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Anatol P.

Anatol P.

Joined on 11/14/05

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Most Favorable Review

Works on certain OSes - not on others

Western Digital WD Green WD30EZRSDTL 3TB 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Western Digital WD Green WD30EZRSDTL 3TB 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: When you get it installed it works. Controller has 2 inputs Controller gets recognized on Vista, Win7, Server 2008.

Cons: Does not work on XP and Server 2003. Drivers for the card do not exist on these OS. Tech Support says there are no such drivers available for download. It seems to require your SATA to be in AHCI mode (documentation says something like that). Without that you may see only 750GB. Default Intel drivers only see 750GB.

Overall Review: Tech Support has no idea which OSes drive should work on and tried to tell me that I need to patch my 2003-64 OS. Ask for Level 2 Tech Support they are better because they talk to the real tech who actually knows something.

Most Critical Review

Not fully debugged

ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VIII GENE LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI USB 3.1 Micro ATX Intel Gaming Motherboard
ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VIII GENE LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI USB 3.1 Micro ATX Intel Gaming Motherboard

Pros: Newest AI suite 3 overclocking app does a magnificent job. 1 button optimization. Latest fan optimization is pretty good now. Still needs minor work. Skylake i5-6600 overclocked to 4.5GHz. Love that it has place to plug in water cooler

Cons: Where do I start? 1) Stuff on CD is very buggy. Do not even attempt installing stuff on CD. Immediately download newest stuff from their website. 2) Fan optimization on Motherboard did not worked right, and I could not even reset lowest fan setting after it... Use AI Suite 3 in windows. 2) I changed setting so that motherboards from USB, however that caused BIOS not to show up at ALL and it was still booting from windows HD. I had to pull motherboard battery to get BIOS to even show "Press F2 or DEL" 3) Ethernet driver has a problem - sometimes. In Windows 10 from time to time you will see "System - NT Kernel" using 30% of CPU. At this point you can't even disable ethernet driver. Windows hangs doing that.

Overall Review: Once they debug drivers it will be a great motherboard.

Having problem overclocking

ASRock H670M-ITX/AX LGA 1700 Intel H670 SATA 6Gb/s DDR4 Mini ITX Motherboard
ASRock H670M-ITX/AX LGA 1700 Intel H670 SATA 6Gb/s DDR4 Mini ITX Motherboard

Pros: - Works with my 12600k. - clock changes as CPU in Windows 11 - has all Win 11 drivers. - MSI C280 water pump can be installed in 3 positions (there is enough space around CPU). Max temp on Intel Extreme Tuning Utility stress test 48C - Fits into nr200 small case

Cons: - Cannot change CPU ratio to more than max CPU officially supports. This means 4900 MHZ will be max for 12600k . Intel Extreme Tuning Utility says "Platform not supported for overclocking." Not sure what is going on. - Ram sticks are 1 mm away from each other

Overall Review: - I expected basic overcloking to work Other than that it works well for me

Compact, works great

ZOTAC GAMING GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6GB GDDR6 192-bit Gaming Graphics Card, Super Compact, ZT-T16620F-10L
ZOTAC GAMING GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6GB GDDR6 192-bit Gaming Graphics Card, Super Compact, ZT-T16620F-10L

Pros: Good upgrade from NVIDIA 1060. (Moved 1060 to another computer)

Cons: No DVI port

Overall Review: Recommended.

11/14/2019

4.5 GHz at 64C with Prime95

Intel Core i5 6th Gen - Core i5-6600K 6M Skylake Quad-Core 3.5 GHz LGA 1151 91W BX80662I56600K Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 530
Intel Core i5 6th Gen - Core i5-6600K 6M Skylake Quad-Core 3.5 GHz LGA 1151 91W BX80662I56600K Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 530

Pros: Overclocked with ASUS Hero VIII to 4.5 GHz. Stable and working fine. Corsair H60 keeps it at 65C max when running prime 95 Max Heat test - this is without running all fans at max.

Cons: None

Work at 3066 but not recognized motherboard

G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4 3000 (PC4 24000) Extreme Performance Memory Model F4-3000C15D-8GRBB
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4 3000 (PC4 24000) Extreme Performance Memory Model F4-3000C15D-8GRBB

Pros: Work great at 3066

Cons: Asus Hero VIII does not recognize them and thinks it is 2033 speed. Had to go to BIOS to force the speed myself. Not fault of the RAM