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Talley F.

Talley F.

Joined on 05/13/11

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Most Favorable Review

Very good card

Galaxy GeForce GTX 465 (Fermi) 1GB DDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card 60XGH3HS3CUD
Galaxy GeForce GTX 465 (Fermi) 1GB DDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card 60XGH3HS3CUD

Pros: Card is definitely as advertised and as others have said. I took another reviewers overclock and overclocked it to 750/1500/1800 without changing voltages using Msi afterburner and it works perfect. Increased performance by approx 15 percent from an already great card. Running stress benchmarks and other games at highest settings the highest temps I get is in the mid 60's. Could probably push it more but didn't see a need to. For the price (at the time I bought it was $129 but even at $169) it's a really good deal. It's an elite card at a value card price, especiallly if you overclock it.

Cons: Maybe the plastic on the card is a little much, just being nit picky. This could be something on my end so I'm not taking away an egg but before and after I overclocked it the temperatures on stress tests were getting in the mid to late 80's which was making me nervous. I installed and set the fan to auto in msi afterburner. However even at 90 degrees the fan was only moving at 50%. I went ahead and opened options and tweaked the fan to go at X amount of speed at X amount of temperature and that fixed it. So I don't know if that was some bug in the card or I could of done something wrong, but I know it was on AUTO but it only ran at 50 percent. Anyway, just look into that and make sure your fan is moving like it's supposed to. Because once that gets fixed it doesn't go above the mid 60's. Easy fix using MSI Afterburner. That could be a reason some were complaining about high temps....check the fan speeds.

Overall Review: As it says, make sure you have TWO connectors for the card and a decent power supply. I went ahead and upgraded power supply when I bought this. I have never messed with overclocking before but after reading the reviews here and checking into msi afterburner, it's really very easy. You can get a sizeable overclock without even messing with voltages which makes this card even better. You can probably get near stock gtx 470 speeds if not more with the overclock.

Works great so far

Antec EarthWatts EA-650 GREEN 650W ATX12V v2.4 SLI Ready CrossFire Certified 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply - Intel Haswell Fully Compatible
Antec EarthWatts EA-650 GREEN 650W ATX12V v2.4 SLI Ready CrossFire Certified 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply - Intel Haswell Fully Compatible

Pros: Only owned this a week, but so far so good. Has plenty of connectors, has ran my computer powered on for close to a week now.

Cons: None really so far.

Overall Review: Pretty big in size. It should fit in all cases just fine but there will be a lot more connectors, especially if you're replacing a stock power supply from one of the PC companies. So unless you have a really small case you should be fine. Was a little nervous about buying it when I saw a decent amount of DOA reviews but this one seems fine so far. Again it's only been a week but so far I'm very happy with it. Great value for the money and a 'name brand' power supply.

Great value

HANNspree By Hanns-G HF225DPB Black 21.5" 5ms  Full HD WideScreen LCD Monitor w/Speakers 250 cd/m2 X-Contrast 30,000:1 (1000:1)
HANNspree By Hanns-G HF225DPB Black 21.5" 5ms Full HD WideScreen LCD Monitor w/Speakers 250 cd/m2 X-Contrast 30,000:1 (1000:1)

Pros: Great value, good picture

Cons: none so far

Overall Review: Got this on sell and for the price it can't be beat. Picture looks good and I've had no issues with it so far.

Great bang for buck

CyberpowerPC Desktop PC Gamer Xtreme 1313 Intel Core i3-2100 4GB DDR3 1TB HDD Intel HD Graphics 2000 Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
CyberpowerPC Desktop PC Gamer Xtreme 1313 Intel Core i3-2100 4GB DDR3 1TB HDD Intel HD Graphics 2000 Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Pros: Was going to build a pretty decent machine for my mother, and stumbled across this system on sale for $399. At that price you can't build a system as good as this one. Computer runs great and is good for what my moms purpose is....which is pretty much surfing the net, checking facebook/emails, using word processor's, looking at pictures, etc. Only has an integrated video card so you will need to purchase a good gaming card if you want to use it as a gaming machine. 450 watt power supply is pretty nice as if you were to buy a dell or HP at your local store, you would only have about 300 or maybe 350 watts. Lots of pretty good video cards out there that you could buy that would work with this power supply. Huge plus that the 4gb of ram it had was just one stick, so there was an extra slot available to add another 4gb one.

Cons: Only minor annoyance was I had issues at the beginning getting windows 7 to be activated. On other systems I had you just turn the system on and its already activated...this one it made me enter the code, and when I entered it it said it wasn't genuine. Long story short I went back and reintered the code and it worked so chances are I just probably had a typo on the code. If there was a problem I know cyberpower would of made it right anyway. So this really isn't a con, maybe more of a user error than con, but was annoying having to input the code.

Overall Review: Honestly, if you bought this exact computer and got a decent video card (plenty are out there in the top 50 benchmarks that only require 450 watts) you'd be able to run just about anything you throw at it. I spent 30 bucks on 4 more gb of ram to make it 8 gbs. Core I3 processor is not top of the line but it's still a good processor. If you're looking for a computer to do basically anything other than gaming, this is a great PC as is. Spend another 150 bucks or so more to add 4gb of ram and a video card and for about 550 bucks total you have a great machine that would of costed hundreds more to build.