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calon m.

calon m.

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Most Favorable Review

Big and beautiful. For the price I am happy.

HP Omen 32-inch Standard Full QHD Display (2560 x 1440 pixels) 75Hz Refresh Rate
HP Omen 32-inch Standard Full QHD Display (2560 x 1440 pixels) 75Hz Refresh Rate

Pros: Price and factory settings are acceptable. Packaging is excellent and has all the needed cables. Mine has zero issues out of the box.

Cons: Vendor shows a 3 year warranty but the hp site only says 1 year. I hope there are no problems because that sounds like a fight I will lose.

Overall Review: Games are smooth and run at 75fps as advertised and look great. I upgraded from a 2k 27" and did have to take one step back from my standing desk to get the same experience without having to turn my head and look around the screen. Its huge! Now I need another rx 480 to push all my games to 75fps. Why are you reading this when you could be buying one?

Most Critical Review

Bad bios

GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ AMD 990FX + SB950 USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ AMD 990FX + SB950 USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Looks good.

Cons: Had a bios crash which it did recover from, so I flashed it to the newest version and it let me load the OS and it ran well for 2 hours. It started freezing in win7 so rebooted to flash to the version of bios before the latest beta and there are no bios at all. Repeatedly cleared the cmos and tried 3 different sticks of memory and 3 video cards and there's nothing. After searching online I'm not the only one. Put the other parts in my old board and I am using them right now.

Got a bad one

AMD Ryzen 5 5500 - Ryzen 5 5000 Series Cezanne (Zen 3) 6-Core 3.6 GHz Socket AM4 65W No Integrated Graphics Desktop CPU Processor - 100-100000457BOX
AMD Ryzen 5 5500 - Ryzen 5 5000 Series Cezanne (Zen 3) 6-Core 3.6 GHz Socket AM4 65W No Integrated Graphics Desktop CPU Processor - 100-100000457BOX

Pros: none for me

Cons: Functional enough to boot but that is it

Overall Review: Was having problems with the parts I ordered so ran some testing software and the cpu is the problem. Tried 2 different boards and memory kits and still bad. Swapped with a different cpu and the problem was gone.

Easy setup and good features

GIGABYTE B550M GAMING X WIFI6 AM4 AMD B550 Micro ATX Motherboard
GIGABYTE B550M GAMING X WIFI6 AM4 AMD B550 Micro ATX Motherboard

Pros: Solid performer

Cons: None

Overall Review: Works as advertised and have no complaints.

Trash

ASRock B450M/AC R2.0 AM4 AMD Promontory B450 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
ASRock B450M/AC R2.0 AM4 AMD Promontory B450 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Infinite bootlooper if that is your thing

Cons: Could only get to installing the OS once, crash, then bios was gone. Been building since the 90's so tried all the norms to get it to work but none so far. I will just scrap it for parts.

Overall Review: Came free in a combo so not going through the seven levels of RMA hell over it

Its a whole new world for me

ASUS ROG Swift PG278QR Black 27" 1ms (GTG) 165Hz WQHD 2560 x 1440 NVIDIA G-Sync Gaming Monitor, VESA Mountable, USB 3.0, Tilt, Swivel, Pivot, Height Adjustable
ASUS ROG Swift PG278QR Black 27" 1ms (GTG) 165Hz WQHD 2560 x 1440 NVIDIA G-Sync Gaming Monitor, VESA Mountable, USB 3.0, Tilt, Swivel, Pivot, Height Adjustable

Pros: Works as advertised Fast ship and good packaging

Cons: None so far

Overall Review: I switched to this from a 32" hp 2k running at 75hz and its a HUGE improvement and cant believe how much I haven't been seeing. The difference is night and day and all the issues I had using the freesync monitor with a gtx 1080 are gone using gsync. No more tweaking just enabled gysnc from the control panel and optimized my games and a nice smooth stable experience. Didn't try oveclocking it looks good enough as it is for me. Colors aren't as bold as my old monitor but looks decent in games which is why I got it. If this were a 32" screen I would be in heaven. Buy it!