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MARIANNE P.

MARIANNE P.

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Gbit ethernetwork to fiber-optic

Rosewill RCNC-11064 100 ft. Cat 7 White Shielded Twisted Pair (S/STP) Networking Cable
Rosewill RCNC-11064 100 ft. Cat 7 White Shielded Twisted Pair (S/STP) Networking Cable

Pros: Heavily shielded - these are run on top of and around metal ductwork, copper water pipes, bundles of electrical wiring and coax cable ... no detectable degradation on 200 feet of this backbone of Cat7 ethernet. They work at full rated capacity, at the least. My router & switch combination wired specs at 1000/2000 Mbit/sec, and I have no way to test at higher capacity. Everything runs at the top end of my other system specs ... so, these cables provide no bottleneck. Snagless connectors are gold-plated and robust. Unimaginable that they can fail under normal use. White - important for aesthetics. Very unobtrusive & easy to blend into environment.

Cons: None. Cable is slightly stiff and thick compared to normal Cat5e. Completely expected due to shielding. Does not create any problems; it can still be molded (carefully!) into tight corners. Connectors are robust, so allowing for an inch or two of extra clearance is a Good Idea when plugging them in to avoid unnecessary stress on your ethernet sockets. What will I do with several hundred feet of Cat5e cables now?

Overall Review: Purchased 100 foot and two 50 foot coils w/ 30% discount coupon. One run direct from FiOS connection to Gbit/wireless router, one run from router to second Gbit/wireless router and one run from first router to Gbit switch - entire house running at Gbit wired speeds and 450/450 wireless, about 15 computers & devices, with no bottlenecks, conflicts or slowdowns anywhere. Big Happy for everyone. =) 200 feet of superior Cat7 to run through an environment heavy with electrical and other metal interference for under $45, delivered, in under 48 hours. I want to have seks with deals like this. ;-) It may sound trivial, but the white really did turn out to be important. Nice NOT to have bright red or yellow or green or blue cables visible. Have others in black that are good alternative. On separate purchase, obtained ~250 feet of Cat6e cables in various lengths for runs/device connections that require less shielding.

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heats up fast, immediate thermal throttling, slower than most HDDs

HP S700 Pro 2.5" 256GB SATA III 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) 2AP98AA#ABL
HP S700 Pro 2.5" 256GB SATA III 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) 2AP98AA#ABL

Pros: For the product, nothing. I urgently recommend that you buy another product; I have USB thumb drives that outperform these SSDs by a broad margin. For the newegg RMA process, between 3 and 4 eggs. A bit bumpy, but once I figured out how to work the system it was fairly smooth and painless.

Cons: NOTE: this is my third attempt at posting a review for this product; newegg doesn't seem interested in negative, detailed reviews being posted for horrible products. I can't imagine why, after the glowing, fraudulent reviews posted by "eggsperts." [ :eyeroll: ] Bottom line, these can transfer 5-7 GB data in a few seconds. At the expense of heating up to ~55°C under the most ideal conditions possible. Once these SSDs hit 50°C and up, they thermally throttle until they are slower than most mechanical hard drives. I bought two of these, one for a laptop upgrade and the other for an all-in-one upgrade. The spaces in both of those machines are highly restricted with very little airflow; I didn't dare install these SSDs into those machines due to ridiculous temperatures and even more ridiculously slow speeds during burn-in & testing in a PC with open side and two case fans blowing on them in a room where the ambient air temperature was ~16-17°C. Both SSDs performed just about identically. Never saw transfer speed that exceeded 300 MB/sec on a SATA III controller, transferring to & from a Samsung 850 EVO SSD. Instantaneous speed for the first 5-7 GB of data was generally ~200-280 MB/sec, after which it immediately plunged below 100 MB/sec and only got slower after that. By about 15-20 GB total data transfer, temperatures stabilized ~55°C and speeds dropped below 80 GB/sec, then continued to slow down and finally stabilized between 60-65 MB/sec by the time ~25 GB data had been transferred. I have a few dozen USB thumb drives. Most of the USB 3 rated ones will easily match 60 MB/sec transfer rates, and I have a number of high performance ones that exceed 150 MB/sec write speeds for large, 100 GB write events. Seriously, nearly three times the speeds these HP s700 pro SSDs achieved. And, none of them get nearly this hot. For further comparison, my data storage HDD on this system is an Hitachi 4 TB Megascale Coolspin (refurbished) that runs at 5400 rpm, and it sustains data transfer speeds between 85 & 90 MB/sec. It never exceeds ~32-34°C when transferring terabytes of data at a time and usually idles between 26-28°C. My Samsung 850 EVO (250 GB) rarely hits 35°C under sustained, large data transfers and usually idles between 24 & 28°C. These HP s700 pro SSDs idle at 36-38° with absolutely no activity. Any minor activity bumps them to ~44-48°C, and they then take several minutes to cool down under 40°C. Observed performance in this temperature range is between 90 & 140 MB/sec, which is about 1/3 the speed I get out of my Samsung 850 EVO. Hewlett Packard: you should be embarrassed that you put this into production.

