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Fred H.

Fred H.

Joined on 02/22/08

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Most Favorable Review

Simply great

EVGA 02G-P4-2689-KR GeForce GTX 680 Hydro Copper 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
EVGA 02G-P4-2689-KR GeForce GTX 680 Hydro Copper 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: This card is fast, quick and cool, if you're considering don't hesitate, get this card and EVGA is the best, IMO. Great customer support strong forum base as well as the EGVA employees are active members of the form so you get a lot of help. This card idles at 26C for me. My previous GTX 580 SCs idled at 38C on air. Under load, I can't get it over 37C. That's sick. :)

Cons: Limited availability at the moment. Still won't fold, but that's a immature driver issue. I expect to be resolved soon.

Overall Review: Someone mentioned that this is a reference card, that is incorrect, it is a reference "PCB". The card runs at a speed of 1150 MHz out of the box, the reference is 1006 MHz. I've been able to OC mine to 1350 without problems. Currently, the benchmarks put it "just" behind my SLI'd GTX 580SC cards and WAY ahead of a single 580. Personally, I can't wait for a second one to hit the wild so I can add it to my system.

Most Critical Review

Good thing it's going away

Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011 64-bit - OEM
Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011 64-bit - OEM

Pros: Easy installation, solid platform, few crashes. The media sharing is improved over WHS 2003.

Cons: Don't know where to begin, I have a mac in my system so I decided to "upgrade" to WHS 2011 from WHS 2003, as the old method wasn't really a backup and it was the wife's mac so she won't have to "remember" to start the backup. BIG mistake. First off Lyon came out right after I installed and guess what? OS no longer supported. Then MS never bothered to fix it, hell it was one of their MAJOR selling points. Then they removed the drive extender which was fantastic. A bunch of different sized drives seen as one massive drive by the computer. You manage folders not drives. Not sure why this isn't in all MS products. Lastly, they back up service. The old system would back up every night and basically just "sync"/track the changes so it didn't kill the space. Basically, one big backup with a bunch of little "amendments". The new system saves a new copy everyday and you're left with a bunch of large backups. i.e. backing up a 200MB "C" dirve is 1TB every week. MS do the math. And since no drive extender, you are out of space every week. Not to mention if you're backing up music/movies/photos, I mean that's why you do it right?

Overall Review: The minor pros do not out weigh the cons on this one. They had a really solid product in WHS 2003. Some minor fixes/tweaks and they could have had a rockstar program here. I'm guessing that really just wasn't their desire. Not sure why they didn't want to make money...

Look carefully

EVGA  02G-P4-2689-K2  GeForce GTX 680 Hydro Copper+  2GB  256-bit  GDDR5  PCI Express 3.0 x16  HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card - Retail
EVGA 02G-P4-2689-K2 GeForce GTX 680 Hydro Copper+ 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card - Retail

Pros: EVGA is a great company that stands behind their products

Cons: Be careful of the "+"

Overall Review: I have the HC and this is not a HC. The HC has a base clock of 1150, not 1058. The "+" is not a plus at all, it's a minus. It's a plus over the GTX 680 because the block is already installed, but not a plus over the HC. I will say this, I love my HC and wish I could find a second from EVGA (not used), currently I water cool a sig 2 and OC the second card to match. No issues, just not my favorite way of doing it.

Great drive

SAMSUNG 830 Series 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-7PC256B/WW
SAMSUNG 830 Series 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-7PC256B/WW

Pros: Fast, Reliable, easy to install, and oh RELIABLE. Samsung has some of the more reliable SSDs out there. Got a Batman code, expectantly.

Cons: Ghost

Overall Review: I purchased this drive a couple of months ago to replace a Samsung 470, I had the SATA III ports so why not use them right. :) In any event, I used Norton Ghost to clone the old 470 (same size 256). I hated the way the cloning worked. But worst of all it "added" some server settings to my original SSD during install. Then I switched to my copy of True Image from WD, the cloning worked great with one major exception. Because of the added server setting my computer now wants to "Dual" boot and I need to choose an OS at each boot. I just lost all the boot speed from the change to SSD, thank Norton. My point...don't use the included Ghost software, not to mention it calls it "copy" a HD not "clone".

Great Card

EVGA 02G-P3-1387-KR GeForce GTX 460 2Win (Fermi) 2GB 512-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card
EVGA 02G-P3-1387-KR GeForce GTX 460 2Win (Fermi) 2GB 512-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card

Pros: SLI on a stick, great performer, looks fantastic (the platic cover is not plastic). OC's well. At stock benches between a GTX 580 and GTX 580SC for a lot less money. Folds like a beast. Quiet operation. The card overclocks well and I can get bench marks way above a stock GTX 580SC. You can run three monitors off of one card. I like the LED, it's right where it should be.

Cons: Can run hot if you have a poor air flow case, price would have made more sense about $20 to $30 cheaper. Fans above 63% start to get loud. Can't be SLI'd into quad SLI...yet.

Overall Review: First off, I do own this card. Second, the review who stated you get 2MB, that is incorrect, you get 1MB per GPU, not a total of 2MB, difference is seen at higher resolutions. It's great for people who do not have SLI capability on their mobo. There is a nf200 chip on the card so it runs full 16x PCIe. Even if your mobo only has one PCI-e slot, you can not get SLI performance, for those people this is the fastest, least expensive solution. If you're looking for GTX 580 performance and don't want to drop $500 to get it, this is the card.