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Kevin R.

Kevin R.

Joined on 07/03/04

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works for me

XFX Core Edition Radeon HD 7850 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card FX-785A-CNL4
XFX Core Edition Radeon HD 7850 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card FX-785A-CNL4

Pros: not much of a gamer, and kind of lost the thread when it comes to recent developments in graphics cards since retiring, but I've always been a Radeon guy, and this has done nothing to change my mind... just plugged it in and it worked.

Cons: Fan is noisy at full speed, which fortunately is not very often for me since I'm not that much of a gamer

Update

MSI H81M-P33 LGA 1150 Intel H81 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
MSI H81M-P33 LGA 1150 Intel H81 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Neat layout, cheap. Not the best out there, but you knew that when you saw the price tag... does what it says it will do.

Cons: None for the price really, although software utils could be better

Overall Review: My earlier reported crash problems seem to have gone away by some combination of driver and firmware upgrades, so it would seem it's probably not mobo hardware related. I'm awarding a five egg now to average out at 4

Fast

Intel Core i7-4770K - Core i7 4th Gen Haswell Quad-Core 3.5 GHz LGA 1150 84W Intel HD Graphics Desktop Processor - BX80646I74770K
Intel Core i7-4770K - Core i7 4th Gen Haswell Quad-Core 3.5 GHz LGA 1150 84W Intel HD Graphics Desktop Processor - BX80646I74770K

Pros: Plugged in, worked, and wonderfully fast upgrade from the five+ year old Core 2 Quad it replaced

Cons: no

Nice board

Intel BOXDZ87KLT75K LGA 1150 Intel Z87 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel BOXDZ87KLT75K LGA 1150 Intel Z87 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Nicely laid out with just about everything you could want on board

Cons: I found the rear panel a bit more fiddly than most - could be that I'm out of practice... a bit tricky to add extra SATA cables once you have it in place As someone else mentioned that the RAM speed in BIOS did default to 1333 despite the 1600 installed in it...

Fast!!!

Intel 525 Series Lincoln Crest SSDMCEAC120B301 mSATA 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Intel 525 Series Lincoln Crest SSDMCEAC120B301 mSATA 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Pros: Ridiculously fast and completely silent... easy to install and use on my DZ87KLT mobo

Cons: silent, so you have no idea that it is working ;)

Works

G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin PC RAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-1600C9D-16GXM
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin PC RAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-1600C9D-16GXM

Pros: Plugs in and works on my Intel DZ87KLT w/ i4770 Haswell

Cons: none

Overall Review: heatsinks might be a little tight if trying to use all four slots