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Katsy W.

Katsy W.

Joined on 12/12/12

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CORSAIR Hydro Series H100i Extreme Performance Water/Liquid CPU Cooler. 240mm
CORSAIR Hydro Series H100i Extreme Performance Water/Liquid CPU Cooler. 240mm

Pros: -looks wonderful -performs great with an FX-8350 can push it up all the way to 4.7GHz @ 1.452V although that is also attributed to my lucky chip

Cons: -radiator with fans hooked up is a tight squeeze inside the fractal design R4 -no corsair link compatibility on windows 8.1 (unless you use the beta version so that doesn't really matter)

Overall Review: I just bought this thing because I wanted a good looking cooler that has some muscle to it. If you're a real enthusiast or someone who loves to overclock go get a PH_TC14PE if you like air cooling or a custom built EK water cooling kit and have fun.

Quiet H100i radiator fans

Corsair Air Series SP120 (CO-9050012-WW) PWM Quiet Edition High Static Pressure Fan (Twin Pack)
Corsair Air Series SP120 (CO-9050012-WW) PWM Quiet Edition High Static Pressure Fan (Twin Pack)

Pros: -Quiet as advertised -great radiator fans; the noise/static pressure ratio on these is just as good as the gentle typhoon fans. -looks are fantastic -great radiator fans and for the price they compete greatly against higher end competitors

Cons: For moving air around in your case I can't really recommend these. I find it a little difficult to recommend corsair's AF series for the task either as a lot of higher end cases have 140mm mounts rather than 120mm (like the fractal design define R4 I happen to own) and it would be lovely to get a twin pack of the 140mm AF fans but for $20 for one fan that is too much and it's forcing me to either spend more or get the cheaper twin pack 120mm counterparts. Would be nice to have 140mm versions of the SP series as well. But overall, for moving air around your case I'd just get some scythe fans for $15 off of frozen CPU or somewhere else. These fans are built for tight enclosures and for moving large amounts of airs through fins on a heatsink effectively with low levels of noise. Also be careful when top mounting these or really any fan in general (like for your H100i or any other liquid cooling radiator). Make sure its fastened in really tight (kinda hard to tell with the rubber mounts on these fans how tight it is but just screw it in as far as it'll go) With any fan and these are no exception, if they are loosely mounted that will put pressure on the bearing inside the fan because it slouches down because the frame is either improperly or unevenly supported and may cause decreased efficiency and/or FAN CLICKING. It happened to one of the last SP 120 fans I bought for a top mount on my case and it will drive you insane. The only way to fix it would be to put graphite powder inside the fan bearing but that would require tearing up the corsair sticker on the fan and no one wants to do that :(

Overall Review: I'd really avoid the high performance edition if you're concerned about noise as I am AND as you can still achieve that overclock you want with an H100i or a PH-TC14PE with these fans and still have your noise level low but you may have to bump the core voltage down just a bit in order to shave off that extra degree difference between the quiet edition and the performance edition to really make these things worth your while. Also YES these are the PWM (4-pin) fans that are compatible with corsair link and their speeds can be controlled. And for anyone wondering the SP 120's white ring(s) and fractal design define R4 black and candy coated white PCI slots and white hard drive bays and the GA-990FXA-UD3's black and white color scheme really match well.

The person who asked about the color of the PCB

CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M1A1600C9
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M1A1600C9

Pros: - Can't see the green PCB when seated all the way - OC'd a tad to 1866MHz using timings of 11-10-11-28 fine on a GA990FXA-UD3 (rev. 3.0) and its running fine and stable -aesthetically pleasing to look at from inside case window and matches great with motherboard

Cons: -memory benchmarks on this module are a tad bit lower than a few others in its price range but those are just synthetic scores and RAM is all fast so it doesn't matter much

Overall Review: bought this 1 stick to save up for another 8GB stick and get 16GB and leave extra room for any possible future upgrades

good solid headphones

KOSS Black KEB40 3.5mm Connector Canal In-Ear Headphone
KOSS Black KEB40 3.5mm Connector Canal In-Ear Headphone

Pros: Good quality and solid sound for earbuds. Build quality is especially superb and do not expect these headphones to break or die any time soon.

Cons: Bass is a bit muddy at times which is quite strange to see earbuds put out that much power. These do also tend to fall out a bit more than others sorta.

Overall Review: For just $5 on sale right here at newegg this was a phenomenal buy. Very glad with Koss and will look into purchasing a pair of over-ear headphones from their brand.

decent

Rosewill RCDV-12006 - 9.84" Single Sleeve 24-Pin Motherboard Extension Cable - Male to Female
Rosewill RCDV-12006 - 9.84" Single Sleeve 24-Pin Motherboard Extension Cable - Male to Female

Pros: -Great and bright color -Works -Braid seems durable enough not to fray although it is not really much of a cloth as it is a sort of that material that say a pool tarp would be made of. Its that sorta scratchy stuff.

Cons: As any other review will state on this product it is a bit stiff but it wasn't that stiff to the point to where it was unusable. Just connect each ends to each other forming a circle and leave it there for about 20 minutes and it should be able it to flex just fine. Also not sure if this is a con but it does have a lot of heatshrink but its not a bother.

Overall Review: Might not be silverstone cables or bit fenix alchemy cables (which bit fenix are not offered on newegg for some odd reason but are on other websites) but these have a good color and a good start for any case modder or someone who just wants some extensions for their cords that doesn't make their insides look like a prebuilt PC.

Good low-profile memory

Kingston 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1333 Desktop Memory Model KVR13N9S8K2/8
Kingston 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1333 Desktop Memory Model KVR13N9S8K2/8

Pros: -really low profile (like REALLY low profile as in it doesn't even rise above the slot DiMM lock-in things on the side) -Kingston quality -Abnormal speed for what this is. Never expected such low profile memory to be this fast and responsive.

Cons: Have tried absolutely everything but this kit just won't OC at all. A bump up to 1600MHz with minor/no adjustments to voltage and it should be able to run at same timings on 1600MHz or even just slightly higher timings. Never had any kit ever not be able to OC at all. Even cheap OEM infineon/hynix RAM used in prebuilts can OC up a little. And yes my build is tested and memory and CPU both OC just fine (used 2x4GB 1600MHz corsair vengeance DiMMs from a friends PC to test it out and slightly adjusted timings and clock rate from 1600MHz to 1866MHz and it booted up just fine and no crashes or BSOD.

Overall Review: May consider buying a second set of this anyway as at 1333MHz it is quite responsive for what applications that uses even in memory leaks on programs like fraps or deluge (one time got an extremely rare teamspeak 3 memory leak that got up to about 5GB in size on its own with 3GB already in use which used almost all of RAM) that run RAM past 50% usage these things still stay pretty solid. Just to sum it up, once the price goes down from $82 to around maybe $60-$48 (fire at one of the hynix facilities last october caused RAM prices to soar and the facility that caught on fire just opened up this november so they're slowly going down again) would recommend this as a good kit of low-profile DiMMs for maybe micro-atx/itx builds or people who like a big cooler. Only way that wouldn't recommend this is that if the samsung green 2x4GB 1600MHz kits were produced again. Those DiMMs were the RAM of the titans and nothing compares to it. Specs: Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 (rev. 3.0) CPU: FX-8350 @ 4.3GHz (cooled and OCed lightly using an arctic freezer pro 7 rev. 2 and with the magical powers of the silicon draw) GPU: XFX AMD 7970 Black Edition PSU: Rosewill Green 80+ Bronze Certified 630W RAM: what do you think? Case: Fractal Design Define R4