Joined on 05/11/07
Great for the price
Pros: HDMI is nice to have... picture looks great but I haven't tried HD DVD or BluRay. The software is useless with 64 bit Windows so, no direct tuning. Overall dependable board. AMD 64 X2 3600 clocked @ 2.5ghz. 2 Gigs of Kingston 667, XFX 7900GS, HT @ 1325
Cons: Saved Profiles in BIOS don't stay.
Overall Review: At first it wouldn't know the DVD drive was there, but it seems fine now.
Bad Card
Pros: Ran great in games, better than my GTX 460 768s in SLI.
Cons: After two days, BSODs like crazy, no boot whatsoever while the card was being powered and connected. I was worried about this happening due to other reviews stating the same and I was unlucky.
Overall Review: I expected better shipping from newegg, 3 day shipping took 4 days and wasn't from the east coast. And I'm disappointed in AMD/Sapphire, this is my first Radeon card after years of nVidia and this is what I get.
Great card
Pros: This is a really great card, it handles everything I have at max settings at 1920x1080. I bought it when it was a Far Cry 3 bundle for $199. I am tempted to buy this for CF since I've been waiting on another great deal.
Cons: None at all.
Overall Review: It's really amazing about the poor reviews. I'm sure these people with issues don't understand the problem and blame the hardware. Within days of installing this card I went from amazing to bsod and no-boots. I swapped my 460 back in and had boot-ups. I blamed the card. Then I realized when I was running a driver sweeper before the fact, I deleted the ati setting in the registry. I had to do a fresh install and things were perfect again. It was entirely my fault. Other people need to understand that any card will perform poorly if a bad or old driver is being used.
Good stuff
Pros: really easy to apply, dropped my idle and load temps by 10 degrees Celsius on average. Got the 1.5 gram tubes for a buck a piece somewhere else.
Cons: none really
Overall Review: I was using OCZ Freeze Extreme compound and although it's great stuff I just wasn't getting the temps I wanted. Partially my fault because after removing my water block I noticed the compound wasn't spread out as it should. Current temps are IDLE: 34,28,32,32 LOAD: 59,56,58,57 from heavy gaming on core i5 2500k 4.4GHZ overclock
Small
Pros: It's small and unlikely to get broken off like long flash drives do.
Cons: It's slow, really slow
Overall Review: I watch MKV's on my blu-ray player and use this as the source from my PC and transferring movies is a PIA. It starts off around 80mbs then about 20% into the transfer it hits a wall and dies down to about 7mbs. Doesn't hold a candle to the PNY 16gb I got on black friday that unfortunately got chewed up by dog.
After a week
Pros: This board is amazing AND STABLE, it can run my core-i5 to 4.8ghz just by choosing that speed in BIOS and automatically setting everything. But I'm happy with 4.2ghz. XMP profile works as it should.
Cons: It doesn't wash my car
Overall Review: To guy that complains about flimsy pci-E clips, these are more secure than than old push-over clips. Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen 3 Intel Core i5 2500k @4.2GHZ Antec Kuhler 620 G.Skill Sniper 8G DDR3-1866 EVGA GTX460 FPB768 hec Zephyr 750w NZXT Gamma