Joined on 04/20/07
My dream monitor.
Pros: 1. Large Screen. 2. High resolution. 3. Free-sync (42hz-100hz) 4. No dead pixels. 5. Good price. 6. Strong stand. 7. Very good response time for gaming/no ghosting.
Cons: 1. Minimal adjustment for stand. 2. Speakers don't function through Display-port. 3. Comes with the OSD in Korean, need to find the option in the OSD to change to English. Took me a little while.
Overall Review: Amazing gaming monitor, amazing price. My RX 480 has more than enough power to play all the newest games at 3440x1440 and boy is it beautiful. Highly recommend! If you have an AMD GPU that supports Free-sync, enable it in the OSD and enjoy buttery gaming smoothness.
Did I just buy a Dell?
Pros: Great combination of hardware for an amazing price. This is not a gaming pc meant for ultra settings at 1440p, but if you pair this pc with a nice Freesync monitor 1440p at medium/high settings is an option in most recent games. 1080p at high settings an enjoyable and smooth experience. The RX 570 is a terrific GPU. The performance is more than I expected having used some more expensive gpus recently. At full load at stock settings the gpu clock hovers around 1000mhz give or take, the memory stays at 1650mhz, after gaming for an hour the gpu temp is around 81c. The power usage at full load is 85 watts!!!(doesn't include vram in calculation) If you raise the fan curve and put the power limit at 50+ your clocks stay at 1266mhz and the temps will stay in check. The CPU will never bottleneck this GPU, and it sips power. Ryzen Master Utility can be used to over clock it but it's not needed until a much faster gpu is being used. The case is very good looking, with TONS of connectivity. Has room to add a 92mm PWM fan to the front (make sure it's PWM). Blue lighting is nice and clean. The Motherboard is an X370 chipset micro atx with two pci x 16x slots and also 2 m.2 slots, one is sata the other is nvme. VRM cooling is souly done by the gpu cooler, there are no heatsyncs on the vrms. The pc is near silent while gaming at stock settings.
Cons: The ram is Samsung value ram, it's single channel and poor timing, I wouldn't recommend getting a second stick of this for dual channel, just get a new kit of ram when you want to upgrade. Even 2x4gb of fast ddr4 would be an upgrade. If you run out of VRAM in a game your memory takes the load and you can really tell when this happens due the a sudden stutter when the ram kicks in taking gpu load. This is also because the ram operates at half speed when in single channel. The PSU is okayish, no Molex 4 pins? 460 watts. An ssd would help this system a good deal in windows booting, gaming is good enough so a small ssd is fine for os.
Overall Review: I bought this pc for my brothers birthday, my parents bought the higher tier one with rhe ryzen 7 1700x and I completely recommend this pc for anyone looking for a complete pc for a great price. Making this PC with current prices would cost around $900.
Stable, cheap.
Pros: Very small, very cheap, fits well in my Silverstone ML08B-H itx case, powers my i5 6500, 16gbs of ddr4 2133, gtx 750 ti, and an ssd.
Cons: None.
Overall Review: Came wrapped in bubble wrap without a box, no power cable. It works well enough!
Good itx gaming case!
Pros: Small yet spacious enough for a couple of different cpu coolers if you want to overclock your cpu. Gpu compartment is nice and big, for fun I put my amd R9 Fury nitro Oc+ in there and it fit, just removed a bracket that it collided with and boom. Sweet apple pie. My i5 6500 stays under 64c during heavy gaming, and the gtx 750 ti I have in there stays under 68c.
Cons: The front panel usb plug is waaaay too long, it's unnecessary and you need to coil it up into a big mess because the cable is stiff and thick. The psu extension plug that plugs into the psu and runs to the back of the case is a bit funny, if you plug it into your sfx psu while the psu is installed with the cooling fan facing outward, the plug is situated the wrong direction so you either install the psu upside down or coil the plug and crimp it to get it to fit inside the case.
Overall Review: Will fit a bug gpu and a couple of cpu coolers, could make an awesome lan boy system with it especially with the sturdy handle!
cheap, stable.
Pros: Nice little board. No compatibility issues thus far. Bios update has its ram compatibility chart up and I've tried a few different brands on it without issue. Had a Pentium G4400 in it and worked perfectly, now an I5 6500 and not one hiccup. Temps are good, my cheap SanDisk ssd is working very well on it. A cheap Zotac gtx 750 ti powers the display and I game very well with it.
Cons: Slightly funky placement on the cpu fan pins, cheap io plate that turns fingers into grated cheese.
Overall Review: Need a cheap LGA1151 mini itx mobo? Grab this one, you won't be disappointed!
Low power, good performance.
Pros: New skylake sips power, uses ddr4, this model is good price for what you get compared to the "k" models. Single thread performance is right there with lga 1150 top end models, multi thread is decent. Included cooler does the job, no need to overclock if you pair with ddr4 2666 on a Z170 motherboard.
Cons: Multithread performance is just a tad higher than AMDs "slow old cpus", push pin cooler device is silly, motherboards are a tad pricey (Z170), expensive for being only marginally faster than lga 1150, Intel's monopoly isn't very healthy for the industry, so buying this cpu kind of made me feel weird.
Overall Review: Replaced my AMD Fx-8350 with this cpu on an asrock fatality Z170 itx, performance increase isn't noticeable unless you are counting tdp. Some games run faster that are not optimized well, but that won't last long. Gaming won't improve much if you come from an Amd, simple as that. Unless you want a low power consumption pc, it's not worth the price tag. Invest in a good gpu and grab a cheap Quad-Core Cpu if you game. I have this in a Silverstone ML08B-H with Asrock Z170 mini itx/ac a gtx 750 ti (place holder) 16 gb of ddr4 2133 from G.skill, two ssds and Silverstone 500 Watt sfx psu.