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Nathan H.

Nathan H.

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Most Favorable Review

Coil Whine!

GIGABYTE Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 3GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card GV-R797TO-3GD
GIGABYTE Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 3GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card GV-R797TO-3GD

Pros: Card is fast! Decent cooling. Quiet compared to my 6970 dust blower it replaced.

Cons: COIL WHINE is going to drive me insane! Its on everything and its loud!. Going to RMA the card, no card should have coil whine THIS loud.

Overall Review: -1 egg for annoying coil whine (on my card anyhow) other than that this card is a beast!

Most Critical Review

Bad Drive?

Mushkin Enhanced Chronos 2.5" 240GB SATA III 7mm Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MKNSSDCR240GB-7
Mushkin Enhanced Chronos 2.5" 240GB SATA III 7mm Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MKNSSDCR240GB-7

Pros: Drive technically works... with formtted capacity showing up.

Cons: Slow! Barely scratches the surface of 200 megabytes a second in read speed, tested in 2 different machines. Have more than 1 SSD, the others prove that SATA III speeds are possible on machines, this drive is just faulty. Will RMA.

Overall Review: Drive is probably good, but i fear for its stability/life span if its transferring at such slow speeds already, who knows what else is wrong with it.

Well... it worked for a few days...

ASUS SABERTOOTH P67 (REV 3.0) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
ASUS SABERTOOTH P67 (REV 3.0) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Very nice layout. Clean and easy to install.

Cons: I set it up and it seemed ok the it started to hang when it goes to sleep...gets stuck in an infinite reboot cycle. PCIe x16 slots seem buggy/defective. I will RMA.. but that leaves me w/o a rig for who knows how many days! grrrr... what bad timing to sell my old parts.

Overall Review: I have trusted ASUS for my computing needs for a while now and they haven't let me down till now.. but I will forgive the defective board... We'll see how round 2 fairs!

Awesome Performance for an Awesome Price!!!

XFX Radeon HD 6970 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity HD-697A-CNFC
XFX Radeon HD 6970 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity HD-697A-CNFC

Pros: Runs quiet and really packs a punch! Most review sites failed to show this card in a light that made it look superior to the GTX 570, but it is. Morphological Anti Aliasing is sweet! AMD's Crossfire scaling is fixed from the 5xxx series. This card comes with 2 GB of GDDR5, a nice bump for high resolution gaming with Anti Aliasing. Games like GTA4 eat graphics ram for breakfast and it helps with view distance! Add in future driver improvements and the very decent price, a nice stock cooling solution that is SIGNIFICANTLY quieter than my 4850's Dust Buster design, and you have a real winner!

Cons: No free game included (not a big deal...).

Overall Review: Coming from a Radeon 4850 I've had since July of '08, the difference is night and day! I can play games like Crysis and it’s not a slide show in certain places! Fallout 3 with ultra settings AND 4x AntiAliasing + Vsync/D3Doverrider which was a combo my 4850 would choke on. I have 67 games on my Steam account now, and I want to go back through some of them and replay them with max settings and an overall smoother frame rate, unlike with my old card that kept hitting the ceiling on what it could push smoothly. My graphics card history (best I can remember in chronological order of ownership): Trident s3 2 Meg, Hercules ISA+Vesa combined behemoth something or other, Riva TnT 2 Vanta, Geforce2 GTS, Geforce3 Ti 200, Radeon 9700 PRO, Radeon 9800 PRO, Radeon 9600 XT, Radeon x700, Radeon X1900XT, Radeon X1900XTX, Radeon 4850. My System:Q6600;Asus P5Q-PRO;4GB GEIL Black Dragon 1066;Radeon 6870;Antec 850;2x WD 640 Caviar Black RAID 0;1x WD 300;Cooler Master Atcs 840;Win7 x64 Pro.

12/21/2010
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Did not receive all items

Only received 1 of my 2 ordered hard drive cases. Not a good feeling to only get 50% of my order... and no tracking code that is usable just that long gibberish number sent to me.

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