Pros: Very quiet even with fans turned up high for comparison my Noctua 80mm on the cpu is louder than the gpu fans on high. MSI gaming app is pretty cool with preset clock profiles for the gpu,LED effects customizer and monitor color profile selection for gaming. Videos are on youtube now with people showing you that 4gb of Vram on the GTX960 is critical to running GTA5,Farcry 4,shadow of mordor at maxed out 1080p settings the vram usage is always around 3GB except SOMD it was consuming 4022mb of Vram roughly. in the 3 benchmark videos i saw the gameplay was smooth and hitting around 50-60fps. most review sites routinely state their hitting 1,500mhz on the core for overclocks thats pretty nice and does translate into free performance at stock voltages. gains will vary between titles. i can play anything on the market at great settings and with the gpu being DX12 ready the future feels not so overwhelming for now. Running it off my corsair CX430watt psu no problems what so ever. DSR tech from nvidia makes skyrim look amazing at 1440p ultra settings on my AOC 1920x1080 monitor A core i3 haswell 4150 is good enough to push this card and run the latest titles nice and smooth.

Cons: people still dont understand this card and how its compression/memory engine is better, all they see is 128bit bus and jump on the roll your eyes bandwagon. 4GB wont give any GPU instant FPS increases thats not the point of Vram, Its their in a large enough quantity to be able to load all the games assets for the gpu to process WITHOUT having to offload the games data to system memory which adds a latency penalty when that data is then needed causing game stutters or complete freezes for a few secs until it gets done playing catch up. no different then the windows OS needing X amount of ram to load programs and features without Thrashing the page file to death with R/W requests until the hard drive explodes. thats why i spent the extra 39$ and got this 4gb card and it was worth it. no point spending almost another $100 on a GTX970 when the 960 overclocked is nipping at it heels in benchmarks. Did not come with case badge swag? gamers like their stickers MSI . :-) honestly i dont see any cons, the card is top of its game, i knew what i was getting into and buying,

Pros: + pulls air + still running after 1yr of use

Cons: has a strange harmonic to it even with a LNA adapter. could be the corsair case its in as a side air intake. build quality is cheap plastic that flexes like crazy. Fan is not mounted to the frame its housed in, it just sits in it and can be removed sorta, really hard to snap fan back into fan frame.

Overall Review: fans are very personal like wich pc case you choose to go with, this fan just was not to my liking so take my review with a grain of salt.

Pros: Motherboard came intact with only superficial scratches on the heatsinks, barley noticeable.Arrived in an antistatic bag inside a sturdy blank motherboard box with some accessories included. No visible damage to any of the components after going very slowly over the entire board with a flash light. I have not been able to use the board yet as the 5600x has not arrived by mail, but for all intents and purposes theirs no reason to believe the board should not work. if i never come back and update this review then all is working well, was a way to save some money and get a quality board, looks like the prices in the B550 market are going crazy now only offering low quality open box boards for the stock msrp while you have to pay a premium for anything new, they include their business card and a sheet of troubleshooting tips to help you get up and running should you run into an issue, this is a nice touch and shows they have some commitment to customer care.

Cons: They sent the wrong motherboard, instead of the model listed for sale on this store page they sent the Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro AC, this is not a big deal as its the exact same board on a technical and build quality level it just has wifi built in. If i had to guess they may have not had any stock left of the standard B550 pro and still wanted to keep customer satisfaction up i cant complain ill take it no harm done. They did include the wifi antenna and 2 sata cables, this model comes with the I/O shield built wich is another reason i bought this particular model.

Overall Review: for all intents and purposes theirs no reason to believe the board should not work all looks good. if i have any issues after connecting everything after the Q-Flash procedure for the ryzen 5600x to be usable i will come back and update review if needed, if i do not then all is working fine. so far 2 thumbs up speedy delivery and intact product upon receipt.

Pros: - OSD is actually quite easy to use . Top back button is your rgb backlight color selection i personally could care less. Middle 4 button on back are enter exit up down, very bottom is power button. - Easy to read Text- Development work is much more enjoyable with the enhanced resolution / workspace.- 100hz is very comfortable to game on and is a nice balance not over driving the panel . compared to using 120hz , 144hz , 240hz , this screen is perfect for me and i can live with minor reduction in refresh rate to me its worth it for a superior image quality and viewing experience. Hurray Read Text in anything is no longer pixalated im looking at you 1080p. - Variable Refresh Rate actually works / Freesync not all monitors that advertise this do it very well or at all. Turn it on in monitor settings and AMD driver setting all ready to go. - 3440x1440 Resolution makes playing games a real joy- Read more text on screen- See more of the playing field on screen. like alot more. - Battle Royale Games look great and details are very sharp, you will spot and track enemies alot faster and easier due to the increased detail level. - color's are good and brightness is NOT eye searingly painfully bright. - No dead or stuck pixels- Very sturdy metal stand Does not wobble very much at all if any- Does not really even get warm at all stays cool during gaming one less space heater in your setup. - not really if any atll ghosting or motion blur during games if its thier im not seeing it enough to be a deal breaker. and thats saying alot considering im very picky. - I returned an Acer XB3 1080p 240hz panel and glad i did this beats the pants of that monitor in image quality. response time is nothing if the image looks like it came strait out of windows 95.

Cons: - No sticker swag in the box - only comes with HDMI cable but to be fair that's technically all this display needs.

Overall Review: would recommend took a shot with a brand i never dealt with and im glad i did. been burned to many times by name brand's.

Pros: keeps a Ryzen 5 3600 at 1.34vore locked at 4.1ghz at or below 70c in intel burn test. in gaming loads its keeps around 40c to 50c range depending on the game. this is in a low airflow Rosewill tempered glass case Culican V500 case. Very easy to install wish all heatsinks were this easy. I used their supplied TIM as well. Noctua finally went to the dark side and i love it :-)

Cons: none

Overall Review: would perfom just slightly better with a 2nd fan in a push pull config or higher speed 120mm fans depending on your appetite for noise levels imo. but stock config on this heatsink is very good

Pros: -Runs as advertised. -RGB is a nice touch. -Modular heat-sink. - Fits in an ASRock AB350 pro4 M.2 slot without touching the MSI RX5700xt reference gpu. -Crystal disk mark shows rated speeds -Games noticeably load faster, -Installing windows 10 pro and all the updates over 100mb download is crazy fast took maybe 50mins tops from usb 2.0 install to all programs and drivers installed and ready to game including all the restarts included between the driver installs. - Use ninite.com for all your app needs you can thank me later.

Cons: No case badge swag.

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