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Nick S.

Nick S.

Joined on 05/16/05

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Most Favorable Review

Nearly perfect

SilverStone SG13B Black Mesh front panel, steel body Computer Case Compatible with standard ATX12V/EPS12V Power Supply
SilverStone SG13B Black Mesh front panel, steel body Computer Case Compatible with standard ATX12V/EPS12V Power Supply

Pros: - About as small as possible and still fits the most powerful hardware. I had to modify the front a bit by drilling a few holes to line up with the H90 cooler, but it was very simple. I had to mount the 850 SSD on the power supply as the rad was in the way of the other HD mount, they give you little stickers so it was easy. Can't BELIEVE I crammed all this stuff in here. I searched for days for the perfect case and this was it as I wanted small so I could hide it and/or toss it in a bag when traveling. There was a youtube video where they built a billion core xeon with this thing which is what inspired me. This is the least expensive case I have ever owned and probably my favorite. - Intel 6950K overclocked to 4.2ghz - G.SKILL TridentZ Series 16GB Model F4-3200C16D-16GTZB - Nvidia Gigabyte 1070 - Silverstone SG13B - Coolermaster V 750w Power Supply - ASrock X99ITX/ac 2011-v3 (using 3.2 beta bios for OC) - Samsung Pro 950 - Samsung EVO 850 - CORSAIR H90 - Noctua NF-A14 140MM fan attached to rad, pull into case

Cons: - I wish the holes worked with the H90 - The front USB plugs (cable) stuck out and hit the H90 rad, so I had to take them out. Don't really use them anyway.

Most Critical Review

Does not work with Win7 and Asus P5K

OCZ Vertex Series 2.5" 30GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-1VTX30GXXX
OCZ Vertex Series 2.5" 30GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-1VTX30GXXX

Pros: I received the drive and installed windows 7 64 bit. After the OS was installed, everything looked great and was very fast. Low price after rebate vs intel.

Cons: I followed all the tips I could find on the OCZ forums like turning off defrag, enabling trim, etc. The freezes started happening. They were very infrequent in the first few hours, but they always required a system reboot. Then they started really frequently. I followed everything I could find on the OCZ forums but could not figure out how to fix the problem. I spent many hours on that forum and trying everything I could find. Nothing worked. The freezes bacame really frequent after ahwile to the point the system was completly unusable. Just one freeze would be enough to stop me from being able to do work that day since I RAS into this box from home. I have an intel 80gb g2 SSD at home with ZERO problems. I realize it could be other hardware, but I have never had any other problems with regular hard drives on this system.

Overall Review: I cannot recommend this drive. It was too much hassle. What really upsets me is newegg will not take a return on the item, when I push refund, newegg shows a message to contact the manufacture. Now I'm stuck with this brick.

Great product

CORSAIR Hydro Series H90 High Performance Water/Liquid CPU Cooler. 140mm
CORSAIR Hydro Series H90 High Performance Water/Liquid CPU Cooler. 140mm

Pros: I crammed this into a TINY case, unbelievable! My processor stays very cool over clocked, under 25% around 25c and under 50c at 100% usage. I replaced the fan with a Noctua, did not try the one that came with it. - Intel 6950K overclocked to 4.2ghz - G.SKILL TridentZ Series 16GB Model F4-3200C16D-16GTZB - Nvidia Gigabyte 1070 - Silverstone SG13B - Coolermaster V 750w Power Supply - ASrock X99ITX/ac 2011-v3 (using 3.2 beta bios for OC) - Samsung Pro 950 - Samsung EVO 850 - CORSAIR H90 - Noctua NF-A14 140MM fan attached to rad, pull into case

Cons: - Ok this is special to my build, but the motherboard I got has a smaller mount for coolers, I had to buy the ASTEK? bracket on eby for $5, but it fit perfect, otherwise would have had to modify the bracket that came with MB.

Overclocked to 4.2ghz in a tiny case

Intel Core i7 6th Gen - Core i7-6850K Broadwell-E 6-Core 3.6 GHz LGA 2011-V3 140W BX80671I76850K Desktop Processor
Intel Core i7 6th Gen - Core i7-6850K Broadwell-E 6-Core 3.6 GHz LGA 2011-V3 140W BX80671I76850K Desktop Processor

Pros: Um, wow?? Upgraded from OC 3770k and this about halves my code compile time, oh and it plays games well too, but so did the old processor. - Intel 6950K overclocked to 4.2ghz - G.SKILL TridentZ Series 16GB Model F4-3200C16D-16GTZB - Nvidia Gigabyte 1070 - Silverstone SG13B - Coolermaster V 750w Power Supply - ASrock X99ITX/ac 2011-v3 (using 3.2 beta bios for OC) - Samsung Pro 950 - Samsung EVO 850 - CORSAIR H90 - Noctua NF-A14 140MM fan attached to rad, pull into case

Cons: Price is a little steep. Would be happy with 450 price point. Get the 6800k if you are not going to overclock and only have one video card so you can save some money.

Very happy with this Power Supply

Cooler Master V750 - 750W Compact Fully Modular 80 PLUS Gold Power Supply
Cooler Master V750 - 750W Compact Fully Modular 80 PLUS Gold Power Supply

Pros: Works perfect and the smaller profile made it fit into my tiny case and give me some breathing room. - Intel 6950K overclocked to 4.2ghz - G.SKILL TridentZ Series 16GB Model F4-3200C16D-16GTZB - Nvidia Gigabyte 1070 - Silverstone SG13B - Coolermaster V 750w Power Supply - ASrock X99ITX/ac 2011-v3 (using 3.2 beta bios for OC) - Samsung Pro 950 - Samsung EVO 850 - CORSAIR H90 - Noctua NF-A14 140MM fan attached to rad, pull into case

Cons: - They need to give a couple more cables for mini builds. I would expect this for a smaller PSU size like this and the premium price. I had to have a couple custom made. The two that were most annoying; The video cable one (very long and had two connectors spliced, which the new 1070 only needs one), and the SATA, had 4 connectors, I only have one drive and it's right one top of the PSU, not across the room.

Amazing!

ASRock X99E-ITX/ac LGA 2011-v3 Intel X99 USB 3.1 USB 3.0 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard
ASRock X99E-ITX/ac LGA 2011-v3 Intel X99 USB 3.1 USB 3.0 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard

Pros: I was able to get a 6950K in there and overclocked using beta bios version 3.2 which had an EZ mode profile for me to run at 4ghz and just bumped up the clock to 42 running stable and with H90 I never hit over 50C at 100% usage. Usually is under 30c under 25% load. I have the fan turned down to 25% under 40C and it is nearly silent - Intel 6950K overclocked to 4.2ghz - G.SKILL TridentZ Series 16GB Model F4-3200C16D-16GTZB - Nvidia Gigabyte 1070 - Silverstone SG13B - Coolermaster V 750w Power Supply - ASrock X99ITX/ac 2011-v3 (using 3.2 beta bios for OC) - Samsung Pro 950 - Samsung EVO 850 - CORSAIR H90 - Noctua NF-A14 140MM fan attached to rad, pull into case

Cons: One egg off for defective board, but I am very happy with board, the return process took a couple weeks and was frustrating waiting. - First one had a bad memory slot.. I wasted a day trying to troubleshoot. ASRock customer service was really helpful and just told me to send it back. - Second one I could not OC, it was crashing and unstable on 3.1 bios. ASRock support came thru again and sent me a link to 3.2 bios which had EZ mode overclock setting to 4ghz, from there was easy to just bump to 4.2 and is very stable.