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Andrew B.

Andrew B.

Joined on 04/22/05

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Product Reviews
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Most Favorable Review

It's Mega Maid. She's gone from suck to blow!!!!!

Delta QFR1212GHE-PWM Case cooler
Delta QFR1212GHE-PWM Case cooler

Pros: This fan moves fan like no computer fan I have ever encountered in my entire life. It is louder than two vacuum cleaners running. It is amazing. When I go to sleep at night, I do not hear my neighbors partying. I do not hear the random girls partying with my roommates, walking in and out of my room to use my restroom. I've got a xeon x3360 running at 3.8 GHz with this fan, I'm sitting at 55c while my CPU is getting HAMMERED with Einstein@Home workunits :D

Cons: This fan is so powerful, that it sucked the soul out of me and left me with ginger hairs.

Overall Review: I WANT MORE!

Most Critical Review

Write speeds slower than advertised

Mushkin Enhanced ECO2 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MKNSSDEC240GB
Mushkin Enhanced ECO2 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MKNSSDEC240GB

Pros: Well, it's an SSD and it's got pretty good read speeds.

Cons: I'm getting around 360MB/s write speeds at best with this SSD using ATTO Disk Benchmark 2.47.

Overall Review: This is noticably slower than either of the MKNSSDAT240GB-DX that I purchased 23 months ago. I measured (540 MB/s / 495 MB/s) read/write with it. Others have made comments about how write speeds aren't as important, however these are subjective opinions. I am repeatedly measuring write speeds that are over 25% less than what they should be. Is there a firmware update that I need to apply? Please advise.

My 2nd review on here after 8 months of ownership.

ASRock X99M Extreme4 LGA 2011-v3 Intel X99 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
ASRock X99M Extreme4 LGA 2011-v3 Intel X99 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: I'm not sure why so many people think that this is a bad motherboard. This board is the exact same as the red "Fatal1ty" board. Anyone that doesn't believe that it is, is more than welcome to peel the black piece of tape that is covering the fatality logo. The red color version of this board comes with a heatpipe extension of the VRM heatsinks. It also has power/reset switches soldered onto the PCB where the blue one doesn't. The Atheros QCA8171 that the blue board has, is the exact same chipset as the "Killer E2200". The only difference is the QCA8171 has a PCI devid of 1969:10A1, where as the Killer's is 1969:E091. All of the "Killer" features of the E2200 are on the driver/software level. If you do your research, you'll find that some users prefer to use the QCA8171 drivers instead of the "Killer" drivers on their red board. I have had my i7-5820K clocked at 4.4 @ 1.35v since November. Never had any issues. And for those that aren't familiar with ASRock boards, they're great.

Cons: The PCIe slot layout is stupid. The first two PCIe slots are x16/x16 (if you have a 40 lane CPU (or it's x16/x8 if you're using a 28 lane i7-5820K like me). Yet the bottom slot is only PCIe 2.0 x4. I don't care about the PCIe 3.0 x4 M.2 type3 slot. Those are great if you're using one of the VERY FEW SSDs on the market that support this. I want to be able to use two (water cooled, single slot) GPUs at x16 in the top slots. And a dedicated hardware RAID controller for my small SSD array. Why ASRock didn't make the bottom slot PCIe 3.0 x8, or even 3.0 x4 if the m.2 type3 ssd slot is in use. Or even let the bottom slot run at PCIe 3.0 x4 with a 28 lane CPU. Because as of right now, I have 4 extra PCIe lanes that are not utilized, while the limited PCIe 2.0 x4 is preventing my SSD array from hitting 2GB/s read/write haha.

Overall Review: Overall I'd give this board a 4/5 stars. But I am deliberately giving it a 5 star review to balance out all the negative reviews from reviewers that do not know what they're talking about. I am running this board in a μATX case, with the CPU and both GPUs watercooled on my custom loop. I ran BOINC projects 24/7 for 5 months straight that kept both of my GPUs, and my CPU at 100%. My Watt meter was read ~850w. Never crashed once.