Michael A.
Joined on 10/09/11
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Good small 1U

Pros: Comes with 1U case, installed motherboard, installed power supply, rail kit, CPU heatsink, power cable, and two installed sata cables.
Overall Review: It's what you would expect. 1U with PSU (80 Gold), X470D4U motherboard. Pop in a CPU, RAM, drives, update BIOS, and good to go. If you use 2.5 SSDs and want it to be simpler to remove, it may be better to just use velcro w/ adhesive sides. Heatsink works well obviously since it has the plastic airflow shroud, 29*C idle with a mid range Ryzen.
Runs good

Pros: Runs games like Battlefield 3 at 60+ FPS, Minecraft 200+ FPS. Good for the price.
Cons: I had this for about 2-3 months now. Using EVGA's Precision software, it says the temperature while playing BF3 on LOW SETTINGS is 50-70 Celsius. The card starts to smell, I assume I am smelling the "heat" from it, but I am not sure. When I set the fan speed higher, the temperature gets higher. When I set the fan speed LOWER, the temperature lowers. I don't understand this? When I raise the fan speed it shouldn't get hotter and smell like it's burning. I would RMA it but I manage multiple servers, I can't go 1-3 weeks without being able to use my PC, and my CPU doesn't have built in graphics core. Does anyone else have this issue? It greatly reduces my chance of buying these again.. The EVGA support didn't reply to my e-mail and nvidia isn't worth the hassle.
Great quality, low temps

Overall Review: Bought this Sapphire Pulse 9070 XT as a replacement as my other-brand one was RMA'd. This Sapphire one runs memory much cooler under the same gaming load. Overall temps are lower as well slightly. The included weight bracket is nice, but I probably won't use it. This card has a thicker metal backplate than some other brands as well, just overall a great quality GPU.
AMD!

Overall Review: Beat graphics card Ive owned for the price. Running this in a SFF case with a mini itx ryzen. It can handle everything I run on it at 1440p ultra perfect. Temps are low despite my small case setup, and fans are low noise considering the power. AMD really did make a great card.
Excellent quality

Overall Review: Great board, used many. 100% reliable, unlike some other options.
It's a NAS.

Pros: Synology has that of course works well. Has ability to use expansion units unlike the cheaper model. Easy access to expandable RAM slot which I put a 4GB Crucial DDR4 SODIMM in for 6GB total memory
Overall Review: This model supports NVMe caching. I originally bought the new model that's a bit cheaper (DS220+ I think?) but returned when I realized you couldn't utilize SATA SSD caching in one of the SATA bay slots. Pretty sure the only limitation is a software limitation by Synology to make you purchase the more expensive model. In the past I used SATA SSD caching in a QNAP device, so didn't realize Synology software limits features like this. Unfortunate, but of course a business is meant to make money.
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Purchased Terascale HDD, great price for capacity. Was worried it was refurb or used considering past reviews and the low priced but it seems to be brand new. Can't get better capacity for the price they offer. Shipping was fast.
