Joined on 11/17/10
Great performance
Pros: Great for a first time water cooling enthusiast who wants to learn and gain confidence in building a custom water loop. I changed to petg but the pump, radiator, fans, and fittings with coolant was on sale for 249.99 which was an astounding deal especially with the pump being a d5. D5 pump. High quality Radiator works great and was of great quality.
Cons: None. The water block was sorta plain, but it still looks clean inside my build.
Overall Review: I recommend this to anyone wanting to learn how to set up a custom water loop.
Blah. Heat problems
Pros: Cheaper then the other 6870's. Looks cool.
Cons: Heat. If your into overclocking this card just will not do. It runs furmark at 89C with 75% fan speed. If I place the fan speed at 100. I fear that my desktop might try to fly off.
Overall Review: Great graphics performance. If only it had a better heatsink/fan. I would definitely recommend spending the extra 20-40 dollars on one with a better cooler. That way you can overclock later on.
Disregard my first review. Back light bleed for days all of a sudden
Pros: Cheap, 144hz, 3 year warranty, acer
Cons: Monitor looked great at first but shortly developed backlight bleed after a few days of use. I wish I could post pictures to show you guys but newegg doesn't allow, so make sure to thoroughly check for issues with the display. Too be honest, I was so happy to only spend $200 on the display at first since it was from a well established brand that had 3x the warranty compared with samsung and other manufactures, but now I am disappointed with the amount of backlight bleed this display has developed and the picture seems washed out in the areas with the back light bleed. I tried adjusting settings to correct the issue but all I ended up with was an uneven image that was either too dark when the backlight was reduced to near zero but still the bleeding continued and the image lacked contrast when similar colors would be close to each other which I assume was from the bleeding. Light Grays and colors similar to white had contrasting issues. There also isn't an option available to adjust blacks which was a bit upsetting,so unfortunately these are deal breakers and I'm going to need to return this display. It's still a good deal if you don't mind backlight bleed, but I'm striving for perfection, so I'm going a different route with my fingers crossed.
Overall Review: Also the stand isn't aesthetically pleasing, well, atleast in my opinion, and on another note the stand also isn't very forgiving. If you wobble the table, it will fall, and it will be a disaster if it falls hard enough on the display. This would be a great monitor if there wasn't any backlight bleed, and if you don't plan on using the standard stand that arrived with the display. The lack of blacks adjustment is minor, but correct bleed for me is a deal breaker especially when combined with color contrast issues.
Worked for a few months and then it started to artifact and crash my pc or refuse to boot.
Pros: Looks great, but its a pain in the a**to replace if it fails especially if running petg without a proper drain valve.. Mine failed which I suspected to be the video memory. The card would occasionally show artifacts on browsers or in games that would require a restart. Progressively the card got worse and would sometimes not post until a few attempts. On other occasions it would boot with fuzzy text that would require a restart. Then, the graphics card would cut off the top and bottom of the display with dots, lines of red, blue and of green. I'm not sure why it failed since it ran at 45c which is quite cool for a graphics card but I guess it failed anyways. I'm still waiting on my Rma which cost about 25 dollars to ship due to insurance since I refuse to send a $900 card through the mail without insurance. And, apparently this card is not readily in stock and Msi only replaces your new card with refurbished ones so I'm going on almost 2 weeks without a card due to thanksgiving and scarce availability. They also wouldn't express RMa with my credit card since refurbished units are out of stock, so if you get this card hope it doesn't fail after your 30 day return policy or you will be left without a working card. I'm sure they will fix it but the time it takes is anyone's guess..
Cons: Hard to remove if the video card fails
Overall Review: Would only recommend to someone who doesn't mind a lot of work
Great price
Pros: Cheap. Supports 1600mhz ram. Great budget Pc.
Cons: I did not read enough. The 2nd Pci-e slot runs through software rather then hardware its really an x4 slot not an x16. Poor performance during crossfire.
Overall Review: Cheap Vrms 5+1 phase. No crazy o/c for me. Super disappointed with the 2nd pci-e slot. Can't complain though 60$
Wow, I am Impressed.
Pros: Fast, Easy Overclock. Cheap. Managed to get it to 3.75 on stock cooler/fan with 68.5C OCCT max load 100%. I definitely will be getting a different cooler.
Cons: I can't manage to un-lock the chip. Possibly my motherboard.
Overall Review: Great chip. I would have given 5 stars but I couldn't un-lock. Bios wouldn't post.