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nicholas s.

nicholas s.

Joined on 05/11/07

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Most Favorable Review

Great for the price

BIOSTAR TForce TF7050-M2 AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 7050PV HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
BIOSTAR TForce TF7050-M2 AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 7050PV HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

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.

Most Critical Review

Bad Card

SAPPHIRE  Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition OC 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card     (11199-03-20G)
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition OC 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card (11199-03-20G)

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

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card 100354OC-2L
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card 100354OC-2L

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

ARCTIC MX-2 (4g) Carbon-Based Thermal Compound, Non-Electricity Conductive, Non-Capacitive
ARCTIC MX-2 (4g) Carbon-Based Thermal Compound, Non-Electricity Conductive, Non-Capacitive

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

Kingston DataTraveler 109 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive (White & Black) Model DT109K/16GBZ
Kingston DataTraveler 109 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive (White & Black) Model DT109K/16GBZ

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

ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

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