Joined on 08/03/08
Great Processor for the money.
Pros: Good price.. Surprisingly stable and cool with stock heatsink/fan. I don't do any overclocking. Plays all of my games on max settings with 8 GB of Gskill running at 1866 MHZ.. (Haven't got the setting correct for 2133 yet.. :/) I play lots of MMO's and the newest Farcry 3.. No discrete GPU and all of those games run fine.. Very satisfied with my purchase.
Cons: None.
Overall Review: I don't know where the comments are coming from that you have to buy a different cooler to run this processor. If you are overclocking, that should be a given.. But if you are planning to run this APU at stock settings, don't waste your money on a massive cooler.. If it runs too hot at stock, make sure the heat sink is secure and making good contact with the APU and you should be fine. Even while playing Farcry 3 my temps don't go above the mid 50's somewhere.. Which is fine for this. AMD runs hotter than Intel.. always has.. don't panic.
Good Bang for the Deer skins.
Pros: This processor is pretty much just the A10 7850 Kaveri without the 8 compute cores for GPU.. So, I bought it and combined it with a Radeon R9 270x and it works fantabulously. I haven't found a game to make it break a sweat yet. Course if I did, it would probably short it out. Because sweat conducts electricity.
Cons: AMD needs to stop making processors with the pins on the processor. those things are so easy to bend and I'm clumsy. That's not a gripe about this particular processor though.. So it still gets the 5 eggs.
Good Case
Pros: Good Case.. No Frills. Cheap enough and free shipping.
Cons: It doesn't have mounds for a 3.5 SSD.. That's my fault for being stupid and not checking. Don't worry.. I totally used some double sided velcro on that bad boy. Works good. Last long time. The nice people at the USPS also decided to play soccer with it. So it came all bent up in both bottom corners. This makes it so you can't close the case all the way. Also, one of the little blue LED lights on the front is dim. I assume this is USPS's fault too.
Great price
Pros: Good RAM. Love G.skill.. 16 GB of 2133 for a decent price. Stable overclock with my board. Just click on the profile in the BIOS and it's good to go. Put this in a machine I built for back to school gaming purposes. Works good... Last long time...
Cons: Ummmm.... nah..
Overall Review: Buy this RAM.. It's pretty good.
It's RAM
Pros: It does what RAM does. I bought this for my son's PC.. Overclocked easily enough with an A78 FM2+ board. Just click on the profile in the Bios that says 2133 and you're good to go.
Cons: The heat sinks are like ninja star sharp. But, that could be a pro when you think about it.
Military class 4 baby!!
Pros: The boards awesome. It's got holes in it and you can put screws in the holes and attack it to the inside of a case. Did I mention that it's military class 4!!! Oh my diety? (Newegg terms and conditions.. lol) dude..... Oh......EM....Gee..... It has a user manual that you can use to learn over 100 different languages. It's almost like you get a free copy of rosetta stone with the board. That's a nice perk.
Cons: I don't know what Military Class 4 means.....
Overall Review: Great performance for the price. Would militarize my computer system again and then recommend it to my friends. I don't have friends. But if I did, I would.
This sucks
All the parts for my new build have been sitting here for days and I'm still waiting for a lousy cpu fan and thermal paste... Thanks for nothing.