Overall Review: Let me stress the testing conditions: these SSDs were attached direct to a Hewlett Packard PC motherboard with a SATA III controller. The room temperature was between 60-65°F (about 16-17°C). I placed the SSDs directly into the airstream of two case fans, meaning well over 45 CFM of freezing cold air was flowing freely around all surfaces of these SSDs. The metal casing did nothing to act as a heat sink and help cool the chipsets. Both SSDs never cooled down below ~36°C. As these heated up to ~55°C, the case remained cool, but the chipsets were cooking inside the case. Once they heated up, it took over 10 minutes of the chipsets to cool back down, at which point they would burst at higher speeds for a few seconds before heating up to ridiculous temperatures again. I can only imagine how hot these would get inside a laptop. They would constitute a legitimate fire hazard under something as simple as a Windows 10 update. One thing that sold me on these to begin with was the reviews. I can't begin to comprehend how 'newegg professionals' could have missed such a glaring flaw. They must have tested by transferring a single 1-2 GB file. I can't imagine burning in a new drive, SSD or HDD, without a complete data fill followed by a disk wipe and low level format. These 256 GB SSDs took longer to format than a 1 TB mechanical HDD. In fact, I suspect they take longer than some 2 TB HDDs I've formatted. The newegg RMA process was more painful than usual. I tried to use the automated system, and was immediately charged a restocking fee plus a fee for return shipping label, to total of which was about 30% of the cost of both SSDs. It took almost a week to connect with a person at newegg to remind them of their zero restocking fee/free return shipping policy for defective products. The chat system is completely broken, constantly bumping you to the end of the queue, or disconnecting you and making you reconnect ... at the end of the queue. Wasted several hours over three days before I tracked down their phone number and waited on hold for ~30 minutes (when they picked up, I was told between 50 & 60 minutes estimated wait, so a small bonus there). Once I spoke to a real, living human being, things went very smoothly from there. Full refund, no restocking fee, free return shipping label. I only lost about 20 or 22 hours of my life over this purchase. You know, because my personal time is meaningless. So, independent of the zero eggs for this product, I rate the newegg RMA process between 3 & 4 eggs because now I know better than to use the automated system or the chat contact. In the future I can resolve returns like this in under an hour by making sure to call them and speak directly to a human. Also, I've been a customer since the late 1990s when newegg was known as egg head; my need for returns has been few and far between and they've usually been quite smooth compared to this one. Not going to ding newegg too hard for one bumpy return. But, Hewlett Packard. You guys need to get your act together. Your products have been an absolute misery to deal with for years now. This is only the latest in a long string of miserable products that I've had to deal with. I do a lot of computer repair and upgrades on the side. Every time I get an HP product, I know I'm in for a costly and time-wasting process. Mostly I avoid your products just to avoid the headache. The high reviews and low cost on these SSDs suckered me in and I payed hard in an enormous amount of lost time and aggravation. Don't expect me to willingly buy or deal with any of your products for years to come. Your competitors thank you.

