Joined on 09/12/10
Great card
Pros: I have been holding off writing a review for a couple of months to see how this card performs. I have had a very pleasurable experience with this mid-grade card. 4gb is more than enough buffer even for the most taxing of games.
Cons: Will not scale well on higher resolutions above 1080p as this card wasn't meant for such. So not much of a con so much as a inconvenience.
Overall Review: I bought this as an upgrade to a 9800gt. I will be purchasing another for a small boost in performance in SLI.
A little Cheap
Pros: Case kept my components cool and is pretty spacious for a mATX configuration. MSI x58m Core i7 930 Gskill Ripjaws 24gb 1066 GTX550 (fermi) 2gb x2 sli
Cons: Cheap plastic tool-less design. love the case but get rid of the plastic components.
Overall Review: I have used thermaltake cases for five years and this is my first disappointment. I am grateful I'm water-cooling this for a on-the-road LAN box.
Blazing fast
Pros: Very fast RAM. My build wouldn't be complete without it. I squeezed a little oc out of it and it is stable. Highly recommended Ram for a gaming rig.
Cons: NONE
DevilsCanyon
Pros: I have owned this CPU for less than a month and in this time I have come to the realization I have been missing out on performance. My home machine used to consist of a 1366 960x with 12 gb of 1600 ram. My new system out performs with the 4790k and 32 gb of ram with a couple of r9 290's in xfire. Despite the 960x havingmore cores and threads the optimization of devils canyon blows it out of the water.
Cons: Intels stock heatsink.... SMH
Best case I've owned or built in.
Pros: Airflow from the stock af140 fans are immaculate especially since the design of the case offers a separation of the mobo , gpu etc. from the airflow impeding parts found in your typical tower.
Cons: More ssd cages!!!
Overall Review: This isn't the first 540 I have purchased and/or built in. I have built three x99 systems in these cases for a friends internet cafe and they are fantastic. With just stock fans and H100i aio coolers, temps never reach 35c even in a moderately heated environment.
Awesome!!!
Pros: I have no problems with this ram at all. I use this in a test bench for new builds and testing old equipment. Does its job.
Cons: NONE
Overall Review: I accidentally oc'd it to 1600 when I installed a couple of other sticks in the mainboard I tested. Very stable for an accident.