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chris c.

chris c.

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Most Favorable Review

Amazing compound with a fragile plunger

ARCTIC MX-4 (4 g) - Premium Performance Thermal Paste for all processors (CPU, GPU - PC, PS4, XBOX), very high thermal conductivity, long durability, safe application, non-conductive, non-capacitive
ARCTIC MX-4 (4 g) - Premium Performance Thermal Paste for all processors (CPU, GPU - PC, PS4, XBOX), very high thermal conductivity, long durability, safe application, non-conductive, non-capacitive

Pros: Best cooling performance of all compounds, and easiest cleanup.

Cons: Plunger arrived as a second piece, broken off from deep within the tube. Was such a clean break it seemed to be an intentional second part, but having so many others I know it's broken.

Overall Review: This stuff is the best, far better in every way than Arctic Silver 5, in both cleanup and performance. Better than Noctua as well, the only one I haven't tried yet is the new MX-5. Shame about the plunger, have ordered a second one to verify.

Most Critical Review

Easy the worst high capacity drive I've had

PNY 128GB Turbo USB 3.0 Flash Drive (P-FD128TBOP-GE)
PNY 128GB Turbo USB 3.0 Flash Drive (P-FD128TBOP-GE)

Pros: Cheap. High Capacity.

Cons: This is the slowest USB drive I own, and I'm including USB 2.0 drives. Performance drops to about 8-10MB/s after the cache is full. It actually reads rather quickly on my B550M system but jeez is the write speed slow, We watched an entire movie while waiting for it to copy a season of video files over, I gave up. Will absolutely never buy PNY again.

Overall Review: As a storage item the only good thing so far is : It hasn't failed yet lol. What a slow drive! Even my 256GB variant is just barely faster, I get about 18-30M/s writes on that. But this 128GB version tops out at 10MB/s sustained and it's a riot at today's standards. Never buy this garbage.

Worked first time at full speed

G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C18D-64GVK
G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C18D-64GVK

Pros: Worked in my finicky B550M-VDH at full speed the first bootup. I was distraught finding RAM that was compatible, this was very close to the ones on the QVL, and bingo it worked.

Overall Review: Would buy again if I get another motherboard with only 2 RAM slots.

Dead after 5 months

Corsair Force MP600 M.2 2280 500GB PCI-Express Gen 4.0 x4 NVMe 3D TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-F500GBMP600
Corsair Force MP600 M.2 2280 500GB PCI-Express Gen 4.0 x4 NVMe 3D TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-F500GBMP600

Pros: No real pros, Samsungs are both faster and more reliable. "Looks cool"

Cons: Short life

Overall Review: After working fine for 5 months, I woke up to a dead NVMe today. Only having written 1.6TB in the five months I had it. I knew I should have bought Samsung. This was an affordable PCIE Gen4 drive and I wanted to utilize that performance, but failed without any warning.

TX series and up are the best

CORSAIR TX-M Series TX750M CP-9020131-NA 750 W ATX12V v2.4 / EPS 2.92 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Semi-Modular Active PFC Power Supply
CORSAIR TX-M Series TX750M CP-9020131-NA 750 W ATX12V v2.4 / EPS 2.92 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Semi-Modular Active PFC Power Supply

Pros: * Works with Ryzen 5900X and RTX 3060 * resolves WHEA logging errors

Overall Review: I've had a RYZEN 5900X in this machine since the summer, constantly having random reboots both under stress and idle. Changed motherboards from a B450M to a B550M and finally to an X570. I thought the VRMs on the X570 would resolve it, but it still continued. In a last ditch effort after AMD gave me grief about an RMA, I bought this TX750M hoping that the higher end Corsair would help, and BOOM it's completely fixed. Can enable PBO, CPB, all the goodies and this machine hasn't gone down in weeks. In retrospect it would probably work with the previous motherboards too, but I'm not touching it any more.

12/16/2021