Ricky N.
Joined on 04/08/11
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Looks nice

Pros: Looks sharp, wish more cases were designed with the snow white/blue/black color scheme. Has plenty of locations for cable routing and easy access to the CPU mount for the motherboard. internal case temp is only 1c over ambient with an additional side fan added.
Cons: The cables for the front panel switch/lights etc. is too short, half inch shorter and I'd have been in trouble. Grating for the fans obstructs too much air for the additional fan I added causing a high pitched whine, had to cut the grating out to fix the sound.
Overall Review: The additional fan I'm using is a very high CFM albeit nearly silent by it's self fan. Otherwise it's the best looking case IMO that I've been able to find.
Horrible mounting system.

Pros: Looks nice. Runs quiet, It's the single quietest fan in my PC.
Cons: The issue I have with this is in the mounting bracket, it simply doesn't seat right nor has enough force to seat evenly across the CPU. This leads to significantly worse cooling than the stock i5 cooler I was using previously. Stock cooler @ 4.4Ghz on my i5 would slowly climb to 78c under load testing on wPrime, this cooler gets up to 90c almost instantly, pressing lightly on the cooler drops the temps by about 20c. Sure sign the mounting bracket isn't doing it's job.
Overall Review: The way it's set up it would probably work excellent on AMD systems, just don't buy this for an intel, it's complete garbage. Also under normal loads and not benchmarking, this CPU cooler will show temps about 3c higher than the stock cooler.
Great board

Pros: Love the layout, works excellent. OC's like a champ Haven't had an issue yet. Simple to use BIOS Windows hardware tuner software that works perfectly.
Cons: None to speak of
Overall Review: The free ram offer that's apparently been going on forever now is good ram, but keep in mind the stuff operates at a lower voltage and may not be compatible with most other ram.
Great performance for the $$

Pros: Great GPU. Plenty quick for pretty much every game I play.
Cons: Bought nVidia specifically for 3D support on my Sammy 7 series active 3D set, pretty angry that they actually charge to unlock the feature in their drivers. My G53 laptop's drivers have it unlocked for free so I didn't expect it to cost extra. That's pretty deceptive. And the cost, $40, is like a kick in the nuts for buying their product.
Overall Review: So I'm not using the 3D feature, while money is not the issue, I just won't buy it out of principle, I even would have paid extra for the GPU knowing that it had 3D support, but I'm not going to pay for a key and deal with their SecuRom-like process. That was my main buying decision over AMD, and I may not buy nVidia next time because of this. I'll just have to keep using my laptop whenever I want to watch something in 3D. Still otherwise a great product. Runs everything I've thrown at it pretty smooth in 1080P with AA, graphics quality is stunning compared to the 460m I've been using for the past few years.
It's a hard drive!

Pros: Isn't DOA Pretty good read/write speeds
Cons: Went on sale for $20 less the day after I bought it....Gotta love when that happens.
Great stuff

Pros: Ram works as advertised, it's pretty quick @ stock speeds.
Cons: Can't get this stuff to accept any kind of overclock, gladly I purchased an unlocked CPU and OCing ram isn't a big deal to me. So no qualms there.
Overall Review: Got it free with an ASRock mobo, works well so I bought a 2nd. Can't really complain.
