Jason W.
Joined on 04/21/04
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fits NB and SB of EVGA 680i motherboard perfectly
Pros: Used on my EVGA 680i A1 motherboard. Fit just fine with no modifications at all. Was able to remove all the stock heatsinks/pipes/fans.
Cons: none
Overall Review: Probably overkill for SB, but I think the NB can use the extra cooling if you're running very high memory overclocks
worked good for a couple of weeks then died
Pros: Mine worked fine at 1150mhz and 2.3v for a few weeks, then bit the dust. Will not even POST with BIOS reset/stock speeds (using other ram to get into BIOS). I'll RMA to OCZ and sell the replacements, I'm going back to Corsair dominators.
Cons: died after 5 weeks with stock voltages and timings.
Overall Review: Many people have had failures. I should have heeded the warnings. Buyer beware.
excellent performance, quiet hard drive
Pros: Runs quiet, excellent performance, plenty of storage. Will get warm if you don't have good cooling.
Cons: none
Overall Review: Was deciding between this drive and a RAID0 pair of raptor 150's, decided to give this drive a try and I'm happy with my decision.
excellent CPU
Pros: replaced an OC'd P4 3.4ghz (OC'd to roughly 4ghz) CPU with this quad-core 2.4ghz on watercooling (currently OC'd to 3.23ghz). Runs circles around the old setup. superpi runs in half the time, even with four instances running. Hard to compare framerates etc because of new video cards etc, but overall windows XP and vista is much much faster and I have yet to max all 4 CPU's (except with four instances of a testing program). Running on EVGA 680i A1 motherboard.
Cons: none
Overall Review: Great performance for the price. Overclocks like a champ with watercooling. Mine idles at 40C, under full load after a few hours it's at only 53C. Air-cooling gets very hot very fast. Ran about 40C idle and 53C full load at stock speeds. Temps went ballistic (65-70C) at even moderate overclock with stock air cooling.
great motherboard for OC enthusiast
Pros: I used this MB and water-cooled everything I could think of. CPU, GPU, NB, SB, CPU voltage regulator. No issues, excellent independant BIOS control over CPU and memory clocks, you can run them "unlinked" and set the clocks to whatever you want (within some limits, but they are very generous limits). Excellent high resolution voltage control of cpu core, ram, and other things I don't even know what they are.
Cons: none
Overall Review: Be careful if you run watercooling on the CPU not to over-tighten. I ran the screws down hard on mine and noticed significant warpage on the motherboard. Luckily it didn't permanently damage it and I released the pressure and everything is still working fine.
works great on EVGA 8800gtx, dropped 18C from factory air cooling
Pros: Fits main G80 chip perfectly with included parts. Dropped full-load GPU temps to below idle temps with factory air cooling. Runs about 45C at full load, idles at 34C. Make sure you order the 8800 kit to handle the memory and voltage regulator chips, and I highly recommend artic silver epoxy compound for these smaller heatsinks (not for this kit however) http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16835100013
Cons: none
Overall Review: Be sure to use good heatsink compound and get the 8800gtx memory/voltage regulator passive heatsink kit from Swiftech.