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Martin M.

Martin M.

Joined on 05/23/07

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Most Favorable Review

Best Bang is you have the Buck.

ASUS GeForce GTX TITAN 6GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card GTXTITAN-6GD5
ASUS GeForce GTX TITAN 6GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card GTXTITAN-6GD5

Pros: Extremely Fast, plays everything.

Cons: Expensive.

Overall Review: Already the fastest single GPU... Driver improvements will keep this card strong for years to come.

Most Critical Review

Not Dominator

CORSAIR Vengeance 24GB (6 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ24GX3M6A1600C9
CORSAIR Vengeance 24GB (6 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ24GX3M6A1600C9

Pros: It's Corsair - Relatively cheap for 24GB 1600Mhz DDR3 memory.

Cons: Would not run at 1.5v as advertised... Wouldn't run either of the XMP profiles... Could not get it to run stable at 1600Mhz... Would only run at 1.51v @ 1333mhz... After about two weeks one of the sticks of RAM died.. Returned for RMA.

Overall Review: The heatsinks on the memory seem really cheap... The sticks over the heatsinks weren't even on all the way... Not the craftsmanship I expect from Corsair.

DAAYYUM

Logitech G602 910-003820 11 Buttons 1 x Wheel USB RF Wireless Optical 2500 dpi Gaming Mouse
Logitech G602 910-003820 11 Buttons 1 x Wheel USB RF Wireless Optical 2500 dpi Gaming Mouse

Pros: This is one awesome mouse - I have two now. Forget everything you think you knew about wireless mice, this is the new king.

Cons: Takes two AA batteries, but since they last 6 months who cares.

Overall Review: No issues at all, I game a lot. No lag to response issues. Weight of the mouse is good.. great number of buttons.

10/25/2013

Update the Bios!!!

Intel BOXDX58SO2 LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel BOXDX58SO2 LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Once the bios is updated, this thing rocks. Way faster than the board it replaced, Gigabyte X58A-U3DR Rev. 1. Boot times with SSD about 3 secs. Even allowed me to use the XMP profiles for 1600 Mhz no questions asked.

Cons: Wouldn't recognize my Corsair Dominator memory out of the box. Had to slap in some lesser ddr3 to get it to boot, once booted I updated the bios from 11-17-2010 to the latest version. Recognized my memory fine after that. The board layout is a little crazy too, fan headers are in weird locations, and the HD audio header is the wrong corner of the board.

Overall Review: Hate to buy this now considering Ivy Bridge is just around the corner. But my Gigabyte board took a dive, and didn't to upgrade everything. Glad I got this board. P.S. Why cant board manufactures upgrade these things. I know they are sitting in a warehouse, but the bios update caused me several hours of troubleshooting and Intel's customer service chat pretty much had me running in circles. They didn't know what was wrong.. PSU, memory, Video card...

Avoid for Blizzard Titles

EVGA 03G-P3-1596-AR GeForce GTX 590 (Fermi) Classified 3072MB 768-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
EVGA 03G-P3-1596-AR GeForce GTX 590 (Fermi) Classified 3072MB 768-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: Its the fastest single slot video card available. Until the 7990 comes out from AMD. Works great for Skyrim, Witcher 2, Batman AC, and BF3

Cons: Any Blizzard titles WoW, SC2, Diablo 3, do not play well with the SLI configuration. Even with SLI disabled FPS was dismal. Worse than my old GTX480 and worse than my backup GTX 460. Price is pretty steep, Max settings on any high end games makes the fans go super sonic.

Overall Review: I returned for store credit, and ordered the AMD 7970, should be 3/4 of the GTX590 at stock speeds according to benchmarks. Should be able to OC to pick up the rest. That's with beta drivers, should be even better with mature drivers. I am and will always be a Nvidia Fanboy, I hate AMD/ATI haven't used any of their products since 1999. It kills me to return to the dark side, but you cant argue with the performance of the 7970. Hopefully Nvidia brings out Keplar soon, and hope it kicks AMD's rear.