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Darryl C.

Darryl C.

Joined on 06/16/03

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Most Favorable Review

A little disappointed

MSI Radeon HD 5850 (Cypress Pro) 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card R5850 Twin Frozr II
MSI Radeon HD 5850 (Cypress Pro) 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card R5850 Twin Frozr II

Pros: The cooler is awesome! The card runs nice and cool.

Cons: Can't overclock very well using stock voltage. Can't get the voltage over 1.150. See Other thoughts.

Overall Review: I can only manage to overclock the card to 775/1125 with the stock voltage of 1.090. Raising the voltage to 1.150 nets me an overclock of 840/1175. If I try and raise the voltage over 1.150, my screen goes blank, the fans on the video card go to 100% and I have to hard reset my computer. Now, for a card that MSI says can handle overvoltage of up to 1.35V, something is wrong here.

Most Critical Review

Classified

EVGA 03G-P4-3788-KR G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 780 3GB 384-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Classified w/ EVGA ACX Cooler Video Card
EVGA 03G-P4-3788-KR G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 780 3GB 384-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Classified w/ EVGA ACX Cooler Video Card

Pros: Great core overclocking. Great performance for the money when compared to the Titan.

Cons: Memory overclocking is horrible. EVGA pulled a fast one and started putting Elpida memory on these cards instead of Samsung after the first initial batch of cards. Very disappointing because I bought this card for benchmarking along with gaming. Benchmarks are severely hindered by the crummy ram.

Overall Review: Slightly disappointed in the card because of the memory and the build quality of the ACX cooler. After owning an EVGA Titan, the ACX cooler is junk in comparison. I am such a huge fan of EVGA, but after this memory issue and lackluster cooler on such a high end card , my money will be going somewhere else come upgrade time.

Great card

ASRock Challenger Arc B580 12GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 x8 ATX Graphics Card B580 CL 12GO
ASRock Challenger Arc B580 12GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 x8 ATX Graphics Card B580 CL 12GO

Pros: Price, VRAM and performance.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Great card for 1080P and some 1440P gaming.

Beautiful and clean

Cooler Master MasterBox NR200P White SFF Small Form Factor Mini-ITX Case with Tempered glass or Vented Panel Option, PCI Riser Cable, Triple-slot GPU, Tool-Free and 360 Degree Accessibility
Cooler Master MasterBox NR200P White SFF Small Form Factor Mini-ITX Case with Tempered glass or Vented Panel Option, PCI Riser Cable, Triple-slot GPU, Tool-Free and 360 Degree Accessibility

Pros: This case is so beautiful and clean. So easy to work in and it is modular. The case has a good build quality.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Great case for ITX build. Easily fits Asus Tuf RTX 3080.

10/21/2020

Beast!

ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3080 TUF-RTX3080-O10G-GAMING Video Card
ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3080 TUF-RTX3080-O10G-GAMING Video Card

Pros: This card is a beast! I upgraded from 2070 Super and I literally see the double the performance. I can't believe I actually own this card. Been a long time since I paid this much for a gpu, but I have no regrets. The cooler on this card is great. Even at the highest stress levels, the card remains cool and quiet.

Cons: Not really a con, but be aware the card is huge!

Overall Review: I have this card in an ITX build and it still runs quiet and cool. Specs: CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X Motherboard: Gigabyte B550I GPU: Asus TUF RTX 3080 RAM: 32GB Trident Z Royal Silver SSD: 1TB Sabrent Rocket Q Power Supply: Corsair SF600 CPU Cooling: Wraith Prism Case: CM MasterBox NR200P Operating System: Windows 10 Whole system power consumption under highest load has topped out at 474 Watts.

10/21/2020

Amazing looks and performance

MSI MPG X570 GAMING PRO CARBON WIFI Gaming Motherboard AMD AM4 SATA 6Gb/s M.2 USB 3.2 Gen 2 Wi-Fi 6 HDMI ATX
MSI MPG X570 GAMING PRO CARBON WIFI Gaming Motherboard AMD AM4 SATA 6Gb/s M.2 USB 3.2 Gen 2 Wi-Fi 6 HDMI ATX

Pros: This motherboard is amazing. Great looks, great layout and great performance. I got this board paired with a 3700X and the performance I am getting is outstanding. The board looks amazing in my build and I love all the features.

Cons: Nothing so far.

Overall Review: Great board. Buy it now!