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Josh h.

Josh h.

Joined on 07/28/08

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Most Favorable Review

Cheap is the way

SYBA CL-VEN-B8X8 80mm Case Fan
SYBA CL-VEN-B8X8 80mm Case Fan

Pros: First off, its cheap (no shipping). 2nd, it sucks out a lot of air. Third, its incredibly quiet for how many rpms its pushing.

Cons: Shipping...but that is ups's fault.

Overall Review: No leds but its still worth it more than any other fan!

Most Critical Review

Horrible

PowerColor Radeon HD 6770 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 Video Card AX6770 1GBD5-HV2
PowerColor Radeon HD 6770 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 Video Card AX6770 1GBD5-HV2

Pros: It is a killer card if you can get it to work

Cons: Absolutely THE worse driver support of any ati card. numerous problems, the biggest being failed driver installation. installation cd works fine, but there is no display driver on it. installation from the amd website is necessary; only if it fully worked. and if you can get it to work, a common problem is crashing and freezing.

Overall Review: skip over the 6000 series cards. right now their driver support is almost obsolete. ati needs to step up their game.

EVGA 02G-P4-2763-KR G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 760 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support w/ EVGA ACX Cooler Video Card
EVGA 02G-P4-2763-KR G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 760 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support w/ EVGA ACX Cooler Video Card

Pros: n/a

Cons: Arrived with a warped 8 pin adapter. Unfortunately it only came with one 8 pin. Unfortunately 8 pin adapters are extremely rare to find in stores (even computer shops) so I had to order an extra since I didn't bring my parts with me where I am stationed. So, a month after I ordered this card I will be able to actually use it. Hopefully nothing else is broken.

Overall Review: Even "good" brands stick you with chintzy parts (power adapter being an extremely important one).

12/10/2013

Great Company

G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-4GBNQ
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-4GBNQ

Pros: Third selection of RAM I have bought from G.SKILL. They always run cool, stable and respectfully fast. This ram has some overclocking capabilities, if you have yourself a good build!

Cons: Can't really find any. I never can with this company.

Great value

ASUS M5A78L-M LX PLUS AM3+ AMD 760G + SB710 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
ASUS M5A78L-M LX PLUS AM3+ AMD 760G + SB710 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Cheap board, great bios, VERY easy to overclock my graphics card and cpu with this! Small (micro derr) and is much more appropriate then my old motherboard for my case. Probably THE best AMD, AM3+ board you can buy from this website considering the price. I would pay $100 for this.

Cons: Coming from a Gigabyte motherboard to an ASUS, had a lot of drivers to fix. Not a real biggy, just spent 30 minute fixing them all with the included cd.

Cheap, fast and cool

AMD FX-4130 - FX-Series Zambezi Quad-Core 3.8 GHz Socket AM3+ Desktop Processor - FD4130FRGUBOX
AMD FX-4130 - FX-Series Zambezi Quad-Core 3.8 GHz Socket AM3+ Desktop Processor - FD4130FRGUBOX

Pros: Very cheap price when compared to Intel cards in its power range. Idles 1-2%. Runs extremely cool with the stock fan alone especially while running games. Easily overclockable. can get 4ghz out of it with no temperature increase.

Cons: Went from an Intel chip to an AMD chip so I had lots of driver errors to fix. :/ I'm impatient. Stock fan hums. My Intel chip had a Zalman van on it so it was quiet. I'm just too cheap to buy an aftermarket fan for this, especially since it doesn't need one. :)