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Paul L.

Paul L.

Joined on 10/14/11

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Most Favorable Review

Does what it needs to do on the cheap

BIOSTAR TZ77B LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
BIOSTAR TZ77B LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

Pros: It's a pretty decent basic on-the-cheap mobo that seems to be capable of some basic overclocking (although that's not my thing).

Cons: Not the greatest layout, SATA plugs are in a bit of a weird spot and could use some more fan headers. Not enough for my Antec case. Doesn't recognize XMP profile for my Mushkin RAM modules and I can't figure out how to set the timings right since it's a faster-than-usual speed. Sometimes boots into code 99 which isn't explained anywhere and requires a hard reset before POST.

Overall Review: It does what it has to do and hasn't failed on me... yet. Have had it just over a year.

Most Critical Review

Great up until now...

ASUS GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card ENGTX550 TI DC/DI/1GD5
ASUS GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card ENGTX550 TI DC/DI/1GD5

Pros: Can run games with very good framerate and more than modest settings. Not too loud of a fan. Good size for my mid-size tower.

Cons: Card started failing on me a couple days ago - things randomly freeze for literally two minutes and then starts responding again - no error reports run but did catch it blaming the video driver once. Tried rolling back and updating again with fresh driver install, didn't work. Reseated card and removed the dust from the inside of the case (wasn't that much!) and still happens. Blips of full-width artifacts 30px high during GTA4 loading screen. Also has been freezing when starting flash video. Really not happy about this happening just over a year of use. Probably going to replace with another manufacturer if it's dying now.