Joined on 09/29/03
I am in awe with this board
Pros: Received board on 3/15/13 with bios version 1.5. Installed perfectly in a phantom 820 case. Installed 3960x - 16 GB 4x4 Dominator Platinum 2133c91.5v. Corsair h100. Set XMP 1, memtested86 perfect at rated speeds. In standard bios, set strap for 116, set memory multiplier to DDR3-1866 (NO VOLTAGE CHANGES). No changes to multiplier. EIST, cie and hyperthreading all enabled. 6 cores at 4.6 GHZ, 1.29v Prime STABLE 6 hours. DDR3 2200 mhz 9, 11, 10 2t Prime and memtest stable. 6 X crucial M4 64gb hard drives connected to X79 ports in raid 5. 450mb writes (389mb 4k) and 1.2GB reads (700MB 4k). Gigabyte SOC GTX 680 (PCIE 3.0 enabled) OFF the charts, set the top speed record for all GTX 680 benchmarks submitted to Passmark (over 1700 samples submitted). ALL USB 3.0 PORTS WORK FLAWLESSLY, JUST A PERFECT BUILD.
Cons: THERE ARE NO CONS HERE> THIS BOARD FLYS>ABSOLUTELY NO ISSUES>. Here are a few fyi points. In standard mode there is no pop up for cpu strap frequencies or multiplier, just enter the valUe you want type auto to set to auto. The click bios works but will eliminate your standard settings when used. Recommend you use standard mode in bios and not install click bios. Control center is a great app and worth installing.
Overall Review: DO's AND DONTS. DO get a power supply with dual 8 pin power, i used a corsair ax1200. DO NOT OVERTIGHTEN YOUR CPU COOLER ANY FLEX IN YOUR MOTHERBOARD CAN CAUSE CONTACT ISSUES. DO BUY THIS BOARD!!!!
Me Like
Pros: 1) Card and remote installed flawlessy on win xp pro service pack 3. 2) Software installed perfectly. No issues. 3) When connected to a good antenna, got many OTA HD channels.
Cons: 1) The supplied media software is very weak (demo version). Dont use it. The picture quality is poor. Picture only looked decent in a window about 25% of my 20" screen size. Stuttered 2) loaded beyond tv, picture was better but not great. 3) loaded sage tv, it would not support the card. 4) loaded Nero Liquid tv, the picture look very good, like a real TV . Gotta shell out another 100 bucks for decent software. Now. 5) Save your money and just but Nero Liquid TV KIT.
Overall Review: The remote and card work excellent. The card will only detect the first 99 cable channels. I give the hardware a 5. The software is a real disappointment I give it a 1. Divide by 2 you get three stars
34um95p
Pros: Sharp clear picture, huge real estate fits three web pages side by side by side. Corner to corner sharp good contrast and low light bleed-basically not noticeable. 60Hz on Display port and Thunderbolt. Media looks amazing. Games at 3440 x 1440 on titan X are lifelike. Used full time for more than a year and no hiccups at all, But see cons.
Cons: HDMI is only 30Hz, sad because only HDMI will sleep properly as Display trigger is not present on DS port. This monitor does an annoying 1/2 sleep mode. Needs to be powered down for hibernation. The second annoying feature is at wakeup the screen defaults to 1080 then 1440 which squeezes the desktop icons into a 1080 size portion in the upper left screen. If Using the HDMI this does not happen. Cant be sure if this problem is also with the Thunderbolt, pretty sure its just display port.
UN60JS7000
Pros: Excellent picture, standard picture settings require a lot of changes. Great viewing angle. Auto up converts USB movie disk, BD disk and sat/cable inputs just fine. I used a color calibration disk in BD player to set up. Back light 20 of 20 Contrast 95 of 100 Brightness 40 of 100 sharpness 35 of 100 color 52 of 100 advanced Darkness off Noise off Pretty much everything off. Excellent WIFI and smart functions, no issues. Sometimes take a while to up convert USB/wifi video to 4k. Not to bad.
Cons: Some very minor light bleed noticeable in the middle edges on a pure black screen. Bleed can be muted with darkness setting. Does not support ARC (Audio return control). But does support audio control. Had to hook an optical out cable to my receiver for surround system audio when accessing media server from the TV wifi or USB connection. HDMI through the receiver is controlled by television very nicely.
Overall Review: I am going to open a ticket with Samsung on the ARC to see if maybe a software update can correct problem. Weird since it has AC. Just bothersome that I have to change the TV audio source when content is USB or WIFI instead of Audio back feeding through the receiver HDMI out cable.
SSPDEDMW012T4r5 review
Pros: Motherboard MSI X99 SLI+. Downloaded and installed 1.8 bios update for NVME support. Set bios to EUFI Only Installed 8.1 pro in 2 minutes flat. Benching at 2670 reads, 1530 writes. Norton full system scan in 20 seconds flat. Boots in 7 seconds
Cons: price
Overall Review: I would buy again..
just works
Pros: sturdy, does not slip, keeps gps low off the window.
Cons: has a plastic disk surface, it will melt in summer heat, get some two sided sticky tape and apply the metal disk that come with gps. or get anything smooth metal or glass or mirror about 3 inched around and sticky tape it.
not waht i expected
product was not new, not oem, insides were rusted like it had previous water damage. it worked, it look new on the outside. not retail. dissapointed and probably will not but from toolking again. Shipping took forever. Just bad, bad, bad. I bought ten units, trying to give them away.