Joined on 12/23/02
Its a FREE game w/ purchase
Pros: It's a pre order It's a good game ( i was in both betas) I saved $60+ with the purchase of my GTX 970 for a game I wanted to get anyways
Cons: NONE
Overall Review: Just want to point out the other reviewers are not thinking clearly. This game doesnt release for another two weeks. This game is included in bundles as a pre-order. Ubisoft's Uplay is not spyware and is not some kind of gimmick. It's the medium they use for their games, the same as STEAM is used for other developers. Get over yourselves people this isn't big news. If you're interested in The Division, there should be no negative reviews AT ALL on here as there are NO secrets about this promo.
Unpolished.
Pros: 8 SATA ports Great Reviews (misleading?) Price Fan connections
Cons: UEFI (BIOS) updater bricks motherboard Cant flash older UEFII(BIOS) Asus CrashFree feature unreliable, takes many many attempts Armoury Crate is buggy - worthless AI Suite 3 wont even install (had to find old version 3rd party to install) Conflicts with changes in UEFI(BIOS) that conflict with anything result in hung post screen "TUF GAMING LOGO" with no boot. CMOS reset doesnt work. (details in review below) 1 SATA controller - RAID has to be set to all 8 SATA ports (details below)
Overall Review: I did a lot of research before i decided on a X570 motherboard for my new Ryzen 5 3600 cpu. I don't need pcie4 (nore does anyone else) but after so much negative results from previous chipsets and compatibility I settled with going with X570 and this well reviewed motherboard. Unfortunately it didn't deliver how I'd hoped! You must install Windows after selecting RAID in the BIOS, there is no way around this. I dont fault ASUS directly for this issue but if you try and do a hardware array after the OS is installed you are out of luck. This board sets RAID to all 8 sata ports. The driver for windows can only be installed while the OS is being installed so do this FIRST. The BIOS updates...................... Flashing the BIOS bricked the motherboard, and the internet will back me up. It happened to alot of people early November. I had cpu temp issues (AMD ryzen power management issues) that others fixed after bios updates. I updated the BIOS via the ASUS recommended process and ended with a frozen TUF GAMING logo post. as everyone else experienced to. After numerous tries with the CrashFree (usb stick) i finally got a bios to flash right and got it to boot. I've experienced other similar issues since but disconnecting all drives but the boot drive and having the usb stick w/ win10 OS has allowed the board to detect a boot drive and get me back to running. CMOS reset did nothing. There is no supplied jumper for the CLRTC prongs so a metal object works, and take the battery out, neither will get you booted again. For me, only having the boot drive and USB win10 ISO plugged in would somehow trigger a boot back into windows. All that annoying process aside, overclocking the Ryzen 5 3600 and GPU and memory and storage all is performing excellent. Once the kinks worked out, the rest is performing amazing. AI suite 3 and Armoury Crate are absolute garbage. They dont work properly. But again found an old Ai suite 3 version i manually installed and it works enough to get the fan profiles to work ho wi want but armoury doesnt do anything for me.
Awesome
Pros: Exceeded my expectations Excellent Cooler NO Coil Whine Cooler is QUIET! OVERCLOCKABLE, I got 10fps across all games without any voltage tweaks 100% stability
Cons: NONE
Overall Review: My system specs are: Motherboard: AsROCK M3A785GCH/128M CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 955 @ 4.0hz (NB, 2600) Memory: G.skill Ripjaws DDr3, 1333 Boot Drive, Crucial SD This card replaced a Gigabyte Radeon HD 7870 OC and it was a huge boost in game performance. I've read so many people say the phenom ii x4 is a bottleneck but seriously what does it matter if games are running at 60fps 1080p on ultra? Titanfall runs maxed, Tomb Raider maxed ... .For an old system this setup still rocks for me. A lot cheaper to swap in a GTX 970 than build a new intel system, for what? The same results? why? wait for AMD Zen and some new gen games that actually make my setup obsolete!
Epic
Pros: Perfect! Perfect size, perfect fabric, perfect pad, absolutely love this pad! Its like your bed, you spend a qtr or more of your life on it, it should be awesome! It sticks to my desk like a glove and never moves! I never run out of mouse space!
Cons: Serious chemical smell at first. Makes your hand stink too for awhile.. Has gone away after a few weeks mostly.
Pros: Quiet, runs cool, awesome performance! Best performance for your dollar especially when it comes with two games. Not one issue with this card!
Cons: none so far.
Overall Review: I'm running it with a phenom ii x4 be @3.7ghz, 2x4gb 1333, on a 650w antec psu
Comments: Awesome card, worth every penny I spent on it! Just for comparisons sake: Nothings overclocked yet and it plays FarCry like a dream. AMD 2800 512 Mushkin PC3200 WD 80GB 8mb 7200rpm Asus A7n8x rev 2