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Luke W.

Luke W.

Joined on 10/16/03

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Most Favorable Review

Awesome!

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 5970 (Hemlock) 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 100280SR
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 5970 (Hemlock) 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 100280SR

Pros: Card is amazingly fast. It can run anything I throw at it with now problems at all. Arma2 runs perfectly smooth at max detail settings.

Cons: Like others have said, it's very big. I had to remove one of my hard dive cages from my Antec 900 case to get it to fit, but that wasn't a big deal, since I wasn't using that cage for anything.

Overall Review: Expensive, but worth it!

Most Critical Review

Pretty good, until it failed unexpectedly

BenQ XL2730Z Black-Red 27" 1ms (GTG) WQHD Widescreen 2560 x 1440 LED Backlight TN Panel Adaptive-Sync (Free Sync), Auto Game Modes, Ergonomic Professional Gaming Monitor
BenQ XL2730Z Black-Red 27" 1ms (GTG) WQHD Widescreen 2560 x 1440 LED Backlight TN Panel Adaptive-Sync (Free Sync), Auto Game Modes, Ergonomic Professional Gaming Monitor

Pros: Good color depth, easy to set up, like the side-mounted USB ports.

Cons: Monitor display suddenly started flickering like mad recently. Needs to be RMA'd

Overall Review: A monitor less than a year old should not be failing like this so soon. Poor quality control, BenQ.

Good overall, bad LED light controller

LIAN LI O11 Dynamic EVO RGB  Black Aluminum / Steel / Tempered Glass ATX Mid Tower Computer Case----O11DERGBX
LIAN LI O11 Dynamic EVO RGB Black Aluminum / Steel / Tempered Glass ATX Mid Tower Computer Case----O11DERGBX

Pros: Roomy, great cable management

Cons: The controller for the LED light strip is unreliable. The first one failed, and the replacement controller failed after another year. After contacting Lian Li after the second time it failed, I was told I was out of luck with getting it replaced.

Overall Review: Overall a very good case let down by the bad LED controller.

Excellent board

ASRock Z270 Extreme 4 LGA 1151 Intel Z270 HDMI USB 3.1 ATX Motherboards - Intel
ASRock Z270 Extreme 4 LGA 1151 Intel Z270 HDMI USB 3.1 ATX Motherboards - Intel

Pros: Easy to set up and configure. Plenty of space for all of my peripherals. Good documentation.

Cons: Nothing I have yet noticed.

Too many burnt-out LEDs

Corsair Vengeance K95 CH-9000020-NA Black/Metal USB Wired Gaming Mechanical Keyboard (NA)
Corsair Vengeance K95 CH-9000020-NA Black/Metal USB Wired Gaming Mechanical Keyboard (NA)

Pros: Nice feel to the keys, good keyboard rest.

Cons: Within the last week, four of the LEDs have burnt out. For an item I've used for less than a year, that is simply unacceptable.

Overall Review: I would have looked at buying a different mechanical keyboard if I'd known this many LEDs were going to burn out so quickly.

Overall good board, with some issues

MSI Z97S SLI Plus LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
MSI Z97S SLI Plus LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Nice number of selections on the BIOs setup screen.

Cons: Still awful issues with booting into Windows 7. Running bios version 1.5, and more than half the time the board will crash and automatically reboot. Today I had the board crash and reboot approximately 12 (yes, 12) times, before it finally loaded Windows successfully. This is happening with a clean install of Win7 and all-default BIOS settings.

Overall Review: I've loved MSI boards for years, but I'm really getting tired of the issues with all the crashes.