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Kevin B.

Kevin B.

Joined on 11/30/13

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Good deal if on sale

Rosewill PHOTON Series 1200W Full Modular Gaming Power Supply, 80 PLUS Gold Certified, Single +12V Rail, Intel 4th Gen CPU Ready, SLI & Crossfire Ready - Photon-1200
Rosewill PHOTON Series 1200W Full Modular Gaming Power Supply, 80 PLUS Gold Certified, Single +12V Rail, Intel 4th Gen CPU Ready, SLI & Crossfire Ready - Photon-1200

Pros: - Bought cheap (170$) - Gold so not bad on efficiency - 5 Year warranty - Been running for about 10 days straight at 1kw ish load

Cons: - Generates a lot of heat - Fan always on - Really pushing it for a 4 GPU setup (6x 8pin to 8pin and 2x 8pin to dual 8pin) - Small whining/water like sound (like the xbox one has)

Overall Review: But you get what you pay for. I am a fan of seasonic (Hate their cables that don't fit in other ps but i will let it slide). But this rosewill ps generates a lot of heat, seriously. Just this ps generates as much heat as a whole system does. Will update this if something comes up

11/28/2016

Great HDD for raid array's

WD Red Plus 4TB NAS Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM Class SATA 6Gb/s, CMR, 64MB Cache, 3.5 Inch - WD40EFRX
WD Red Plus 4TB NAS Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM Class SATA 6Gb/s, CMR, 64MB Cache, 3.5 Inch - WD40EFRX

Pros: i used alot of drives from different sources (3 from here, 5 from directdial.com and 4 from microbyte) and most of them have never been turned off for over a year and are still in brand new state in a smart check so im very happy with my purchase

Cons: they work wonderfully how ever they are still max 5400 rpm so its not the best performance you can get but still good performance.

Overall Review: you can still get great performance out of these with a Raid 10 array and a carefully picked stripsize

THIS CARD WORKS ON NONE SERVER MOTHERBOARDS

areca ARC-1224-8i-MM PCI-Express 2.0 x8 SATA / SAS RAID Controller Card with mini-SAS Cable
areca ARC-1224-8i-MM PCI-Express 2.0 x8 SATA / SAS RAID Controller Card with mini-SAS Cable

Pros: ok heres my setup: motherboard: Asus Rampage IV Black Edition CPU:I7 4820k @ 4.8ghz Ram:4x4Gb @ 2400hz 2 samsung 250Gb SSD in raid 1 for windows 8x4Tb western digital red in raid 10 strip size: 128b so me i was looking for a raid card to use on a none server board i tried a lsi mega raid card did not work so i was trying card left and right and now i finally found a card that works aka the one im reviewing also for more info this card supports strip size up to 1024b and its working beautifully so i STRONGLY recommend this card to anyone wanting to run alot of drives in raid 5,6,10, 10+ spare

Cons: none

10/26/2014

beautiful

G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-14900CL8Q-16GBZM
G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-14900CL8Q-16GBZM

Pros: bought these to replace my 2 g skills 2x4gb 1600hz ram which i gave to my sister they works very well and the blue goes well with my kingston hyper fan x

Cons: quite expensive but worth it

great fans

Cooler Master SickleFlow 120 - Sleeve Bearing 120mm Blue LED Silent Fan for Computer Cases, CPU Coolers, and Radiators
Cooler Master SickleFlow 120 - Sleeve Bearing 120mm Blue LED Silent Fan for Computer Cases, CPU Coolers, and Radiators

Pros: nice and works very well and are whisper quiet

Cons: the only con i see is the power cable is only a 3 pin (power and lighting cable) compared to my cooler master fans which are 3 pin (power) AND a 2 pin for lighting

does a great job

CORSAIR Hydro Series H100i Extreme Performance Water/Liquid CPU Cooler. 240mm
CORSAIR Hydro Series H100i Extreme Performance Water/Liquid CPU Cooler. 240mm

Pros: ok its about 25c in my room and i made the custom curve manually and it keeps my cpu (4820k) at 29c and its very quiet unless you put it at maximum

Cons: ok their is **1** problem with this cooler is that corsair are not the pritest people (no offence) the computer ha sALOT of difficulty working with this device i got it working 1 time and made the custom curve on it since then i tried eveything i talked to 4 different people at corsair they dont know how to fix this so if you buy this you will have 1 chance to tune it well after that maybe you will have other chances but just do it well

Overall Review: other than that it works great and does a great cooling job it kicks my old h80 out the window in comparison XD