would be annoying.

even in push/pull on cpu cooler they don't make much fuss.
1636346
Bought this as a stop-gap after I toasted an Ivy Bridge Core-i5 and the associated motherboard (long story). I needed a quick, cheap replacement, and bought this Celeron until I could afford a Core i7-3770.

I was pleasantly surprised at the performance of this CPU. This is nothing like Celerons of old that had abysmal performance. I have a discrete GPU, so I did not use the on-package graphics on this guy. However, now that I have replaced this with a Core i7, I'm using this CPU to assemble a low-cost computer for my grandpa to replace the old Intel dual-core laptop that he's using. All in all, you can't go wrong if you need a low-cost processor for under $50.
3479315
Once the graphics card was installed into the computer--a few of the necessary bios settings were changed--I noticed an immediate jump in performance over my previous integrated graphics card. Granted, my other card was was sub-par, but this upgrade proved to be a worthwhile investment.

Pros:
-Easy to install the card and the pertinent software
-Relatively small for a GTX card
-Provides amazing video and gaming performance

Cons:
-The fan continues to run, even when in sleep mode

Overall, if anyone has a restricted budget, I'd recommend this card to anyone. Not only do you receive high quality, but fantastic performance as well (for the price).
647041
Easy to install, great upgrade from my previous ATI card.  Maybe not top of the line, but for the price the performance is great.  No weird problems, etc. w/normal use nor gaming or photo editing apps.
2821824
I think the most important thing to remember about the sub is the performance for the price. As long as you are not expecting this to be along the lines of SVS,  or Hsu, Rythmik, Rel, et al. I think you'll like this thing. It is big and very capable of moving air.
I have this in my living room which is 240 with 13 foot ceilings, open to my kitchen and eating area with same ceiling height and have no issues with distortion or lack of bass. I'm using my AVR's crossover, speakers set at small and crossover At 100 hz and gain on sub at 6. It's plenty to fill in the gaps.
For movies this thing is great. For music I've found it along the lines as every one else- a little boom but I can live with it for now
4435410
Great performance for the money. It is either this or buy a several hundred dollar camera, but if you don't plan to do much underwater photography, this will work just fine.
4306213
My ratings might be higher than someone else maybe. You might expect lightning performance for the extra bucks that you pay. That's not what i was expecting for when I bought this. I just didn't want to buy a plain old 7200 RPM disk for about 50-60$ but didn't want to spend over 300$ for a top end SSD. Even the top end SSDs don't have the big hard disk sizes; like over 500GB.

Didn't mind paying a little more. The performance has been better than an ordinary 7200 RPM disk. Boot times are pretty decent and overall performance even when running virtual machines is quite good. I like it.
442430
Bought this for web surfing, streaming and gaming. Does all of that very well, very satisfied with performance. Nice screen, I like the keyboard and the case is fairly slim. Runs games well.  Borderlands 2 and Skyrim on high settings at 1920x1080 run without a hiccup. Great value for the money.  Plan on replacing the hdd with a ssd as it's definitely the bottleneck of the system.

Two things I dislike. One is there is a single mousepad button that controls the right click and left click functions- makes it hard to play games. Definitely need an external mouse or controller if you want to play games.  Secondly, it gets hot very quickly when gaming. These both can be fixed but definitely are negatives.  Overall it's a great machine, though.
4364922
I bought this card about six months ago to replace a 8800GT that went up on me. I'm pleased to say I've had great results. While certainly not a high-end card by today's standards, it still has what it takes to run the games I like to play on medium settings and very playable framerates. These games have included Skyrim, NBA2K12, Sims 3, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Civilization V and XCom: Enemy Unknown to name just a few. So if you are on a budget or looking to replace an old card, I can highly recommend this one.
1404557
Worked surprisingly well for a budget camera.  Lives up the expectations and performed like a champ.  Purchased for my wife as she does book interviews on google+ hangouts and it has not failed her yet, so it is well deserving of a 5 start.  Installed on windows 8.1 without any issues.  For the price it is actually a very decent camera.  It is lacking advanced features yeah, but if you are just using it for video chat, it is a perfect balance.
2844565
Good price to performance ratio would recxomend!
1994507
I was pleasantly surprised by these speakers. Although the reviews and my research showed that they would be a good budget solution for my project, I didn't expect them to sound this good. Excellent power, great range and bass is strong enough without being overwhelming. Very easy to install. Definitely need to follow the positioning directions to make sure they have a good location to produce the best sound possible. Well worth the money. Some of my friends have the high end in wall speakers and I could swear they sound basically the same but for 4 times the price.
3529503
I have a small rig for casual gaming. I bought this as an upgrade from an old 5570, and it was just what I needed. It's very small and fits perfectly in smaller cases. Perfect for budget pc's. I have played a variety of games with it, with a very stable performance. Played games like Bioshock Infinite (including dlc), Diablo 3, Far Cry 3, Batman Arkham Origins, and more recently The Evil Within at max settings without any issues in performance or fps drops. The fan works quietly and even under heavy load is not loud at all. Power consumption is very low, as it doesn't need external power.
Drivers are easy to find and install. Nvidia Geforce Experience software works fine, although the optimizer does not recognize all games (happens often with my steam games). Shadow Play is a good tool for recording gameplay, but it could be a little bit more polished.