Quiet, LEDs can be disabled, not as much airflow as hoped

BitFenix Spectre LED Orange 230mm Case Fan
BitFenix Spectre LED Orange 230mm Case Fan

Pros: Almost everything is a pro on these. - they are very quiet, almost silent, so much so that they can be run at full speed at all times - clever connection solution to control & disable LEDs - LEDs are low light, so even when on they are unobtrusive - low energy use, under 2 watts each w/ LEDs dsabled - airflow is good, but SEE Cons - large frame & diameter, which can also be a Con

Cons: These are nitpicks, so no eggs off: - airflow is probably as advertised, but it feels weak (still good for the silence) - they are not perfectly silent, but they are almost so - you can hear the blades cutting the air - when your ear is close to the exposed fans, you can hear a faint electrical whine - installed in a case and more than 3 feet away, they are effectively inaudible (a Pro) - large frame & mounting options might be a minor problem, if you didn't read the specs - minor vibration, easily solved with bits of rubber matting - there was no molex adapter to connect the fans to a power supply if no fan headers are available

Overall Review: I didn't buy these for a computer case. I needed them to help exhaust heat from a room. They are super effective, and quiet. So quiet that I can't hear them at all, even when every other device in the room is turned off. Everything I needed. However, I do wish they moved a little bit more air, but that's expecting more than the specifications, so no eggs off for the products. I can probably solve that concern by installing one or two more. The room I have a number of computers in gets a bit warm, but it has a drop ceiling. So I custom cut some sturdy cardboard int a box that fits exactly where one ceiling tile was. or durability, I spray painted the cardboard with matte white enamel, especially on the inside (which people have to look into when they enter the room & see the ceiling). The cardboard is sealed against moisture and cxan be easily damp-wiped clean when necessary, the matte white produces a low orange glow from the fan LEDs, when they are on. I then mounted two of these fans in one side of the box, and they pull over 150 cubic feet (up to ~200?) per minute out of the room, at the top of the ceiling where heat is pooling. Ambient air temp dropped from about 80/82°F to about 70/72°F. A VAST improvement in working conditions, with zero noise added to the environment. The LEDs are controlled by a jumper wire loop in-line with the electric feed to the LEDs. This can be connected to a controller in a computer case, or just manually plugged in/unplugged to turn the LEDS on or off. I connected a wire loop to the connection that hangs down from the ceiling against the wall and can plug or unplug the jumper at will. the wire is white & thin, so very unobtrusive. When I'm working at night or watching movies (my home office doubles as my entertainment center for games/web surfing/movies/etc.), I can plus the LEDs in and get a faint, ambient orange glow as a nightlight. Comfy. When two fans are running simultaneously, without the LEDs connected they consume about 3.8/4.0 watts energy. Connecting the LEDs jumps teh power use to about 5.0/5.2 watts for the two of them. I bought a 12 volt/800 milliamp power adapter at a Goodwill for $1. I cut the barrel connector off it and directly wired it to the leads for the fans. It's plenty of power to run both fans (they are rated at 250 milliamps each). Theoretically I could run 3 fans off this wall wart simultaneously, or fins a 1.5 amp block and run 5 or maybe six. Pretty sure I'll buy one more fan and see if I can run three off it, and that should maximize the useful exhaust I can generate for the room. Of note for this project and for computer cases: these fans do generate a minor vibration. Such large fans spinning at their rated speed cannot be expected to be perfectly balanced, even though they are close. So I used the foam rubber matting that you can put under rugs and placematts and such to provide anti-slide traction. By cutting small approx. 1/4 inch square bits I put the pieces between the fans and the mounting surface (the cardboard box) where the screws pass through them and hold them in place, and it killed the vibration. On a computer case it may not be necessary, but when mounted to a cardboard box, it acted as a sound amplifier and you could hear the vibration until a dampening material was put in place. I'm very happy. For under $28 in total supplies (I got these fans on sale, so the pair was under $25 with free shipping), I converted my office from a sweatbox into a pleasant work space

criminally deceptive product alterations, hard drives now ready for landfills

HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 HUS724040ALE640 (0F18567) 4TB 64MB Cache 7200RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Enterprise Hard Drive - 3 Years Warranty
HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 HUS724040ALE640 (0F18567) 4TB 64MB Cache 7200RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Enterprise Hard Drive - 3 Years Warranty

Pros: none Advice to all: find another vendor. GoHardDrive is no longer a vendor with any scruples or morals. Have been a long-time customer, nearly 10 years. One thing that ALWAYS brought me back: refurbished hard drives never had their SMART statistics wiped. GoHardDrive has not only changed that policy now, but they chemically altered (or maybe laser etched?) the original manufacturer label to hide crucial information from the customer. .

