Joined on 01/23/04
2nd review after 2 weeks
Pros: Great size!! I love the size of this thing. Games are more frequently coming with support for Widescreen monitors. In other words it doesnt just stretch the picture out, it gives you a better view. :)
Cons: Letters on websites still a little blurry, but Im learning how to tweak it.
Overall Review: I wrote a review last week stating that the colors are a little washed out and the panel controls on the monitor didnt help too much. Going into my video card controls is where the magic is found for this problem. Slight adjustments to the gamma and the vibrance made a world of difference and this monitor is every bit as vibrant as my 17 inch viewsonic that cost 500. If you are on the fence on this one and need affirmation, go ahead and buy it. You will not be sorry.
Not too sure anymore
Pros: Ok let me start by saying that Ive owned one of these monitors for over a year now and the color of the thing is just outstanding. Very sharp, very vibrant
Cons: experienced corruption or interference like a flicker a little then a lot after 1 yr.......then monitor just died one day. Took it to a shop and they said the power supply went bad and replaced it. got it back, and flicker is still there......while it was in the shop I ordered another one as a backup. got the new one and within 5 days, it developed a ghastly green verticle line left of center. Sent back for RMA.
Overall Review: This monitor looks great while it works, but Im 0 for 2 with them now, however my friend has the same monitor without an issue for over a year, so maybe im just unlucky....but i dont know.............
Never deal with asus. Again
Pros: Clean looking board... Plenty of sata connections plenty of USB and easily over lockable with ai tweaked
Cons: The reason I bought this board in large part was the awesome 5 year warranty that comes with it from asus. That being said, you hope a quality premium board will never have an issue. Well I did, the board died taking the processor down with it after 6 months of heavy gaming use. Ok.. This happens.. So warranty is a good thing ...or is it?? 3 weeks to wait in "repairing status" only to received another patched up problem board is totally unacceptable to me so F asus.. F the warranty and F a month with no computer. Bought a 98 dollar asrock board that's really just as good while asus lost a frequent customer for life due to intolerable offensive service
Overall Review: Seriously.... A motherboard is the one thing you generally don't carry a backup for. It goes down you either wait for rma or just replace. Asus should fire their service dept because I will NEVER even consider buying asus brand again
has issues, but works great if you iron them out
Pros: Great DVD quality picture, easy installation and good sound.
Cons: Bad power cord connected to a little box with some kind of copper thing in it. Blew the minute i powered it up. I bypassed it with a 3a fused wire and works just fine now.
Overall Review: great price for such a cool product as long as your decent with installing it. be prepared to bypass that power box thing.
Great Value
Pros: Very good drive, no problems whatsoever.
Cons: 0
Update on coolers and crash issue
Pros: Ok I bought 2 of the EVGA Superclocked edition of the 800gt at 650 and 900. Out of the box paired with the E8400 and an XFX mobo I scored 14,250 consistantly on 3dmark06. They would get pretty darn hot though and crash occasionally. After one benchmark the heat on both cards was between 75 and 80c. Now, If you turned the stock fan on one of them (it would allow only one to change) up to 100 percent it would cool it better in the 50's but was super loud and again would only work with one of them.
Cons: Slapped these on and ran a benchmark, (4x without a crash mind you) and after all was done my cards were a cool 41c. Thats cooler than the idle of the stock cooler. While i did get a crash eventually, (apparently not all heat related, it seems that my benchmark scored went up to 14500 and far less crashes in vista 32
Overall Review: Im not sure that this totally resolved the mystery vista crash, but it did lower my vga temps from a scary 75-80 to a balmy 40c. The cards run better, and Look amazing not to mention quiet as church mice. Good Job Thermaltake.