Joined on 10/09/08
Some of you are really not too bright...
Overall Review: I'm scrolling through the reviews and I see all of these people complaining about the GPU block. GPU block didn't fit your card? Well maybe you should have taken a second to check the compatibility list. It says right on the EK site that the GPU blocks are for REFERENCE CARDS. If the block didn't fit your card, that's on you. I will agree that NewEgg's description for compatibility isn't very good. However, your brain should have told you that there's no way in hell that one block can fit on every single 10XX card. Do your research before you start ripping stuff apart.
It's...ok...
Pros: Very simply to use, each pad can be used multiple times as well!
Cons: Expensive...$30 dollars for a 20 cent cleaner tool, and the solution must be worth maybe 8 dollars, the pads also get very dirty very quick!
Overall Review: I would recommend this if you have $30 sitting around, other then that it's really expensive for what it is.
If your NVMe drive doesn't have a heatsink, buy one of these....
Pros: I recently bought a Samsung 970 Pro Plus 1TB M.2 NVMe drive. I was a little surprised when I got it home and there was no heatsink included in the box. I ran some benchmarks and I saw that my drive was sitting at 58C at desktop and after running the benchmark in the Samsung Magician I was hitting anywhere from 70-72C. That's one toasty drive. I installed one of the EK Heatsinks and I've now dropped by 10C both at idle and under load. Once I have a fan directly hitting my drive I'll be in much better shape.
Cons: None
Overall Review: You should for sure buy one. Just make sure there's some direct airflow passing over the heatsink.
Phenomenal (Spell Check)
Pros: Where to start...one of the major things on this case that caught my eye right off the bat was the levers for opening the case sides as well as the removeable motherboard tray. As for the handles, they work like a charm, although looking at the device they are a little ugly on the inside of the case but who's gonna see it? As well as the removable motherboard tray/case wall, this feature is extremey nice for quick and easy installation and upgrades. For some reason I have been reading by a lot of people that this case holds 3 80mm. fans and 1 120mm. This is not true, it can hold 2 120mm. Installation is VERY simple as well due to the removable hard drive cage. Just a quick thing I wanted to point out is that this case is basicaly completely tool-less. While installing my hardware I can't think back to using my screwdriver besides on stand-offs and motherboard screws. Overall guys, this case is very well worth the buy!
Cons: The only slight issue I have had with this case is that when removing the front panel and door the wires can sometimes get a little bunched up and make the front panel sit funny, but that's it, just fidget with the wires, and this was deffinently not something to remove an egg for.
Overall Review: Really everyone, buy this case. ------- AMD Athlon 64 X2 7750 2.7GHz BLACK EDITION Dual-Core 8GB (4 x 2GB) Corsair Dominator DDR2 800 Saphire Radeon HD 4870 1GB Western Digital Caviar 640GB HDD DFI LANPARTY DK 790FX