Cons: The history of the SMART statistics on an HDD are critical in evaluating the item for appropriate use. GoHardDrive now zeroes out all values so the customer can no longer see the historical performance of the drive. No power cycles, no total hours used, no reallocated sectors, no errors, absolutely no information at all so that the customer can make informed decisions about the reliability of the hard drive. This is enraging. They have never done this in the past, and I urgently recommend that GoHardDrive identify the people in their organization who made the decisions to do this and immediately terminate them. You would not buy a used car where the odometer had been wiped to zero with all other information (including the year of manufacture!) about the car erased (in fact, it is illegal to do so when selling used cars), it is even more unacceptable that a "refurbished" hard drive be delivered in this condition. I have been a loyal customer for years because this practice in the industry is absolutely unacceptable, and it's despicable that GoHardDrive has now decided to engage in this heinous practice. In addition to wiping all historical SMART data from the drives, they have carefully altered the physical label on the drives, erasing the date of manufacture. Let the premeditated mendaciousness of that action sink in for a few moments. THEY ERASED THE DATE OF MANUFACTURE FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUFACTURER LABEL. GoHardDrive PHYSICALLY REMOVED THE PRINTED DATE OF MANUFACTURE TO HIDE THE AGE OF THE DRIVE FROM THE CUSTOMER. A faint outline of the original date can be seen under proper lighting and with great care, but the final digit has bee been scratched so that it is unreadable. These drives could have been manufactured any time between 2010 and 2019, there is no longer any way to tell. This is active destruction of documentation, with malicious intent, of basic information that is a customer's right to know. This is criminal level deception. .

Overall Review: I bought three HGST 4 TB Ultrastar Enterprise refurbished hard drives this past week, and they were delivered today. I have purchased about a dozen previously (various 2, 3, 4 and 8 TB models) for my personal use, and have regularly recommended them to friends and customers, which I would estimate account for at least 30 more sales over recent years. Those policies stop today. This purchase was a $200 investment in enterprise-class hard drives, specifically for their reliability for data protection and archive. With all information erased, these drives have zero reliability and zero confidence that they will even spin up tomorrow. No information about any errors or any reallocations means it must be assumed these drives were pulled because they were failing. It must be assumed that any data on them at all will be lost at any instant in time without warning. No "warranty" for any amount of time (1 year, 3 years, 12 years) has any meaning whatsoever when the drive must be expected to fail at any given minute. I might as well buy a Seagate drive that fell off the back of a delivery truck at 80 miles per hour. Erasure of all information has turned these HGST hard drives into land fill material, there is no expectation that any data written to them will still be there five minutes from now. Completely useless. Goodbye GoHardDrive. I will never look at or purchase products from you again for the remainder of my life. How dare you treat anyone this way. Rest assured I will keep my friends and customers informed of your unacceptable and criminally deceptive product alteration practices. .

knew what I was getting into, got what I ordered

EVERCOOL FAN-EC5010M12CA 50mm Case Cooling Fan
EVERCOOL FAN-EC5010M12CA 50mm Case Cooling Fan

Pros: Critical size required: 50 mm fan and 10 mm thickness, nothing else would work in my application. Moves quite a bit or air for it's size. 3-pin connection so (in the right situation) speed can be somewhat controlled. Comes with MOLEX adapter to connect direct to power supply with two wires instead of three.

Cons: It's loud. MUCH louder than the advertised 23 dB. Without a measuring device, I'd have to say 30 dB or maybe slightly over. I can hear it over every other fan in my office, which are about 20 fans of various sizes & models for CPUs, GPUs and case cooling on 4 computing systems, plus another 4 or 5 external hard drive enclosures that may or may not be running at any given time. Screws provided are NOT case screws. They are designed to secure this fan directly to a cooling block, such as the older style with heavy 1-2 mm thick fins us old folks remember from the Pentium days. The screw passes through the holes in the fan and then taps itself between sturdy aluminum fins to screw the fan directly to the cooling block. The screw holes, when used with traditional, self-tapping case screws, only allow the fan to be mounted in one direction. Unless you find exceptionally long case screws. A 3/4" or 1" #10 wood screw or sheet metal screw with a 24 thread, depending on the head style you want, works nicely as an alternate. I mentioned it's loud, right?

