Joined on 04/08/04
1 word Wow!
Pros: 1st LCD I bought and I have to admit.. What a monitor. I thought LCD's would be no good compaired to CRT monitors. I play games and I always said I would Never buy an LCD well I was wrong. Best Bang for the BUCK nothing else to say..
Cons: Attention Gamers! GG on this one.. Buy it nothing else to say!
Overall Review: Brightness on this monitor is outstanding and the 1000:1 Ratio obviously sweet. If your thinking to look around don't stop here and Buy this monitor you will like it I do!
Horrible Customer Support!
Pros: None to be said and none to be listed. Ya know I sat here debating about which board I should get. I've always been an ASUS fan and ya know what? Now I know why. I received this board about 5hrs ago. Everything came right on time Great Shipping NewEgg Thank you :-) Open the box and there everything was. Board looked great nice design nice look everything so far so good. Machine was put together and everything booted. Even better. Now the problem occurs for some odd strange reason the machine continues to go into the bio's on it's own. Can't go past after all settings are set. The board see's all my devices no problem but, refuses to go past the bios. I can change settings confirm everything but, NOTHING.. Won't go into boot mode for a cd drive of hard drive. So, I decide to give MSI a call. Well let me tell you..I've been in the IT Field for over 10yrs and in the course of the 10yrs I've sold alot of MSI boards and MSI products and a mixture of other things. However, MSI SUPPORT the worst support i've ever received in my life. Oh wait a minute I didn't get any support that's right. Their phone system says "your call is very important to us please remain on the line and the next available technicain will be right with you" After 15minutes on hold the line hangs up. I call back does it again I call back does it again. I call back I finally get a voice and speak with someone in a different department and I'm told by someone that oh everyone is out to lunch can you call back in an hour. Are you serious! That's customer support!
Cons: I've never in 10yrs have been giving the run around by any other company besides this one to be on hold numerous times adding up to about 3hrs. I got 2 total people on the line that told me the samething that everyone is out to lunch please call back later. This was my first personal purchase of a MSI product that I bought for myself and I WILL NEVER EVER buy another MSI product again.
Overall Review: Thanks to NewEgg my new board is order and already shipped and a full refund for this C rated motherboard being handled. So in the end MSI was unable to help because of their lack of customer support and rude staff that knows nothing about getting someone on the line for technical support. So just a warning to ANYONE that decides to purchase an MSI product your better off calling Newegg support because their staff knows how to treat people and also know how to give Excellent customer support.. So, thank you Newegg for all your help!. I look forward into receiving my ASUS motherboard...
Great Case but, does come with some flaws.
Pros: Color options ARBG Fans Slick Lots of room
Cons: - Needs better quality - Flimsy - Single USB on every case didn't work the other did - No ARGB controller, Why supply them and rely on a the MB to control it. - Forced to spend $12 more on a controller. Some might say just get a board with one. When others are on a budget your forced to work with what you have. - At the price point set Thermaltake could easily throw in an ARGB controller
Overall Review: Bought 3 of these for a build for a business. I like the case I really do but, Thermaltake needs to improve on the quality. Very easy to dent, the fact you get 3 ARGB fans and a plain one in the rear just disappointing. I've always been a fan of Thermaltake but this one to me misses the mark a bit. The controller in the back is very short coming. The wires connected to the controller are nearly not removable. I honestly felt if I took them out to clean up the cables I'd break the connector. Should consider making the cables a bit more better when producing these. The power switch cable is also very tight to the connector with little to no slack on the cable. Overall I'm happy with it for the price but, I would ask Thermaltake to really improve the quality. All 3 of my builds came out great and I'm happy with the overall look that I was able to achieve. I could of went with a different company and probably received a bit product. AMD Ryzen 5 - 5500 w/Thermaltake UX100 CPU Coolers MSI Pro B450M Pro Motherboard GSkill Ripjaw V Series 16GB DDR 4000 Nvidia GT730 1TB Samsung Evo M.2 Thermaltake 500W Power Supplies Very clean build for the price point and well rounded performance great office PC..
