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Greg S.

Greg S.

Joined on 03/03/02

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Most Favorable Review

Very happy with the board.

MSI P965 Platinum LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard
MSI P965 Platinum LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Great features, great price, fast, stable. Good overclocking options. No flashing lights or any fashion show junk like that.

Cons: Would be nice if the IDE was still built into the SB but it's not the end of the world. Are they ever going to discontinue some of those legacy (parallel, serial, etc) ports? And yes, I will agree that the 4x PCI-e "video slot" is not particularly useful for most people. Would have liked one more USB 2-port card bracket to be able to take advantage of all ten built-in USB ports.

Overall Review: The only problem with Newegg's feedback is that you don't actually have to buy the product to review it. It's pretty obvious that in some of the reviews below, some people just read the specs and threw out an opinion based just on that. I actually purchased and installed the board and I have to say that I had zero problems. The board shipped with the latest BIOS (v1.1) and came right up on the first try with an E6600. No JMicron problems with the DVD drives. No black screen problems. No memory at the wrong voltage problems; the BIOS default was 1.9v which is enough to get started with default clocks.

11/21/2006
Most Critical Review

Defective

Patriot Extreme Performance 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model PDC22G6400LLK
Patriot Extreme Performance 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model PDC22G6400LLK

Pros: Good specs, good price, good reputation

Cons: Many failures in memtest, crashes

Overall Review: I replaced perfectly good 667Mhz RAM with these two sticks. Started getting errors and occasional crashes in Windows. Ran memtest and errors galore.

Solid Board for the price

ASRock B660 STEEL LEGEND LGA 1700 Intel B660 SATA 6Gb/s DDR4 ATX Intel Motherboard
ASRock B660 STEEL LEGEND LGA 1700 Intel B660 SATA 6Gb/s DDR4 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Good feature set for a board in this range Stable Easy to work with Good amount of USB ports for a B660 budget board PCIe 5.0 slot...maybe

Cons: Low-ish quality audio codec with ALC897

Overall Review: After getting a DOA Asus H670 Prime (unfortunate but it happens), I decided to take a chance on this ASRock board as it was on sale and seemed to fit my requirements. Been using the system daily for almost a month and have had absolutely zero issues with stability while gaming or otherwise. The RGB is a pro or a con depending on the user. If you like it, great. If not, it can be disabled in the BIOS. The PCIe 5.0 slot is a bit puzzling to me. It's nice to have the latest rev but there is no real-world benefit at the moment. And a if a future high-end GPU can utilize the extra bandwidth, it would probably not be pared with a budget board like this one anyway. ASRock B660 Steel Legend i5-12400F Crucial 16GBx2 3200 kit EVGA RTX 3070 Corsair RM650x

Solid

Crucial 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CT2KIT51264BA160BJ
Crucial 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CT2KIT51264BA160BJ

Pros: It works. Ran Memtest, no errors

Cons: Nothing comes to mind

Overall Review: Not much to say. This is a solid choice for reliable RAM at a reasonable price. Installed in a Dell T1600 and had no issues. No drama, that's what I like.

Received Backplate, Awesome Card

EVGA GeForce GTX 970 04G-P4-2974-KR 4GB SC GAMING w/ACX 2.0, Silent Cooling Graphics Card
EVGA GeForce GTX 970 04G-P4-2974-KR 4GB SC GAMING w/ACX 2.0, Silent Cooling Graphics Card

Pros: Price/performance/efficiency just can't be beaten, at least not at the moment. Really a great deal with the free game. Mine is quiet with no apparent coil whine but that doesn't necessarily mean yours will be. See other reviews. The free backplate arrived about 5 days after I registered for it, even though the website said they wouldn't be shipping until 11/5.

Cons: Yeah, it's a good deal, but it's still a lot of money and not everyone is going to have 350 bucks to throw at a video card, although the free game helps. It's really tough to think of any other cons. I guess one is that EVGA once offered lifetime warranties for video cards but now it's three years.

Overall Review: After reading other reviews, I fully expected to hear coil whine but I'm just not hearing any. I don't know if my ears are just not picking it up or because my card just doesn't have that flaw. Maybe it's been fixed? Not sure. Mine didn't come with the latest FW that turns off the fan until needed, but I don't notice any noise from the card at idle so I don't see the point in upgrading the Firmware at this time. The backplate covers the full length of the card which is nice and it offers heatsink-type cooling for the memory on the back side. But it also covers up all the stickers so you might want to snap a pic of the back side so that in case you need to contact EVGA, you don't have to remove the backplate to get the serial number.

Fast fast fast

PowerColor AX7950 3GBD5-2DHV4 Radeon HD 7950 Boost State 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
PowerColor AX7950 3GBD5-2DHV4 Radeon HD 7950 Boost State 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Pros: Super ding dang fast video card. Reliable so far- many gaming hours and no crashes or funky screen artifacts. Many ports. Uses less power than my old 560 ti. Two free new-release games (huge). Price vs performance is fairly good. BF3 is like butter with this thing at 1200p.

Cons: Single fan cooling system (only a small con). It makes some noise when stressed. I wouldn't call it loud but it makes its presence known. It's a big card so you should make sure it will fit in your case (as with any card you might buy).

Overall Review: I was a little hesitant to go back to AMD after a bad experience with a 6950 artifacting (which I had to return) but so far this card has been flawless. My System- Dell Precision T3600 Xeon E5-1607 Quad 8GB Quad channel DDR-3 Dell 635W PSU, 80-Plus Gold