Joined on 12/14/03
Yes this is a great MB
Pros: Put this with an i7-3930K and within 5 min had it overclocked to 4.5 GHz and completely stable with 32GB of ram. Easy to setup, well placed connectors. Very fast, I could probably get it to 5 GHz if I really wanted to. I just need a fast machine to do CAD/DSP and it must be stable. Tests as the top single processor box on cpubenchmark.com performance. The reviews are correct, very fast, very stable.
Cons: Expensive, but worth it.
All a ploy
Pros: I guess if you sign up, you get this game.
Cons: Appears to be a ploy to sign up for Origin. Give them all your details and then you should get this token game.......not!
Great case!
Pros: Excellent layout and very spacious. Sturdy and well designed. Plenty of room for a 2 fan or 3 fan cooler. Can't have the external drive bay if you use a 3 fan cooler though. Very low noise
Cons: It is big, but it has to be to hold everything it can.
Overall Review: Same case as many high end custom PC makers use. Excellent case.
Batteries look good so far
Pros: they came partially charged. Charged up fine and seem to work OK after a day
Cons: nothing
Overall Review: These worked as expected. They were new batteries like they said, unlike some e bay company that sent me used batteries as new and didn't work at all.
Good fast drive
Pros: Fast drive, easy to install. I have one on my 4 year old laptop as the C drive. Brought this old laptop up to useable speed. Enough that I can wait another year or two before upgrading it. I use another one as a swapfile and major program drive. It is still too small for the maindrive of my big computer, but it is plenty big enough for the pagefile and the two or three programs that I need to be speed up, plus my "working" directory of projects. It also is great for those VM files for VMWare. Came with most recent firmware already installed.
Cons: The free shipping using DHL is painfully slow. Six days from NJ to MD! UPS ground gets it here in one day. Even USPS would be one maaybe two days. It is almost worth it to pay for shipping or at least see who else has it with better "free" shipping.
Good supply
Pros: Fits in fine, fan is on the top, which means you have room for cables right up next to the supply case. Solved the problem of cables covering up the air vent that I had in the last build. Quiet and good cable lengths for a mid tower, Plenty of power too
Cons: A little expensive, but you get what you pay for.
Quick shipment, good value
Ordered on Sunday, delivered by Tuesday.... Much faster than Axxxxx