Joined on 12/08/06
High End MB With a Mid Range Price

Pros: After having this MB for some time now and replacing the stock CPU fan that came with my I5 4670k to a Cooler Master Hyper Evo. I am LOVING Haswell and if you check out some of the top OC websites you can get this CPU running at 4.4Ghz with temp's at around 65C under load. This MB does indeed allow you to OC with ease and is packed with features you would find on a MB that cost 2x as much. So if you're in the market for an upgrade. You can't go wrong with this MB. I'm not one to upgrade every time a new socket come's out, but Haswell is one great CPU and the haswell refresh will be coming out at the end of this year. So you are very well future proofing yourself if you NEED / Really Want to upgrade to the 1150 socket. It will be around for a while. On top of all that if you buy this MB you will be set for year's to come due to no video card's being able to bottleneck the i5, in fact video card's are now the bottleneck and will be for some time.
Cons: None
Overall Review: This MB will be all you need for year's to come. If you want to upgrade to something that will last. This MB is for you. PS, This is by far the best system I have ever built. Using this MB, i5 4670k, Kingston HyperX Blu 8GB RAM, Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB "Boot Drive and two top played games" , XFX XTR 750 Full Mod PSU Gold Plus, Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler, 2TB Seagate HDD, 320GB Seagate HDD, *Old* ATI HD 6950 2GB Video Card that now run's great. All inside my good old Antec 900.
Was great untill it blew up.

Pros: Awesome Bored but...
Cons: I loved this bored but a cooler master PSU blew it up and the RAM on it. It really sucked. I was just looking at old reviews I had put on newegg and now that I am using newegg again I thought I would update my review. This bored was so cool but at the time I couldn't get a RMA because it was because of the cooler Master PSU that I had that was the cause of this MB going out, taking the ram with it.. Dead Cooler Master PSU, Dead awesome MB and dead $200 Ram.. It was about 700 in total dmg. I wish Newegg would see this or CoolerMaster, Asus, or someone in charge and see that I got cheated at the time. I still have the PSU, MB and Ram that died..
Overall Review: I am not trying to make a big thing as no one will see this review since this tech is long gone.. I just went and looked at the stuff I had working great and seen these reviews now that im using newegg again and kinda wish something could be done. I wish I would have tried to keep calling back to get the right person or something. But after 3 calls and emails I gave up. Now that I don't have the money I used to, it just makes me sad that nothing was done about this.
After finding 3+ dead pixels I am not happy!

Pros: The price is ok..
Cons: I have found 3+ dead/stuck pixels in the first 2 days of use.. So I am not happy with this monitor at all. At first when I started it up it was amazing but once I started doing Photo Editing I noticed one purple pixel, then another.. Then a hour after that another one! I thought these Panels where inspected before being sent out.
Overall Review: If you have the extra money then go with something else. I am now depressed that I have to deal with returning this monitor. My grandson is also very sad because he was going to get my old monitor.
Still unbeatable in every single way!

Pros: Now that I have owned this card for almost half a year. I will have to declare that it is the best of the best. I had done a good two month's of reading reviews, looking at benchmarks watching reviews and comparing the components used in this Gigabyte 290 OC Edition. That was after I had made sure AMD had the superior GPU. You want to build on a good foundation and that's what Gigabyte has done. With there Ultra Durable VGA and the high end 8 digital power phase along with two phases for the memory alone. High end is not about pretty lights on a GPU or glowing fans. Gigabyte knows this and didn't waste money putting lights and unneeded junk on there GPU. Instead Gigabyte made a true two slot 450 watt cooling system. And it works great. Wind Force 3 is amazingly silent yet my GPU never hits above 72c and that's the hottest I can get it. When playing Battlefield 4 64 man and at 1080p using DX11 my fps is a steady 87fps I can get more with mantle but I have no need to use it yet.
Cons: None.
Overall Review: My system specs, (for reference) Gigabyte Z87X-D3H-CF 8GB Kingston HyperX Blu Ram i5 4670k at 4Ghz (Summer OC normal is 4.4Ghz) Cooler Master Hyper Evo 212 Kingston HyperX 3k 120GB SSD (OS/MMO that I'm playing at the time) Western Digital Black 1TB HDD (Games/Files/Ect) Gigabyte R9 290 OC Edition XFX XTR 750 Fully Modular PSU Antec 900 (front fans medium/top fan low/rear fan medium/side fan slot just has a dust filter) About 6 months ago I upgraded from a core 2 quad 4gb ddr2 and XFX AMD HD 6950 2GB I bought the GPU a month later and I'm happy I did. The 290 is one hell of a GPU.
Great Cooling System!

