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jacob w.

jacob w.

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Most Favorable Review

So many Hz......

ASUS VG248QE 24" Full HD 1920 x 1080 1ms (GTG) 144Hz DVI-D HDMI DisplayPort Built-in Speakers Asus Eye Care with Ultra Low-Blue Light & Flicker-Free Backlit LED NVIDIA 3D Gaming Monitor
ASUS VG248QE 24" Full HD 1920 x 1080 1ms (GTG) 144Hz DVI-D HDMI DisplayPort Built-in Speakers Asus Eye Care with Ultra Low-Blue Light & Flicker-Free Backlit LED NVIDIA 3D Gaming Monitor

Pros: The monitor is pretty awesome with good build quality. I'm very pleased this is the first monitor I've ever bought that didn't have a dead pixel somewhere on the screen, and the menu is full options!

Cons: The monitor came with a horrible color setup to be honest, but I knew it would when I bought it, I simply found a website called PC Monitors and they not only did a review but they also calibrated it as well. All I had to do was punch in their settings into the on screen menu then download an ICC profile to insert into my Nvidia control panel that I'm assuming they made and the thing has one of the clearest and smoothest picture I've ever seen.

Overall Review: I wish Newegg would ship like the other online store who's name means jungle and put the monitor box in another box to reduce the chances of damage, nothing happened to my monitor but it easily could have......

Very Good Ram

G.SKILL Sniper Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3 2400 (PC3 19200) Desktop Memory Model F3-2400C11Q-16GSR
G.SKILL Sniper Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3 2400 (PC3 19200) Desktop Memory Model F3-2400C11Q-16GSR

Pros: Installed and the computer fired right up, xmp profile was already set from the corsair memory so it defaulted at 2400Mhz all black with only a little color on the stickers

Cons: none

Overall Review: The ram it replaced was two corsair sticks of 16gb @1600 had that ram forever and it worked great but when I went from a consumer grade Amd chipset to enthusiast grade Intel X79 I wanted more speed and a quad channel kit and this is what I selected. All four sticks worked and all the settings on them are identical, my i7-4820k and Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 picked it up right away and was set at 2400Mhz for me.

11/27/2015

The 680 on steroids......

MSI Gaming N770 TF 2GD5/OC G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 770 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card
MSI Gaming N770 TF 2GD5/OC G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 770 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card

Pros: I love this card, so much so I bought a a second one to go with my first one purchased from a store who's name comes from the jungle. It performs around 5-15% better than the 680 which was by no means a slouch and does so at around 80*C. The card by itself is is prety great it will cap most games in settings other than that beautiful mess we call Battlefield 4 and an extremely heavily modded Skyrim those are still instances in with you will have to drop the settings..... Or do what I did and buy another one, the cards in SLI pretty much destroy both the Titan and the current king the 780 ti. But keep in mind SLI is not for everyone and most of the time a powerful single GPU is better to have than the SLI which some games are not compatible, in my case everything is fine and works just as good as having only one but again mileage may vary. The card itself is very well made and since its quite heavy MSI does have a reinforcement bracket on it but even still I put the 3-way SLI bridge on my 2-way SLI cards to further that stability, it works good and was actually recommended by MSI if I had one available since its a hard PCB. Power supple for 2-way GTX 770 SLI is recommended at 850W which is more than enough to power the 2 cards even with them sitting below the power hungry i7-4820K sitting just above them. Overall with the price and availability with the AMD cards this is a good option for gaming

Cons: the fans can get load when at more than 70%