Joined on 02/26/14
Insanity at its finest
Pros: The best router on the market. I owned the GS model (same hardware, different OS) for about 10 years. The thing gave out about a year and a half ago, and it was truly a sad day. - Some of the best hardware in the business - Lasts forever - Stable until hardware gets tired (after 10 years, i fully understand)
Cons: None other than its somewhat slow compared to todays standards.
Overall Review: Absolutely, definitely, hands down THE king of routers. Old, tough, resilient and aesthetic, this thing is truly the router to dominate all. RIP WRT54GS 2001-2012. You are sorely missed.
Great but
Pros: fast like nobodies business. Its actually kind of offensive. Surprisingly doesnt run insanely hot Great compute chip.
Cons: Runs hot, even under the inoS. Will burn out cheap boards. Very little OC headroom, since cluded liquid cooler Included liquid cooler is a Pboosting clock speed even a little turns this thing from a CPU to a central heating system for a skyscraper. Junk for gaming.
Overall Review: So, before anyone takes the cons too seriously, the pros of this monster far outweigh the cons. Its a beast of a chip, had it folding for 3 months and it was pulling in about half of what a standard GPU could do (somewhere between 14-15k pts per day). Beat the living #2 out of my i7-3770k clocked at 4.8ghz. If you need a chip that is primarily for use as a mathematical machine, this is THE king. Period,. Now for the downsides: My basement was insanely hot compared to usual temperatures due to this thing heating up so much under load. It was kind of funny. It also managed to kill my crosshair V F-Z once, because the heatsinks on it werent enough to mitigate the insane amounts of heat coming off the mosfets. I actually had a 2nd degree burn from just touching them. I rma'd the board and got a new one since it was covered under the warranty. And then theres that !@#(Y^&!@# liquid cooler that cant seem to handle anything above 80C, and the software included to control the heatsink does not work. This is AFTER reinstalling the software, Windows, trying 3 different versions of the same software (Asetek's Chill Control V utility) and just plain resetting everything. I went and got an h100i just to replace that nightmare of a block. All in all, great chip, junky cooler. Would definitely recommend to anyone in need of a good, solid compute chip.
Great monitor
Pros: Great display, sleek, bright and sharp, and matched up with my MX279H perfectly, thus finally bringing together my command center. Whoever Asus contracts their refurbishing services to is amazing.
Cons: One stands kinda funky, not enough to take away from the overall niceness, im also not sure if my desk is actually 100% flat at this point, cheap Ikea thing.
Overall Review: Its 185$. If you're looking at them, stop looking and buy. Way better value than buying brand-new.
Not great but not bad
Pros: Great colors Decent screen Solid
Cons: No 5ghz Slow WIFI
Overall Review: Bought this as a PDF viewer and YouTube watching machine, and I am not disappointed. The screen is great for a 720p, colors are gorgeous and video playback is great. It could use better Wi-Fi (my LG g3 took about 2min to download PUBG mobile, took this thing over 10) but that's not really a concert for my purposes. It feels quite solid as well, although I haven't given it it's maiden voyage to the floor to test that thoroughly (nor do I intend to). All in all, its 220$ (on sale) very well spent. 4 stars because of the Wi-Fi capabilities from 2008.