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James I.

James I.

Joined on 11/27/05

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Most Favorable Review

Awesome chip, My daily/Work Machine

AMD A10-7700K - A10-Series Kaveri Quad-Core 3.4 GHz Socket FM2+ 95W AMD Radeon R7 Desktop Processor - AD770KXBJABOX
AMD A10-7700K - A10-Series Kaveri Quad-Core 3.4 GHz Socket FM2+ 95W AMD Radeon R7 Desktop Processor - AD770KXBJABOX

Pros: Have had this since basically 2 weeks from release day! Its a great chip. OC'd to 4Ghz on all 4 cores! Temps are great w/ CM TX3. Blows through all tasks! My machine boots in 3 sec with a 60GB Kingston SSD. Love the flat IPC, way better gaming performance than Piledriver setups. Quite a move for AMD. Beat my 6800k @ 4.6 in some benchmarks (this chip running at 4Ghz). Better gaming performance too.

Cons: Doesn't OC aswell as Piledriver (but it has better IPC anyway). FGLRX for Linux (Linux Catalyst) isn't good unless you have an out-of-box linux setup. Any sort of a semi-custom setup and it probably won't work for you.

Overall Review: I use a dGPU with this on linux. This is my daily CPU. My work computer is the machine i use all day every day. Mostly its used for office applications, development applications (sublime, Chromium, Chrome, Firefox w/ Dev tools, Libreoffice).

Most Critical Review

Can't be redeemed

NVIDIA Gift - Star Wars Outlaws PC GeForce RTX Bundle
NVIDIA Gift - Star Wars Outlaws PC GeForce RTX Bundle

Pros: Nothing

Cons: Forces you to install Geforce Experience Beta version. Doesn't actually allow redemption; tells me I need to have the hardware installed (it is).

Overall Review: Wasted 2 hours of my time and can't redeem anything.

Has worked great for a year

ASRock B650I LIGHTNING WIFI AM5 Ryzen 7000 AMD B650 SATA 6Gb/s Mini-ITX s DDR5 7200+ (OC) 2.5G LAN x WiFi 6E + Bluetooth Motherboards - AMD
ASRock B650I LIGHTNING WIFI AM5 Ryzen 7000 AMD B650 SATA 6Gb/s Mini-ITX s DDR5 7200+ (OC) 2.5G LAN x WiFi 6E + Bluetooth Motherboards - AMD

Pros: Runs with a 7900x3D on basically 24/7 load but stays cool. VRM's are cool and power draw around 100-110W. Overall ASRock Bios allows everything to be tuned

Cons: Wish they had a cheaper version without Wifi and such

Overall Review: I know some people have issues with these boards... but I never did. Will report back if there are issues in the future but so far I have 1 year of everything working great!

Free Games

AMD CPU Gift - Game Bundle Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 & Unknown 9: Awakening
AMD CPU Gift - Game Bundle Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 & Unknown 9: Awakening

Pros: Was easy enough to verify with the software.

Cons: Sucks that you have to use Windows though. I had to boot a Windows drive to verify.

Overall Review: Overall the games are free, it adds alot of value to the CPU

Worked out of the box on 7900x3D

Team T-CREATE EXPERT 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR5 6000 (PC5 48000) Desktop Memory Model CTCED532G6000HC38ADC01
Team T-CREATE EXPERT 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR5 6000 (PC5 48000) Desktop Memory Model CTCED532G6000HC38ADC01

Pros: Good performance overall Runs cool Can Be OC'd

Cons: Not CL30 ;x

Overall Review: Hashrate in RandomX is slower because the CL on this kit is higher.

Worked great in my Dashcam

Team 32GB microSDHC UHS-I/U1 Class 10 Memory Card with Adapter, Speed Up to 100MB/s (TUSDH32GCL10U03)
Team 32GB microSDHC UHS-I/U1 Class 10 Memory Card with Adapter, Speed Up to 100MB/s (TUSDH32GCL10U03)

Pros: Works in my Dashcam

Cons: None

Overall Review: Hopefully it lasts a long time