Overall Review: Purchased this card to replace a 3070. It is quite a bit more powerful than the Nvidia card, especially without Ray Tracing or any of the upscale tech on. With RT on it seems to pretty much be around the same ballpark of performance. I was rather surprised to find that CP77 takes this card to task on the RT Ultra setting. In spite of that aspect my monitor supports the Free Sync (Premium) and plays seamlessly well down to ~50 FPS. CP is the only game in my collection that works this card that hard. I am seeing well into 100+ FPS on almost every other title I have played on it @1440 with highest settings in most cases. The card looks good both front and back so it would be a good choice for standard mounting or vertical mounting. I don't notice it being any louder than the previous card, and not notable over the case/cooler fans. Temps stay in line quite well. So far I have not seen it go over ~76 degrees with a roughly 21* ambient. Overall am pleased so far, and would recommend at the price point.

Pros: The size and response time. Price

Cons: Overly bright with low contrast.

Overall Review: To rate the monitor at three stars for the price is probably being too critical. I needed a new screen and probably went too big, too low spec due to the price, got "stars in my eyes". It's got a really good gaming mode and allows you to increase the response time up to 1ms. The issue is that the color is too bright to watch at that mode continuously and begins to tire the eyes. In response to this issue, there is an eye saver mode that subdues the brightness and color considerably. It also slows the response time to a point that causes mouse trails and text shadows when scrolling. Overall, I would say if you are looking for a large size monitor to use for viewing streaming movies, etc, or only for gaming at this price it would be worth considering. Otherwise, for full time office I would consider looking elsewhere in hindsight. Not worth going to the trouble to ship back over, but I wouldn't purchase again.

Overall Review: This seemed to be a good offering to re-install some old parts I had hanging around to make a 'flip' PC. The lighting is pretty much a must with most buyers these days, so with the included and ARGB fans it seemed a shoe in. Where this isn't particularly the spot to mention this the case went missing for several days in the shipping process and arrived much later than expected. On to the case: It is very light and somewhat flimsy with the side panels off. All of the edges inside the case are finished so there was nothing sharp. There is very little room for cable management and the drive bay that sits in the basement pretty much has to be removed so that there is room both for proper fan down installation (PSU) as well as somewhere for the wires to stay. Once together the case feels as sturdy as it needs to and looks pretty good overall. No USB C provision. The fans in this case connect to a Molex adapter, and in spite of appearing to be standard PWM, they are not. The harness and controller they are hooked to uses the case reset button to change colors and provide fan power down the same cable. There are plenty of color and pattern options and seem to match pretty well with the little harness adapter you can purchase for other ARGB fans (such as cooler fan, etc.). There is no provision for connecting the three pre-installed fans with other fans. There is a 3 pin ARGB header on that harness but since the mobo installed doesn't have one I cannot comment on what that does. The glass front panel is held on with some grommeted thumb screws. Be very careful in that the glass almost jumps out when you loosen that last screw. It would be very easy to break if you aren't super careful. The rear side area is FAR too narrow. Gamdias could take some good notes and do users a favor by stamping a slight outward indention into that back side panel so there is some room. Most aggravating about this is that if you use cable extensions (which I had to due to cable length on PSU) there is basically nowhere to tuck them. Cable management is nearly impossible to get done without also seeing the wiring through the cutouts on the motherboard tray. Additionally, there is a "lip" of sorts around the motherboard rear cutout that puts almost any wire directly in the way of the side panel closing properly. Gamdias could take another hint here in that there are no top and bottom catches for the side panel. When you have cabling in the way, like it is going to be, the side panel actually bows outward at the top and there is simply nothing to be done about it. I have never spent as much time cable managing a build as I have this one. If I were actually tracking labor on the build as part of my process (like business instead of hobby) this aspect alone would suck any profit out of what would be considered reasonable hardware for the case/price point. I was finally able to get everything tucked in such a way as not to be seen from a normal sitting position. I would highly recommend using a power supply with long, flat cables on this case. I would also recommend considering using only an M.2 SSD on this build. The drive bay issue is sort of inconvenient but most likely will just Velcro tape a 2.5" SSD down in the basement towards the front facing (fan) side. Otherwise, noise level is low, and cooling seems perfectly adequate for a low to mid-tier build. I cannot see why someone considering higher end parts would relegate them to this case. Be aware of your graphics card width/length and also tower cooler height. You have 150mm but figure anything a smidge past that width wise could be an issue. Consider your graphics card power connector. When labor is considered alongside the parameters my hardware set this was not a super good choice for a case. I see the pricing is quite low now, so if one was looking to do a super low budget build and had in mind the shortcomings of the design it should be pretty easy to work around. The case looks great once together aside from the side panel bowing, but nothing to be done for it. I would not go so far as to recommend purchasing this case outside of budget. I have used other Gamdias cases and was very impressed. This one, not so much.

