Joined on 01/22/10
AMD FX-8350 BE
Pros: - Fast - Overclocks well - Relatively cool - 8 Cores handles everything thrown at it.
Cons: - Stock radiator sucks.
Overall Review: Combined this with a Corsair H100i and have not looked back. Cool temps at 4.5Ghz with plenty of extra OC room. Runs all modern games I've thrown at it like it is nothing.
EVGA GTX 970 4GB
Pros: This video card is amazing. Runs all new titles maxxed out at 1080p at a high framerate. Witcher 3 plays smooth as butter on ultra settings even with Nvidia's hairworks. You won't regret buying this card.
Cons: Gets hot and the fan can get loud if you don't set up the EVGA Precision X software correctly.
Overall Review: The Precision X software is pretty trash. It is not very user friendly compared to other OC software I've used, and requires you to have it running in the background in order to use fan-curves. This isn't much of a problem, but currently Witcher 3 is having issues with OC software and randomly crashes when I leave it turned on.
H100i 240mm
Pros: Keeps my FX-8350 well under 20C idle, under 35C on load. I play WoW, modded Skyrim, CS:GO, Witcher 3. My FX-8350 is OC'd to 4.3 and can go much, much higher.
Cons: None so far.
Samsung 840 1TB
Pros: - Fast, fast, fast. - Cheap when on sale.
Cons: - None.
Overall Review: Have had no issues with this SSD at all. Enabled RAPID mode and loads WoW, Crysis3, heavily modded Skyrim, Batman Arkham City, Guild Wars 2 EXTREMELY fast. Got the 1TB version for around $250. Can't get a better deal.
G.Skill Ripjaws 8GB 2133
Pros: - Speeds as advertised with a AMD 8350. - Perfectly works with an older set of the same RAM. - Looks smexy.
Cons: - High heatsinks may get in the way of CPU third party coolers.
Overall Review: Bought this to go with an older set of exactly the same Ripjaws. Defaulted to 1866Mhz after installing into ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0 AM3+ with a AMD 8350. Windows and the BIOS and CPU-Z finds all 16Gb perfectly. No crashes. Haven't tried pushing them to 2133Mhz yet.
32ft HDMI cable.
Pros: - Perfect connection. - Audio/1080p Video. - Quality build and connections. - Little to no input lag.
Cons: - None
Overall Review: Bought this cable to stream my PC display to my TV in another room. Not the fault of the cable, but if anyone has an issue in Win8.1 not sending audio to your TV/Monitor, make sure your Realtek Audio drivers for your mobo is updated. After I did this, it worked beautifully.