Joined on 03/30/05
Adds newer data interface
Pros: Works without issue in Win10 Fast delivery cable is long enough to work in my Antec tower case
Cons: Adds the USB-C interface, but not the transfer speed, but I knew this when I bought it.
came apart quickly
Pros: good capacity, looks good, price, but.....
Cons: literally came apart two weeks into service. Let me be clear: pulled the body and only the skin came off, the chip board stayed in the USB port. Really, really poor quality control.
Overall Review: Gotta go though the hassle of return and exchange, or something. Meantime, the old 4-gig PNY goes back into service. Thanks, A-Data (for nothing)
Remarkably faster boot process
Pros: No issues with slot insertion EUFI takes longer than OS boot Used ToDo to clone SATA ssd without issue
Cons: I had no set screws in my piles of spares to fit the MB (ASUS Z390 Prime). Finally had to use canabalize a trim set scew from the second M.2 slot cover. Those tiny screws are PITA to handle. If you buy this, get a mounting screw set at the same time.
Overall Review: Would buy this again in a heartbeat.
will not fit Gigabyte MB
Pros: Looks nice
Cons: Will not fit onto CPU socket, a row of capacitors blocks 2 of 4 sides.
Overall Review: Big overhang of socket area makes this unsuited to most boards that require 95 watts or more.
easy to install, great power
Pros: use only the cables you need, which really helps the build. My dead PSU was like stuffing a squid into a matchbox power delivered equal power specified (by my meter) quiet cooling fan
Cons: it's obviously meant for tower cases, which is what I have. Smaller cases might be a bit snug.
Overall Review: Powering i7 on Gigabyte MB, liquid cooler and SSDs, Radeon GPU, lots of USB3 devices. Great power for the price.
think twice about this board
Pros: Okay layout. Easy to pre-install RAM and some cables before mounting the MB in the chassis. Looks nice in case. Video graphics are superb without a video card (I'm not a gamer). Sound is okay. found PC2400 RAM and set up without issue. Has not run hotter than 34C, not overclocked.
Cons: SATA ports face sideways to the right, making the SATA connections harder than should be. BIOS screens bear no resemblance to the manual. BIOS display is a mash-up, and the boot sequence does not actually control the boot process. I installed a 240GB SSD drive, the installed Win8.1 x64 successfully. Then I created a RAID 5.1 array with 3 Seagate 500GB drives: the system went nuts, locked the SSD drive and forced a re-install on the RAID volume. This sort of defeats the purpose of a SSD boot drive, doesn't it? Won't let me set up a 5.1 speaker system, stuck on 2.1 like it or not. Windows cannot gain control of the audio chipset. BIOS kept losing track of which drives were bootable; had to install Win8.1 four times as system would hang during install.
Overall Review: Haswell i7 4771K, H80i liquid cooling, Antec 1200 tower, Corsair tru-power 750 PSU, GSkill DDR3 2400 32GB RAM, 3x500GB RAID 5.1, Crucial 240GB SSD (not currently in use, see above) Runs stable now, just not in the configuration I had in mind. For the cost, something of a disappointment,
Arrived in two days
Works great with AGM battery on my Winnebago, keeps up with phantom loads that drain the battery if left unchecked.