Overall Review: I needed to replace a fan in an external HDD enclosure (the old Rosewill 2-bay USB 2 enclosures, not available anymore, but a real workhorse that's running perfectly after 8 years continuous 24/7/265 use for torrents on two 2 TB HDDs). This fan fits like it was made for that enclosure. However, it needs to be modified since the enclosure provide electricity for only two wires, standard red & black for 12 volt feed. No third wire for temperature-sensitive fanspeed control. I solved the problem by clipping the 2-wire plug off the old, broken fan and rewiring to this new fan, and just leaving the yellow third wire unconnected. The fan therefore runs at full speed 100% of the time. And thus, the loudness issue, in part because this fan is not muffled inside a larger case and buried in other equipment. Still, out of all three I bought, I tested them all and they were all the same loudness, which isn't close to the advertised 23 dB. I'm happy in general, but you can hear this external enclosure in operation the moment you approach the door and enter into the office. Since it is not on a workdesk, it is generally about ten feet away with the business-end of the enclosure partially hidden behind equipment, monitors and general office debris so you eventually tune the noise out and it isn't THAT loud. Just, I build very quiet systems and cannot hear any other fans running as a general rule, none of which are near the loudness of this little guy. But I pretty much expected this between reviews and experience with small fans that spin fast to move lots of air. So, no real surprises. I deducted an egg not because of the noise, but because the mounting screws aren't case screws and the fan can only be mounted in one direction (unless you hack it a bit and use alternate screws plus spacers). As far as performance, the hard drives upload about 2 TB per month and stay only about 5°-7° C above ambient room temp, which is fantastic. About 2°-3° C cooler than the original fan. (DISCLAIMER: I'm uploading media for my business via torrents, making free music, which I have the rights to, available over a number of public & private trackers. No piracy or theft is conducted in the torrenting of my publicly available media files.)

disappointing

Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Memory Kit Model BLS2K4G3D18ADS3J
Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Memory Kit Model BLS2K4G3D18ADS3J

Pros: 1866 DDR3 RAM, getting rare & expensive for pre-2017 systems it works at stated specs for an FX 8320e build

Cons: Price, was ridiculous for a 2 x 4 GB kit; burned a 10% RAM discount coupon ans it was still more expensive than 2 x 8 GB kits I bought 10-12 months ago. Adding injury to that insult, the anemic timings cannot be reduced, and the heat sinks are a design joke: they will not under almost any aftermarket CPU cooling block you can imagine. Really infuriating that such a ludicrous eye-candy marketing gimmick was installed on these to the detriment of actually being able to use them properly on a system. These are marketed as gaming performance RAM, and it's beyond a joke, it is an outright lie. I played around for days with overclocking and underclocking tweaks, even some voltage boosts. Because it's an AMD FX system, it will never exceed 1866 MHz and I bought into that with full knowledge. However, I did expect to be able to tweak the timings down even slightly. Because "performance" "WhizzBang!" "Crazy Electric Blue Heat Fins Make it AMAZING SPEED!" Not.

Overall Review: Best I could manage was to drop the multiplier so they underclocked at 1600 MHz, then bumped the overclock on the north bridge for the CPU before the multiplier on the CPU, so the memory runs at about 1680 MHz, but was able to drop the timings at that point to 9-9-9-25 stable. So the kit ends up being a 1600+ MHz kit instead of an 1866, running at fairly anemic 1600 MKz timings. This should be running CL9 at 1866 and CL8 at 1600, even if I had to bump the voltage slightly. But dem heat fins! So many amaze! Much excite! Ludicrous speed, transitioning into electric blue plaid!!! So much worth teh monies!! A very underwhelming experience for such a highly rated memory manufacturer and model. Won't get fooled again. G.SKILL has never let me down in over a decade, so I doubt I'll leave that reservation again. Oh, yeah. I'll also mention that the reason for today's review? When I probably wouldn't have bothered? Price dropped. Even after my 10% coupon at the beginning of December, this kit is selling today for less than I paid. Nice kick for that Merry Holidays Feeling.

