Joined on 07/28/03
Awesome
Pros: Bright, vivid screen, fast, handles multitasking very well, good weight, nice and slim. durable casing!
Cons: battery life a little low compared to others (I've heard, I have no personal experience with others.) lasts about 3-4 hours reading web pages with flash advertisements. maybe a little too light and slim for my thick, clumsy fingers. I've dropped mine twice :( No damage, though.
Overall Review: I love it. now I can sit on my couch and surf the web, read tech news, etc. I just wish I could use it to watch Hulu, though. Hulu says it's not supported. :(
Good program, but there are better
Pros: Great for backing up your system to either an image file so you can restore the whole thing at once or as individual files to restore in case of accidental deletion. Also great for moving a system from an old hard drive to a newer one, like upgrading to an SSD.
Cons: Cannot back up to network drives very well under Windows 8 or 8.1. When trying to set it up for backing up to a network drive, it says it sets up correctly, but when it runs it doesn't authenticate to the other machine properly and the backup fails. I have not tried this under Windows 7, but Windows 8 and 8.1 totally failed. I could only back up to drives connected directly to the machine. It is probably due to UAC, but I flat out refuse to turn off one of the most vital security features of Windows 8 just to make this work. It is also very slow to start up, and I can't tell why. I have 4 SSDs in my system and no mechanical hard drives other than my backup target USB 3 drive, and yet this programs takes almost 3 minutes to start.
Overall Review: I bought this to back up to a network drive, and it failed. It's not the only program to do this, though, and it is better than several others that I've tried. Currently, I am running it to back up to a USB 3 drive. That, at least, works well enough.
Fast and easy
Overall Review: I dropped this memory in place of a previous kit, and it picked up in the bios and started working without any issues. Works beautifully.
Excellent board
Overall Review: Anyone buying this should note, the ARGB port on this board is there to allow a separate ARGB controller to control the ARGB on this board, to centralize control. This is a GREAT feature, but it is NOT to allow the software of the board to control other ARGB devices (as I thought it was.) I was able to get it to patch into my Corsair Commander Core XT that came with my case, with an extra adapter cable, and just control it from iCue without any extra software.
It is X670, at least
Pros: X670 chipset AM5 It accepted both memory kits I've used with it with no issues at all Top m.2 slot is PCIe 5.0 4 total m.2 slots Support better than Asus?
Cons: Being "just" X670, the main PCIe slot is PCIe 4.0, not 5.0 Bottom 2 expansion slots are PCIe 3.0, one x4 and one x2, and arranged badly (Could not use both a secondary GPU and 10Gbe at the same time because of spacing.) Bad UEFI: difficult to get into UEFI setup, difficult to find anything, difficult to get around, very difficult to overclock or even just enable PBO. Very lacking in USB ports USB 2.0 ports will not allow keyboard or mouse to be used in UEFI, KB and mouse MUST be plugged into 3.0 ports to be usable in UEFI, limiting USB use EVEN MORE Sometimes doesn't re-recognize USB devices coming back from sleep or booting up BAD software. Yeah, most motherboard makers have bad/troublesome software, but this is ESPECIALLY bad. DO NOT INSTALL their software. It causes all kinds of stability problems.
Overall Review: It's OK. That's about it. The ONLY way it does more than the most basic motherboard is that it has 4 M.2 slots. Don't get me wrong, those extra M.2 slots are nice, but that's about all that nice. At least it's cheap when doing so.
Operates at specificed speed and is stable, but...
Pros: operates properly at DDR5-6000 No problems getting it to work RGB?
Cons: The latencies are high compared to the competition high latencies lead to middling performance
Overall Review: overall, I was disappointed with the lacking performance, but it was at least constantly stable.