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chris r.

chris r.

Joined on 08/08/15

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Most Critical Review

GPU slots didnt work yay

GIGABYTE G1.Sniper Z97 (rev. 1.x) LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
GIGABYTE G1.Sniper Z97 (rev. 1.x) LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: dont know couldnt use it

Cons: So i got the board and it wont recognize video cards which is pretty fun tried both amd and nvidia cards neither would work and the motherboard would just flash as soon as you installed one this makes me a sad person

Overall Review: probably doesn't always happen ive generally had good results with gigabyte but receiving what seems to be an entirely defective board is mildy upsetting

Hopefully just bad luck

SAPPHIRE Radeon R9 390X 8GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 2.2 Slot, ATX Tri-X OC Version (UEFI) Video Card 100381OCL
SAPPHIRE Radeon R9 390X 8GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 2.2 Slot, ATX Tri-X OC Version (UEFI) Video Card 100381OCL

Pros: The couple hours it worked it was fantastic ran everything very well

Cons: First card i recieved was Dead on arrival would not show display, but hey decided id just have it replaced not that big of a deal... Second card worked first day then started having driver crashes and the computer would crash. did a fresh install of drivers same issue, decided to do a full reformat of the computer and go for a brand new install of everything- same issue persists. If the card is put under any stress whatsoever aside from very very light games it overheats and crashes. the card is not being over clocked so thats not the issue its just not able to handle anything for some reason probably bad memory on the card Friend had got a 290 which is a step below this and everything we played together he ran it fine i well i crashed which is lots of fun

Overall Review: Other people probably have not had issues with theirs i read a bunch of good reviews before i bought this one and thought it sounded good maybe i just had bad luck, however this is a card that cannot be refunded so im pretty well stuck with 400$ of broke card that i can only have replaced with itself. after two bad ones within a few weeks i really don't want a third one to even try id rather just go for an nvidia card at this point. Maybe third time will be the charm?

10/10/2015