Joined on 01/21/10
Solid and attractive case
Pros: Spacious case with excellent cable management. Plenty of hard drive bays and 5.25" bays, 8x120mm fan vents. Solid construction, aesthetically pleasing.
Cons: 1 of the 2 USB3 ports non-functioning, same with the headphone jack. Minus an egg for those inconviences.
Overall Review: Can't say enough good things about the cable management.
Received defective
Pros: Attractive hardware, fan works.
Cons: I purchased a second one of the cards for SLI (my previous glowing review located below still applies for the 1st card) yet when I received my new card, it was defective. After detecting no increase in performance after installing the second card (yes, properly) I removed the original to test the new one stand-alone. The PC booted, however the screen was all green and garbled, and at a very wrong resolution. It was bad, but I was able to still able to navigate to the nvidia website to (re)download the most up to date drivers to cover my bases. This was futile and resulted in no improvement.
Overall Review: I'm out the return shipping cost, and based how long my past RMAs have taken I'll probably miss the mail-in-rebate window. Looks as if the money I saved buying the card on sale will be lost. The real kick in the pants are the quality control stickers on the box. -_- Still very satisfied with my original card.
Great RAM
Pros: Functions as it should. The low profile allows me to utilize all 4 RAM slots (ordered 2 sets).
Cons: None at this time.
Overall Review: Owned for about 4 months.
Nice Processor
Pros: Fast, cheap, mine idles at about 33C.
Cons: None at this time
Overall Review: No on-board graphics for those who are unaware. Owned for about 4 months
It is what it is
Pros: It does what it is supposed to do, nothing more, nothing less.
Cons: As noisy as any other CD/DVD optical drive.
Overall Review: Owned about 4 months.
Meets my needs
Pros: Well built, the UEFI BIOS is awesome, no problems to speak of at the time.
Cons: Another 2 SATA ports would have been nice. Many aftermarket CPU coolers will block the RAM slots if you don't have lower profile RAM.
Overall Review: Owned about 4 months.