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John A.

John A.

Joined on 02/19/08

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Most Favorable Review

The absolute best RX 6900XT out there

SAPPHIRE Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT 16GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 ATX Video Card 11308-06-20G
SAPPHIRE Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT 16GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 ATX Video Card 11308-06-20G

Pros: Card overclocks like a champ! It handles anything you throw at it, 4k, full settings, etc etc. Runs cool and quiet unless you get really aggressive with fan curve. Easy to install, I like the Software that enables 1 click maximum overclock.

Cons: Wish RGB controller worked with Corsair Icue. Tubes to rad could be longer. I know the Asus card has really long tubes for mega cases. Their website is pretty rough considering what this card cost.

Overall Review: I would recommend this product to anyone wanting to get as close to a 3090 as possible without actually paying over 3k for one. The card is beast mode!

Most Critical Review

Proprietary hookup stinks

anidees AI Tesseract Duo 120mm 3pcs RGB PWM Fan Compatible with ASUS Aura SYNC/MSI Mystic/GIGABYTE Fusion 2.0 MB with 5V 3pins RGB Header, for case Fan, Cooler Fan, with Remote(AI-Tesseract-Duo)
anidees AI Tesseract Duo 120mm 3pcs RGB PWM Fan Compatible with ASUS Aura SYNC/MSI Mystic/GIGABYTE Fusion 2.0 MB with 5V 3pins RGB Header, for case Fan, Cooler Fan, with Remote(AI-Tesseract-Duo)

Pros: -RGB is very colorful -Decent airflow

Cons: -proprietary hook ups. Only can be used with their own controllers.

Overall Review: Not recommended to other folks

12/26/2020

Works well, even with the 4090

LIAN LI STRIMER PLUS 16-8 Addressable RGB VGA power cable PW16-8PV2 ---- Strimer plus 16-8  (1Year Warranty)
LIAN LI STRIMER PLUS 16-8 Addressable RGB VGA power cable PW16-8PV2 ---- Strimer plus 16-8 (1Year Warranty)

Pros: -bright RGB -Easily connects to the new rtx 4090 connector.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Great product.

Full of IO and Tasteful RGB

MSI MEG Z790 ACE LGA 1700 Intel Z790 SATA 6Gb/s DDR5 Extended ATX Motherboard
MSI MEG Z790 ACE LGA 1700 Intel Z790 SATA 6Gb/s DDR5 Extended ATX Motherboard

Pros: -Great IO, has everything you could want including thunderbolt 4! -RGB is tasteful and not way over the top like some boards. -The amount of NVME spots is huge and 1 of them is pcie 5.0 for future proof

Cons: -The magnetic heatsink over the top nvme slot is kinda meh. It's hard to get off and when you do its a pain to get it to sit right again. Just give the screws would have been easier. -should have made all connectors right angle ones like the usb 3.0 front ports.

Overall Review: Great board would recommend to everyone.

Great board in theory but didn't work out of the box

EVGA Z790 DARK K|NGP|N, 121-RL-E799-KR, LGA 1700, Intel Z790, PCIe Gen5, SATA 6Gb/s, 10Gb/s LAN, WiFi6E/BT5.2, USB 3.2 Gen2x2, M.2, EATX, Intel Motherboard
EVGA Z790 DARK K|NGP|N, 121-RL-E799-KR, LGA 1700, Intel Z790, PCIe Gen5, SATA 6Gb/s, 10Gb/s LAN, WiFi6E/BT5.2, USB 3.2 Gen2x2, M.2, EATX, Intel Motherboard

Pros: -Great layout -Easy setup

Cons: -Not a fan of the turned socket with the ram right above. a pain to run aio wires etc. -If you have to flash the bios without a cpu the board is very picky about which usb drives it will read. -RAM was jacked up out of the box.

Overall Review: I've been a long time EVGA fan. Going back to the nforce days. However the fact that this board cost over 700.00 and had a ram issue out of the box was crazy to me. Bios would not show full ram capacity, only 1 stick. If I pulled one stick for the other it wouldn't boot at all. I tried a different set of ram and it did a similar thing. At this point requested Refund RMA and I bought an Asus board instead. Sad day when this is the quality of stuff EVGA is putting out now.

BIG CHUNGUS BEAST

MSI Gaming GeForce RTX 4090 24GB GDDR6X PCI Express 4.0 Video Card RTX 4090 GAMING TRIO 24G
MSI Gaming GeForce RTX 4090 24GB GDDR6X PCI Express 4.0 Video Card RTX 4090 GAMING TRIO 24G

Pros: -Destroys any game thrown at it. I honestly didn't think I would see that much of a difference coming from at 3080ti FTW 3, however this thing is just absolutely beastly. -tasteful RGB, it's not all over the card but merely highlights it unlike a lot of others on the market. -runs cool even under overclock, have yet to see the thing go above 70 degrees C, for a card this size and this powerful that is a testament to the cooling system -The card is sturdy I didn't even need to use the retention bracket as it was level and solid right to the case.

Cons: -The fact that we are paying $1500+ for a graphics card is pretty crazy, this card imo should be know more than $1200. However Nvidia thinks its going to be the next Apple and can just charge what they want. -Size wise this thing is ginormous! It dwarfs even my E-ATX Dark Motherboard which is hard to do.

Overall Review: -I would recommend grabbing this up if its in stock. There's no reason to go to the higher versions unless you want liquid cooling. -I bought a different power adapter that let me plug in all 4 pci-e cables to the card. -Make sure your case can fit the card.