Joined on 11/09/06
Awesome Monitor
Pros: Amazing picture quality, the contrast ratio on this monitor puts most others to shame. The colors are vibrant, and the blacks are close to that of a CRT monitor. Now, it did take me a day or two to get all of the picture settings where I wanted them, but it was well worth the effort. I have my desktop pc and my ps3 hooked up to this monitor and both look amazing. The 2ms response time definitely helps in the gaming department. The 1360x768 resolution is also very good for the 19" screen size.
Cons: The buttons on the monitor are touch sensitive and kind of annoying to use. I would have preferred physical buttons but this is only a minor inconvenience.
Fail
Pros: None that I can think of...
Cons: First card worked for 3 weeks then died. System would boot up but no video output. RMA'd the card and had to wait 2 weeks to get another one. Installed the 2nd one and guess what, no video output, totally DOA. I also tested an amd 7570 and a GTX 660 and both worked perfectly fine with my PC, so its definitely an issue with the gigabyte card.
Overall Review: For 450 bucks, you should at least get a graphics card that works out of the box. I will never buy another gigabyte product.
So Far So Good
Pros: Got this for my xbox one to use an external drive (WD Black 2TB) since the internal xbox hard drive is slow and non upgrade-able. So far it has yet to disappoint. The temp readout on the front is really nice. Haven't seen temps higher than 23 degrees Celsius. The fan is quiet and seems to do the job. I know a lot of reviews on here criticize the quality control but the unit I received hasn't had any issues so far.
Cons: They mounted the fan the wrong way. Like another member pointed out, the fan is supposed to suck air in and discharge out the back of the enclosure. I checked this before installing my drive and found it to be installed wrong. Easy fix though. Just undo the screws and flip the fan around.
Overall Review: Rosewill makes good products for the price. I haven't had any issues with them and will continue to buy their products
Very Nice Graphics Card
Pros: ACX Cooler, 384 bit bus width, overclocked out of the box, comes with swag (hate that word, haha). Got 2 of these running in SLI on an Ivy bridge computer (3770 overclocked to 4.2 ghz and Asus Motherboard). There isn't a game I can't max out in 1080p resolution, which if I recall, Crysis 3 is still the most graphics intensive game to date. Was able to get a X10000 score in 3DMark11 with the gpu overclocked at 75mhz and the memory at 150 mhz with the voltage at +13mV.
Cons: Doesn't come with a backplate, Less memory than my GTX 680 FTW which had 4 GB.
Overall Review: Even thoough this card has less memory than some of the top tier cards from the 600 series, the 384 bit bus width makes up for it. You can see clearly if you run GPU-Z the difference in memory bandwidth. You really only need crazy amounts of VRAM if you are running a multiple monitor setup. I only have one so the 3GB GDDR5 is more than enough.
quality graphics card
Pros: Solid Build quality, can run all of the games out right now. (medal of honor warfighter 60-70 fps and Far Cry 3 50-60 fps at 1080p on maxed out settings). Easy to overclock (running at +100 mhz on the gpu clock and 200 mhz on the memory clock). Great for ripping blu-rays with dvdfab. stickers and poster included are sweet.
Cons: none except for a I can't afford to get another one to run in SLI right now.
Overall Review: I had originally set out to go with a radeon 7970 ghz edition, but after some compatibility issues with a few different 7970's, i decided to try out this card. It has exceeded all of my expectations and with the right setup I'll bet it could out-perform the 7970. Nvidia just released a new set of drivers so make sure to download them from their site rather than installing the ones included on the cd. This card is also great for video encoding. I can encode blu rays at 85-90 fps where as my 7970 would only encode at 24 fps.
Sweet Case
Pros: Lots of Cooling, Lots of Space for hard drives and optical drives. Easy to set up if you have built a computer before. Side Cable management.
Cons: Didn't come exactly as described. Says you can install 7 fans but the case I received you can only have 5 (2 in front, 2 on top, and one in the back) The Side panel they gave me has a see through plastic window instead of the panel with a grille for 2 more fans like in the pictures. This really isn't a con for me because I don't need to have 7 fans. I am currently running the 4 provided and plan to install another one in the top space just for aesthetic purposes. I like the window on the side because you can see all of the computer components. Otherwise this is a great case for the money. I have never had a problem with a rosewill product.