Joined on 10/02/08
Beautiful case with minors issues.
Pros: - Impressive quality for the price - Very spacious - Strong construction - Extremely well ventilated - Very versatile in fans/radiators options - Perforated PS shroud - Vertical video card mount - Reusable and perforated Pci covers - Very clean glass panel mounting
Cons: - The front filter has a tendency to rest on the fans. - Case slightly crooked. - Plastic front grill holders durability - Only 2 SSD frames
Overall Review: It is surely a beautiful case with lovely color matching choices. Very well ventilated. A few minor issues I had. My case does not sit squarely on its legs. No big deal. The front filter mesh sit on the fans. The plastic frame is not strong enough to stretch the grill. It should have cross members to solve that. Corsair was eager to ship me a replacement. I'll see how is goes but I found a simple solution. Just get a cloth hanger (preferably white) and cut a straight length to place in the middle of the frame to strength it. Bingo. I found that there is no HDD activity LED. I had one laying around and made one. I wish the case had metal front grill holders as plastic has a tendency to break over time. I think that Corsair should supply more then two SSD holders but luckily, the two HDD sliding cages also support SSD as well, assuming you have the screws. All in all, it is close to perfection. I don't regret buying it.
Cheap 850 w. PSU
Pros: - relatively high power - quality is about to what you pay for - PS is surprisingly small for its rating - low price
Cons: - cables seems too thin for the announced 70 amps load - fan turning too fast even with low load - does not project confident for a new PC build. - no instruction, only a small piece fo paper
Overall Review: While the price is attractive for a 850 watts, the PS doesn't inspire confidence for that rating. The cables are so thin, not breaded and all individually separated. It may work but I prefer a more well known brand. P.S. the unit box came with a big bump in one of its corner but it didn't affect operation. This should have been replaced before shipping.
Quality memory stick
Pros: - Great speed and tight timings - Nice design and color - Life time warranty
Overall Review: This a relatively high speed DDR4. The timings specified (XMP) work perfectly on my MSI B550. CR is 1T for the pair at that speed. Quality ram for sure. Cost a premium from the CAS 18 version but every performance increase is worth in my book . The stick design is nice with high reflective black color. Don't care about RGB.
Excellent product
Pros: High quality fan. Works silently and and variable speed. A steal on special. Get them while they last.
Overall Review: Great quality fans. Perfect.
Great looking ram but not up to specs claimed
Pros: - great look - relatively good price - nice RGB effect
Cons: - will not run at rated speed (3600) - difficult to stabilized
Overall Review: Great looking ram. Good quality, I couldn't get to run at their rated speed 3600 on my B450 recent board. The most reached is one of the slower xmp setting, 3300. It became unreliable after that. You pay extra for the speed so you should get it with no fuss. Btw Imo RGB on ram is ludicrous and shouldn't be a priority over pricing.
An other fine MSI board
Pros: - MSI quality - good price - easy to setup if previously using MSI
Cons: - a bit slow to boot - AM4 but still capable for its age. - Linux boot loader gone ( dual boot )
Overall Review: This replace an MSI B450 motherboard. Some USB 3 ports a the back stop working after 4 years. Time to update, I stay with AM4 because of the cost of replacing everything. AM4 is still quite capable and well debugged. This B550 bring Pci 4 to the table. Not much in graphic performance increase but double transfer rates then Pci 3 (B450) for Nvme Pci 4 capable devices. My system was dual boot with Linux/Windows 11. The system couldn't find any Linux loader after installation so I had to reinstate it. I little bit of works to update drivers in window but a "nothing to do" in Linux as usual. Very satisfied for now.