Joined on 08/28/12
Great Budget Board
Pros: It supports up to FX 8350 (and I believe even the new 9590 with the bios update). It is well built and the VRM works well.
Cons: The only issues I have run into with this motherboard, is that it only has 2 3pin fan connectors and that the USB controller isn't very good. My headset is USB and if it just tap the connector, my computer acts like my headset doesn't exist. I also hate that it doesn't support PCI-E 3.0, but I know that is the fault of AMD CPUs not supporing it yet.
Overall Review: If you get this motherboard, make sure you either have fans with a molex plug (or adapter) or have an external fan controller. Also look into getting a USB 2.0 or 3.0 expansion card, they are very cheap.
Junk
Pros: It was cheap, it has 2gb of VRAM, its quiet, and it doesn't get hot.
Cons: Junk. Other people with the normal GTX 650 max out games I am having issues getting 45fps in. They get 60+. Contacted EVGA, they said it may be defective, did an RMA, paid $30 of my own money to get it replaced, replacement card shows no better performance than the 'defective' card. Contacted EVGA support again, was given a bad response that looks like it was pulled off of a piece of paper for support to say if they didn't want to type anything, didn't get my money back or offered to get a normal GTX 650 to replace the junk superclocked. Waste of my money, never buying EVGA again.
Overall Review: I feel EVGA lied about this card, and you won't get any more performance over a normal GTX 650, you will get less performance.
Cheap
Pros: Cheapest SSD on newegg (at time of purchse) not the slowest SSD on the market great if you buy multiple and put them in RAID 0/Striped Volume perfect to speed up game load times
Cons: no DRAM cache only around 30tbw endurance
Overall Review: Very worth if you just need a faster game drive for a few titles. I put my install of Fallout 4 with over 200 mods on 2 of these in RAID 0 because my old HDD was causing severe lag spikes while loading assets, this completely removed that lag and improved the game's load speed significantly. Per drive the read speed according to CrystalDiskMark is around 550mb/s, 2 of them in RAID 0 gets you about 920mb/s. Write speed is 370mb/s and 740mb/s respectively. DO NOT recommend if you need an OS drive, find something with a DRAM cache.
Good Quality Sound and Build (mostly)
Pros: Great sound quality for the price, build quality is also great for the price besides 1 thing (see cons)
Cons: My ears are a little big so these hurt my ears after a while, but they don't squeeze my head. I am 1 month away from the 1 year warranty expiring and the wire is slowly beginning to disconnect from the headset itself. I really hope my email to TB gets a response before the warranty expires. Can't really afford a new headset right now, hopefully they don't charge too much for shipping or it won't be worth RMA'ing it.
Overall Review: I am very careful with this headset, no throwing around or tugging on the cord, it has just come loose by itself.
Great PSU
Pros: For me, it is quiet. Although I have heard from others that it makes a bit of noise, may just be some faulty fans, not difficult to replace. I have had mine for a year February 2014, running with 2 hard drives, a 125w AMD Phenom II x4 965, a factory overclocked GTX 650 2gb and it has had no problem powering all of this while playing games and recording all at the same time.
Cons: The cables are really short. Made with Micro-ATX in mind. In my ATX mid tower case, the cables can barely reach.
Overall Review: I highly recommend this PSU for anyone on a budget. I throw this into every build I design and have witnessed 3 friends purchase it and have quiet working gaming computers.
Issues? No.
Pros: Good bass, surround sound is very nice when using the USB adapter and still sounds pretty good if you only use the 3.5mm jacks. I've seen many reviews saying that the headset stopped working, or that the wire started to fall apart after a month or two. I have had mine for nearly 4 months now and I've had no issues what so ever (aside from my own computer's malfunctions). I definitely recommend it if you are on a low budget. Maybe other customers that purchased it have not been so delicate with the headset.
Cons: The microphone cover does not like to stay on, does not fit very well for people that have bigger ears. Other than that it is awesome for the price.
Overall Review: I use this with my ASRock motherboard's integrated sound (soon to upgrade to dedicated sound card) so if you are told that integrated sound is terrible, that is not always the case, but a dedicated card does make it better, and good headsets like this make it better.