Joined on 10/20/08
Be Careful, read , read, and read some more
Pros: Well, its a seagate. Have had good luck with them for years. I am so old we used to buy rocks from Seagate into which we chiseled ancient texts.
Cons: Well, its a piece of electronic equipment, made on an assembly line somewhere, by human beings. Sooner or later you'll get one made on a Friday afternoon or Monday morning just like an old Ford I had once.
Overall Review: Well I'll have to return these for a credit due to my own ignorance of not doing the research. The other reviewer stated he is running Vista on one of these drives and I will not dispute that but..... After realizing what I had ordered I did some research at Seagate and made a phone call to Seagate support. They stated Seagate does not recommend the SV series as a main or even a storage drive for general use as it does not have error checking support. It is specifically made for DVR's and surveillance recording systems. Newegg states about the digital recording in the description. Just passing on some info I learned. Possibly Newegg should list Seagates recommendations in the description? That is Neweggs call. I am Value Added and I approved this message.
Great Board
Pros: Solid,heavy, and no problems right out of the box after flashing to new bios with I-9 13900K. Decided to play it safe and only use other components listed on the MSI compatibility docs. Initial startup and loading the OS and driver to get it basically in operation was flawless.
Cons: Packaging could be a little better, they should use a little foam padding instead of the cardstock and it would be nice if MSI factory sealed the box, but no real regrets on the purchase.
Overall Review: Purchased for a new build which I have not done for awhile. The current MSI G87-GD65 LGA 1150 purchased from Newegg in 2014 is still going strong with not one issue other than the CMOS battery needing replaced. This Review is for the MSI rebate program
Lost Cable
Pros: Its a cable, it looks like a cable, and the packaging says its a cable. I can not belittle the cable as I ordered it without needing it.
Cons: Do your homework before buying a cable. Returning them costs more than they are worth. Now the poor unneeded cable is destined to go to the drawer of unwanted and lost cables.
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Its a cable
Pros: Did not read the description and ordered it without needing it. Seems to be a cable. It looks like a cable. And the packaging said it was a cable. I therefore can not belittle the poor cable.
Cons: Do your homework before buying a cable. If you don't need it, it will cost you more to return it than it is worth. Hence it is destined to spend the rest of its cable life in the drawer of lost cables.
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They Blow
Pros: Good fans. Added one to the side panel of my Antec 1200 and 1 to the inside of the third drive cage using it as an air tunnel to blow of the GPU's. They work well and are very quiet on low speed, not even bad on high speed. Worth the $$$.
Cons: Would be nice if they came with a way to turn off the LED's
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Another Winner
Pros: Well constructed board. No problems out of the box. Loaded OS and drivers and it fired right up. Has many overclocking setting in bios. Came with lots of extra cables. Runs stable. Can now finally run Flightsim X with most settings maxed out.
Cons: No bios updates yet from EVGA for the F.T.W, maybe it does't need any? Northbridge fan blows right onto the first X16 slot. If you have dual space cards your only going to end up with 1 PCI slot availiable by putting your GPU's in slots 1 and 3, and then the PCI express slot is unusable. Bad thing about this is if you decide to go with 3 way SLI your going to be stuck with onboard audio. I guess this is not really a con though as every SLI boar I have seen is going to have the same issue until unless they increase the size of the form factor. Then you will need a case the size of a small pickup truck.
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