Joined on 11/23/21
It's Superflower. What else do you need to know?
Pros: High quality components. lots of functioning failsafe and protection components to avoid critical failures. Very well-built for it's price.
Cons: Superflower's insistence on adding RGB to the ports where 99.9% of users won't see it is kind of weird. could be a deal breaker for some.
Overall Review: 9.5/10. Great Power Supply
Cheap with half it's features not working
Pros: Price Size
Cons: Qflash+ does not work None of the new BIOS revisions work on this board Does not post because of these cons It's been documented that recent BIOS versions (F20+) have not worked on Gigabytes A and H series boards... Months later and this issues still hasn't been fixed.
Overall Review: If this board actually worked on it's latest BIOS it'd be a completely different story but I'll have to fail it with 1 star.
Very high quality GPU with slight design flaw
Pros: High build Quality Good performance Very stable AMDs rendering looks objectively better than Nvidia even if it doesn't give you as many frames
Cons: Vapor chamber design only works well when the GPU is in a normal orientation. This limits how you can set up your system.
Overall Review: Being a vapor chamber design, cooling relies on gravity (instead of traditional convection) and the cold plate to be the lowest point in the loop. So you are limited to your case selection, which for most it'll be fine, but if you want to use a case like The Thermaltake Tower series, you don't want this type of cooler. Vertical mounting will result in dangerously high junction temperatures because the vapor inside the chamber will not "drop" into the cold plate when it gets cooled by the fans.
Came with dead USB port. Unacceptable at this price.
Pros: Lots of room for parts and cable management. Organized screw and accessories box.
Cons: Flimsy Poor quality materials Dead USB ports (very common problem apparently) Some panels are bent and curved. Actually almost every panel has some curvature.
Overall Review: At this price I'd expect an immaculate case with no issues. I have had 4 corsair cases and 3 of them had at least one dead USB port. This one was no exception. This is not bad luck it is poor quality control. I'd return this if it wasn't such a hassle to take everything apart and wait another 2 weeks to have another case delivered.
Could have put that $4,000+ to better use.
Pros: Fast. They chose a good SSD to put in. Boots to login in less than 15 seconds. Games load fast too. Big 4K display with a full keyboard. Nice color saturation and doesn't look washed out like other displays. Feels sturdier than other MSI laptops.
Cons: Heat: Like most MSI laptops, it gets so hot it's actually uncomfortable to touch. Intensive games easily get the CPU over 100°c. Get a cooling pad for this beast. Stability: like almost every DDR5 system I've touched, it comes with stability issues. Couple BSODs the first week or so, and some freezing. Seems to have sorted itself out for the most part now.
Overall Review: Overall a decent laptop. Don't really gain much for going with the highest end parts.