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Nicholas H.

Nicholas H.

Joined on 12/30/12

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Most Favorable Review

A Cheap Solution for Cooling

Cooler Master Hyper TX3 - CPU Cooler with 3 Direct Contact Heatpipes
Cooler Master Hyper TX3 - CPU Cooler with 3 Direct Contact Heatpipes

Pros: - Great Price/Performance. - Pretty easy to install. - Keeps my FX-6300 under 50c.

Cons: - Quite loud. - Can be a bit of a hassle to install in a relatively small case.

Overall Review: Using this with my AMD FX-6300, and it runs great. Averages around 30-35c on idle and never goes above 45c when playing games or using heavy load programs. Though, with the exception that I'm using this in a small case, So air flow isn't that superb.

Capable mATX Motherboard

GIGABYTE GA-78LMT-USB3 (rev. 6.0) AM3+/AM3 AMD 760G USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-78LMT-USB3 (rev. 6.0) AM3+/AM3 AMD 760G USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: - Packed will a lot of features for an inexpensive micro ATX board. - USB 3.0 - Runs surprisingly well with the AMD FX-6300 (3.5-3.8Ghz). - Simple to install - Very capable for the price

Cons: - No SATA 3, but with a hard drive, it's no big deal for me. - Installing a relatively big graphics card will overlap the other PCI-e slot. - For my case, the system fan connector was too far and I had to buy an extension to hook up my case fan.

Overall Review: I bought this motherboard to go with a FX-6300 as a starter, and I'm quite surprised how well it runs. For a 760G chipset, it runs pretty great.

A Great budget GPU

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7770 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card 100358L
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7770 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card 100358L

Pros: Small, can fit into a relatively small case. Quiet. Powerful. Bang for your buck.

Cons: None so far.

Overall Review: This card has ran every game I have thrown at it. Games like Far Cry 3 And Planetside 2 run well on Medium to High settings. While games like Skyrim run like a breeze on Ultra. I don't have the greatest processor (Intel Pentium Dual-core) but the card runs any game smoothly with it.