Joined on 07/25/07
Pros: I always have liked the iPod Touch, This one is a great replacement for my 2nd gen one. Not partial to Apple products but this one seems a solid replacement for mine. Fast.
Cons: None
Worst Cooler Ever
Pros: None
Cons: Everything. To start with, I have had it for about 2-3 months and the pump has already gone out. This will be the last Corsair product I will ever own. The cooler kept my processor cool (40C) for about 3 weeks and since then its been over 65C. After it reached 80C and shutdown, I took this joke of a cooler out, put the stock heat sink that came with my APU on it for the first time, and what do you know, 45C under max load. The fact that it only improved my temps 5C right out of the box to me is amazing, for all I'm concerned, Corsair can have this thing for only a 5C decrease in temps under load when it was working properly.
Overall Review: I will not own another corsair product, I have had two of their water coolers go out in the last three months (H100i, and H80i), and I have had one of their mediocre power supplies hobbling my system for too long, It cant keep a constant voltage on the 12V rail! Supposed to be a crossfire / SLI certified and it cant even keep one card running right. Corsair used to be a half-way ok brand to me, now, in my eyes I would purchase anything over them.
Great Motherboard
Pros: Great board, overclocks great. I have had no trouble with it and It does exactly what is needed.
Cons: None
Overall Review: Runs a10-5800k, just to verify the older APU will work on it, and it runs the 7850k. I just installed the 7850 about a week or so ago and it works awesome.
Power Supply... :(
Pros: Runs the comp... not very good at it though.
Cons: Supposed to be rated for dual vid cards, hey it may be, but be careful while running more than one program at a time. I just recently had to use this power supply due to case size restriction (downgraded from xfx 1050W pro) which had run everything fine. I have this in a Mini ITX case powering a 7870 video card and a 7850k processor. I was running a game and a movie at the same time. (I know... its cool to do though if you have hardware to run it and a triple monitor set up) the comp crashed. First thought it was a media player plug in problem, but then opened up a system monitor to watch my voltages. The thing dropped 0.7V on the 3.3 and 5V rails!!! right before it crashed. I tried this several more times with the same result. I don't know how this thing would handle dual cards if I only have one card and it is dropping voltages like that. I know it is an issue with the power supply because everything else is fine, threw an older 850 watt xfx beside the case, powered it up and ran the same stuff, and had no issues. I know I'm not using more than the 750 is rated for on any of the listed specs, so either their amperage and wattage ratings are completely wrong, or I got one with a really mediocre 3.3V and 5V rail . I also had trouble with their support I tried calling them to see if they had anyone else having this problem, I waited on hold for 35 mins for the wrong department, waited again after the transfer for 30 mins on the tech department and then they had me leave a message to be called back. Still have not received a call.
Overall Review: Probably the lightest 750 watt power supply I have ever picked up. (also the one of the only power supplies I have had trouble with.) Usually power you can tell the quality of the components based on weight when it comes to video cards, power supplies and computer cases. May be a fluke thing, but I'm never going to own another Corsair product other than their liquid coolers ever again. :(
Great fans.
Pros: I have had 5 of fans for over a year. I have them in a small over clocked machine and the temp never exceeds 37c. I do keep my apartment pretty cool but they are silent, move alot of air and I would recommend to anyone. I use two of the pwm models for my CPU liquid cooler as an intake for my case and three regular ones for moving air out of the case. They do great.
Cons: None
Great Processor
Pros: Great Processor! Have had it overclocked since installing. Will overclock to 6Ghz with liquid cooling and runs steady, little warmer than usual. Dual video is a cool concept too. Going to buy a video card to try it with. by itself it runs diablo 3 really well on 1080p res through HDMI, very smooth.
Cons: Doesn't make bacon and eggs.