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robert d.

robert d.

Joined on 10/24/01

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Most Favorable Review

Needs Bios Updates

ASUS M4A79XTD EVO AM3 AMD 790X ATX AMD Motherboard
ASUS M4A79XTD EVO AM3 AMD 790X ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Great AM3 card after the latest BIOS. Great price.

Cons: Waited several months for Kingston 64G solid state HD support. SSHD always worked but receives a disconcerting message on boot "HD not detected" even though it was connected to SATA1 and non-boot 1TBHD on SATA2.

Overall Review: Finally running stable but I suspect a lot of that was the HIS Radion HD5770 ATI drivers with frequent crashes in Borderlands - fun game. I used all latest BIO/drivers when built 4 months ago. Last week all of a sudden board repeatedly rebooted before going to windows so I updated BIOS and ATI drivers and running stable since. BIOS update said it supported my Kingston 64GB SSHD which is fast. Can virus check full HD including additional 50GB on other HD in about one minute. This board unlocked AMD X3 to 4 processors with no problems. Experienced other occasional problems like no sound after startup which is fixed by rebooting. I expected more from my first ASUS board but it is currently working great after these occasional issues. Hopefully the BIOS updates will keep it all stable from here. BIOS update from USB stick was super easy. Overall I would recommend this board.

Most Critical Review

DOA - still waiting 9 weeks for RMA from WD/SANDISK to send a working one

WD_BLACK 2TB SN850X NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive - Gen4 PCIe, M.2 2280, Up to 7,300 MB/s - WDS200T2X0E
WD_BLACK 2TB SN850X NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive - Gen4 PCIe, M.2 2280, Up to 7,300 MB/s - WDS200T2X0E

Pros: Still appreciate New Egg.

Cons: Expected WD Black to be reliable but mine was dead on arrival. RMAed and returned to WesternDigital/San Disk which they received over 9 weeks ago and no replacement yet. I should have returned it to New Egg but I fiddled around trying it on other machines which took too long. I found other people saying online they had problems with WD Black too. They confirmed they received the RMA and all they said was they had a inventory problem causing the replacement delay. Their RMA documentation said it would take up to 5 weeks to replace. This really sucks for what I thought was a premium brand.

Overall Review: Would not recommend WD after this experience.

almost worked - time waster

Lightning to HDMI Cable to HDMI Cord HDTV 1080P Mirror on Home Theater/Projector/TV, Suitable for iPhone X 8 7 6 5 Series, for iPhone iPad iPad Air /Mini /Pro, iPod Touch (Red)
Lightning to HDMI Cable to HDMI Cord HDTV 1080P Mirror on Home Theater/Projector/TV, Suitable for iPhone X 8 7 6 5 Series, for iPhone iPad iPad Air /Mini /Pro, iPod Touch (Red)

Pros: mirrors screen for a couple minutes sometimes

Cons: cannot hold mirror for long if at all. no instructions even online. must download the drong cast app and update for the model they sent but my model did not match any of the options so used the closest model #.

Overall Review: mine was a bust on 2 vizio tvs - one was a p65 2019 and other a D32 2017 - almost worked on the older one and nothing on the newer.