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Kenneth B.

Kenneth B.

Joined on 04/20/14

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Most Favorable Review

Great H87 Board

ASUS H87M-PRO LGA 1150 Intel H87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 uATX Intel Motherboard
ASUS H87M-PRO LGA 1150 Intel H87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 uATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Tons of features, solid high quality board with a nice upgrade path, this will be my main work board for many years. Very easy to set up, almost impossible to brick the BIOS. Win 7 drivers work perfect. EUFI BIOS is really nice, almost endless tweaking if you want or just run in easy mode for full automation, this board will make the novice and pro happy. Update the BIOS before you install the OS, it's so easy and fast,

Cons: None

Overall Review: Be carefull with drivers you get from the Intel site, Intel likes to bundle so much bloatware with thier video drivers (embeded GPU) and the SATA drivers, if you install it all it will add almost a dozen uesless services that steal ram/cpu from you with no benefit, shame on Intel, they make nice hardware but are clueless when it comes to consumer software, many people are angry in the intel forums.

Most Critical Review

What is the atx12v version?

EVGA 500 W1, 80+ WHITE 500W, 3 Year Warranty, Power Supply 100-W1-0500- KR
EVGA 500 W1, 80+ WHITE 500W, 3 Year Warranty, Power Supply 100-W1-0500- KR

Pros: Good,name, great value for watts

Cons: Why is the ATX12V version not listed? It claims "Haswell Compatible" and 4th Gen CPU Ready but..... many Haswell boards specify that you should use ATX12V v2.3 /EPS 12V v2.91 is this PSU v2.1 or lower? If so then 'some' products may have trouble coming out of slerp mode etc..... I even went to manufactures website and could not find this ATX12V version number.....

Overall Review: Haswell "Compatible" is not the same as Haswell "Certified"

Excellent Value

G.SKILL Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-1600C9D-8GAB
G.SKILL Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-1600C9D-8GAB

Pros: The biggest pro is price and the quality is great too, I run these ar the XMP speed of 9-9-9-24 with no problem. I ram MemTest+ on them for over 4 hours with zero errors. I'm using these in a Asus H87M-Pro with a Haswell i5 w/o issue even though they are not on the Qaulified Vender List from the Asus docs for my board but the gskill listed my board as compatible so I took a chance, very glad I did, saved some cash.

Cons: None

Overall Review: I will purchase another set when these are special priced again (below $70.00) to bring my total RAM to 16gigs. I'm not worried about a matched set with my existing gskill RAM as I will never OC and full dual-channel on all banks is over-rated unless you live by benchmarks alone, you cannot tell the diff in real live use.

Excellent Case

Sentey CS1-1399 PLUS Black SECC 0.5mm ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Sentey CS1-1399 PLUS Black SECC 0.5mm ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Pros: USB 3 and 2.0 on front with audio and card reader, bottom mount PSU, TAC provide excellent cooling with only the included fan, OC'ers will want to add fans though. Quality is exceptable in this price range (my final price with special discount and rebate was $34.00)

Cons: Not sure I would pay full price for this case, $49.99

Overall Review: I would purchase this case again at the discounted special price.