Joined on 03/23/05
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Pros: Nice card. Comes with an HDMI adapter. Performs as advertised. Almost all is good.
Cons: The card is long. Check the stats on Manuf. web site it says 10.5 inches - nope. You need to clear an 11 inch long card in your case. Tin snips to the drive cage fixed my problem.
Overall Review: Vid cards are getting bigger and longer. Case makers and vid card makers need to help us out with good numbers.
Not Fast Enough To Make It Worth The Effort
Pros: Easy to install. Pretty quiet. Performs as advertised
Cons: I installed it as my boot drive on a desk top system. I didn't take into account the time it takes the controller card to initiate the drive in my expectations for boot time. Loading the OS is faster than a high performance SATA drive but not so much that it was worth the price premium.
Overall Review: If I had it to do over again for a desktop system drive I'd go with a high performance SATA drive.
Excellent Drive
Pros: I was expecting a noisy drive and found this one to be much less noisy than expected. It was also cooler than I expected. It plugged right into my Asus P6T and once I loaded the drivers made a fine OS drive.
Cons: I should have purchased a bigger drive or two of these in RAID 0
An Amazing Product
Pros: There are so many good features on this board I can't list them all. Two features that stand out are Qfan and SAS support. QFan is the bios conrolled fan speed feature that keeps my system as quiet as it can be by regulating fan speed based on system load. SAS is Serial Attached SCSI which let's my buy a 15,000 rpm hard drive and use it as my OS and program drive. Boots are fast. Editing video content is fast. This board even supports SAS RAID.
Cons: None.
Wonderful Case for the Money
Pros: Excellent construction, Excellent features. I've had cases with side vents in the past. I think they just increase the noise. This case does not have side vents, just good old fashioned front to back air flow. I purchased two 92mm fans for the front and I'm very happy.
Cons: I wish it had come with the two fans in the front - oh well.
Pros: Excellent product, actually improved my FPS in Far Cry - only a few frames but still. This RAM looks so good I wish I had a window in my case.
Cons: None