Joined on 05/23/07
Best Bang is you have the Buck.
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.
Not Dominator
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
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.
Update the Bios!!!
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
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.