cover
Joshua B.

Joshua B.

Joined on 06/23/13

0
0

Product Reviews
product reviews
  • 19
Most Favorable Review

Great case, not so *cool* airflow

Phanteks Eclipse P400 PH-EC416PTG_WT Glacier White Tempered Glass/Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Phanteks Eclipse P400 PH-EC416PTG_WT Glacier White Tempered Glass/Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Pros: -Tons of room -PSU shroud -tempered glass is beautiful -Price is very good -support for up a 360 rad at the front with push-pull capable -RGB strip included -finish -dust filters everywhere

Cons: Front airflow is my only complaint. It taxes the fans, they are louder with the front cover on. I have an h100i in the front with push pull set up bringing air into the case, just to pull as much air as possible. It's louder than it needs to be, and could be made better with some larger openings.

Overall Review: This case will show off your RGB light set up very well. The entire spade above the PAU shroud is just one massive open space with no drive bays at all. There is two SSD mounts behind the motherboard and two 3.5 drives in a bay farthest from the PSU under the shroud. You can buy more bays on phanteks website if you need more though.

Most Critical Review

confus

iolo FREE System CheckUp
iolo FREE System CheckUp

Pros: None (?)

Cons: Bloatware

Overall Review: Free check up, yet they're advertising it as a free software, you get a free check up but you have to pay to fix those issues. No smart newegg person uses bloatware so anything slowing down our tanks we would know already

1 year review

AMD Ryzen 5 1st Gen - RYZEN 5 1600 Summit Ridge (Zen) 6-Core 3.2 GHz (3.6 GHz Turbo) Socket AM4 65W YD1600BBAEBOX Desktop Processor
AMD Ryzen 5 1st Gen - RYZEN 5 1600 Summit Ridge (Zen) 6-Core 3.2 GHz (3.6 GHz Turbo) Socket AM4 65W YD1600BBAEBOX Desktop Processor

Pros: -Still works no issues -Overclocking has improved and memory support is much higher with Gen2 BIOS -is obviously still very much relevant -price is even better than when I bought this at $230 -for some reason I feel paired with the RX 580 STRIX I have, the entire system runs buttery smooth

Cons: -overclocking isn’t stable consistently. I think this is a gen 1 issue. I can have an overclock set in, stable, with good temps and one day 3 weeks later while booting it loops until the bios resets. This sos quite annoying, considering I do nothing different to my pc. -I’ve noticed a 5-10% degradation in performance since purchase. This may have been from new bios updates to increase stability, or chipset drivers. Not sure. The performance loss is minimal at this level anyway.

Overall Review: I know infinity Fabric was designed for speed in speed in mind but anything less than 2666 MHz ram and you’re wasting you’re money.

12/30/2018

its EVGA

EVGA SuperNOVA 650 G3, 220-G3-0650-Y1, 80+ GOLD, 650W Fully Modular, EVGA ECO Mode with New HDB Fan, Includes FREE Power On Self Tester, Compact 150mm Size, Power Supply
EVGA SuperNOVA 650 G3, 220-G3-0650-Y1, 80+ GOLD, 650W Fully Modular, EVGA ECO Mode with New HDB Fan, Includes FREE Power On Self Tester, Compact 150mm Size, Power Supply

Pros: The unit is pro.

Cons: cons? its evga. please *eyeroll*

Overall Review: I have owned a dozen EVGA products in 5 years with zero issues. I cant recommend enough.

10/10/2017

This card is powerful.

ASUS ROG GeForce GTX 1070 8GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Graphics Card STRIX-GTX1070-O8G-GAMING
ASUS ROG GeForce GTX 1070 8GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Graphics Card STRIX-GTX1070-O8G-GAMING

Pros: -looks amazing -strix -cool -The OC from the factory is plenty good -only one 8 pin needed to power it -boost clock stays exactly where it it's clocked to. No fluctuation. No tearing. Amazing stability.

Cons: -at 100% speed the fans are the loudest fans I've ever heard. Granted, they should never be there, but, just a thought.

Overall Review: This massive, RGB loaded, power 1070 that is factory OC'd and has the best RGB software I've seen, is by far one of the best looking, quietest, and well packaged GFX cards I've owned. I came from EVGA from this because I bought this bad boy during the mining shortage of 2017 (pls end) and EVGA 1070's were going for $600. How bout nooooo So I bought this one because it looked great, had great reviews and I was not disappointed. Edit. Thought i would add a comment about its size. Mine is in an NZXT Manta. Yes it fits no issue. if you're buying a mini itx case in 2017 that cant support a full size GFX card, find a new case.... just saying

10/10/2017

Great budget board with some software issues for me.

ASUS ROG STRIX B350-F GAMING AM4 AMD B350 USB 3.1 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
ASUS ROG STRIX B350-F GAMING AM4 AMD B350 USB 3.1 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: -Heat management -Well placed header locations -Supports more RAM than i thought it would even more RAM and constant BIOS updates are niceeeee

Cons: -RGB is blocked with any sizable graphics card. but the X370? oh it has RGB on it I/O cover. I see what you did there ASUS. -Does not support core overclocking in the BIOS. Maybe this is an AMD thing? idk. I dont like Ryzen Master. -The last con is the worst. Description below.

Overall Review: AI suite 3 is TRASH. The install never works, ive reinstalled and uninstalled a million times and nothing. said yolo and reinstalled windows since the common errors were .dll related. Same thing even after that. I really wanna use Fan xpert 3 but.... nope. It so trash. the rest of the software is fine. Aura, Supreme FX, etc. but AI suite? trasssshhhhh