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David T.

David T.

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Most Favorable Review

Cheapest RX480 with a decent cooler

PowerColor RED DRAGON Radeon RX 480 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support ATX Graphics Card AXRX 480 4GBD5-3DHD
PowerColor RED DRAGON Radeon RX 480 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support ATX Graphics Card AXRX 480 4GBD5-3DHD

Pros: I bought this card just for mining zcash, i like the single 6 pin power connector and the solid backplate. It performs about 3-5% faster then my asus rx480 4gb. Fantastic price and no rebates to hassle with

Cons: i really cannot think of a con here.

Overall Review: I have six rx 480s now, this one seems to be my fastest and it was the cheapest by $30. Having a hard time not ordering more....

11/30/2016
Most Critical Review

i was ripped off by zalman

ZALMAN LQ-320 Water/Liquid CPU Cooler 120MM
ZALMAN LQ-320 Water/Liquid CPU Cooler 120MM

Pros: I bought this cooler for my mildly overclocked AMD 1090T. idle temps went from 51 to 34C. System no longer locks up under heavy load.

Cons: My rebate was rejected because a small corner of the barcode was missing - though the entire barcode is there.

Overall Review: Price after rebate its a solid deal, but without the rebate its way to much money for what it does.

Cheap case, decent air flow.

Montech Air X ARGB - Black ATX Mid-Tower Gaming Case/ Super High Airflow/ Pull Out Tempered Glass/ Metallic Diamond Mesh Front Panel/ 2 x 200mm ARGB Fans & 1 x 120mm ARGB Fan & Fan Controller
Montech Air X ARGB - Black ATX Mid-Tower Gaming Case/ Super High Airflow/ Pull Out Tempered Glass/ Metallic Diamond Mesh Front Panel/ 2 x 200mm ARGB Fans & 1 x 120mm ARGB Fan & Fan Controller

Pros: Mesh, 2 RGB 200mm fans, 1 RGB 120mm. fan contoller.

Cons: flimsy, no sound deadening material

Overall Review: I bought this case to run two video cards as a space heater under my desk for this coming winter. I took an old dell 990 optiplex motherboard, cpu, ram which has no traditional fan headers and stuck it in this case. My AMD 5700 temp dropped from 72C (side panel off and cramped old case) to 67C side panel on. 5C drop and it looks a lot nicer. Bottom line is your getting a bottom of the barrel case with 3 rgb fans and a controller. For what i paid its a pretty decent deal. For anyone that wants to really show off their computer i like the thermaltake view 31 a lot better.

Cheap case, looks really nice

DIYPC IllusionII-BR Black Dual USB3.0 Steel / Tempered Glass ATX Mid Tower Gaming Computer Case w/4 x 120mm Red 33LED Light Fans (Pre-Installed)
DIYPC IllusionII-BR Black Dual USB3.0 Steel / Tempered Glass ATX Mid Tower Gaming Computer Case w/4 x 120mm Red 33LED Light Fans (Pre-Installed)

Pros: Price price price. When this case is setup its quite sharp to look at. Has lots of space for big video cards, ssd mounts, enclosed PSU

Cons: Cable management, specifically the 8 pin PSU cable has to go across the front of the board. Having cables danger in front of your components defeats the purpose of having tempered glass to show off the goods. Sitting idle with all the fans on its fairly loud sitting on my desk. I dont like the PCI-e slots need to be punched out instead of being removable brackets either.

Overall Review: If you want style cheap as possible this case is ok. I want to give it 3 stars but considering its low price point i gave it 4. I would of been much happier spending another $10-15 for a fractal or something else

10/25/2017

Big Bertha

SAPPHIRE NITRO Radeon R9 390 8GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 Graphics Card 11244-01-CPO
SAPPHIRE NITRO Radeon R9 390 8GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 Graphics Card 11244-01-CPO

Pros: Runs a lot cooler and quieter then my 290x double the vram

Cons: huge card, may not fit all cases -- 8pin + 6pin -- power hog

Overall Review: I am running this video card at stock clocks used to mine Zcash -- occasionally i play overwatch on it 1080p on ultra and even while mining it maintains 90fps+ Its about 5% faster then my 290x mining zcash without all the noise of the reference 290x. also runs about 15 degrees C cooler.

12/19/2016

Bigger then I expected, possibly fastest non powered card until the geforce 1050 ships

SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 460 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x8 Graphics Card 100409-2GOCL
SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 460 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x8 Graphics Card 100409-2GOCL

Pros: Low price of entry Runs cool and quiet draws all of its power from PCI-e slot

Cons: Big card, same size as an R9 380 but less then half the stream processors and memory bandwidth.

Overall Review: Bought this video card for my father. He purchased a new lenovo desktop from best buy with a geforce 730 but was unable to play any of his games -- technically they loaded but well under 10 frames per second. I updated the bios and installed this Sapphire RX 460. Doom went from 720p low settings at 5 frames per second to 1080p high under vulkan and 50 frames per second. Mechwarrior online also played perfect.