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Nate L.

Nate L.

Joined on 06/25/13

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Most Favorable Review

Amazing Case!

Fractal Design Define R4 with Window Titanium Grey Silent ATX Mid Tower Case
Fractal Design Define R4 with Window Titanium Grey Silent ATX Mid Tower Case

Pros: This is one of the best cases on the market right now (IMO). First off, it's well built and has a ton of features. Very elegant and minimal design. Plenty of room for the largest GPU, PSU, and liquid coolers available. Lots of (removable) hard drive bays. Excellent cable management. Easy to access front and bottom dust screens. And a built in fan controller to top it all off.

Cons: I have nothing negative to say about this case. It's simply amazing. One minimal issue I ran into was one of the snap-latches for the front dust-cover would not latch. I emailed Fractal Design's Customer Service and received a reply the same day, and received replacement parts the same week. Quality product, backed by quality customer service!

Overall Review: One thing to note, is that you do not need a modular power supply to remove/hide unnecessary cables from view with this case. I mean, to each their own - but if you are worried about cable management, there is plenty of room on the other side of the case behind the motherboard tray to hide A LOT of cables.

Incredibly fast, low latency memory.

G.SKILL Trident Z Neo (For AMD Ryzen) Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin RGB DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C14D-16GTZN
G.SKILL Trident Z Neo (For AMD Ryzen) Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin RGB DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C14D-16GTZN

Pros: - Super fast, low latency - Optimized for Ryzen 3000 - XMP works with no issues - Confirmed Samsung b-die

Cons: - Price, but it is what it is

Overall Review: Running this memory with a 3900X in an Aorus X570 i Pro Wifi board (F4 (8/29/19) BIOS and Chipset driver v1.8.19.0915) and Infinity Fabric set 1:1 with memory (1800MHz). In AIDA64 I am getting 56500 MB/s Read, 54600 MB/s Write, 58400 MB/s Copy, and around 66ns latency. With UserBenchmark I get 46.9 GB/s MC, 32.5 GB/s SC, and 62ns latency with an overall rating of 126%. I fine tuned the timings a little tighter than default XMP values with a slight bump in voltage (tRAS=30, tRC=45, tRFC=288, tCKE=6, ProcODT=34.3, 1.428v). Thaiphoon states that these are Samsung b-die modules. I had too many memtest errors when trying to downclock 4000C17 b-die to 3600C14 but these just get the job done out of the box.

Super bright and Sata power!

CableMod® WideBeam™ Magnetic LED Strip 30cm - WHITE
CableMod® WideBeam™ Magnetic LED Strip 30cm - WHITE

Pros: Bright Magnetic Sata power!

Cons: None!

Corsair 760w

CORSAIR AX Series AX760 760W 80 PLUS PLATINUM Haswell Ready Full Modular ATX12V & EPS12V SLI and Crossfire Ready Power Supply
CORSAIR AX Series AX760 760W 80 PLUS PLATINUM Haswell Ready Full Modular ATX12V & EPS12V SLI and Crossfire Ready Power Supply

Pros: - Seasonic Made - Full Modular - Platinum Rating - Haswell Ready - SLI/Crossfire - Silent Fans - Looks Great

Cons: No complaints

12/13/2014

Super Bright!

LOGISYS Computer ML12WT LED Super Bright Sunlight Stick
LOGISYS Computer ML12WT LED Super Bright Sunlight Stick

Pros: Bright! Provides excellent pure-white lighting to your case.

Cons: Not really a con, but again, this thing is bright! I might even wrap it in electrical tape to dim it.

Overall Review: One of these is enough, even on a large case. Don't over do it, or you might get a tan.

Great Motherboard!

GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ AMD 990FX + SB950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ AMD 990FX + SB950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Quality motherboard with a sleek look and some excellent features.

Cons: None. Has been running stable since first booting it.

Overall Review: I paired this board with the FX8350 and have no issues to date. I have read mixed reviews about OC'ing on this board/CPU, but I don't have current plans to do so, so not a con for me.