Joined on 04/06/10
Nice
Pros: Good price Performance Lots of space 3-year warranty Unique power plug that includes several adapters for European outlets etc.
Cons: Not 5-year warranty. Remember when most hard drives had 5-year warranties? Now it's premium. Drive specifications for 4TB model not listed on either Samsung or Seagate's website. The price of large capacity hard drives has been rapidly declining in recent years, especially with competition from SSDs. I expect 4TB drives to cost ~100 by Black Friday.
Overall Review: Didn't use the pre-loaded software; prefer using BitLocker and my own disk management program. Hard drive has a Mac driver on it if you're interested. Moving 12GB file from one external USB 3.0 drive to this one, average transfer rate was ~130 MB/s. I've been holding off on buying a 4TB drive in hopes that price would drop on enterprise versions. I originally planned to wait and build a NAS/RAID array using internal drives, but unfortunately my external Seagate is biting the dust and I need to save my data asap. Surprisingly, despite this model being "backordered," I managed to get it at the advertised price and within reasonable time. Drive is sealed in box in sealed plastic, so you know you're getting a brand new product. For those who want to know, this drive is manufactured by Seagate. The spindle speed is 5900 RPM. My guess is that it is a packaged Seagate Desktop HDD.15 model (ST4000DM000), which seemed to fare well in Tom's Hardware benchmarks. So far everything is working great. If you can pay less than 3.4 cents per gigabyte then you are getting a good deal. Hopefully this will last a long time. Will update review if I have any problems.
UPDATE
Pros: Cheap
Cons: I was the second person to review this chair. I purchased in January 2011. Material started stretching in about 6 months as others have mentioned, but that didn't really bother me. Then the weld at the base cracked, like others have experienced. Chair sat crooked for the longest time but I made due. It wasn't until a few weeks ago I leaned back in it and the chair became permanently bent vertical like a seat on the space shuttle. Finally it broke off completely, but like the cheap-wad I am, I kept the seat portion, removed and discarded the base, and will probably bolt the chair to wood or something. Still feels comfortable for the most part, but I'm not picky. I liked the chair at first but it steadily broke down until it became useless......1 years 7 months after purchase. These should have 2 year warranty :)
Overall Review: If you desire any longevity whatsoever, save your money up and get something better quality. You get what you pay for
Gungnir 111M has great look, thermal, and noise profiles
Pros: Looks great, especially from the front. Nice airflow, no complaints. Fans do their job. This model includes 1 x rear non-RGB and 3 x RGB fans. It also has a 3-fan splitter and a 3-RGB splitter (I used both). Connected to the RGB header on my Z590 Aorus Master, the fan colors changed nicely with RGB Fusion. Unexpectedly, this case is the quietest I have owned. Other than occasional coil whine from one of my mystery devices, I cannot hear the computer idle from 2 feet away.
Cons: The RGB controller is only included for models 110R and 111R (not for 110M, 110L, or 111M). It doesn't look like that accessory is sold separately either. As a result, the onboard LED switch is useless and should've been omitted or replaced with another port. Very tight clearance for my 240mm radiator with 2 x 120mm fans at the top of the case. It fits, but rests on top of my RAM modules (44mm). I'm switching to lower profile modules and it doesn't bother me, but something to keep in mind.
Overall Review: For the price it's a great case, just enough space for my ATX build with RTX 3080 Ti. Other than the pointless LED switch I have zero complaints. Unless you use HDDs, I recommend pulling the HDD cage to get more space for cables and PSU. It comes out pretty easily. You will need to remove the bottom foot to access the other screws for the HDD cage.
