Joined on 01/18/03
Delighted, except
Pros: Four external bays and multiple fan slots. Nice color scheme and windowed side panel. Plenty of room with functionality, except for a liquid cooling system. See cons. I installed a ICY DOCK MB324SP-B ExpressCage 4x2.5" SAS/SATA HDD Hot Swap Mobile Rack in one 5" bay, a iStarUSA BPU-230SATA-BPL 2x5.25" to 3x3.5" in two of the bays, and still had a bay left for the DVD-R.
Cons: You will have to improvise for liquid cooling. I got the "Enermax Liqtech 240 All-in-One Liquid Cooler 27MM Thick Radiator w/ Duo High Pressure Airflow Fans" to go with this case. I figured, 'both are ENERMAX, so they gotta work well together, right?" WRONG. There wasn't enough room to install it inside this case properly. The radiator only would fit inside the top of the case, so I had to install the dual fans outside the case with fan guard shields to ventilate the radiator. That sucks! (pun intended) the air OK, but looks dumb. Wish now, that I'd spent a lot less for a good 'old school' heatsink and fan. You'd think ENERMAX would design their gear to fit together, or at least mention the limitations in their case description.
Overall Review: This is a great case provided you don't try to fit it with liquid cooling. With all the innovation required to make the liquid cooler work, it's still a good case. I have four 2 1/2" drives, three 3 1/2" drives hot-swappable. plus a DVD-R with the four top bays, and AMD vid cards in cross-fire.
Underwhelmed...
Pros: Light comes with two batteries and charger. Heavy duty and tough. The lens perimeter is sharp, strong and jagged, and would be nice to have among thugs. One could mess someone up with it, but probably not lethally. Beam size is adjustable, but see con, below.
Cons: Light is not all that bright. I delivery pizza at night and need a light to zoom brightly onto house numbers from a distance. Zooming the lens down to maximum square point luminescence does NOT get the job done. No instructions.
Overall Review: A CREE XM-L U2 is much better than this unit. The 2000Lm definitely does NOT mean 2000 Lumens!
Well worth the money
Pros: Mine has lasted well, and is a fast 'E drive' for my two NVMe 'C and D drives'. I purchased it 06/06/2020, and thought I'd post the CrystalDisk numbers today, 02/23/2022.
Cons: No cons for me
Overall Review: The current price is within $10 of what I paid in 2020, and if I needed another, I'd buy it again in 2022.
Make sure you measure before ordering
Pros: none
Cons: Advertised to for gtx 1070/1080 cards, but in whose dreamland?
Overall Review: Out of the box, the bridge fit my two gtx 1070 cards perfectly on twin connectors of each card. However, after installing the two gpu cards on a ASUS TUF GAMING B550M-PLUS MOBO, the bridge wouldn't fit the gap between the cards.
You get what you pay for, sorta
Pros: Inexpensive, USB 3 ports, arrived undamaged, 4 memory slots.
Cons: The mother board has a rare plug-in for the power supply. It's not 20 or 24 pin, but a 14 pin connection. 14 to 24 pin adapters are made and shipped from China for only $3, but I may have to wait a month to get one. Windows 7 Pro on the provided 250 GB hard drive would not boot the system.
Overall Review: I had an AMD FX 6300, that bit the dust. I wanted to get this Lenovo and upgrade the RAM and use a dedicated video card cannibalized from the AMD unit and components lying around on dusty shelves. I just do it, and don't whine. My 16 GB of DDR3 RAM didn't work because they were 2133 speed, but 8 Ram with slower speed fit nicely in the two remaining slots with the 2 X 2 GB ram provided. I planned to boot the 250 Gb hard drive and clone it to a SSD 500 GB drive. The 250 would not boot. Fortunately it booted Win 7 from the SSD 500's OS. I installed two more 2.5 inch drives in the unit. One gets only one for sure and maybe 2 ports for SATA/6 gb speed. There are 3 SATA ports and 1 eSATA port. The power supply connector is 14 pin. Search Levovo 14 pin PS on youTube for finding an adapter. I would recommend this unit for the hardware alone, but expect some surprises if you want to upgrade it.
RAM OR SLOT FAULT?
Pros: GOOD BOARD EXCEPT FOR POSSIBLE RAM SLOT FAULT... SEE BELOW
Cons: MY BUILD IS FOR: AMD A10-6800K Richland 4.1GHz (4.4GHz Turbo) Socket FM2 100W Quad-Core Desktop Processor - Black Edition AMD Radeon HD 8670D G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) Desktop Memory THE BOARD'S BIOS READS BOTH CHIPS ACCURATELY AND OC'S THEM TO 2133 SPEED AFTER AN EASY ADJUSTMENT IN THE BIOS. THE PROBLEM IS ONLY 4GB REGISTERS IN THE BOOT-UP. EITHER A CHIP IS BAD OR THE BOARD IS BAD. ALSO I HATE THE ONE PS2 CONNECTER. I FINALLY 'JERRY RIGGED' MY MOUSE WITH A USB ADAPTER, SO MY KVM WOULD WORK WITH IT.
Overall Review: THE CHIPS MUST BE LOADED IN EITHER A1/B1 OR A2/B2 PAIR OF SLOTS. IT WON'T BOOT WITH ONE CHIP ALONE. I'VE ORDERED AN IDENTICAL SET OF 2X4GB CHIPS TO LOAD UP ALL THE SLOTS. IF >4GB BOOTS IN FUTURE, I WILL RMA THE FIRST SET OF RAM CHIPS, HOWEVER... IF I STILL GET ONLY 4GB BOOTED, I WILL RMA THIS BOARD. I SENT A Q&A TO BIOSTAR SUPPORT THIS WEEKEND, SO I HOPE TO HEAR BACK THIS M-F WEEK. THIS IS THE ONLY REASON FOR 3 STARS INSTEAD OF 5 STARS, BUT IT'S A MAJOR PROBLEM IN THE BUILD.
On a slow boat from China.
I ordered my item the first week of last month and it's been over 30 days, and have still not received the item. Don't expect the proffered shipping anticipations.