Joined on 06/14/06
a standard
Pros: fans are quiet and push alot of air. having usb ports on the top is a big bonus. assembly was easy and case has enough space for a simple gaming rig.
Cons: scratches easily. to many plugs for your motherboard.
Overall Review: i got a rebate and free shipping. thats all that sold me.
Good deal
Pros: Price vs quality
Cons: My system
Overall Review: I needed the jump from 8gb 3000 to 16gb 3000. I wasn’t expecting the ram to run at 3600 MHz with a 2nd gen ryzen. It default booted to the xmp and ran stable 3600mhz unless I exceed 75% utilization. Through multiple tests I stabilized at 3200mhz, manually bumped the voltage to 1.35v and let my motherboard auto set the timings. Surprising, 16-22-22-22-53. I am satisfied. The RGB is pretty. Ryzen 2600x (stock) Gigabyte AX370 K7 EVGA 980ti XPG S11 1tb m.2
A degree of difference
Pros: in audible when on low and still provides a good temp difference. Very good looking, caught alot of eyes when I first pulled it out at a LAN party. On high it pushes a small amount of air near the palm rest to dry my sweaty hands. Extremly light weight.
Cons: Price is a Premium, but you get what you pay for.
Overall Review: Zalman knows cooling
UFO
Pros: does as required in the 10 or less group. Free USB extension.
Cons: Very light. tipsy. suggest taping or gluing it down if using on a desk.
Overall Review: Would only recommend for a desk enviroment. Blue LEDs light up based on witch plug used. Unique and cool looking hub.
amazing
Pros: went from a single core 4000 to this smoking momma! Ive ran multiple installs and video encoding at the same time and I cant get this thing to hit 100% It also runs really cool even with the stock HSF.
Cons: It may come with thermal paste but buy your self a tube of artic silver 5 and smear it on.
Overall Review: processor face had a few scratches on it but nothing is effected.
worth every penny
Pros: You find yourself obsessed in doing meaning searching for items to pawn and make things from. I mastered FO2 and the trasition of the world to FO3 is flawless. I was able to run this at med settings with my outdated system. There always seemed like a consistant amount of difficulty.
Cons: Replay value is less apealing than i would like, redoing the same missions is not alot of fun. I have had random crashes, sometimes on exiting. Lost a few saves. no online.
Overall Review: My system is about to get junked. amd 4000 MSI K8N neo platnum 2 4x512 pc3200 Saphire x800 GTO...agp baby 2x160WD in raid antec 430w tru power Raidmax smilodon black