Joined on 04/16/01
Great CPU
Pros: Seems everyone is getting a good overclock on this CPU, mine reached 3.9G on an ASRock X370 Taichi board. Runs cool and only needs 1.26 volts to reach 3.9G
Cons: None
Overall Review: Great CPU for gaming and professional workloads. Welcome back AMD you were missed. Not all games take advantage of this great CPU but Windows loves 8 cores it is amazingly fast.
one drive failed with smart errors
Pros: None
Cons: I stopped buying Seagate drives 10 years ago for this exact reason, high failure rate. I purchased 2 of these drives for my new NAS because Newegg was offering a good price for the nas if you bundle it with these drives. One out of two failed with SMART errors. I have no faith in Seagate but I am kind of stuck with them. I have already RMA'd the failed drive to Newegg I hope the new drive works.
Overall Review: I seldom have to give such a poor review as I research everything I buy to death but this drive was dead out of the box.
Great SSD
Pros: Speeds are crazy fast, it worked perfectly fine on my ASRock X370 Taichi board even knowing it was not on the list of supported bootable NVME drives.
Cons: None
Overall Review: My last three SSD's have all been Samsung and all are working fine and the speeds are as advertised.
Great cooler from Corsair
Pros: Does the job on a ASRock X370 Taichi AM4 board I overclocked my Ryzen 7 1700 to 3.9G and under full 100% load the cpu temp never goes beyond 48C. I tried several software utilities to verify that temp and they all show the same. Easy to install and the fans are awesome and quiet. Could not be happier with this purchase and it has Ryzen support right out of the box.
Cons: None
Overall Review: Software works fine I have not seen any issues with it. If your case supports a large Rad look no further you found your water cooler. Do your homework before buying this product and make sure its fits. If you buy it and it does not fit don't rate the product low look in the mirror with shame for not doing your research.
Great memory from a great company
Pros: Memory runs at the rated speed using the xmp profile on the ASRock X370 Taichi board. I have been using nothing but GSkill memory on my past 4 builds and they never let me down.
Cons: none
Overall Review: I have not tried overclocking the memory yet but from all the reviews I don't expect any issues.
Pros: I don't have fancy equipment to verify voltage I am going on the assumption that it is working as advertised and as good as all the reviews stated for this model It is working perfectly in my Corsair 780T case. It is a bit longer than my 850 watt PS from my previous PC but that is not a problem.
Cons: My only grip are the screws that came with it, when trying to secure it to the case the screws did not grab very well I had to put some pressure on it to drive them into the holes.
Overall Review: It powers my new Ryzen 1700 OC to 3.9G without issues what more can be said.