Joined on 12/29/04
Good build
Pros: Awesome bios features! Easy to update bios and track temps!
Cons: Raid configuration fails easily and raid bios doesnt recognized failed drive to repair even though the drive is still good. Sata ports are poorly placed but still manageable.
Overall Review: This motherboard will default your memory to 1333 memory so make sure you change your memory manually to what you bought. If you are planning on doing a raid system get a raid card and do not rely on the onboard bios. Asus has always been my board of choice and I'm still very happy with overall performance. 1 egg docked for having to redo my system do to raid failing and finally giving up on raid configuration completely after my 3rd attempt.
Not worth it
Pros: I had a Dock
Cons: I have owned this dock for 1 week and is basically useless to me now. From day one I had to position my phone just right to make a connection. Now I am lucky to get it to charge for longer than 5 minutes. It has major connections problems. I would highly suggest finding a different one with better construction.
Great CPU/GPU
Pros: This is a great little Processor. I was absolutely amazed at the benchmark scores I was getting while gaming with high settings. It's def not meant for a full time gamer but still was very impressed with the quality it put out for the price. I primarily use this for Blu-ray playback and once again it looks amazing!
Cons: The only reason it low egg score from me is to get your attention. Unless this changes in the future you can currently buy a BRAND NEW A8-3850 cheaper than the refurbished. I just want to bring that to everyone's attention before wasting there money on a refurbished one.
Overall Review: You might want to consider getting a different heat sink with this as it did run slightly hotter than i preffered with the stock heat sink.
Wow!
Pros: There is nothing to say but awesome! You cannot beat the price and quality of this processor!
Cons: NONE
Overall Review: Runs with stock cooler at 27c idle and 39c under load average. Highest temp i saw was 44c. Windows live rated graphics at 6.7. I manually set graphics memory to 1g. If you want to do ultra high graphics buy the video card and do xfire. The onboard video by iself can only do so much but still far surpassed my expectations.
Great Air Flow!
Pros: This case is absolutely amazing! I've read reviews about this being an ir conditioning unit and they weren't kiddin. I have never had a CPU run at 35 or lower while gaming consistently! I love how you can move hardrive bay or windtunnel up and down!
Cons: Whoever designed the USB 3.0 cable didn't know what they were doing. I bought this case expecting to plug the cable into the USB addon slot and instead i have a wire I have to put through the back of my comp and then up into a 3.0 slot in the back of my motherboard. Very poor planning there. You CANNOT have a video card in this case with the current design of USB cable without buying an extension or running the cable through the water cooling holes instead of the provided mount. Easy fix but extremely annoying.
Overall Review: Depending on your motherboard you may want to thInk about moving the wind tunnel to the top because it will block your sata plugins.