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Matthew K.

Matthew K.

Joined on 07/12/14

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Most Favorable Review

Love this motherboard

ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VII GENE LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Gaming Motherboard
ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VII GENE LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Gaming Motherboard

Pros: amazingly full-featured for a micro ATX board. love the BIOS it gives you tons of tuning control and if you happen to pick, let's just say, "less than optimal" settings there are fail safes in the board so less experienced overclockers (like myself) can really learn a thing or two by studying the different settings and how it affects everything. and let's not forget the amazing color scheme with black PCB that asus is known for putting on it's high end boards; looks so awesome

Cons: I have none, as someone building his first PC rig solo, I was able to set everything up super easy, and it worked no problems

Overall Review: I absolutely adore this board :D it is in my BitFenix Prodigy M case and it is just awesome, this thing is absolutely perfect for gaming oriented rigs, and of course looks very cool.

Most Critical Review

Very nice PSU

Rosewill LIGHTNING-800 - 800-Watt Modular, Active PFC Power Supply - Continuous @ 122 Deg. F (50C), 80 PLUS Gold, ATX 12V v2.31 & EPS 12V v2.92, Intel Haswell, SLI & CrossFire Ready
Rosewill LIGHTNING-800 - 800-Watt Modular, Active PFC Power Supply - Continuous @ 122 Deg. F (50C), 80 PLUS Gold, ATX 12V v2.31 & EPS 12V v2.92, Intel Haswell, SLI & CrossFire Ready

Pros: This PSU is obviously built for a gaming rig (comes with a total of 6 PCIE connectors!) so ANY sort of graphics cards array you can think of is sure to be supported. at 800watts and 80+ gold certification, it is certainly one quality PSU that allows for all sorts of upgrades. I also really like the connectors that each come with their own little compression collar, combined with the fact that each connector and header is keyed, only allowing it to be inserted one way, the cables are extremely secure once in place. it does look very nice with all it's lights, but beyond that, they actually serve a pretty significant purpose if you use a little imagination. You see, the lights around the connectors will still light up if there is a cable attached even if there isn't some sort of hardware at the end of that cable, so basically, the first step of troubleshooting a specific component will be as simple as looking to make sure all lights are on, if any of them are off then that means it won't even be getting an electrical signal at all

Cons: for what this thing costs, I would certainly have liked for the 20+4 and 4+4 connectors to also be modular, but that is not by any means a deal-breaker to me

Overall Review: First thing I did, and first thing I recommend anyone who might buy this product do, is plug in all of the cables and use a 24 pin short to test all the LED lights on the power supply BEFORE you install it. I was lucky enough (this time-_-) to have all my LEDs working, but that is rarely the case when I buy anything computer related that has lights in it...

It is a Titan

EVGA 06G-P4-3793-KR G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK Superclocked Signature 6GB 384-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card
EVGA 06G-P4-3793-KR G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK Superclocked Signature 6GB 384-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card

Pros: powerhouse of a card, it is actually very reasonable on energy consumption as well, due to massive memory of this card I have never even seen a textureless model on any game (on ultra setting nonetheless)

Cons: it is not DX12 compatible....and no, I am not even joking about that, the Titan series graphics cards will not be completely compatible with DirectX 12....apparently, it will run games that use it in a sort of, I guess you could say "nerfed" version...needless to say this is the biggest argument anyone should have about this card NOT it's price

Overall Review: The biggest reason I got this over other Nvidia cards, is because I built microATX computer, if I where to build in anything bigger I would most likely have gotten two GeForce GTX 780ti cards instead and set up a dual SLI configuration

My new favorite computer fans!

GELID Solutions Slim 12 PL 120mm Blue LED Case Fan
GELID Solutions Slim 12 PL 120mm Blue LED Case Fan

Pros: looks amazing, works VERY well, both the airflow and static pressure are incredibly impressive, is indeed super quiet and only half as thick as standard fans

Cons: not the cheapest fans there are

Overall Review: Gelid is my new favorite of computer fans! I never bought them before because of the price, but in this case you definitely get what you pay for. The static pressure is very impressive, and a lot of "radiator optimized" fans don't even match it! I will be trying out all of Gelid's series and size of fans, because I am just so impressed with this one!

Great Card

EVGA SuperClocked 02G-P4-2662-KR G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 660 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
EVGA SuperClocked 02G-P4-2662-KR G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 660 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: This graphics card is one of the best price/performance GPUs you can get, this card alone can play most games today at very high or high settings

Cons: none

Overall Review: I have had my GTX 660 for a few years now, and I figured the price was good enough to warrant a little upgrade, so I am going to dual SLI these bad boys

Nice

60" Portable Mini LED Projector Cinema Theater, Support PC Laptop VGA Input and SD + USB + AV Input (Black)
60" Portable Mini LED Projector Cinema Theater, Support PC Laptop VGA Input and SD + USB + AV Input (Black)

Pros: I couldn't believe my eyes when I found a projector for this price, very small, I was actually surprised by the quality of the picture (keep in mind it is not good, I just thought it would be far worse for it's price :D )

Cons: the native resolution is definitely not going to compete with the crazy expensive projectors out there, audio is nothing special either

Overall Review: I know the native resolution is very very low, but something about projectors just seems to scale a million times better than electronic screens. I am waiting on my RCA to HDMI converter to get here, but when it does, I am going to see how well this will project 780 and 1080p resolutions from my PC