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Ronald S.

Ronald S.

Joined on 09/10/02

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Most Favorable Review

Finally some movement in cases

Fractal Design Define S Black Silent ATX Midtower Computer Case
Fractal Design Define S Black Silent ATX Midtower Computer Case

Pros: Everything. See Tiny Tom Logan's Youtube review. The main reason I am posting is to tell everyone that the space for air flow from edges of front panel is perfectly adequate for high end air flow. I have a 4770k OC'd and a CM Nepton 280L AOI cooler. The setup is whisper quiet with ***STANDARD*** fan settings on my ASUS Z97-Deluxe fan controls.

Cons: Another 3/8" depth in the back panel side would have made it a Dream Machine.

Overall Review: No case is perfect. I have been building systems for 20 some years and to me a case is the excuse to put up with building a new system. This one has made a large stride toward the "Next Generation".

Most Critical Review

Does NOT play well with Others!

KINGWIN KF-3002-BK Multi-Bay Internal Rack, 3 Drives For 2 Bay Space For SATA
KINGWIN KF-3002-BK Multi-Bay Internal Rack, 3 Drives For 2 Bay Space For SATA

Pros: 3 in 2

Cons: Marvell and Asmedia choke on this puppy! Part of me says "if your arm hurts when you lift it.....don't lift it." On the other hand they should fess up to this. The wierd thing is that the file transfers run for a while hiccuping longer and longer and then slooooooly die with "source file not found". KINGWIN....fix it or admit it! Kingwin, guys, you came up with a 4 Star BUG!

SMOOTH OPERATOR

Intel Core i5-2550K - Core i5 2nd Gen Sandy Bridge Quad-Core 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Without IGP Desktop Processor - BX80623i52550K
Intel Core i5-2550K - Core i5 2nd Gen Sandy Bridge Quad-Core 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Without IGP Desktop Processor - BX80623i52550K

Pros: Clocked to 4.7Ghz on 1.356Vc with 36c/67c (Idle/Load). Low end closed loop cooler worked just fine. Lots of myths is right, I STILL can't find a verified opinion about whether this baby has an active or inactive (read contributes to heat) IGP (GPU) circuit.

Cons: Intel isn't giving us a price break, even with the lack of GPU because they know that us Geeks know it is a winner. On the other hand Intel isn't a philanthropic organization.

Overall Review: If you are not a big-time Gamer, Folder or looking for a "Trophy" chip, this is one SMOOTH puppy! I run 3 2560x1600 displays on 2 cards with no hiccups.

2 different models with same ID?

ASUS VE248Q 24" 1920 x 1080 VGA HDMI DisplayPort Asus Eye Care with Ultra Low-Blue Light & Flicker-Free Built-in Speakers LCD Monitor
ASUS VE248Q 24" 1920 x 1080 VGA HDMI DisplayPort Asus Eye Care with Ultra Low-Blue Light & Flicker-Free Built-in Speakers LCD Monitor

Pros: Great monitor. Good price

Cons: Does NOT have a DisplayPort and DOES have a DVI.

Overall Review: I didn't think you could market two different products with the same Model #. I ordered on basis of a "pre-release" review and didn't pay attention to the full input list since my (now replaced) video card was VGA. I only mention this in case others have experienced this and are concerned also.

10/28/2011

I ran in to issues I never expected

ASUS Radeon HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card EAH3870/G/HTDI/512M
ASUS Radeon HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card EAH3870/G/HTDI/512M

Pros: Well, if a "pro" is something exceptional, I must say I couldn't get those to work. My MOBO is an MSI K9A2 Platinum, my display an HP3065. 1. I can't get the EAH3870 to run over x8, so PCI-E 2.0 doesn't do me much good. 2. I have the latest drivers for the 3065 and 3870 and I can't get the card to put out duallink 2560x1600. The OS is Vista Ultimate so I guess we could blame Vista (everyone else does).

Cons: 1. The manual on the disk was a generic oldie and the manual page for the eah3870 was empty. 2. If your try and find info at ASUS on DualLink, you are going to come up pretty empty handed as far as the EAH3870 goes.

Overall Review: These issues do not make this a bad board but they blew me out the door. It's RMA time, I guess.