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MARSHALL B.

MARSHALL B.

Joined on 08/17/12

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Most Favorable Review

Outstanding

Sapphire Radeon R9 FURY X 4GB HBM PCI-E HDMI / TRIPLE DP, 100380SR
Sapphire Radeon R9 FURY X 4GB HBM PCI-E HDMI / TRIPLE DP, 100380SR

Pros: -Seems well built, feels high quality -Extremely cool ~50C at load -Very quiet -Spectacular gaming performance

Cons: -cable braiding isn't the sexiest -space for radiator might be challenging in some cases -mediocre overclocking currently

Overall Review: It is truly amazing that my PC is just as quiet under full load as it is at idle. The fans on my Fury X never seem to rise above 20%. It seems as though the coil/pump whine issues have been corrected on the newer batch because mine has none of these issues. * I did notice a small "break in period" where the card was more noisy at first. After a few days of use, the silence of my PC while gaming heavily is unbelievable.

Most Critical Review

Great card for about 20 minutes.

G.Skill 32GB microSDHC UHS-I/U1 Class 10 Memory Card with Adapter (FF-TSDG32GA-C10)
G.Skill 32GB microSDHC UHS-I/U1 Class 10 Memory Card with Adapter (FF-TSDG32GA-C10)

Pros: Same brand I use for my desktop memory.

Cons: Formatted the card and proceeded to start transferring my music files onto it, but about 20 minutes in there was an error. The transfer stop responding and now the card isn't recognized by any of my devices. Seems like this has happened to a lot of people. Frankly I'm not even sure I want to go through the RMA process with this. I only paid $13.99 for it and now it is clear that the deal was indeed too good to be true.

Overall Review: Seems like its just the luck of the draw with these SD cards.

Great Quality

ASUS 23" IPS LCD Monitor IPS 6 ms HDMI, DisplayPort, D-Sub, DVI-D PA238QR
ASUS 23" IPS LCD Monitor IPS 6 ms HDMI, DisplayPort, D-Sub, DVI-D PA238QR

Pros: Everything about this monitor feels high quality. -excellent stand -matte finish looks great -IPS panel is very nice -tilt/pivot -color accuracy is superb compared to my ASUS VG248QE -price (140$ on sale)

Cons: There is very little to complain about. -had to increase the brightness a bit -human sensor seems pretty useless and strange (turned it off right away)

Overall Review: No real issues with this monitor at all. Very pleased with it overall.

Pretty Solid

EVGA GeForce GTX 970 04G-P4-2974-KR 4GB SC GAMING w/ACX 2.0, Silent Cooling Graphics Card
EVGA GeForce GTX 970 04G-P4-2974-KR 4GB SC GAMING w/ACX 2.0, Silent Cooling Graphics Card

Pros: -Performance is great, noticeable gain over my EVGA GTX 760 SC -Runs ALL of my games with every setting cranked up to the max at 1080p 60+ fps -Temp never got higher than 68C in valley

Cons: -Coil whine: When I first loaded up a game my heart sank. My GPU was screeching like a frenzied chupacabra. I read around on the EVGA forums and saw that running a demanding benchmark for a few hours could diminish the coil whine. This actually worked pretty well and the noise was at about 25% of what it was before. However, it was still noticeable (barely, pretty much had to be listening for it). I then saw that using V-SYNC could help and, sure enough, with it on the coil whine disappears entirely.

Overall Review: It was a little frustrating at first, but I was able to work around the noise issues. Overall I am pretty satisfied with the card. Next time, however, I will probably wait a little longer and read more reviews before choosing a GPU.

10/21/2014

Shady Business

EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Graphics Card 04G-P4-0974-KR
EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Graphics Card 04G-P4-0974-KR

Pros: Always bought EVGA cards and I've always been Pleased.

Cons: The EVGA GTX 970 SC ACX 2.0 version was not even available for several days after the 970s launched. This seems like it was a tactic to get rid of a lot of the old ACX 1.0 coolers.. At the expense of the consumers. I refused my package after I discovered this and I'll be purchasing the ACX 2.0 970 which should have been available in the first place! At the exact same price no less.

Overall Review: Won't be buying GPUs at launch in the future.

Excellent all around

Corsair Vengeance MM200 CH-9000013-WW Standard Gaming Mouse Mat
Corsair Vengeance MM200 CH-9000013-WW Standard Gaming Mouse Mat

Pros: -Large, but thin -rubberized bottom -greatly improved my mouse accuracy -affordable -nice packaging

Cons: -N/A

Overall Review: The difference I noticed after swapping out my decade old Redsox mouse pad was incredible. Easily one of the best upgrades I've made recently.