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Mal B.

Mal B.

Joined on 11/23/21

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Most Favorable Review

It's Superflower. What else do you need to know?

Super Flower Leadex III ARGB 850W 80+ Gold, 10 Years Warranty, Addressable LEDs With 5V Motherboard Sync/Analog Controlled, ECO Fanless & Silent Mode, Full Modular Power Supply, SF-850F14RG(WH)
Super Flower Leadex III ARGB 850W 80+ Gold, 10 Years Warranty, Addressable LEDs With 5V Motherboard Sync/Analog Controlled, ECO Fanless & Silent Mode, Full Modular Power Supply, SF-850F14RG(WH)

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

Most Critical Review

Cheap with half it's features not working

GIGABYTE A620I AX AM5 LGA 1718 AMD A620 Mini-ITX Motherboard, DDR5, Single M.2, PCIe 4.0, USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-C, Realtek Wi-Fi 6E, Realtek 2.5GbE, Q-Flash Plus, PCIe EZ-Latch
GIGABYTE A620I AX AM5 LGA 1718 AMD A620 Mini-ITX Motherboard, DDR5, Single M.2, PCIe 4.0, USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-C, Realtek Wi-Fi 6E, Realtek 2.5GbE, Q-Flash Plus, PCIe EZ-Latch

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

ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 Video Card RX7900XTX 24G
ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 Video Card RX7900XTX 24G

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.

CORSAIR 2500X Micro ATX Dual Chamber PC Case –Tempered Glass Front Panels – Fits up to 9x 120mm fans – 3x Radiator Mounting Positions – Highly Customizable
CORSAIR 2500X Micro ATX Dual Chamber PC Case –Tempered Glass Front Panels – Fits up to 9x 120mm fans – 3x Radiator Mounting Positions – Highly Customizable

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.

MSI GS Series - 17.3" 4K / UHD GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU - Intel Core i9-12900H  - 32GB Memory - 1 TB PCIe SSD - Windows 11 Pro 64-bit - Gaming Laptop - 120 Hz (Stealth GS77 12UHS-040 )
MSI GS Series - 17.3" 4K / UHD GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU - Intel Core i9-12900H - 32GB Memory - 1 TB PCIe SSD - Windows 11 Pro 64-bit - Gaming Laptop - 120 Hz (Stealth GS77 12UHS-040 )

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.