Overall Review: Not a whole lot to say. Best current price outside of a sale. Delivery was quick. Genuine product key that isn't going magically de-activate.

Overall Review: Of note, this is the second time I have posted this review. I do not understand why my reviews are constantly not being posted, particularly when they are positive?!? I have used DIYPC cases in a variety of 'cheap' builds over the years. The aspect that always stuck with me was how cheaply made and cheesy those cases on the low low budget price were as far as sturdiness, and especially with the sides off. This case not only comes in at a nice budget price but is seemingly very sturdy and well built. It is, by far, the nicest DIYPC case I have ever used. The finish of the case is very good. No sharp edges on the inside, everything is painted nicely. There is plenty of wire pass, and with a basement a good place to tuck unused cabling when using a non-modular power supply (which many would looking at this price point). The case comes with (4) static blue LED fans which are connected to power via a SATA plug. They are one speed only but run at a low and slow speed and are quiet. The LED are quite bright and will turn the entire room blue at night. The PSU area isn't very deep, and in particular is only going to allow up to a certain height to insert into its area in the basement. If you have pre-run cables for such as front header audio or USB down there, you may have to pull those back to get the PSU in. The cabling will be up against the drive caddy. I opted not to use the lower space there for a 3.5" drive and tucked a good bit of the unused cabling there. The case is well ventilated with a mesh front, exhaust fan on the back in standard placement, and also room up top for more fans. I haven't double checked but would also imagine that radiators could be front mounted or top mounted. There is room up top even for ATX motherboards with large heat sinks. There is also placement along the top of the basement area for fans. There is not a really clear area for those to be pulling fresh air from so more of an ergo thing such as if you wished to put LED fans there for looks. Of note, there is an intake for down facing PSU fan with a screen filter. As far as detractors go, there are a couple of things that are somewhat odd/off. There is a spot on the "shelf" front side of the case where you can mount a 2.5" drive in the upper right. This is all good and fine, but the wire pass does not line up well with what will be the power and SATA cabling to support that drive. Basically, would end up with the cabling for that just running up the shelf from the basement. Another is the hole in the front part of the basement behind the lowest fan. Invariably there main 24 pin cable for your power supply can easily be seen here, as well as the cables for the two lowest fans. You can get around that aspect if you are mindful. The case also does not have the newer USB 3 "oval" connector for the front panel. The use case for this build was an inexpensive system build with a mix of leftover, used/NOS, and new parts to utilize some things left in the parts closet and hopefully what will be a quick flip. The case presents really well, is nice looking with the real glass side panel, and as mentioned above is well ventilated. System spec include an i7 3770 on the stock fan and a blower style 970. Even when running AAA titles the temps for the hardware never exceeded the mid 70's. Overall, very happy about this case and is a nice direction for DIY to be going in the improvement of build quality and functionality with a variety of options. This has been the best ~$50 priced case I have purchased in a long time and easy to recommend.

Pros: Nice looking Nice touchscreen Good touchpad Decent Bluetooth capability

Cons: Limited I/O unless you get a USB C dock or the like Terrible keyboard Afterthought level of speakers A little heavy for this size

Overall Review: The unit came well packaged with a bubble wrap bag around the laptop itself. The power brick is in a small, folded bit of cardboard and can move around some. Would love to see the shipper put a small bit of bubble wrap in there with that. Otherwise, the unit arrived quickly, and the laptop doesn't have a mark on it. It powered on as expected. I took the time to power the laptop up and check it over since the return period and Christmas are too close together. The single most glaring fault is there is very little to visibly tell you the machine is on, and the power button it the top right keyboard button. There are two little lights on the right side that indicate charging hooked up and power being on. The keyboard is pretty terrible. The screen is nice, vivid and bright enough, and is Touchscreen. The touchpad is really nice as it reacts to touch and gestures very well. With the 15W TDP processor the chassis doesn't get hot even when the temp monitor, and the fan you can clearly hear, lets you know. The refurbisher just did a clean install of the factory bloatware OS. Out of the box the laptop is missing most of its drivers. It is highly recommended to get through the setup process, get it on the internet and then basically just stand by and supervise for a couple of hours as it updates and gets all the drivers installed. I do recommend checking operation before doing a clean install, which is the best option. Overall, for the price and along with a little patience this is not a bad value option for under three bills. Should be really decent for surfing, watching videos, and general productivity. It does not have a lot of grunt under the hood and isn't for gaming unless it was something light.