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Karsten S.

Karsten S.

Joined on 08/28/21

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Works fine thus far

Seagate Exos X14 10TB 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache 512e/4Kn Enterprise 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive (ST10000NM0478)
Seagate Exos X14 10TB 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache 512e/4Kn Enterprise 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive (ST10000NM0478)

Overall Review: Took a gamble on a this refurbished drive. It has 300~ hours on it, and no errors. Not bad for the price.

Chad video card

ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8GB GDDR6X PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card TUF-RTX3070TI-O8G-GAMING
ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8GB GDDR6X PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card TUF-RTX3070TI-O8G-GAMING

Overall Review: Ridiculously fast lump of silicon. As many others have said, works wonders on a 2k monitor. Has a chinsy little switch on it to change between OC and power save mode. Can probably also just adjust the speeds yourself. Didnt bother downloading the software for changing the lights. It looks like a pride parade by default. Its freaking enormous, dwarfs even a triple-fan GTX 980. Fitting this thing in my bottom of the barrel 2008 computer case was an unspeakable hurdle.

11/18/2021

Absolute chad

SAMSUNG 980 PRO M.2 2280 250GB PCI-Express Gen 4.0 x4, NVMe 1.3c Samsung V-NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-V8P250B/AM
SAMSUNG 980 PRO M.2 2280 250GB PCI-Express Gen 4.0 x4, NVMe 1.3c Samsung V-NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-V8P250B/AM

Overall Review: I thought my SSD was nice until popping this bad boy in. Its fast, very fast.

Big upgrade

ASRock X570M PRO4 AM4 AMD X570 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
ASRock X570M PRO4 AM4 AMD X570 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Overall Review: Running a Ryzen 9 3900X. Went from a cheap MSI B550M PRO WiFi board to this. Computer is notably faster, especially the start up times. Comes with a pretty substantial manual, a driver CD youll probably never use, a couple SATA cables, some screws for NVME and what have you and a nice case badge. Using two video cards with it. Heads up: the lower PCI-E slot, although full size is only 4x (or 8x?), which is a tad bit slower. The boards settings dont seem to let you choose a primary video card, so the upper x16 slot card will be default. Changing the CSM settings didnt influence it for me. If you want to cram a big video card in the lower slot, youll need a decent size case. Also it will cover up the front panel and USB headers, although you can still use them just fine. Just plug the headers in before inserting the GPU.

Fine hard disk

Seagate BarraCuda ST2000DM008 2TB 7200 RPM 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive
Seagate BarraCuda ST2000DM008 2TB 7200 RPM 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive

Overall Review: Not a speed demon and sometimes a bit noisy, but its practical, cheap storage. Theres not much more to say about it.

10/30/2021

Solid sticks of RAM.

G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C16D-16GVKC
G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C16D-16GVKC

Overall Review: Run these bad boys with the Intel XMP profile 2 and get a sweet 3800 MHz out of them. Was pleased enough I bought the 2x16GB version as well. I owned the old DDR3 version, in red, and they never failed on me after 8 or so years of use. Aesthetically theyre a nice balance: not too sporty or show-off-y. Would change the review to 5 eggs if I could.

10/30/2021