Joined on 03/29/08
Great Camera
Pros: Sharp pictures, fast, great lens
Cons: The start up time is slower than what I'm used to with my nikon
Overall Review: I've had this camera for a while now and paid 1200 new over a year ago to have this lens with it. The lens is ALMOST the same quality as some of canon's high end lenses. The lens is ACCURATE, quick and sturdy.
Smooth!
Pros: It's stable, BIOS is nice, and capable of being quick... ASUS and Newegg Customer support are both top notch if you can get past some crackly mics from the ASUS guys.
Cons: I had DOA parts. LAN/ USB hub wouldn't update drivers. Spent a whole 4-5 hours trouble shooting and installing reinstalling and reinstalling and reinstalling.
Overall Review: RMA in process hopefully the next board will be fine. I also noticed that it looked like the box had be opened before. I didn't pay for an open box and that's not what a preferred customer expects newegg! I should have been stern and requested free return shipping.
Usefullish
Pros: Clean prints, fairly quick, doesn't over heat, slip, or cycle often. Easy to align preprinted forms.
Cons: Bad about paper feeding if paper dust isn't regularly cleaned out. Tends to cause the fees to slip or completely jam.
Overall Review: Used this model for about 3 years in a small business. It was subjected to lots of dirt and dust as there was no closed office space. Aside from the occasional jam due to poor maintenance, it held up fine and did it's job. It is now being used by another start up company for the last 4 years.
Wow
Pros: Easily o.c. to 4.4 ghz. Barely breaks 40c on full load. Idles at 29-31 with zalman cooler. Surpassed intel i7 3770 on all benchmarks.
Cons: Nothing to do with the CPU. Bios on my formula v has been a red headed step child since I bought it.
Overall Review: Upgraded from a Zambezi and wow. Don't think you're saving money getting the other. Night and day differences. Still have to say intel has the upper hand these days though.
CHEAP!!!
Pros: Fast and Cheap! I've got this thing O.C. to around 4.6 Ghz on an Asus formula V... with a Zalman 9900 and it barely ever breaks 34 c
Cons: It was a "fill in the blank" that needed polishing. I had Voltage issues when I started turning up the rates per core. Worked with the ASUS tools instead of doing it the old way and it worked perfect.
Overall Review: I was building on a 900 dollar budget and this was the last thing I added so it was a cheapo move. After I got everything tweaked right this thing did everybit and more than I expected. I run everything full res, no lag, and it runs my autocad and photoshop suites like a CHAMP. For the money you can't beat it. Windows isn't optimized for too many cores yet anyway and if you're building a hack'n'tosh you know that intel is where you need to be for that anyways.
great card
Pros: great card, smooth, fairly cheap.
Cons: having trouble getting crossfire to work properly. runs about 40 c which it warm to me.
Overall Review: as soon as i get crossfire to run smoothly ill delete this review and give it the full 5 eggs it deserves.