Joined on 03/08/04
This is a good case
Pros: 1. Holds a Venomous X or Megahalems with room to spare. 2. Cable routing behind the partition is fantastic for a clean box. 3. Extra room on top, behind the grill, lets you get real creative with add-on exhaust fans. ;-)
Cons: 1. You'll need an extender for the 8-pin ATX power cable -- it's OK, they're cheap, get Newegg Item #N82E16812201020. 2. The hard drive cages are just a tiny bit cheesy. It's super easy to install a drive into it, but you don't have enough hands to hold all the little screwdrivers you'll need to get a drive back out of it, with no damage to the cage.
Overall Review: If Corsair would include the 8-pin extender cable, and do one more design spin on the hard drive cage to improve the ability to remove a drive, I think it would be pretty perfect.
Don't waste your time ...
Pros: Well ... OK, it's PRETTY. And Newegg's RMA process is the best anywhere!
Cons: May or not actually be a 500W PS. 500W should have been plenty for my system, but this one couldn't hack it. It barely spun the case fans before crapping out -- never did bring up the mobo or drives.
Great Decision!
Pros: ALERT! It's 2025 already, and this motherboard will not recognize a GPT-partitioned device as bootable! Once I figured out why I didn't seem to have any bootable drives, I formatted and partitioned my M2 SSD with a MS-DOS partition table, and it was good to go. I bought a pair of 24 GB G.Skill Trident DDR5 DIMMs that are listed on the ASROCK QVL. The CPU is an Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF. I learned that my nice legacy heatsink was incompatible with the heatsink footprint (the 4 holes) on a LGA 1851, so I bought a Noctua NH-D9L and it works great. CPU temp with air cooling is 32-35C. I;ve been a pretty reliable Asus MB user over the years, but this ASROCK unit is getting the job done for me and I have zero regrets for this decision.
Cons: None
Overall Review: Excellent product.
Fully Satisfactory
Pros: Works as advertised - a good value.
Cons: None.
Overall Review: Product is exactly as shown, was delivered promptly, works as advertised. Thank you.
Easy setup and works fine
Pros: Screw in the antennas, plug it in and connect a laptop with an ethernet cable, set up the SSID and wireless configuration items, take it to its permanent location, plug it in and any other devices and connect to your WAN service and you are done.
Cons: None found.
A lot of laptop at the Black Friday price.
Pros: This new i5 4210 really cooks -- don't worry about the 1.7GHz, it has a burst mode that takes it up to around 2.66 GHz when needed. The Intel graphics are fast and crisp -- a very nice display for general computing purposes. I swapped in a 500GB Samsung SSD (from Newegg, of course) and never booted the original hdd. I installed Linux with a KDE desktop, and it boots to the desktop in 10 seconds. This is a very fast computer for the $400 that I paid. By the way, the power adapter will accept from 100 - 240 V input, 1.7 Amp, 50 - 60 Hz, so it will work with European power, although the modular wall plug is for US sockets.
Cons: I'm just not that good with a touchpad, and this one is typically sensitive to wrongful bumps. So I park it on a book and plug in a USB mouse and a USB keyboard, when I don't need to travel with it.
Overall Review: My son in-law's old Asus laptop fried itself right before Thanksgiving, so we did a joint Black Friday research project, and this was the best deal anywhere within the price range. He bought one too on the same day, and loves it with the Win 7 OS.
Love my Arctic Silver!
Super-reliable TIM -- I've been using it for 15 years.
Nice CPU, first LGA 1851, works as expected on a new ASROCK B860 Pro-A MB
I learned that the LGA 1851 CPU heatsink footprint (the 4 holes) are spaced differently than my previous LGA motherboards (775 and 1851), and so a new heatsink was needed. I got a nice Noctua NH-D9L and everything is purring nicely. CPU runs 32-35C with the air cooling.
Perfect!
Works perfectly with my new I7-7740X CPU and Asus X299 motherboard. Even looks nice.