Joined on 06/17/05
Incredible value and flexibility
Pros: Price to performance, aesthetics, low noise output, ease of installation. This cooler represents fantastic performance to price. It is very easy to install, the footprint allows for plenty of clearance for high profile memory as well as not impeding on the first PCIe lane area.
Cons: None that I can think of.
Overall Review: I've used this cooler in a number of different builds for clients. A low price point combined with great performance keeps me coming back to this unit. The downdraft style lets me fit this into many slim cases while retaining very strong cooling capability. Air movement over heatsinks and nearby components in low profile cases is fantastic.
Disappointing
Pros: Bought this board both new and open box for system builds for clients. Pros: Cheapest ROG range with most of the features of it's larger counterparts. Plenty of connectivity, typical Asus fan management excellence as the lowest sound profile in the build (placed in a Corsair 350d case gotten while they were still the $60 promo price) to lowest price with highest performance was the goal.
Cons: Both the open box and new boards were defective in different ways. The new board performed well aside from none of my DVD, CD or bluray drives worked (tried about 6 total) and the inability to shut down. The board would restart perfectly once I installed the OS on the other Maximus Gene board I had and swapped the SSD to this board, but would not shut down at all, it just froze at the shut down screen. The open box board only had 2 of 6 Sata ports functioning, 1 set was even twisted about 30 degrees, probably breaking all the connections underneath.
Overall Review: I normally am completely dedicated to Asus and Newegg both but after receiving defective boards from the factory and Newegg open box department, completely rethinking where I buy parts.
The gift card worked without issue!
Pros: The card worked without issue online and in-store. 10% off is a great deal!
Overall Review: The card worked without issue online and in-store. 10% off is a great deal!
Great quality compact chassis
Pros: Good build quality.Solid airflow for the front face design sound dampening design.Good cable management space provided.
Overall Review: When removing the front intake filter, the face panel needs to be unsnapped from the main chassis; I wonder how many removals/installations the plastic snaps can take.Other than that small quibble, I really like this chassis and it's partner: the Meshify C Mini.I built an architectural/engineering workstation in it featuring a Ryzen 5800x cooled by a Noctua NH-C14s with a 2nd Noctua 2000rmp 140mm Industrial fan and then a Nvidia Quadro P2200 and the system is inaudible from the 2 feet away on the desk it is.
Great memory kit for Ryzen
Pros: B550 chipset System booted right up after a few cycles to detect memory settings.
Cons: More RGB to coordinate / attempt to match colors with other RGB components (if present and visible)
Overall Review: I've had great experiences with the Trident Z Neo kits from G.Skill thus far.Every kit (minus one that I think was physically damaged by a client) works reliably and with no fuss other than the occasional resetting of RGB settings in the appropriate software.
Amazing kit of memory!
Pros: System booted right upExtremely fast / improved Ryzen system performance when compared to slower memory.
Cons: Yet another device to try to coordinate (or turn off) with RGB control software.
Overall Review: I'm using this memory in a 3950X based system using an Asus Crosshair Hero VIII Wifi motherboard. My render workload performance improved by about 10% when compared to my previous kit of 3200mhz CL16 memory.Keeping the RGB color consistent/the assigned color is annoying and I wish there was a Ryzen specific kit with NO RGB like the previous Trident Z heatspreaders.
Good Extensions, better value!
This is a great set of cable extensions. They are uniformly made with a solid and tight weave on the sleeving. The finish made them very easy to route in the build and it didn't seem to snag on anything. Plenty of included cable combs of both clear and opaque (black) variety. Highly recommended to zazz up any build quickly.
Great set of extensions
The AsiaHorse cable extensions are a fantastic value.Plenty of included cable combs keep your cable bends looking nice and tidy.The sleeving is uniform and a tight weave so it doesn't snag on anything during installation.Highly recommended.
Very responsive and great seller
Customer service contacted me a few times throughout the process to make sure the WiFi module I had purchased was the correct unit for my needs / motherboard. They were very responsive in answering my questions and making sure everything was working well. Thanks!