Joined on 03/09/07
Exceptional product
Pros: - Excellent airflow and enough space for air to move. - Plenty of room for expansion. - MOSTLY tooless, unless you're like me and like to do a full breakdown for a thorough cleaning.
Cons: -The rail mounts for the hard drives are rather flimsy. After a short while, one of them broke, which limited the amount of hard drives I could utilize. - Front badge limited to the Phenom.
Overall Review: Coolermaster did an awesome job with this beauty. I've had it for over 10 years (Feb 2015), and still use it to this day for my main gaming computer. I've kept the lights limited to red to match. I do wish i can get a Ryzen badge to replace the Phenom one though.
Only received 2 of the 3
Pros: Free games
Cons: Unable to claim Sniper Elite 5
Overall Review: The claim proces was rather easy. Unfortunately, only recieved Saints Row and Forspoken.
Bought 10/08/2016 - starting to die
Pros: Enjoyed the life of it. Felt good and was responsive
Cons: 0 on the num pad stopped working and one of the lights no longer work. Lasted just a little over 5 years.
Overall Review: Good quality for the most part. I decided to go from membrane to mechanical. I'll be going back to my still functional G510 that's over 10 years old.
Incredible
Pros: Excellent air flow and enough space for air to move through without getting stuck in pockets. Plenty of room for expansion. Mostly tooless, unless you're like me and do routine through cleaning. I'm still using it for my main for almost 10 years!!
Cons: One of the hard drive rail enclosures broke slightly after which lead me to be a bit limited with hard drives.
Overall Review: Coolermaster did an awesome job with this beauty. I've kept my lights limited to only red to match. I do wish that the big phenom badge could be updated to my Ryzen for the upgrades I've done.
Should've gone with Seagate
Pros: It was recognized by my system.
Cons: -Consistent buzzing/ grinding. Hard drive death rattle. -It's not a barracuda.
Overall Review: Didn't think it was a bad deal initially when making the purchase. I decided to go from the norm and give WD a shot. Unfortunately, it was a bad choice apparently. I've owned WD drives in the past, after having nothing but problems and several die, I swore off them and went elsewhere. I attempted the noise test WD has on their site and according to their guidelines, it's a bad drive. I'll just send this back and stick with Seagate/Maxtor. I just wish I can give this less than 1 egg.
Wait for Polaris
Pros: It allowed me to use my 29" UW monitor and utilize ultra settings
Cons: Freezing, graphics glitches,
Overall Review: As much as I don't want to say it, I'm really not sure if I would recommend. I love AMD and I support Sapphire. However, I was very disappointed. After a short while, I started running into issues with PC lockups and graphics glitches, and this is not while I was gaming, just browsing. After researching, it apparently is an issue with the GPU running at low clock speeds. I suppose it's meant to run full throttle all the time and can't handle running slow? This made me decide to not deal with the hassle of having the vicious RMA cycle of running into the same issue over .. and over again. Now, I have a 29" monitor, that I dropped a nice bit of change for, with Freesync that is just sitting and collecting dust until Polaris drops or I decide to get something else AMD. I'll perhaps just pay more attention and research more thoroughly in the future.