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Travis F.

Travis F.

Joined on 01/29/09

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Most Favorable Review

Pretty much required upgrade from stock

Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler, 4 CDC Heatpipes, 120mm PWM Fan, Aluminum Fins for AMD Ryzen/Intel LGA1200/1151
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler, 4 CDC Heatpipes, 120mm PWM Fan, Aluminum Fins for AMD Ryzen/Intel LGA1200/1151

Pros: Keeps my i7-3770k from bluescreening under any amount of stress.

Cons: Will not support any overclocking with my processor. It's pretty much at its limit in room temperature air, CPU temps at 70ish C. Bad things start happening at 75C.

Overall Review: Without this, I wouldn't be able to max out my processor for any length of time. It's essential for any CPU-limited application I use.

10/20/2014
Most Critical Review

Major flaws, but it does work.

Corsair Vengeance K70 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard - Red LED - Cherry MX Brown Switches
Corsair Vengeance K70 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard - Red LED - Cherry MX Brown Switches

Pros: Solid construction, not as loud as some mechanical keyboards. Looks nice. It works, which is the only reason I give it any eggs.

Cons: LEDs started dying not long after I got it. 5 are completely dead and maybe a dozen more are dimming. That's just not acceptable in a $100+ keyboard. It's either bad quality control or bad design. The lighting is badly done to begin with, for example the numbers are dim but the symbols above them on the same keys are bright.

Overall Review: The USB cable is stupidly over engineered. It looks like it's designed to run 200' alongside a power main, not 4 feet across my desk. It's 1/4" thick and very stiff. If you put force on it near the plug it would happily pry the USB jack off the motherboard. I would be afraid to use it with a laptop. It's clearly hobbyist grade, flashy and feature heavy but low quality and badly designed.

Barely acceptable out of the box, failed after less than a year

ASUS VG248QE 24" Full HD 1920 x 1080 1ms (GTG) 144Hz DVI-D HDMI DisplayPort Built-in Speakers Asus Eye Care with Ultra Low-Blue Light & Flicker-Free Backlit LED NVIDIA 3D Gaming Monitor
ASUS VG248QE 24" Full HD 1920 x 1080 1ms (GTG) 144Hz DVI-D HDMI DisplayPort Built-in Speakers Asus Eye Care with Ultra Low-Blue Light & Flicker-Free Backlit LED NVIDIA 3D Gaming Monitor

Pros: 144 Hz, not very expensive

Cons: Began going blank, glitching after 6 months. Probably a capacitor issue. The image quality was so bad out of the box I should have returned it immediately just for that. 144Hz is overrated anyway.

Overall Review: After (painstakingly) adjusting all of the monitor's settings and some on my computer I got the quality barely acceptable. Not much use for gaming when it goes black for 15 seconds at a time though. I should have bought a nice 60Hz IPS.

Worked for 2 weeks

ASUS GTX660 TI-DC2O-2GD5 G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB 192-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
ASUS GTX660 TI-DC2O-2GD5 G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB 192-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: Seems like a great card. Quiet, makes my i7-3770k the weak point of the system, looks and feels really high quality. Played everything I threw at it without any trouble.

Cons: After 2 weeks I started getting BSODs. Error code 116, unrecoverable video card timeout. I ruled out every other cause, and returned the card. Going to replace it with the TOP version of the same thing and hope for better luck this time.

Overall Review: That 1 egg rating hurts me more than it hurts ASUS.

10/30/2012
EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card 512-P3-N871-AR
EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card 512-P3-N871-AR

Pros: Works great, good price esp. for SLI.

Cons: Big and loud. It's easily louder than everything else in my machine put together, almost as loud as an xbox 360. It covers a pci-e port, not too big a deal.

12/10/2009
Patriot Viper II Sector 5 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model PVV34G1333LLK
Patriot Viper II Sector 5 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model PVV34G1333LLK

Pros: Works great with my GIGABYTE GA-EP45T-UD3LR mobo, which is picky about RAM. Not cheap, but reasonable. No ridiculous fans/heatsink, probably thanks to the low voltage requirement.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Looks pretty nice, in a minimalist kind of way.

12/10/2009