Pretty good for the money but a few quirks
Pros: Yes...4 slot PCI-E thanks to glorious PLX chip...enough said. HDMI 2.0 -- READ THIS -- yes it's minor for most people but to my knowledge this is the ONLY HDMI 2.0 board available in ATX form-factor. The BIOS has a PAVP setting too, so if you've been wanting to watch UHD Blu-Rays without downgrading to ITX form-factor, then buy this board. Plenty of fan headers for my Thermaltake case. Integrated 10Gb LAN and Intel WiFi work excellently as expected. Glad we finally have USB 3.1 Gen2 and SATA3 standard... This board will probably hold me over until Tiger Lake
Cons: POST takes exactly TWICE as long with same CPU, RAM, and SSD as it did on my prior ASRock board (18 secs vs 9 secs). Yikes! UEFI BIOS is a little weird. Everything was intuitive with my ASRock board, very detailed descriptions and straight forward menus. This board is OK but if you don't set it right you will find yourself lost in an EFI shell, which amusingly scrolls the commands too quickly to jot them down. Pain in the drain to configure dual graphics. ASRock, you could just use Windows settings and easily switch from integrated to discrete no problem. "Technically" you can do that with this board, but it will hang up on the desktop (stutter) like crazy, basically useless, if you try to have both integrated and discrete enabled at the same time. If you're wondering why I want both, it's because Nvidia doesn't support UHD Blu-Ray, so you can only watch on the integrated graphics (another reason for wanting HDMI 2.0 onboard). So far my workaround is to go into the BIOS and disable PCI-E slot 3 whenever I want to watch a UHD movie. No integrated security device. Not a big deal, but my ASRock allowed TPM-ish BitLocker without needing startup PIN. This board does have a TPM header but it's a proprietary 10-pin module for 60 bucks (part AOM-TPM-9670V). If you do get the module, you will need to boot in UEFI and have a GPT hard disk to get it to work without a key or PIN. At least for now, DON'T download the drivers from Supermicro's website (the one that looks like 1999); most of them are oddly outdated or don't even belong to this model (i.e. for this board they have 5Gb LAN driver when this model is actually 10Gb, slightly different chip). The "SuperO" website doesn't have anything yet, and the board launched weeks ago. Also, SuperO Booster version 2 (which is the latest I could find), does not work and is not included on the disc.
Overall Review: Came with late September BIOS. Website only has older BIOS from August. Not sure why... I will never use U.2 but it's nice to have that capability. Didn't hesitate to buy despite the bad press around the company (assume zero privacy with any web-connected devices....alleged incidents took place over 3 years ago anyway)... If you will never tweak BIOS settings, never need to boot to desktop before you receive another text message, and never need to watch UHD movies while easily switching to play the latest games, then this board will suit you just fine.
Excellent motherboard with future-proofing features
Pros: Steel PCI-E slots and sturdy PCB A dream BIOS with more options than you need Handles Coffee Lake processor nicely Segregated audio is excellent for gaming and movies 10Gb Ethernet built-in (chipset works great for me though not yet tested at 10Gb speeds)
Cons: This may have been because of my cooler size but the CPU plug is difficult to access once the cooler has been installed. I recommend testing your setup before installing it in the case. I had a bad PSU the first time around and it was a pain to unplug the CPU plug to test another PSU, due to the close locale of the plug to the topside of the case. A little pricier than other Z370 boards but well worth it if you get it with combo etc.
Overall Review: Recognized my 3200MHz CAS-14 memory XMP profile without issue. Haven't tried OC'ing the Coffee Lake hexacore yet but there are loads of tweaks for those who care to do so. Highly recommended although you will pay a premium for the 10Gb Ethernet "This review for ASRock review rebate program."
So far so good
Pros: Cheap Small form factor Win10 drivers Doesn't need power connector
Cons: None really (yet) Some inconsistent speed, likely attributable to my devices
Overall Review: I bought this to complement my StarTech USB 3.1 hard drive dock, so far it has worked fine. I have seen a noticeable improvement in speed and latency. On the other hand, the speed seems fickle. It will easily peak over 150/MBs but then dive to 20s and even lower. In one instance it transferred the first gigabyte of a file quickly but the last half at snail pace. I think this is either due to my docked hard drive (2 TB of 4 TB used) or my SSD (brinkline of capacity). Overall it is still faster than when I ran the drive over USB 3.0. Have not tried Type-C yet but this meets my expectations regardless. Also, strangely, my computer boots faster now. I have this plugged into a PCI-E 2.0 x8 slot.