Joined on 08/04/04
Great
Pros: Great. Fast and Quiet.
Cons: Only SATA connection (not a con for me, but maybe for some?)
Overall Review: Setup is a 2x320gb RAID 0 It's fast and works well. I think it's a better deal than one 10,000 RPM Hard Drive.
Great product, again from ASUS.
Pros: ASUS wins again. Love their stuff. This replaced my old GTX 660 Ti (SLI x 2). Single GTX 1070 outperforms, rendering 4k videos and running Adobe Photoshop CC smoothly. Uses less power than my old GPUs. Nice outputs for several monitors, I have two HDMI cable outputs.
Cons: Export encoding media in Adobe CC surprisingly isn't much faster. I think it's probably more effected by CPU. Realtime rendering while working with media is definitely smoother. Size is 1 inch longer than my old GPU, a little wider too. Wish it was more compact.
Overall Review: Not a gamer, but ran max settings on monster hunter with my i5 9600 no problem, looks amazing.
Works Fine!
Pros: easy install, internal and external USB ports
Cons: drivers work 'ok' with windows 7, wonder if it would have been better recognized on a newer system.
Overall Review: Yes, overall I would recommend
Cooler, but not silent
Pros: Able to overclock my i7 from 3.4turbo3.8, to 4.4Ghz with temps only around 60'C while encoding in adobe premiere. Ambient temp is 27'C and CPU temp is 28'C at idle. Wow! That's crazy, it totally is at ambient temperature.
Cons: Just installed today - backplate takes a little fidgeting to get the screws to line up perfectly for my 1155 socket i7 2600. I I used the following fan which cut down noise about 30% I'd say: COOLER MASTER R4-BMBS-20PK-R0 Blade Master 120mm Case Fan. I wish the silent mode was really silent, but it's not bad.
Overall Review: Take the time to watch a youtube video, the instructions are only so-so. I'd recommend the above fan to use with this as well.
Good, Intel RAID Awkward
Pros: 6xSATA connections expandable with 6 PCI(ex) slots good software and bios interface USB3.0 w/front panel integrated audio works well stable so far
Cons: Intel BIOS is awkward. I want to set up RAID-1 mirroring on the intel rapid storage technology. Didn't install the raid drivers on initial OS installation, and think I have to reinstall OS to add in RAID support. First, I'm trying a PS2 keyboard (just ordered), as others have posted that standard USB will not enter the Intel Raid management on system post.
Overall Review: Other than setting up the intel RAID, the board was a rather simple setup and easy install. I'll update this later with final thoughts. If anyone has more details on how to setup intel's RAID, please post a reply.
great
Pros: I have two of these and both work great. Wi-Fi, many features, stable, many connections
Cons: No speakers for POST failures -- i had a defective memory chip and it took a little more reasoning to figure what was wrong.
Overall Review: both asus and newegg are good at replacing if needed.