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Kelly W.

Kelly W.

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Most Favorable Review

Great Product

EVGA SuperNOVA 450 GM, 80 Plus Gold 450W, Fully Modular, ECO Mode with DBB Fan, Includes Power ON Self Tester, SFX Form Factor, Power Supply, 123-GM-0450-Y1
EVGA SuperNOVA 450 GM, 80 Plus Gold 450W, Fully Modular, ECO Mode with DBB Fan, Includes Power ON Self Tester, SFX Form Factor, Power Supply, 123-GM-0450-Y1

Pros: This is for all the negative eggs for the cables being too short - IT'S AN SFX PSU! It was designed to fit in a small case with a Mini ITX or similar motherboard. Don't downgrade a product because it functions exactly for its intended use and you can't be bothered to read the description or manual. Tiny PSU fits in the palm of your hand. Stable voltages - no issues thus far.

Cons: One minor con - the fan is a bit noisy under full load, not excessive, but what can you expect from an 92mm cooling fan. ECO mode helps in that the fan is whisper quiet until under a full load.

Overall Review: I would definitely recommend this if you are building a Mini ITX system. If you are building a standard size system get a standard size PSU.

Most Critical Review

2 RMA'ed in 6 months

GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Stable, RAID is fast, lots of options in BIOS. This is a good motherboard while it works.

Cons: Unfortunately I have had two of these fail in a 6 month time period. The only issue I would have other than the failure is both motherboards had static and popping in onboard sound but only in some games.

Overall Review: I'm not new to building PC's I've been doing so for many years. I know others have had good results with this mobo so I gave it a 3 because if it was just my bad luck to recieve 2 defective mobos I would give it a 4 or 5 on features and stability until it failed.

Great GPU for Price

Intel Arc A750 Limited Edition 8GB PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card 21P02J00BA
Intel Arc A750 Limited Edition 8GB PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card 21P02J00BA

Pros: This is a great GPU for the price it competes easily with the RTX 3060. The price for performance makes purchasing it an easy decision. The drivers have matured a long way from the initial release and we've had no issues with gaming. (Ark Survival Evolved, Biomutant, Overwatch 2, Subnautica, No Man's Sky, etc.) This card is fantastic at 1080p gaming but really shines 1440 gaming.

Cons: I'm going to list drivers as a con even though I haven't experienced any issues with the games listed above and the latest driver release - Drivers are still maturing but then again Nvidia and AMD release bug fixes and performance fixes on a regular cycle as well. Intel hasn't slacked in this regard and have released several drivers since initial release that have only made this card shine even brighter as a budget friendly alternative to Green and Red.

Overall Review: I purchased this for my son's gaming PC. He had a He had an RTX 3050 that was developing issues and this was an upgrade for him at a decent price. One of his favorite games is Ark Survival Evolved which the 3050 played at 1080p on medium settings with okay FPS. After upgrading to the Arc A750 and a 2K monitor he plays Ark on epic settings at 2K and he can't quit telling me how much better the new card is.

Great GPU for the Price

Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition 16GB PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card 21P01J00BA
Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition 16GB PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card 21P01J00BA

Pros: This is a great GPU that sits between the RTX 3060 and 3060-Ti performance wise. So far zero issues with modern games, Green Hell, Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, Grounded, Call of Duty Modern Warfare II, Overwatch 2 and Stray. Plays 4k at acceptable FPS but 2k gaming is the sweet spot for most games with high settings. I've read a lot about immature drivers and that is probably true but not so far in my experience. So far no hitches in playing except one hang on World of Warcraft but that was first time run and zero issues after restarting the game since then. With first issue drivers and such good performance so far I'm hopeful that future driver releases will narrow that gap between it and the RTX 3060 Ti. For the sake of comparison on what to expect with system components I've got this paired with a new build: Windows 11 pro on an Asrock Z690m-ITX/ax motherboard, Intel i5 13600k, 16GB Mushkin Enhanced Redline DDR4 4000, Enermax Aquarfusion ADV Water cooler, Li-an Li 750 watt SFX PSU, WD Black SN850 1TB.

Cons: One hang on World of Warcraft that disappeared on subsequent game loads after the initial run. I had to turn V-Sync on with Grounded for slight tearing. Must have a motherboard that supports Resizable BAR. But is that isn't really a con unless you don't have it since all modern video cards see gains with that option turned on in BIOS it's just that the Arc series benefit more from it.

Overall Review: I would definitely recommend this card to anyone with a motherboard that supports Resizable BAR. Without that performance suffers significantly. FPS in modern games with high and ultra settings at 2k to 4k surpass the RTX 3060 and slightly trail the 3060 Ti.

11/16/2022

Evil Weazel

XFX PVT80GTHE4 GeForce 8800GTS 640MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
XFX PVT80GTHE4 GeForce 8800GTS 640MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

Pros: Great Graphics - Screams in DX 9 games. 640 Meg doesn't have anything over 320 meg in DX 9 games, BUT in DX 10 titles extra RAM is going to show its true worth.

Cons: For the price I would hope G Card manufacturers would start to include a game or two. BIG takes 2 slots and slightly noisy under full load.

Overall Review: The person who had issue with Supreme Commander, this is a known issue and has nothing to do with the G Card. It is a limit of 32 bit XP and SC wanting large amounts of RAM. Does not crash on 64 bit XP or 64 bit Vista, but after a short while on XP 32 will crash especially with larger maps Full game and Demo have same problem.

Works Great

Acronis True Image 10 Home
Acronis True Image 10 Home

Pros: Easy to use. Works with all my computers - I only use it for making one to one system images though, haven't tried incremental, etc.

Cons: None

Overall Review: We use it at work for making images to be redeployed on identical systems later, works great for that. If you want to be able to multicast images you need the enterprise version.