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Joel W.

Joel W.

Joined on 08/03/05

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Most Favorable Review

Great board so far

ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 AM3+ AMD 990FX + SB950 USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 AM3+ AMD 990FX + SB950 USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

Pros: Overclocks really well. Have my FX-8320 OC'd to 4.833 on a EVO 212 cooler, stable in any game, COH2, Grey Goo, StarCraft 2, and so on. Running GSkill Sniper 2133 RAM with no issues, and that is even slightly overclocked to just about 2400, maybe 2313 or something like that. Can't remember exactly.

Cons: Only 3 4-pin chassis fan connectors, but that's ok. The PCIeI x 1 slot is covered by my FGX 980 but if I need an add-in card for anything, I can just use the PCI slot I guess.

Overall Review: We'll see how long the board lasts, but every ASUS board I have had has never failed. Curious abut one thing though. All of the DOA boards that people say they get here on Newegg. People have to be screwing the board installations up somehow and causing the board to go Kaput on the first boot. Not wearing anti-static straps, scraping the bottom of the boards on the metal standoffs in the case, tweaking the board trying to get it in, or something else. I have a very hard time believing that 1/3rd of the boards sold here on Newegg are DOA. Quality control from these board manufacturers cannot possibly be that bad.

Most Critical Review

Second review

ASUS M4N98TD EVO AM3 NVIDIA nForce 980a SLI ATX AMD Motherboard
ASUS M4N98TD EVO AM3 NVIDIA nForce 980a SLI ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Ummm... It's still partially working. :)

Cons: Well, This is my second review of this board. I initially gave it a very good review after I first bought it, but now 2 months later, I have no onboard audio. I reloaded Win 7 64 thinking it may have been the OS. After the reload still no sound and everything was set up the was it is supposed to have been. A couple days after the Win 7 reload, the sound game back and lasted for 3 days, then went out again. After repeated attempts to get the audio working, I went out and bought a Rocketfish PCI card from best buy for 30 bucks and I'm good to go now. I am very dissapointed in Asus' quality as of this date. They used to be awesome, but now I believe their MB's to be substandard. I'm just waiting for the next thing to go out on it, and I'll just get a Gigabyte or something else. I have no idea what Asus is up to, but if they keep this up, they will lose alot of customer base. Period.

Overall Review: I am just very disappointed in Asus. They need to get their act together.

Fantastic so far

WAVLINK USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III Dual Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5/3.5 Inch HDD/SSD with UASP (6Gbps), Support Offline Clone Duplicator Function [Max 16TB X2 ]
WAVLINK USB 3.0 to SATA I/II/III Dual Bay External Hard Drive Docking Station for 2.5/3.5 Inch HDD/SSD with UASP (6Gbps), Support Offline Clone Duplicator Function [Max 16TB X2 ]

Pros: Works very well. No issues with it disconnecting during transfers whatsoever. Comes with a 3 amp power supply. I've only used it for backing up a very large amount of files and I haven't used the clone feature yet, but that's not what I bought it for. I USB'd it to my Windows 10 box and after inserting my two backup drives, there were the drive letters, no problem. Personally, I don't think you can beat it for the price.

Cons: Very short USB cord. Like, really short. No big though as I have a USB extension cable. No egg off for that though cause the dock works so darn well.

Pretty good

HyperX FURY 8GB DDR3 1866 Desktop Memory Model HX318C10F/8
HyperX FURY 8GB DDR3 1866 Desktop Memory Model HX318C10F/8

Pros: It's ram. It's not the fastest around timing wise, but 8 gigs for 31 bucks and free shipping, you really can't beat it. I have to give it 5 stars even because of the timing, since in gaming you really can't tell the difference between most timings anyway without running some type of benchmark. Heck two years ram was twice the price it is today and the price of this ram is perfect.

Cons: None

Actually a pretty good card for the price

EVGA GeForce GTX 950 02G-P4-2956-KR 2GB SC+ GAMING, Silent Cooling Gaming Graphics Card
EVGA GeForce GTX 950 02G-P4-2956-KR 2GB SC+ GAMING, Silent Cooling Gaming Graphics Card

Pros: Got it for 119 after my 30 dollar mail in rebate. That's not bad because even though I have to tone down a few settings in my games such as COH2, I can still run it on High settings but have to lower the antil-aliasing to x4 to get a consistent frame rate of anywhere from 60 - 30 with vsync on. It's most definitely not my former EVGA GTX 980, for sure, but when hard times in life hits, you have to do a bit of compromising, and this card really isn't a bad compromise at all. I'm actually kinda surprised at it's capability.

Cons: It's not a 980, but we all already know that.

Seems like a fine processor

AMD FX-4300 - FX-4000 Series Vishera Quad-Core 3.8 GHz Socket AM3+ 95W Desktop Processor - FD4300WMHKBOX
AMD FX-4300 - FX-4000 Series Vishera Quad-Core 3.8 GHz Socket AM3+ 95W Desktop Processor - FD4300WMHKBOX

Pros: Runs all my games such as COH2, Assault squad 2, Alien Isolation and so on, not exceeding 60 - 65% total CPU usage. On the desktop I cant really tell the difference between this and my former AMD FX 8-core. Can't really overclock it because of the exixting board that I have but even without OC it's great.

Cons: Really none so far