Pros: The Best Cooling system you can find on any GPU. Run's cool and you can't hear it even under load.
Cons: None
Overall Review: I have the R9 290 OC Edition and it is great. This card does have some extra stream processors that will really make a difference at very high res.
Amazing Performance from a HDD

Pros: The WD Black series HDD's are in a class of there own as far as mechanical HDD's go. I do use a SSD for my OS and a couple of my top played game's. I now installed a few game's on this HDD and it is amazing to say the least, I have used the WD Raptor (Back when it first was released, I got a 37GB Raptor) and this HDD is faster and not nearly as loud and it stay's nice and cool under load. I know HDD's have come a long way since 2003 but I didn't know how much. From the testing I have done and the game's I have played, along with a quick video edit to see how this HDD would handle it has done nothing but amaze me. None or very low sound from the HDD as with my Antec 900, I don't notice anything that would be louder then the case fan's and they are set to low besides the rear case fan. I use a Cooler Master HyperX Evo CPU cooler and the fan on that isn't even noticeable. I guess I will post my system spec's ... ... ... |-i5 4670k / CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Evo |-Gigabyte Z87X-D3H MotherBoard F8 Bios |-Kingston HyperX Blu 8GB |-Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB OS \ Ect. |-1TB WD Black HDD \ Game's, Ect. |-XFX ATI HD 6950 2GB (280X soon) |-XFX XTR 750 Full Mod 80 Plus Gold (Beast I've Used) |-Antec 900
Cons: None I have yet to find.
Overall Review: I was running a very old Seagate 320GB and 500GB HDD's and Window's 7 would take a while to shut down sometimes. It is now instant just like startup. I do use a Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB SSD for my OS and a few top played game's. But I will be moving all of my game's to the WD Black HDD. I can say without a doubt that it is 3-5x faster then my old HDD's from 2003 and 2007. I now run just my Kingston HyperX 3K (OS) and Western Digital Black 1TB HDD in my PC along with a external backup drive (Seagate Backup Plus 2TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive STDT2000100) and when I was running my old WD Raptor from 2003 along with a 320GB Seagate Barracuda from 2007 and 500GB Samsung HDD from 2005 in my PC it was just not good Imho only because none of them were Sata 3 6GBPS and they where all slow besides the 37GB WD Raptor but it ran much hotter and was pretty loud compared to running one SSD and one WD Black 1TB HDD. So my Case, being a heavy Antec 900 and a headache to install, uninstall HDD's due to the layout. I figured I should just stick with one nice little SSD and one HDD and like I said, I did my research and found that the new WD Black HDD's are the best for Mid/High end PC's so of course me not wanting to every have to add another HDD due to my case. I think I made the right choice. I will update this review if the WD Black happens to die on me as some review's here stated they only lasted a few day's and other's came DOA. I'm Happy it didn't come DOA for sure and since running WD diagnostics, this HDD passed with flying color's. So I doubt I will have any issue's with it. (Knock on Wood) I know I am righting a long review here but I'm exited about this HDD as it surprised me heavily, that it is so fast and not really any audibull noise from it that I can hear over my case fan's. File transfers are very fast, a few seconds for 8GB's of x264 HD video file's from my external USB 3.0 to the WD Black 1TB internal HDD. I guess one of the last thing's would be is this HDD is noticeably lighter compared to my older HDD's of any size. All I need now is the Gigabyte AMD 280X it's on my wishlist and if there are any gamer's out there not living day to day and paying for school with a good amount of money that would like to help me out. I would be thankful forever :D lol, I'm not that lucky though.