Joined on 08/21/03
Good board for the money
Pros: Works. Actually pretty nice board for the price. Significantly cheaper than the price I got at the unmentionable online store whose name was deemed to be obscene and/or offensive.
Cons: Not perfect, I have to deduct one egg. There is no LED to indicate status, when it works it works, otherwise you have to count the beeps to figure out what's going on. It didn't recognize the RAM and just assumed it was 1333. I had to manually adjust to 1600 and set up the correct timing. No biggie though. In the end you get what you pay for.
Overall Review: Shipped from California, by horse (I suppose). It took ONE WEEK to get it. The package looked like the Space Shuttle had crashed on it. I was one inch away from refusing delivery.
Not bad... while it lasted.
Pros: I had 2 of these, they both lasted more than 1 year, they worked well while they worked. On an old system with little RAM they helped a lot.
Cons: One lasted a little more than one year, the other lasted a little less than 2 years. They both died messy deaths, with days of confusing error messages and overall system instability. Wasted time trying to figure out what's wrong and with reinstalling software. Lost some data too. On a very fast system (i7 cpu and 16 GB of RAM) there was little (if any) gain in perceived performance over a fast HDD.
Overall Review: Went back to 15,000 rpm HDDs. Never been happier.
Fast and reliable.
Pros: Lasted for 3 years. Doesn't look like much but it was non-stop use in bad conditions (temperature, dust). Gave ample warning for about 1 week before dying. Gave me enough time to order a new HDD, make sure all my data is backed up and make a Windows 10 installation USB flash drive. Once it died I was back in business in a few short hours. Compare that to the two SSDs I had installed on other machines at home, that died suddenly and catastrophically, leaving me somewhat unprepared and very frustrated. The perceived performance when compared to cheap SSDs on similar i7 machines, was more than honorable.
Cons: Lasted for 3 years only. I was hoping for more but I can't really complain.
Overall Review: I would buy this again perhaps, on the other hand one year from now I may decide to buy one of the high end PCI Experess internal SSDs if people keep being happy about them.
So far so good.
Pros: It's a power supply. It's doing exactly what a power supply it's supposed to do. (Almost) everything about it screams high quality engineering. Nothing less than what I'd come to expect from EVGA. Several cables of different lengths for each power cable category.
Cons: One of the 24 pin power connectors pins was not properly positioned and would not make a solid contact, I had to use a screwdriver to push it in place. I wouldn't have deducted anything had it been on a spare cable; since it happened on the unique 24 pin power connector cable I'll have to deduct one egg.
Overall Review: My previous power supply, a 450W Thermaltake served faithfully for 6 years. Sadly their current offering didn't satisfy my requirements / constraints, so I reluctantly decided to jump boat.
Great PSU - 3 years old
Pros: I bought this thing in 2012, it's been working non stop since then in a rather dusty environment. Silent and the noise level stayed the same. Nothing more to say, it's a PSU. You just put it in there and then forget about it, it's supposed to keep working. This one does just that.
Cons: None.
Overall Review: One of the few original components still inside the box. Since 2012 I replaced the graphics card twice (both killed by dust) and several fans including the CPU fan (again because of the dust). I also replaced the original HDD with a SSD and another HDD of higher capacity. Still there: the CPU (i7-3770) and 2 sticks (8G each) of G.SKILL Trident X memory
Back for more
Pros: I have another pair of these in a 3 years old computer, always performed flawlessly. Now that I'm building another computer I came back for more of the same. High quality, high performance.
Cons: Motherboards seem to be unable to recognize them. I had to manually set the frequency and timing.
Overall Review: Once inside the computer you can forget about them. They just keep working, like the energizer bunny - or better.