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Brendan C.

Brendan C.

Joined on 03/08/08

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Most Favorable Review

Not to bad

Cooler Master Real Power Pro1000 RS-A00-EMBA 1000 W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply
Cooler Master Real Power Pro1000 RS-A00-EMBA 1000 W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply

Pros: Fan is totally quiet. Lots of cables. Great price for amount of watts. Small

Cons: wayy to many cables it can be a real problem for air circulation with all these cables

Most Critical Review

Controller doesn't work

LIAN LI UNI FAN AL120 RGB WHITE 3X 12CM FAN PACK WITH CONTROLLER  ---UF-AL120-3W
LIAN LI UNI FAN AL120 RGB WHITE 3X 12CM FAN PACK WITH CONTROLLER ---UF-AL120-3W

Overall Review: Plugged all required cables into my Aorus Ultra Z490, no RGB, and no fan speeds reported in LCONNECT and no ability to change the fan speed. Broken. Common issue seen all over the internet with the previous revision and now this one too.

TERRIBLE Ez Latch tool-less SSD heatsinks

GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS MASTER X LGA 1700(14th,13th,12th Gen) Intel Z790 X EATX Motherboard with DDR5, 5 M.2, PCIe 5.0, USB 3.2 Type-C, Wi-Fi 7, 10GbE LAN, Q-Flash Plus, EZ-Latch Plus
GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS MASTER X LGA 1700(14th,13th,12th Gen) Intel Z790 X EATX Motherboard with DDR5, 5 M.2, PCIe 5.0, USB 3.2 Type-C, Wi-Fi 7, 10GbE LAN, Q-Flash Plus, EZ-Latch Plus

Overall Review: For whats the second most expensive Aorus board, is the attached video what you would expect to see? The toolless heatsinks are terrible and wibble wobble jingle jangle all over the place. Just moving the motherboard it sounds like opening a drawer of silverware. They DO NOT make good contact with the SSDs and are not nearly held down tight enough by the latches. I dont know how this passed any quality inspection but there is no way in hell it should be like this. It doesnt matter if an SSD is installed or not, they still are barely holding onto the board. Its equivalent to putting a screw in but only tightening it half a thread. This means SSDs will get ruined in this board because they arent being properly held down and there is not proper heat transfer.

11/30/2023

Best quietest fans

Phanteks T30-120 Fan Triple-Pack, premium high-performance fan, excellent sound quality, 4-pin PWM, multiple fan RPM modes, Black/Grey
Phanteks T30-120 Fan Triple-Pack, premium high-performance fan, excellent sound quality, 4-pin PWM, multiple fan RPM modes, Black/Grey

Overall Review: These have always been the best fans. I have built many rigs, my most recent one over $10k, I have tried dozens of different types of fans. None of them have ever been as good and quiet as these. The performance to noise ratio can't be beat. Though you do need to be mindful if you are mounting these on rads you will need longer screws, normal rad screws won't be long enough.

11/26/2023

Not steam

Intel Gift Game Code - Ghostrunner 2
Intel Gift Game Code - Ghostrunner 2

Overall Review: This is not even a steam key it's only for a proprietary intel software catalogue. Garbage. I would even prefer Epic over this.

11/26/2023

They refused to post my earlier review

NZXT H710 - ATX Mid Tower PC Gaming Case - Front I/O USB Type-C Port - Quick-Release Tempered Glass Side Panel - Cable Management System - Water-Cooling Ready - Steel Construction - White/Black
NZXT H710 - ATX Mid Tower PC Gaming Case - Front I/O USB Type-C Port - Quick-Release Tempered Glass Side Panel - Cable Management System - Water-Cooling Ready - Steel Construction - White/Black

Pros: Good asthetic

Cons: Came dented from the factory, not in shipping. However, that's not why I rate it poorly. I rate it poorly because the 4 fans it comes with are 3 pin voltage controlled fans, NOT 4 pin PWM fans. These fans are a decade old and poorly designed. No fan produced in the last 10 years uses 3 pin voltage control. These are NOT PWM fans and nowhere on there website does it say these are 3 pin voltage controlled fans. They are trying to slip it past you. These are cheap fans in an expensive case. I would avoid.

Overall Review: Overall, good aesthetic ruined by greed wanting to include cheap 3 pin non-pwm case fans.