Joined on 04/09/04
Nice Cable.

Pros: Very small diameter cable compared to my other HDMI's, great length, and well built plugs.
Cons: The plug ends are a little smaller than the other HDMI cables I have owned, so grabbing them might be a little difficult in some situations. I am not taking an egg for this because the cable works perfect for my Xbox and projector.
Overall Review: Very nice cable over all. I was a little surprised to see one end was labeled for the TV, so this cable must have one input end and one output end. I am thinking this has to do with the technology that allowed them to make the cable so small.
Looks great but spits grease.

Pros: This fan seems to move a lot of air and doesn't make a lot of noise while doing it. It also looks very nice synced up to the rest of my PC with the MSI Mystic light software. Works perfect as an exhaust fan in my case.
Cons: This fan has been spitting what I think is bearing lubricant onto the outside of the fan housing since I installed it. This could be dangerous if the liquid shorted something out on the PC. The power and ARGB cables are very short so you will need extensions in most situations. There are also ugly 'do not remove or you will void the warranty' stickers on the end of the cables which most people will remove just to have a clean looking build.
Overall Review: I noticed little drops of liquid on my motherboard's infinity light panel and it was coming from this fan. I cleaned it off and have been cleaning the fan housing every couple days to get rid of the liquid coming out of the fan. It seems to have been spitting out less liquid over time so I haven't considered removing and returning the fan yet. I give it 3 eggs due to the fan working and looking good, but docked the eggs for the liquid coming out of it.
Looks amazing but has a huge flaw.

Pros: Probably the best looking motherboard on the market. Lots of M.2 slots and all the bells and whistles you would expect from a high-end product. Performs beautifully with the 9800X3D.
Cons: The EZ Bridge is very poorly designed and started having issues after a week of use. Most likely due to the way it magnetically connects to the board (there is a lot of play). The dynamic dashboard stats started blanking out after not even a week of use, showing zeroes or no stats at all. EZ Bridge constantly disconnects and reconnects making the hardware disconnect/reconnect noise in windows. Tried to update firmware but it doesn't stay connected long enough. 10GB Lan had to be disabled because it would disconnect to the point the PC needed to be rebooted to show the network card. The wi-fi would not work when the 10GB LAN was enabled.
Overall Review: Seems the EZ Bridge was designed this way to allow access to the mounting screws but the connection seems to be very low quality. Probably would have been a better design to have a permanent connection to the motherboard even if the screws were visible. After trying all the latest drivers and debugging steps, I am sad to say I have to return this motherboard. It was performing so well with the 9800X3D it is really a shame this bad connection caused so many issues.
BSOD at stock settings

Pros: Runs faster and cooler than my 13900KS with the same power limits and faster clock speeds. A pretty impressive CPU once you get the BIOS settings dialed.
Cons: Not stable at stock clocks using base power limits (PL1&2 = 253W, CCL = 307A) using MSI z790 Godlike motherboard. Many BSOD's in 3DMark benchmarks trying to figure out optimal settings. Had to back off P-Core clock speeds to 6.1 on cores 1 and 2 and 5.8 on the rest to make it stable.
Overall Review: Seems to me that binned CPU's should work at their default settings without issues. I have a 360mm Cooler Master AIO and it seems to keep the processor plenty cool. The BSOD's happened at fairly normal temps (50-70C) while loading benchmarks and sitting idle on desktop. I sent back one of these because it wasn't stable at 6.2/5.9 and the replacement behaved exactly the same forcing me to lower the clocks to 6.1/5.8. That is still pretty fast so I suppose this will have to do. Would rather not deal with another RMA so I am sticking with it.
Lasted just over a year with minimal use

Pros: It was fast and worked fine while it worked.
Cons: After a little over a year with minimal use this drive failed to boot. It failed so badly I can't even get into BIOS while it is connected so it is impossible to repair.
Overall Review: I have owned quite a few western digital drives and this is the first time I have had one fail this quickly. I suppose it was inexpensive so it wasn't a huge loss.
7800 kit doesn't run at 7800 XMP

Pros: Looks nice.
Cons: From the time I purchased this RAM it didn't work as advertised. XMP setting caused blue screen errors in Windows 11 and many errors in memtest86. Using memory try it settings I was able to get the RAM to pass runs of memtest86 by lowering the speed to 7200 CL36 which is fast enough for me I suppose.
Overall Review: I have had good luck with Gskill in the past so I am surprised to have issues with this kit. I am giving it three eggs due to it not working at the advertised speed but I think the issue might very well be with motherboard support rather than the RAM itself. Looking at the list of supported RAM for the z790 Godlike, there are no kits above 7200 so maybe this RAM just isn't supported.
Great Product!
This Wii to HDMI adapter is exactly what I needed to run my Wii into my projector. Not only did it make it so I could run the Wii at 480p, it allowed me to split the audio into my computer sound system. This adapter was well worth the money.