12/20/2017
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criminally deceptive product alterations, hard drives now ready for landfills

Advice to all: find another vendor. GoHardDrive is no longer a vendor with any scrupples or morals. Have been a long-time customer, nearly 10 years. One thing that ALWAYS brought me back: refurbished hard drives never had their SMART statistics wiped. GoHardDrive has not only changed that policy now, but they chemically altered (or maybe laser etched?) the original manufacturer label to hide crucial information from the customer. I bought three HGST 4 TB Ultrastar Enterprise refurbished hard drives this past week, and they were delivered today. I have purchased about a dozen previously (various 2, 3, 4 and 8 TB models) for my personal use, and have regularly recommended them to friends and customers, which I would estimate account for at least 30 more sales over recent years. Those policies stop today. The history of the SMART statistics on an HDD are critical in evaluating the item for appropriate use. GoHardDrive now zeroes out all values so the customer can no longer see the historical performance of the drive. No power cycles, no total hours used, no reallocated sectors, no errors, absolutely no information at all so that the customer can make informed decisions about the reliability of the hard drive. This is enraging. They have never done this in the past, and I urgently recommend that GoHardDrive identify the people in their organization who made the decisions to do this and immediately terminate them. You would not buy a used car where the odometer had been wiped to zero with all other information (including the year of manufacture!) about the car erased (in fact, it is illegal to do so when selling used cars), it is even more unacceptable that a "refurbished" hard drive be delivered in this condition. I have been a loyal customer for years because this practice in the industry is absolutely unacceptable, and it's despicable that GoHardDrive has now decided to engage in this heinous practice. In addition to wiping all historical SMART data from the drives, they have carefully altered the physical label on the drives, erasing the date of manufacture. Let the premeditated mendaciousness of that action sink in for a few moments. THEY ERASED THE DATE OF MANUFACTURE FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUFACTURER LABEL. GoHardDrive PHYSICALLY REMOVED THE PRINTED DATE OF MANUFACTURE TO HIDE THE AGE OF THE DRIVE FROM THE CUSTOMER. A faint outline of the original date can be seen under proper lighting and with great care, but the final digit has bee been scratched so that it is unreadable. These drives could have been manufactured any time between 2010 and 2019, there is no longer any way to tell. This is active destruction of documentation, with malicious intent, of basic information that is a customer's right to know. This is criminal level deception. This purchase was a $200 investment in enterprise-class hard drives, specifically for their reliability for data protection and archive. With all information erased, these drives have zero reliability and zero confidence that they will even spin up tomorrow. No information about any errors or any reallocations means it must be assumed these drives were pulled because they were failing. It must be assumed that any data on them at all will be lost at any instant in time without warning. No "warranty" for any amount of time (1 year, 3 years, 12 years) has any meaning whatsoever when the drive must be expected to fail at any given minute. I might as well buy a Seagate drive that fell off the back of a delivery truck at 80 miles per hour. Erasure of all information has turned these HGST hard drives into land fill material, there is no expectation that any data written to them will still be there five minutes from now. Completely useless. Goodbye GoHardDrive. I will never look at or purchase products from you again for the remainder of my life. How dare you treat anyone this way. Rest assured I will keep my friends and customers informed of your unacceptable and criminally deceptive product alteration practices.

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great CPU cooling blocks, great customer service

