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christopher b.

christopher b.

Joined on 05/17/08

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Perfect

SAMSUNG 840 Series 2.5" 120GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-7TD120BW
SAMSUNG 840 Series 2.5" 120GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-7TD120BW

Pros: Installed windows 7 on this drive. My computer boots in 8-10 seconds, does a full restart in 20 seconds.

Cons: Somewhat limited capacity so you still need a storage drive

Does what I need it to

Seagate Desktop HDD ST1000DM003 1TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Seagate Desktop HDD ST1000DM003 1TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: I plugged it in, it was recognized, and it works to store data on. Transfers pretty fast from my SSD.

Cons: Still a 7200 RPM hard drive.

Nice Mobo

GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD3H LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD3H LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Nice Bios, plenty of fan connectors, stable, practical layout, easy to overclock with.

Cons: This motherboard does not have one of those adapters that you can use to easily plug in your front panel functions like your power button and such, but that isn't a big deal.

Great card

GIGABYTE Radeon HD 7950 3GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card GV-R795WF3-3GD
GIGABYTE Radeon HD 7950 3GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card GV-R795WF3-3GD

Pros: This card performs well at the advertised speeds and runs cool while doing so. My card idles at around 35 deg C, and the hottest I can get it is 55 deg C under full load for a half hour. The cooler on it is fantastic.

Cons: This card is very heavy, so even when it is locked into the PCI slot, it still moves around a little bit. This will make me nervous when transporting my PC. Also, if you turn the fan speed on the cooler up to 100%, it is fairly noisy, but there is really no need to have the fan that high since it stays cool with the fan at 33% anyway.

Overall Review: Runs cool, performs great, stable... What more do I want?

Decent ram

G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL8D-8GBXM
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL8D-8GBXM

Pros: This ram looks pretty darn cool. As far as performance goes, both sticks work great and had no errors after 7 hours of prime95 testing.

Cons: I had to go into the bios to change the timings to what they're rated at.

Overall Review: This is good ram for the price.