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Thomas R.

Thomas R.

Joined on 02/08/09

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An overclockers dream...

ASUS Rampage III Extreme LGA 1366 Intel X58 USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
ASUS Rampage III Extreme LGA 1366 Intel X58 USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: You can tweak nearly every setting with ease The ROG connect makes overclocking so easy Very stable board 6gbs SATA USB 3.0 Looks gorgeous!

Cons: Price

Overall Review: This board is so easy to overclock using the ROG Connect. I have it hooked up to my netbook and if my tweaks get me past the POST but not into the OS, I can just wait for the reboot to take me to the "Start Windows Normally" screen and change some settings from the netbook and see what happens. If I still can't get into the OS, I just repeat until I get the right voltages. No more going into the bios, changing settings rebooting, failing and repeating. Sure you're going to reboot, but not having to go into the bios makes life WAY easier. I have 2 SSD's hooked up to the 6gbs SATA ports and used the Xtreme Speed HD settings and my SSD benchmarks increased significantly!! This truly is a wonderful board if you can afford it. It's a big improvement from the Rampage II Extreme.

Awesome card!

HIS IceQ X² Turbo Boost Clock Radeon R9 270X 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card H270XQMT2G2
HIS IceQ X² Turbo Boost Clock Radeon R9 270X 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card H270XQMT2G2

Pros: Great scrypt mining card- 470kh/s. Cooler works great, been mining litecoins 24/7 and never goes above 68 degrees. I have two 270x's (2nd one is Asus @ 398kh/s) in a HAF-X case and the temps are great.

Cons: None that I can think of

Overall Review: This is the first HIS card I've ever purchased and am very satisfied. I have an Asus 270x as well ans this one is almost 100kh/s faster. Been mining for over 2 weeks so far and it's very stable.

looks great, nice layout but disappointed for water cooling

SILVERSTONE RAVEN RV02W-EW  All White reinforced plastic outer shell, 0.8mm Steel body ATX Full Tower Computer Case
SILVERSTONE RAVEN RV02W-EW All White reinforced plastic outer shell, 0.8mm Steel body ATX Full Tower Computer Case

Pros: Appearance- this case looks wonderful, especially in white Installation- hard drives, bay devices and motherboard install easily Air cooling- the 3 fans on the bottom really do a good job of venting all the hot air out

Cons: Poor design for liquid cooling- this case does support a 360 rad at the bottom, however space becomes extremely tight and it becomes impossible to with multiple video cards. My cooling loop cools my cpu and both 5970s but due to the size of these cards I can't fit the radiator inside the case. My loop also has two radiators and even if I could fit one inside there is no possible way to get both of them inside and there is no place to mount a radiator outside the case so I had to put both of them on stands on the floor.

Overall Review: This case looks stunning and if you are using air then it's perfect. This case is just terrible for water cooling. If it didn't look so great I would've given it 2 stars due to the poor water cooling support but if I was using air I would give it 5.

Great game with some room for improvement

Splinter Cell: Conviction PC Game
Splinter Cell: Conviction PC Game

Pros: More action than previous Splinter Cell titles The cover system is a great feature Outstanding graphics

Cons: I'd like to see a little more stealth action AI repeats the same phrases over and over Some of my favorite gadgets are MIA

Overall Review: This is one of my favorite in the series. Although part of me misses the body moving, it's also a little refreshing to not have to worry about picking up dead bodies all the time. It's more action based than the previous ones, it would be nice to see a mix of the too with some action levels and some old-school stealth mission. Over-all it is a very fun game and worth getting. I haven't bothered with the online, I've always viewed the Splinter Cell games as single player and have been disappointed with the multi-player in the previous games. I'm running this game on my custom i7 @ 4ghz with 6gb Ram, ATI Radeon 4800 with Windows 7 and I have all the graphic settings maxed- the game runs and looks beautiful.