I own several Raijintek cooling blocks, and I've installed several more on systems for other people (family & business). The product value on these is almost impossible to beat. I've not needed cutting edge cooling for maximum overclock, but I have installed some budget coolers that performed far above basic budget specifications; I've bought $17 coolers that performed as well or better than competing brands that cost $50 or $60. I recently bought an Ereboss cooler to overclock an FX 8379 chip temporarily, with the intention of using it on a Ryzen 1700x build in the near future. The package did not include the mounting hardware for an AM4 socket. I visited the Raijintek website and asked about the availability of an AM4 bracket for this cooling block, and Raijintek support immediately volunteered to send me what I needed for free. They direct-shipped the hardware from Taiwan to the United States at their expense in just under two weeks. I am impressed. All I wanted to do was suggest they make the hardware available at Newegg so I could buy it at a reasonable price. Also, to be clear: every Raijintek product I've bought over the past couple of years has arrived in perfect condition and very fast. I always use the free shipping option, which can be 5-7 days or more. Pretty sure all my Raijintek purchases have arrived in about three days. This recent purchase of their Ereboss cooling block arrived about 80 hours after I purchased it on Newegg. In addition to the very responsive customer support, I can only repeat that their hardware performs in direct competition to other products that cost two or three times more. The Ereboss cooling block comes with a 140 mm fan. With little effort I was able to install it on an AM3+ socket (the description claimed only AM3 compatibility), with a little creativity I was able to install a 120 mm fan to push while configuring the 140 mm fan to pull. My FX 8370 happily chuggs along at 4.8 GHz under fairly heavy load while maintaining approx. 52°C-55°C. Even stress testing doesn't break 70°C. With minor tweaking of the fan profile, both fans run off a 4-pin PWM splitter and are nearly impossible to hear (the 120 mm fan sets the fan speed vs. CPU temp). My overclocking limit seems to be the voltage that the CPU can withstand; clearly the cooling block could do even more if my motherboard/CPU combo could go higher. I am very much looking forward to installing this on a Ryzen. I have no doubts that I will easily cool it more than enough to handle whatever maximum overclock the chip can take. My nephew is currently gathering all the parts he needs for his first (budget) gaming build and I've already bought him an Ereboss cooling block (plus a splitter & extra fan) for Christmas. Thank you, Raijintek!

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item shipped separate from bundled order

Was forced to order numerous items in a single order to qualify for shipping discount; all other items shipped in single box, but m0n0price item shipped separately (took one extra day for delivery, not a serious issue). The problem came in when items in the bundled order were switched with different products and packing list printed out by some crack-smoking monkey didn't match half the items ordered. M0n0price did not include any packing list for item. At this point, in order to get the incorrectly shipped items replaced with correct ones, I was required to "send every single item in the order back" (instead of just the one critical item), and I am required to pay for all the return shipping, which amounts to about half the entire bundled price of the order and is more than double the shipping "discount" I was supposed to be saving money on. Just for funsies, it is now two weeks later and I cannot get in contact with a single real human being by phone, email or chat to fins out where I am supposed to return ship the items to. M0n0price has, of course, complicated the entire nightmare by separating the order, with no return shipping address, no packing list, and a separate shipping fee ... and the item sent to me is exactly the correct item I ordered and wish to keep. But I have to ship it back anyway at a shipping cost greater than the cost of the item itself. Because. Reasons. Or whatever. Both Newegg and m0n0price share responsibility in this extremely time-consuming and expensive mistake. I was denied an informed choice when m0n0price split the order; that was automated without my input and I only found out about it after the order became orders after the authorization on my credit card was finalized. There is no customer service contact option to talk reason, just automated forms lacking instructions, unclear on other instructions, and very clear on other instructions on the fact that I am supposed to eat a $20+ return shipping bill ... to no place specified. Did I mention that I cannot contact a single human being to get these basic questions answered? My frustration has become rage, and I have to eat the mistake due to a ridiculous circus of a$$clownery that has made the return process insanely complex, time-consuming, unclear and expensive. I am giving m0n0price two eggs because I did, in fact receive the item I ordered, but the lack of packing list, return shipping info and customer contact options in addition to splitting the order without my knowledge or consent in the first place has turned a trivial transaction into a stress-filled nightmare. The outrageous arrogance in assuming my time is worth nothing to fix their mistakes is disgusting and ensures I won't be placing orders with m0n0price again. _______ Also note: I could not submit this review using the spelling of the sellers name; it was flagged as offensive language and kicked out of the system for me to edit. My sincere apologies for offending the censorbot. I hope I didn't traumatize it or cause it to have a nervous breakdown with my vulgar vocabulary. Perhaps the seller should consider rebranding their name to something more acceptable for use in polite society.

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10/17/2017