Always willing to try something new.
Overall Review: I tried Gigabyte once before and wanted to see the changes they have made over the years to see if it was worth it. When doing a new build I said let's give it shot. Come to find out the description to what was on their website with CPU compatibility it showed I was good. Well that wasn't the case. Sent it back got a new board. Moving forward to the present and this board the exact same thing happened. I verified the rev and the CPU right off their website ordered this because my board crapped out and along and behold system wouldn't post. This was the final draw for me and over the year in IT I will continue to stick with the brands that have never let me down. Gigabyte if you want to respond here to this great but, your site said my CPU was compatible with with the Rev and I received that and nothing worked. Ordered a better replacement with the brand I should of went with without thinking about it and it worked no problem. Fix your stuff because I know this board wasn't a DOA.
Radeon/XFX for me never disappoints.
Pros: - Card is fast I can play any game Ultra settings all day no issues - Quiet I've seen a few people say this card is loud. Not even close to Loud the fan speed at times never kicks on because it stay cool number 1. When it does kick on you can't hear it. - Look and quality of the card is very nice, love the fact is lights up to see from outside case - No issues with drivers or anything - 3 Monitor setup, Played Resident Evil Village averaging 250fps, Far Cry 175fpg & Forza 135fps
Cons: - The only thing that I can complain about was when I went to install the card. This card is big as you can see from the pictures, however I thought it was Xpress slot. What it ended up being was the bracket that came with the card. It wasn't going into the slot correctly causing the card to look like it was in all the way but it wasn't. Word of advise get a GPU Brace their cheap and I've always had one. It comes in handy for this card.
Overall Review: Overall as I've always said Radeon & XFX never disappoint. I went from a 1070Ti to this and night and day in performance & quality. With the market right now yes I didn't want to spend $1500 but, this overall is for sure was worth it. I don't know why so many hatters on Radeon but, I've always been a fan and this has proven why. I've heard complaints about "Oh Radeon Drivers Suck" I have no issues and I absolutely love what they did with their drivers compared to the last the old UI. I've had both cards and coming from 1070Ti I love that card and still do it was amazing. Just was time for a change and to go back to Radeon to see if the hype is real. At the end of the day it's what your a fan of and if your a Nvidia Fan Boy then this isn't going to suit your needs. If your willing to try it then with this card you wouldn't be disappointed. This is currently in my first intel build 4yrs ago now and still running strong. I've been an AMD fan boy since socket 462 days. I was willing to try intel and I did after all those years. Looking forward to pairing this with AMD Ryzen because I'm going back to AMD not because I disliked my current setup just because Ryzen has proven to be better. My Rig: i7-8700K G.Skill Trident DDR4 3200 - 32GB Memory 2 - 1TB m.2 Samsung SSD MSI Z370 Tomahawk Motherboard NZXT Kraken X62 CPU Cooler 3 x Corsair LL120 - Fans 3 x Corsair LL140 - Fans Phantek Eclipse P600S
Very Well Put Together Card..
Pros: Going from an 7900GTX to this card was a big upgrade max settings in any game looks great.. I will say the card does run rather cool for the amount of play time I put into it. Easy setup not a big card but is up there is size with the newer style cards.. Other than that I really can't say anything that bad about it.
Cons: Only thing here I will say since there is only 1 12V connector I still don't understand why they took the other one out. Reading up on it couldn't give me the answer I was looking for. I will come out and say that when I first install the driver which were the new 185 drivers I did get artifacts like black squares all over my screen. It was random wasn't all the time I had to go back to the 178 drivers and my machine has been stable ever since. I don't know why some people said to flash the card, but I wouldn't do that I'll just wait till newer drivers come out that are stable. Known issues before with previous cards I've owned from Nvidia but, great overall card.
Overall Review: I wish I should of take advantage of the 90 day step up I totally forgot about it but oh well this card is more then enough for what I do. Like before MAX SETTINGS on ALL GAMES NO PROBLEMS. In closing I end this like I always do if you want quality instead of quantity buy this product I did and no regrets...