Joined on 12/15/04
Specs accurate
Pros: Highest capacity mechanical 2.5" drive I could find with a decent price point and low power draw. Quiet.
Cons: Drive is clearly marked as 15mm tall; I knew this, but you need to know this if you plan on installing inside of any chassis or tray.
Overall Review: Great for small spaces and large capacity, low poser draw, quiet storage. Not going to win any races, but does exactly the job I needed it for: small footprint in M-ITX chassis, low power draw, low noise, plenty of space. Price point seems slightly artificially high (could probably sell for $30 less and move many more). I am guessing this drive marks the end of an era.
Works, but bright
Pros: Works, solidly built, was priced well on sale. Small form factor but not too tight that it is difficult to insert or remove from vehicle socket = right size.
Cons: VERY bright LED (white) that shines into USB socket and from front when powered. Yes, I know it is on, you don't need to blind me whilst driving at night.
Overall Review: Put red nail polish on the LED, it helps a lot. Note: no cable included.
Product great, shipping was meh
Pros: Needed -exactly- 27.5mm radiator clearance for a SFF build and this all copper rad fits the bill. Packaging was very good - only 1-2 bent fins overall. I think the finish is better than I expected too.
Cons: Shipping was all over the place weird: said it would be early, then said it would be delayed, then sat in Ohio for awhile, then got a delivery date, then showed up the day before it said it would (but still late somehow)? I understand that shipping is not on Bitspower, but NewEgg needs to figure out logistics perhaps?
Overall Review: Haven't actually leak tested yet, so it's possible there is an issue, but I'll update the review if there is a quality issue.
Works perfectly in Framework AMD laptop
Pros: Swapped my old i5 DDR4 mainboard for the new AM5 DDR5 and popped this RAM in. Auto-detected correct speed and has passed all testing- runs like a champ.
Cons: Maybe the only concern would be the packaging is minimal and potentially prone to damage in shipping. Mine was ok, but I'm shocked it arrived unharmed.
Overall Review: In a rare case of getting what you pay for, I'm pleasantly surprised but content with this purchase.
First back-connect experience, pretty good, minor issues
Pros: Happy with the board itself for the most part. It's mostly clean and performance is just as expected. Been using MSI for 20+ years, they still work as advertised. Had a relatively recent BIOS right out of the box and only had one newer revision which installed with no issue. Applied XMP profile and runs cool / stable.
Cons: 3 things: 1) the UEFI is pretty bad: confusing, poorly laid out and ugly. 2) MSI Center is terrible- I cannot express hoe frustrating it is to install this software and how bloated it is, only to control lighting you need to download about a gigabyte... why?. It appears to be engineered to be difficult as possible to install and use and just barely work. 3) Back Connect just moves the mess of wires to the rear, so expect a rat's nest of cabling elsewhere in your case without a lot of work. People have been stuffing cables in the rear for years and back-connect does nothing for clean cable management, it merely moves the problem out of sight (not sure if this is an actual Con for everyone) because it uses three edges of the board. This could be optimized but I do understand that's going to require some additional engineering to revise.
Overall Review: If you have a CPU cooler with a cable AND a GPU that requires additional power, you'll still see those cables. This feels like a half-step towards truly no-visible-cabling (but an important one); the board performs well and does look very clean overall. I modified a case (TT 100 Snow) to make the back-connect work, and I'm happy with it overall, but MSI really needs to overhaul the UEFI layout / user experience and absolutely HAS to address MSI connect fighting every attempt to make it work - short version is that you MUST use the MS store version if you are on Win11 and their website does not say this that I could find.
Good Card, but specs wrong!
Pros: Cools very well and not too loud. Using in the Louqe Raw S1 ITX tower case with a 7800X3D and this thing cranks out some high quality frames. Upgraded from an A770 and it's a huge jump. Playing Talos Principle II right now and it's jaw-droppingly pretty.
Cons: Both NewEgg and Zotax say this is a 2.5 slot card. This is NOT the case. It is a 2.925 slot card. That's an 8.5mm difference and for those of you with a SFF case, this could be the difference between fitting and not. It was TOO WIDE to fit in a Fractal Terra with the CPU cooler I already had purchased (IS-55 with a Chromax.Black 120x25mm fan). I pre-planned everything precisely and even with the 'extra 5mm' that Fractal gives you and doesn't tell you about, I would have needed the 15mm slim fan and I just didn't like it for the CPU (-10mV curve on all cores).
Overall Review: Performance-wise, this is a very good card. Of course it could be cheaper, but it absolutely cranks frames and doesn't ask any questions- it just works. Bear in mind that the actual size is larger than specified and you should be fine.