Joined on 05/19/08
Quite/reliable/Fast. What a great card.
Pros: 1. Large and Heavy heat sink and 3 large Fans (No sag even without the support bar ) 2. Easy software installation with no glitches (Afterburner is the best) 3. Ran Quite and cool at a Max 67c at 98 Plus % load for hours 4. Beautiful looking card with brushed metal back plate and RGB accents 5. Thermal pads under back plate (GPU/Memory) 6. Runs at 2 GHz right out of the box (I guess that's normal with GPU boost 4.0?) 7. 10 Stage VRM cooled by the main HSF 8. Stable and Fast.
Cons: - Cost too much (No egg deduction for that)
Overall Review: So far So good. This is an early review but I'm impressed. Played Metro Exodus and Wolfenstein for a few hours with no issues. Ran 1440P with Ray tracing on at a constant 60 FPS. Looked really good at 4K as well but frames did dip below 60 at times. Hardly noticeable and with Ray-tracing on high. Impressive. Haven't tried overclocking it since it already is running faster then the 1845 boost clock. Afterburner does show the correct boost clock but I suppose GPU boost takes it too the MOON. i9 9900kf at stock / Dark Rock pro 4 Gigabyte Aorus Pro Gskill Trident / 32 Gigs at 3200 XPG 1 TB 8200 NVME SSD Seasonic Focus platinum 850 Thermaltake View 71 with 6 140mm fans
Everything seemed fine until the fan Kicked in
Pros: 1. Nice thick cables and lots of connectors. 2. Worked right out of the Box 3 Powered a new i5 4670k build with no shutdowns or blue screens. 4 Sometimes the Fan spun up and Quit making that whining noise. 5. Read a review that this PS can handle a 900W load at 50c.
Cons: 1. Fan Whined and twitched under load - When I loaded up a 3D intensive application the power supply fan would start the twitch and whine. 2 Almost could not fit all the cables into my Antec 900.(medusa)
Overall Review: Current build only had one video card and I planned to upgrade later with another GTX660. Could not stand this high pitched whine. I am sure if I put more load on it is would not whine as much. This is not the point. I am getting a full refund and do not know if I will choose Corsair PW again. On another note I have a Corsair VX550 that has been going 5 years strong and is now powering my new build while buy another PS.
Good Stable PSU with lots of options
Pros: 1200 watt Platium Efficiency ATX 3.0 / Better standard then 3.1 Should be able to handle 2400w of trasint power spikes comes with two 12HVP cables and they use the C pin recepters with the tabs High quality cables / Thick and sleved Mine was made in Taiwan by FSP Dead quiet and super stable Works great with my 3080TI , Can't wait to try it out with a 50 series GPU
Cons: They have different manfactures making the same models Some are made in china and some in Taiwan Packaging was kinda bad. Just cardboard and superthin bubblerap I'm unable to find a review on this Taiwan model with ripple testing, All the tests online seem to be done with the China models. I assume the max is 40 and is your using 50% maybe in the teens or 20s
Overall Review: This seems like a Top grade PSU , Platiumum with high quality Japanese capacitors. 10 year warranty and at a good price.
This was an uncontrollable and unstable nightmare.
Pros: None.............
Cons: 1. The Card Overclocked itself to the highest possible Level right out on the Box???? 2. Card ran at 2Ghz and a 17700+ memory by default? Even when trying to change GPU settings. 3. The Fans didn't spin up at all when at 65C 4. The AORUS ENGINE GPU tool would not allow me to modify Core Frequency or fan levels. The software also caused system instability and black screens? really this was hard on my Screen. 5. Tried other applications to change Frequencies and didn't work. Did allow me to control the Fans 6. After getting the Fans on I tired to game and the experience started out good but performance degraded fast with Low frame rates and system lock ups. 7. At load the fans starting making an annoying howling noise. I made sure to uninstall all previous GPU software before installing the card. Ran DDU and reinstalled drivers a few times. Tried 3 different tools and the card would not comply. Put in 5 hours on my Saturday night trying to fix or troubleshoot this. Should have drank instead.
Great performance with effective cooling for overclocking and good power delivery
Pros: Pros: Turbo boost up to: 1900Mhz out of the box with no modifications (2Ghz easy overclock) Never breaks 65c with default fan profile (Fan noise is never an issue) Provides big clean power with no coil whine GPU aura LED’s are nice. I enjoy the feature that matches the color to the GPU temperature Excellent gaming performance / Overclocked allows me to max everything out in 4K Over a 6228 Score in Time Spy (2Ghz) - http://www.3dmark.com/spy/105630
Cons: Cons: Paid over retail for Hype prices Almost was to big to fit into my Antec 900 case
Overall Review: i5 4670k at 4.2Ghz 16 GB DDR3 Gskill Sniper series Asrock Z87 Extreme3 Motherboard Asus GeForce GTX 1080 Strix (2ghz) Corsair AX750 Gold PS Antec 900 case (2007)
Not Quite What I Expected
Pros: - Dual PCI express gen 3 (SLI and Crossfire) - Easy setup - Easy automatic Bios upgrade option - Support for Haswell - Intel Gigabit LAN - USB 3.0 - Stable board (once you're out of the buggy BIOS) - Good Performance (Sweet benchmarks) - Lots of extra features
Cons: - Bios locks up randomly (showing a multicolored bar at the top.) - Bios will not load at times (Just ignores the start up command with default settings) - Does not display core voltage in Bios - Ram slots are to close to the CPU socket (XIGMATEK Gaia blocked one RAM slot) - Standard sound
Overall Review: I can't decide if I want to RMA this board or not. I know the bios issue was fixed on the Extreme 4 series but not on this one? The board performs well except the BIOS. I sent ASROCK a email requesting support with no response. Upgraded to the latest BIOS (1.70) This did not fix the issue.