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Micah C.

Micah C.

Joined on 01/03/12

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Product Reviews
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Most Favorable Review

NVME

Intel 660p Series M.2 2280 2TB PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 3D2, QLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SSDPEKNW020T8X1
Intel 660p Series M.2 2280 2TB PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 3D2, QLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SSDPEKNW020T8X1

Pros: NVME M.2

Cons: QLC

Overall Review: While this Intel offering is supposed to be slower than other NVME options, this is a game storage drive and I have zero complaints about it. I was glad to have 2TB for the same prices as my NVME Gen 4 1TB (Boot Drive).

Most Critical Review

Dead

ASRock OC Formula Radeon RX 6900 XT 16GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 ATX Graphics Card RX6900XT OCF 16G
ASRock OC Formula Radeon RX 6900 XT 16GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 ATX Graphics Card RX6900XT OCF 16G

Pros: Big and mean card, like it is crazy how huge this bad boy is. It makes my EVGA 1080 FTW2 look like a childs toy pretend card. Respectable framerates on my ultrawide 1440P 144 Hz monitor while it lasted.

Cons: died in just over one month (a week outside of Newegg return period). Paid too much and was forced by Newegg to buy a superfluous motherboard with it because they wanted to extort customers. Oh well, I got tired of waiting...

Overall Review: Haven't really had much of an opportunity to play games since installing this, a few hours a week. I was playing Horizon Zero Dawn and it just crashed. Then the computer wouldn't post (sticking at VGA with some crazy beeps). Replaced this with my old 1080 and it came right up. I've lucked out in the past and have never purchased a bad computer component before, just sucks that the first one that I get is THIS EXPENSIVE! It has shattered my faith in the AsRock company and now am worried that this will be an issue moving forward now that I am past my return policy from Newegg.

Amazing

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - Ryzen 9 5000 Series Vermeer (Zen 3) 12-Core 3.7 GHz Socket AM4 105W None Integrated Graphics Desktop CPU Processor - 100-100000061WOF
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X - Ryzen 9 5000 Series Vermeer (Zen 3) 12-Core 3.7 GHz Socket AM4 105W None Integrated Graphics Desktop CPU Processor - 100-100000061WOF

Pros: Amazing

Cons: Amazing

Overall Review: Amazing. Ok, I upgraded from a 3900X, so only a slight upgrade, but knew I would not be able to rest until I upgraded to the (maybe if no refresh) final generation of AM4. Loving the Zen architecture, but kind of bummed that AMD pushed prices up with this generation. Oh well.

This RAM is awesome

G.SKILL Trident Z Neo (For AMD Ryzen) Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin RGB PC RAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C16D-32GTZNC
G.SKILL Trident Z Neo (For AMD Ryzen) Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin RGB PC RAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C16D-32GTZNC

Pros: 3600 CL 16 Ram RGB

Cons: RGB

Overall Review: Great RAM so far. The RGB effect looks pretty cool. This Neo stuff is designed specifically for Ryzen. I bought this package twice so I have 64GB and it clocks at the specfied speed and timings. Planning to see if I can tighten timings later, but this stuff is so much faster than my old DDR3 in my last system! haha.

Great Power Supply

CORSAIR RM Series RM650 CP-9020194-NA 650 W ATX12V SLI Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Full Modular Power Supply
CORSAIR RM Series RM650 CP-9020194-NA 650 W ATX12V SLI Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Full Modular Power Supply

Pros: Fully Modular 80+ Gold Great price!

Cons: -None really

Overall Review: This power supply is great. I'm sure it will serve me well for many years. I cannot see anything wrong with using this in any build.

Amazing

EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 06G-P4-4995-KR 6GB SC+ GAMING w/ACX 2.0+, Whisper Silent Cooling w/ Free Installed Backplate Graphics Card
EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 06G-P4-4995-KR 6GB SC+ GAMING w/ACX 2.0+, Whisper Silent Cooling w/ Free Installed Backplate Graphics Card

Pros: Super powerful. Between 180-300 fps on Diablo 3 max settings on my 4k monitor. GTA V looks like a dream. Way more quiet than my 2 560ti's I did have in there.

Cons: Still really expensive. Really long! Another 1/2 inch and it wouldn't have fit in my case. At least the power ports are on the side instead of the rear of the card like the 560 ti's were.

Overall Review: Highly recommend this card. Super beastly.