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David T.

David T.

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Most Favorable Review

Unrivaled Performance

OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 series PCI-E 480GB PCI-Express 2.0 x4 MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) RVD3X2-FHPX4-480G
OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 series PCI-E 480GB PCI-Express 2.0 x4 MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) RVD3X2-FHPX4-480G

Pros: The Revodrive 3 X2 in a x8 mechanical but x4 electrical gets 1.12GB/s Write and 1.29GB/s Read. Certainly awesome! IT SUPPORTS TRIM AS WELL! That was the final reasoning I went with the product.

Cons: It does use a PCIe slot, but motherboards, for the most part, are well designed nowadays...that you can have a full compliment of hardware and it fits nicely. I'm running my RevoDrive 3 X2 with dual GTX590s and an ASUS Xonar Xense and everything fits perfectly and there is even an open slot between the GPUs.

Overall Review: The OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 works flawlessly on the ASRock Fatal1ty PRO Gen 3 Z68 motherboard. I have used the old RevoDrive and had issues, but in this motherboard, you are guarenteed for it to work flawlessly.

Most Critical Review

Good performance, but...

ZALMAN CNPS11X Extreme V-Shaped Dual Heatpipe Design w/120mm Long Life Bearing CPU Cooler Compatible with Intel Sandy Bridge
ZALMAN CNPS11X Extreme V-Shaped Dual Heatpipe Design w/120mm Long Life Bearing CPU Cooler Compatible with Intel Sandy Bridge

Pros: Good performance, very nice looking. Quiet for the performance.

Cons: The worst and I mean the worst designed mounting mechanism! The back plate sits off of the motherboard so you have to use a lot of force in order to get the screw through the motherboard into it. Then the screw uses an Allen wrench and the wrench given is impossible to get enough force on it to tighten. This is the first time I had any heatsink flip off the motherboard onto the floor! Terrible, trust me!

Overall Review: Stay clear as you can find similar performance with a better mounting mechanisms.

Amazing Chassis, Amazing Keyboard, Relatively Quiet

GIGABYTE AORUS 17G YC - 17.3" FHD IPS Anti-Glare 300Hz - Intel Core i7-10870H - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU 8GB GDDR6 - 32GB Memory - 1TB SSD - Win10 Home - Gaming Laptop (AORUS 17G YC-8US6450SH)
GIGABYTE AORUS 17G YC - 17.3" FHD IPS Anti-Glare 300Hz - Intel Core i7-10870H - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU 8GB GDDR6 - 32GB Memory - 1TB SSD - Win10 Home - Gaming Laptop (AORUS 17G YC-8US6450SH)

Pros: Amazing Chassis, built like a tank, very sleek and looks awesome. Mechanical keyboard is unmatched for a laptop, the sound, the feel is incredible. Backlighting on keyboard is awesome as well, very bright and no bleed.

Cons: Matte black still easily makes fingerprints, kind of like last year's silver better. Rear Aorus icon on back of screen is somewhat dark compared to previous models. No way to increase brightness on it. Aorus control center still doesn't allow more than one customizable keyboard for games to be saved and accessed immediately. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but don't think so. No i9 offered for the 17G

Overall Review: Incredible gaming choice, so many positives, very few negatives.

AMAZING-AMAZING SPEEDS

SAMSUNG SM951 M.2 2280 512GB PCI-Express 3.0 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZHPV512HDGL-00000
SAMSUNG SM951 M.2 2280 512GB PCI-Express 3.0 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZHPV512HDGL-00000

Pros: Read Speeds: 2337MB/s Write Speeds: 1590MB/s Bought two of them and they worked perfectly out of the box and was recognized by my UEFI on initial boot. I bought the new MSI Z170A Gaming Titanium motherboard. I put one in each of the M.2 slots and they are kick'in! I also installed a fresh Windows 10 from a USB key and everything worked great and was recognized.

Cons: None, so far...

