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Peter S.

Peter S.

Joined on 08/02/16

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Most Favorable Review

Does what it says on the tin

ASUS ROG STRIX B460-I GAMING LGA 1200 Intel B460 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard
ASUS ROG STRIX B460-I GAMING LGA 1200 Intel B460 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Straightforward solid motherboard. Lots of connectivity, well-places fan headers, great rear I/O

Cons: You don’t plug fans straight into the motherboard. It comes with little extensions for the motherboard header that then plug into your 3/4 pin fan. It’s just a little confusing.

Overall Review: This does the job I need to it do quite well. I use it for a small work PC so no huge gaming tasks or anything, but I want a solid platform and that’s what this does. I’m not sure whether this is a case problem or a motherboard problem yet, but I haven’t been able to get my from USB-C port to work. I’m still troubleshooting but I thought I’d mention it in case others have a similar issue.

These are the standard

SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2 2280 500GB PCIe Gen 3.0 x4, NVMe 1.3 V-NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-V7S500B/AM
SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2 2280 500GB PCIe Gen 3.0 x4, NVMe 1.3 V-NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-V7S500B/AM

Pros: I have these as the boot drives in two PCs. They’re stable, they’re fast, they’re reasonably prices.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: Until you really need PCI-E 4, which almost nobody does right now, these are the best nvme drives out there. I swear by Samsung storage.

Does the job

Cooler Master MasterAir G100M RGB Top Down Low Profile Mini ITX CPU Air Cooler, Copper Heat Column Base, Aluminum Fins, 92mm RGB Ring Fan, RGB Lighting for AMD Ryzen/Intel LGA1200/1151
Cooler Master MasterAir G100M RGB Top Down Low Profile Mini ITX CPU Air Cooler, Copper Heat Column Base, Aluminum Fins, 92mm RGB Ring Fan, RGB Lighting for AMD Ryzen/Intel LGA1200/1151

Pros: The cools is good-looking, and does the job in my little case without much ventilation. Installation is fairly easy as long as you assemble everything in order. This is on an i3 10100.

Cons: The instructions are not awesome, but if you sit down and really look at them while setting everything up, they’ll do the job.

Overall Review: I’m not working it too hard, but it’s doing the work and was easy to install. I’m also not afraid of pulling it off and reinstalling later if I need to.