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Joseph P.

Joseph P.

Joined on 07/01/04

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Most Favorable Review

Great board!

ASUS 970 PRO GAMING/AURA AM3+ AMD 970 USB 3.1 ATX AMD Motherboard
ASUS 970 PRO GAMING/AURA AM3+ AMD 970 USB 3.1 ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Everything! Works great, expandability is there, reliable, solid board.

Cons: None, works flawless, does everything and more. It's ASUS

Overall Review: Built my daughter a rig around this board I coupled an AMD 8350, 16gb of Corsair Vengence, a Samsung 500 Evo, 1TB WD Black, Samsung DVD-RW, in a CM 400 window paneled case. I had a corsair 850 PSU and I gave her one of my GTX 66's I had in SLI in my old rig. Waiting for 1080's to arrive so I can upgrade to one and I can SLI the 2 660's in my daughters rig. She is overjoyed with the outcome, can do college work, gaming, and streaming...which is what she wanted. Loves the RGB as well. It's a solid board, ASUS and I highly recommend!

Most Critical Review

Pros and cons

CORSAIR RM750e Fully Modular Low-Noise ATX Power Supply - ATX 3.0 & PCIe 5.0 Compliant - 105°C-Rated Capacitors - 80 PLUS Gold  Efficiency - Modern Standby Support
CORSAIR RM750e Fully Modular Low-Noise ATX Power Supply - ATX 3.0 & PCIe 5.0 Compliant - 105°C-Rated Capacitors - 80 PLUS Gold Efficiency - Modern Standby Support

Pros: Smaller, great for tight builds. Works great, having no issues with pwr.

Cons: The fan! Idleing the fan wont run until it reaches a certain temp then it kicks on and boy can you hear it. It clicks, its noisey and although it is a quality unti that has a major use in the market for those in need of smaller form factor units, this perticular unit I have I personally do not like. It is the first psu that I've ever owned with this issue. Maybe its normal? Thinking of returning or replacing with an 850RM

Overall Review: Corsair is quality, I exclusively use their products on all my builds, this unit is awesome for those working in a tight space. My fan noise is unacceptable in my unit however. If you game with headphones or sound up you wont notice iut but idle you can clearly hear it and after 3 days running it it is begginning to annoy me. I will retrurn to add a video demonstrating the whine or mine actually ticks. It's a ticking noise when fan turns on.

Excellent ram

CORSAIR DOMINATOR 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X4096-8500C5DF
CORSAIR DOMINATOR 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X4096-8500C5DF

Pros: PRICE! I now have 8 gigs and this ram is the best.

Cons: none

Overall Review: Dont hesistate to buy this ram its quality through and through.

12/17/2008

Quality

Fantom Drives GreenDrive 1TB USB 2.0 / eSATA 3.5" GreenDrive External Hard Drive GD1000EU
Fantom Drives GreenDrive 1TB USB 2.0 / eSATA 3.5" GreenDrive External Hard Drive GD1000EU

Pros: Excellent drive!

Cons: none

Overall Review: Quality WD drive inside. Cable fit perfectly and I now have security and wont lose anymore data from drive failure.

12/17/2008

Works but...

Black 6 Channel Multi Fan Controller
Black 6 Channel Multi Fan Controller

Pros: Color matches my case. Controls the speed of my fans but had to purchase seperate 3 pin to 4 pin adapters so do your homework. I did not, my fault. It does what its suppose to do but I think Zalman can tweek this a bit and do better. Learn from the reviews and get quality control and design team on it right away.

Cons: 1st one the wires came disconnected from the unit with very little force. None of the lights worked at all. RMAed to a new one, that unit only the forst 3 LEDs worked, the remaining 3 will not no matter what I do. Now today after 6 months of ownership the 2nd LED went out.

Overall Review: I'm disappointed because Zalman is known for better quality products. Will I but Zalman again, of course...just not a fan controller.I'd try a different unit and a different company product but reading all the reviews seems theres really not 1 rock solid fan controller out there without flaws or poor quality reliability.