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connor h.

connor h.

Joined on 12/10/10

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Most Favorable Review

Pretty good

EVERCOOL FAN-EC7025M12CA 70mm Case Cooling Fan
EVERCOOL FAN-EC7025M12CA 70mm Case Cooling Fan

Pros: Bought some of these fans to replace some broken AM3 cooler fans that i had laying around. Its a decent fan, moves enough air to keep up with stock AM3 cooler fans and is thicker too.

Cons: Hard to think of any. It's a fan, you plug it in and it works, not much else going on.

Most Critical Review

Terrible.

DIAMOND Radeon HD 5970 (Hemlock) 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 5970PE52G
DIAMOND Radeon HD 5970 (Hemlock) 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 5970PE52G

Pros: Its a 5970

Cons: Its from diamond. Worst brand ever. They buy the cheap 5970s, refurb them, and resell. Mine had WAY too much thermal compound on the GPUs and it died within a month. It artifacts all over and drivers crash every minute or so. Do yourself a favor and stay away Diamond OEM cards....

High quality

LIAN LI PC-T60B Black Aluminum ATX / Micro-ATX TEST BENCH Computer Case
LIAN LI PC-T60B Black Aluminum ATX / Micro-ATX TEST BENCH Computer Case

Pros: Very nice work/test bench. Has 8 PCI slots to support many different SLI/crossfire configs. Power/reset buttons are built in as well. It is what you would expect from Lian Li, sturdy, and all metal.

Cons: Well, the instructions are terrible, but it is not all that difficult to assemble in the first place.

Overall Review: I wish it had 9 PCI slots, so it could fit some larger ATX boards, but it works well with my board.

Cheap, but who cares?

AMD Sempron 145 - Sempron Sargas Single-Core 2.8 GHz Socket AM3 45W Desktop Processor - SDX145HBGMBOX
AMD Sempron 145 - Sempron Sargas Single-Core 2.8 GHz Socket AM3 45W Desktop Processor - SDX145HBGMBOX

Pros: Bought several of these CPUs to make some bitcoin mining rigs (not at all CPU intensive). It has to be the slowest CPU on the market, but who cares, its 40 bucks.

Cons: Not fast by any stretch of the imagination, but it suits my purpose. Stock cooler is pretty tiny, but it's a single core with low clock speeds, not exactly a space heater.

Overall Review: Not bad.

Great card!

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 6870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card (100314-3L )
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 6870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card (100314-3L )

Pros: This is an awesome card. I bought several for bitcoin mining. No DOA or any defects whatsoever. The stock cooler is nearly silent and keeps the cards at 56C at 100% load.

Cons: Can't think of any.

Overall Review: Really good 6870, especially considering that it is one of the cheapest ones out there.

Decent...

EVGA P67 SLI 130-SB-E675-KR LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
EVGA P67 SLI 130-SB-E675-KR LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Decent enough board in a competitive price range. All black design looks good with anything. It is good for overclocking too, I was was able to reach 5 ghz on my 2600k, my old board couldn't get over 4.6ghz

Cons: Some people have had problems with these boards arriving DOA, I didn't. The one thing that I cannot stand about this board are the pci slot locks that click your video card in. They're nice with one card, but taking out two watercooled cards that were side by side took 30 minutes. Another thing that is a con is that it only has only two pci x16 slots for graphics cards and they are SIDE BY SIDE with two dual slot cards. The top card of my two 5970s would overheat because there was not enough room for the fan to intake sufficient air, even at 100% speed, and I was forced to watercool.

Overall Review: Needs alot of refining. The board looks great but performance is somewhat sub par