Joined on 09/03/09
Great buy when price was reduced
Pros: Fast card that looks good
Cons: Needs to be tinkered with to run cool and quiet
Overall Review: Out of the box it was fast but too warm. I adjusted the voltage (use wattman as the Asrock utility is too buggy) to 1112. Gaming at 1080p at max setting the card ran max 1949 mhz clock and the max gpu temp was 62 and max junction temp was 76. Max power draw was 178 watts. I did adjust the fan curve a bit. At idle the fans are running at 26% (937rpm) and is very quiet. My max setting is at 81% (2837rpm). The card is louder of course but system fans and game volume masks it. I will be playing around with this some more. Overall it is a great card that is a run a with a bit too much voltage. Under volt some and it cools off and still runs quite fast. It also looks great especially in my x470 Taichi mb. Got tyhe card when it was on sale and got the free router thrown in. Made it a great deal at the time. Even without the router it is hard to pass up when on sale or you have a Taichi mb. Update. Card works great while gaming. Audio driver over HDMI has periodic dropouts. Tried installing drivers multiple times. Used DDU doing clean boot. Got a support ticket from AMD and tried their install sequence 3 different times. They finally said to call Asrock. I finally booted into safe mode, deleted every device (and the drivers) from every single item that had anything to do with audio including the bus. When I rebooted windows installed 4 drives and everything works. The amd audio driver is no longer listed in devices but no more audio drops. Still a great card but be prepared for driver issues.
Good speed, great capacity, and Newegged priced.
Pros: 2tb capacity with good speed. Use it for dual booting win 7 and 10. Good price from Newegg as well. Now for the one con.
Cons: No free 2 day shipping but worth waiting a few extra days for a better price
Overall Review: Will be buying a few more of these. Some of the best value for capacity and speed for the cost.
Great board with small failings.
Pros: Great board. Runs cool for me even with 3900x. I do have a noctua D15 on the cpu and there is a case fan that blows directly towards the SB but the gpu does cover the sb. With that my idle temp still stays below 60 and during gaming the max is around 75. Plenty of fan headers, usb, data even a usb c header on the mb.
Cons: Now the usb c header is useless for me. My gpu card covers the port and unless I can locate a 90 adapter it is useless. The other complaint is the sb fan noise. At idle (even with it set at the lowest speed) it is to loud. Everything else is silent so that fan is annoying. When gaming and the gpu fan ramps up along with the case fans the sb fan gets drowned out. While the sb fan annoys me at idle it dies not bother my wife, it must be a pitch thing. Knocked off 1 star as it could be better with very little effort. I have not started overclocking yet so can't speak to that.
Nice fan
Pros: Quiet PWM and rated for long life.
Cons: none
Overall Review: Quiet in my application.
Great AGP board
Pros: Best AGP board around. Chance to use left over IDE and AGP parts.
Cons: Memory is a bit slow.
Overall Review: I had s couple of 3850 AGP boards in socket A boards. This was a chance to couple these with X6800 cpu I had. This would be a perfect AGP board it the memory access speed was a bit better and the capacity was increased some. Current setup has 2 IDE optical drives with 1 IDE hard drive. There is I serial drive attached to the IDE channel with and adapter and 1 serial drive as the boot device on serial channel 1. Drive bandwidth is a bit slow but it is old tech after all.
Pros: Cools QX6800 well and fit my micro AXT case.
Cons: Fan is a bit noisier than I had wanted.
Overall Review: I needed a better than stack cooler that would fit a cramped micro atx case. This fits and was cheap enough. The fan is a bit noisier than I wanted even at lowest motherboard speeds. A better fan would work wonders. Must not bother me too much as I bought a second one!