Overall Review: I bought two of these and didn't buy an optical drive either so my setup doesn't have any extra power/data cable connections. I wanted to do this for a super clean test bench build and it is awesome looking not using any SATA cables and minimizing power cabling!!! i7-6700k MSI Z170A Gaming Titanium Mobo (2) MSI GTX 980 Ti 32Gb Ballistix DDR4-2666 DeepCool Captain 360 Cooling System Seasonic 1200W Platinum PSU Lian Li PC-T80X Test Bench

MSI Quality!

MSI GeForce GTX 980TI 6GD5 V1
MSI GeForce GTX 980TI 6GD5 V1

Pros: I bought this version of the GTX 980 Ti because of the cooler. I know some other reviewers have called this cooler cheap, but I have a different take on it. I bought two cards because of the color of the cooler. I also bought an MSI Z170A Titanium motherboard to go with it matching in color and brand. Well, they match perfectly. I am using a test bench so I wanted everything to look exactly the same. The cooler, while it is plastic, looks awesome. The pictures of the front on look on the card doesn't do the card justice. It is a very shiny plastic which has a texture built into it which gives it a premium look. I also like the cooler design where it blows most of the heat outside of a case. The identification on it that reads 980 Ti on the side edge of them is very nice too. Overall, very happy with the fit and finish on the 'cheap' cooler. MSI quality is amazing, never had an issue going with their brand.

Cons: Ok, I had quite a few pros for the cooler, now comes the cons. I wish there was a backplate on the card. I know that backplates can hurt the heat dissipation on a graphics card, but with that aside...the looks of having a back plate is awesome. I think this unit should have a backplate in the same color as the card. Another negative on the card is that it does indeed run hotter than other more advanced coolers. The card, when overclocked about 200mhz or even at stock speeds with the power ratio increased to 110%, the upper card which is warmer can get up to about 92C! OUCH! The fan spins up on it and it can get fairly loud, especially on a test bench like I have. If you keep everything stock, the cooler is barely noticeable as far as sound goes. I removed one egg for no backplate and from a card that runs hotter and fan that is more noticeable than other more advanced coolers.

Overall Review: Newegg continues to do a wonderful job as always.

VERY WELL SURPRISED

DEEPCOOL Gamer Storm CAPTAIN 360 CPU Liquid Cooler AIO Water Cooling Ceramic Bearing Pump Visual Liquid Flow with 3 x 120mm FDB PWM Fan Rubber Coating Deep Silent Support LGA 2011-v3
DEEPCOOL Gamer Storm CAPTAIN 360 CPU Liquid Cooler AIO Water Cooling Ceramic Bearing Pump Visual Liquid Flow with 3 x 120mm FDB PWM Fan Rubber Coating Deep Silent Support LGA 2011-v3

Pros: I have always bought Corsair all-in-one cooling systems in the past. I always liked them, but I got to realizing that their software customizations was getting too large and it always wouldn't work. I also wanted a 360 solution and I came across deepcool's Captain 360. The quality of the build is great! It fit perfectly into my Z170 socket motherboard and the layout of the water tubing into the CPU block is perfect. I have found that with some all-in-one coolers, the tubing didn't always lay correctly down. This cooler can be positioned 360 degrees around the socket without issue. Great Job! I didn't use the fans that came with the unit because I wanted the new LED Aerocool fans and they work perfectly. The fans that came with the unit look high quality from what I can tell. Again, quality all around. On top of the CPU cooler there is an LED that breathes red in and out slowly. I really like this because it is subtle.

Cons: There are only two cons I can come up with. Firstly, all the packaging says that it is an 'amazing' visual flow system where you can see it. Well, the exposed clear tubing with red coolant is visible, but you can't tell if it's flowing. There are no bubbles (which is good) but no flow meter as well, so I don't get how you can visually verify flow. You just can't! The other con is simple. I wish there was an ability to change or turn off the LED on the CPU cooler. Again, it is subtle and has a nice breathing effect, but some may want a different color or to turn it off entirely. I wouldn't want a software solution here like Corsair, just a 4-way pin switch on the side that could maybe go from green, red, blue and off.

Overall Review: DeepCool really has a winner here. I seen a couple of comments about longevity issues, but only time will tell for me if there will be a problem. SO FAR SO GOOD!