Joined on 09/18/08
Amazing Little Case!! Well Done DIYPC
Pros: Built well for the price. Compact but still holds a 270X DEVIL Lots of 120mm fan options Simple on/off case fan controller Windowed side that doesn't scratch to easy Hard drive sleds Bulged sides for more cooler clearance and wire management USB 3.0 Include 2 decent blue quiet fans This one is for Linus... It comes boxed nicely in hard foam.
Cons: One con I have and this is preference is the side window is smoked not plain clear. This makes it hard for my girlfriend to see all her beautiful hardware....LOL Also the plastic snaps that stick up through the bottom to hold the rear back corner foot on the case sticks through the bottom of the case to far and slightly impedes where the PSU sits. Not a big deal with a little determination.
Overall Review: Would buy this case again over ANY other case in its price. Heck I might buy another for no reason.
Good board just bad luck...
Pros: Great board at a great price with good features.
Cons: Board arrived with memory slot 2 dead. Just used slots 1 and 3 and all was fine. Then next morning turn the PC on and wouldn't boot or go into bios. Returned the board to Newegg for a full refund. Not gonna be to hard on ASRock because they do make decent boards I think I just got a bad on out of the bunch. Only thing I didn't like about the was the memory slot clips felt really cheap. Also the 4 pin PWM fan headers can only control 4 pin PWM fans. This is quite annoying, how many people used $20 fans on a $65 motherboard other than the CPU fan.
Overall Review: Just glad Newegg let me return it easily.
Its ok, nothing to get excited about...
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Overall Review: Bought this for a htpc. Realisticly its kinda slow. My old htpc had a dated socket 775 Celeron E3400 dual core 2.6ghz, 4gb ddr2, and a GT8500 512mb card (this computer is about 8 years old). My old htpc would walk circles around this Athlon 5350 far as user experience. I ended up switching my new htpc to a Intel Celeron G1820 (same price) and h81 mothboard. Did some testing and the G1820 beats the 5350 in every test even multitasking and graphics dispite being a dual core. Mean while with Intel Speedstep enabled keeps it cool and sipping power. Testing was done with Geekbench 3, Cinebench r15, Performance Test full suite, and Unigen Heaven. Plus the Intel hd graphics are easy to oc for a free performance boost.
Great Cooler
Pros: Quality mounting hardware Fits on a fx8320 and Asus 990fx ROG board Kept fx8320 cool at 4.6ghz 1.375v in a 72 f room temp Well built Included fan is quiet and cools well
Cons: None really
Overall Review: Forget the CM 212
Great Case for HTPC
Pros: Built a nice HTPC with this case. Silverston ML03B case AMD AM1 Athlon 5350 APU MSI AM1M mobo Mushkin ECO2 60GB SSD Antec 450 80+ Bronze Lite-On DVD drive There a decent amount off room for parts and cooling so I'm a happy camper.
Cons: Only complaint is the paint seems to chip off easy around the cover screws, but not bad so not a big deal.
Overall Review: I would buy again.
Great SSD for CHEAP
Pros: No firmware to install or updates, ready to go out of the box. Has worked flawless so far and and benchmarked at 552 read and 481 write on crystal disk mark. Not the fastest but good for the price.
Cons: None
Overall Review: Mushkin has been a good brand for me in the past and I'm glad I bought this SSD. The last Muskin product I bought was many years ago, it was Muskin PC2-5300 Blackline ram. It still works to this day.