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Isaac H.

Isaac H.

Joined on 05/05/12

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Most Favorable Review

Excellent processor and arrived way ahead of schedule

Intel Xeon Silver 4214 12-Core, 24-Thread, 2.2 GHz (3.2 GHz Turbo) LGA 3647 85W BX806954214 Server Processor
Intel Xeon Silver 4214 12-Core, 24-Thread, 2.2 GHz (3.2 GHz Turbo) LGA 3647 85W BX806954214 Server Processor

Pros: - Perfect for a low power home server, I replaced 3x i7's with this, all of which consumed 85W each and have less threads combined than this Xeon - Runs extremely cool and quiet with Noctua cooler, have not seen it over 40 degrees since installing it

Cons: - Agree with other posts saying it's a bit nerve wracking installing a cooler on LGA 3647, but it ended up going just fine..

Overall Review: Great CPU, would certainly recommend to others.

Most Critical Review

Good gaming card

XFX Radeon HD 6970 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card HD-697A-CNFC
XFX Radeon HD 6970 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card HD-697A-CNFC

Pros: (review revised July 2016) I have owned this card for 4 years now and it is still kickin. -Still very powerful for 1080p

Cons: -Bad overclocker -Fans extremely loud -Runs extremely hot

Excellent motherboard

SUPERMICRO MBD-X11SPL-F-O ATX Server Motherboard LGA 3647 Intel C621
SUPERMICRO MBD-X11SPL-F-O ATX Server Motherboard LGA 3647 Intel C621

Pros: - High memory capacity, good CPU compatibility, NVMe port- IPMI is awesome- Instructions & user manuals are far better than what I've seen from other motherboard manufacturers- Packaging was good, fast shipping

Cons: - Not a single thing

Overall Review: This is the first Supermicro board I've bought and wow, I'm in love. I can't think of anything negative to say about it.I'm running it with a Xeon Silver 4214 in a Fractal Meshify 2XL and its just about the best home lab server I can think of. Dead silent (all Noctua cooling), cool, consumes less power overall than most of my quad-core i7 systems with 3x the cores.6/5 eggs

Titan X what?

MSI GeForce GTX 1070 8GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 SLI Support ATX Graphics Card GTX 1070 GAMING 8G
MSI GeForce GTX 1070 8GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 SLI Support ATX Graphics Card GTX 1070 GAMING 8G

Pros: -1894MHz boost clock out of the box -Incredibly quiet, I have several games where the fans don't even turn on and still runs very cool (high 50's low 60's) -2.1GHz OC with no issues -Runs every game I have maxed at under 70% load

Cons: -Tiny bit of coil whine but doesn't bother me that much. Pretty insignificant compared to my old 7970's..

Bad board

BIOSTAR A960G+ AM3+ AMD 760G + SB710 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
BIOSTAR A960G+ AM3+ AMD 760G + SB710 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Cheap..?

Cons: -Only one fan header -USB headers are in a terrible spot if you want to use anything in the PCIe slot -Can't sleep, fans still spin -Can't use a dedicated graphics card unless you disable the onboard chipset on the southbridge -BIOS plain and simple SUCKs, feels like its ten years old -Lots of BSOD's

Overall Review: Buy a different board

Good for an AMD

AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition - Phenom II X4 Deneb Quad-Core 3.4 GHz Socket AM3 125W Processor - HDZ965FBGMBOX
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition - Phenom II X4 Deneb Quad-Core 3.4 GHz Socket AM3 125W Processor - HDZ965FBGMBOX

Pros: Quad core, powerful, handles most games very well. Cooling block is awesome.

Cons: Not Intel

Overall Review: Cooling block kind of extends a little to far out around the edges I thought but it looks so cool that it doesn't matter.