Joined on 05/25/07
Awesome Looking Case
Pros: Decent size case. It's roughly the same size as an antec 200. Comes with front, rear, and two side fans. Also comes with a spot for another side fan. Nifty tool tray that is hidden under the harddrive bay. Cool green color. Acrylic side panel. Side panels fold out for easy motherboard mounting.
Cons: Very bright LEDs can be hard on the eyes at night. Design of the case makes cable management difficult. Graphics card comes extremely close to harddrives. I had to use the lowest two slots to mount my harddrives or else the graphics card would hit them as I close the side panel.
Overall Review: EXACT SPECS FOR INCLUDED RAIDMAX POWER SUPPLY: 500W +3.3v = 28A +5v = 38A +12v = 22A -5v = 0.5A -12v = 0.8A +5vsb = 2A 2x SATA 4x 4-pin molex 1x floppy 1x 4-pin ATX 1x 20/24-pin ATX 1x PCIE
At Least It Was Free
Pros: All I can say is, at least it was free. But I guess the same thing could be said about AOL disks.
Cons: Its a bad game. Not fun at all.
Overall Review: You get what you pay for I guess, or don't pay for.
High-end But Reasonibly Priced, Fortunate GPU In A Terrible Market
Pros: I paid a lot of money for this card so I believe It should be a great value in return, but that's just not what the current market allows. I think performance is great considering how well these cards are doing in price and availability. I would love it if they were 20% more affordable. But i'm still getting a better deal than anything NVIDIA has offered us in the past 5 years. .
Cons: My only major complaint is that it requires 3 8-pin power connectors, which required me to buy a new power supply with more CPU/PCIE connectors. Why couldn't they make use of either of the new power supply standards??? Drivers have been fine but I notice a little more hitching on texture load and memory intense stuff like shadows and lighting. Something I bet they will work out in the next year.
Overall Review: Overall, it feels about 30% more powerful than my 3080, which is enough but not tremendous. Worth it for my needs.
Good If You Are Desperate
Overall Review: It booted up normally first try. Had to enable XMP in the BIOS. Got a windows activation message and called ABS support. Was on hold for 10 minutes and then was made to leave a message. Got a call back a few days later but missed it. Windows activated itself somehow anyway. Got an Asus TUF 3080, it works. The RGB lighting is a 3 fold task to set up. 1 you use the hardware switch to change the case fan colors. 2 you install ambient LED for the cooler master. 3 you install aura sync for the video card. That's just retarbed but it works... I HATE the case cover design. It's the same style as those old stupid towers from the 90s and it sucks a5s. Hope the designer on that gets some mental help. I got ripped off bad. Oh well, I got a 3080.
IS OK Product, Support Is Liek OK, PLZ buy moar???
Pros: Virtual reality is a neat concept and is really fun, when it works.
Cons: - Resolution is not good. -Performance is an issue -Support from HTC is really bad - 1 year limited warranty, customer pays for shipping??
Overall Review: After so many attempts to work with HTC support I am finally completely tired of them 'dropping the ball.' They sent my controller back without repairing it and asked me to pay shipping again to send it back. I'm just going to sell it and never look back... Never sold it though, lots of comp. play, Pavlov, Onward, etc. growing community, don't regret elitist friends I have made.
The Cyclone
Pros: This video card was a good purchase for me. I bought it in 2011 and used it a lot. It still works very well. Never had driver issues. I could get about 30 fps on high settings in Arma 3.
Cons: None.