Joined on 10/31/07
Great Switch, Easy Setup, Fast Transfers
Pros: - Fast 10Gb connections - Easy Setup - Works great directly connected to PC's and end use devices (gaming systems, TVs). Ubiquiti's website calls this device out to be setup with other switches and nothing about end user device connections
Cons: - None Yet
Overall Review: - I bought this to use for my home network, this is my second experience with 10Gb switches, I tried the Mikrotik 10g 4 port switch and it worked great, but I needed more ports to connect all the devices. Currently I have 3 Desktop PCs with cheap Mellanox 10Gbs PCI-E cards installed, but looking to add a few more. I'm currently sustaining 800+ MBs transfers over the network with large file transfers from PC to PC. This does support DAC cables for the short distances and also fiber cables. The RJ-45 ethernet ports I am currently using for up-link and connections to an Xbox One X. -Knowing this was extremely overkill for my use I was concerned about how challenging this would be to set up. Right out of the box I plugged in the connections and I had internet services to all devices in 15 seconds with out programming. Using the the controller software on the PC was very simple to setup. - Plan to expand the network with additional Ubiquiti devices - I will be adding the 48 port switch and aggregating 2 of the 10Gb ports to supply 20Gbs bandwidth to the switch as I will be using the Ubiquiti access points connected to that device as well. -This device has made me a Ubiquiti Fanboy, I cant wait to upgrade the rest of my network devices over the next few months.
Great Motherboard But some Connectivity Problems
Pros: Booted up immediately with i7 5930k and 16 gb of G.Skill 3000 MHz memory. Running 4.5 Ghz and 3 MHz on Ram and is running very stable.
Cons: Wired/Wireless Connectivity. Wired worked with Windows 8. Installed 8.1 the Ethernet driver will not work and still have not found a work around. Has Wireless-AC connectivity however steaming seems to have problems. Streaming 1440p and 2160p (4k) is getting a lot of lag and will not even play the video. Raid configuration only supports 4 hard disks. Not a major concern but I was originally going to run three different raid arrays to have separate storage drives for OS, Games, Media. If you use 4 PCI-E x16 ports you will not be able to use the M.2 port as it will be deactivated to service you 4th PCI-E x16
Overall Review: Overall this Board is quite good and the only really problem is the Internet connections would love to have a work through for that. My Build Asus Rampage V Extreme LGA 2011-v3 16GB G.Skill Ripjaws 3000 DDR4 4x128 Samsung 850 Pro Raid 0 (1800 MBs Read) 4x Nvidia Reference GTX 970 - It does work in 4 way SLI with 20% performance boost over 3 way. 27" Asus 4k Monitor with 60 Hertz Refresh Rate.
Great Performance at a Great Price
Pros: $429 Close Out Price - after buying three cards im still $100 cheaper than 2 FTW 1080s 1530mhz after OC on all three cards. With fan coolers at 1404 mhz (Boost clock in OC mode) - 65c With water at 1530mhz (Boost Clock) - 41c
Cons: MSI REBATE PROGRAM Power Hungry - Pulling 1000 watts of power at full load with 5930k.
Overall Review: Was deciding between 2 1080s or 3 980ti's, in all the reviews these were going to be neck and neck in testing. So i ordered three of these bad boys. I went with these because have a corsair 900d and I want the case to look full, but I also went one step further and have the cards water cooled to help with temps. I'm running 3 cards SLI'd and seeing over 1530 mhz on over clocks. That puts it almost 125mhz faster than the over clocking out of the box in OC mode. With water the highest temps i have seen are at 41c. These blow through anything at 4k, Getting over 150 fps in Battlefield 4 at 4k and all settings on ultra. Substantial improvement from Regular GTX 980s .
Leaves room for a lot of improvment
Pros: Cloud Idea is great.
Cons: Functionality. Like I stated the cloud idea is great and it provide access to the device on gaming systems and pc. But data transfer to this device is Terrible. I have the previous generation Airport extreme and it take over and hour to transfer a 4 GB file to this hard drive. I have about 500GB of movies and pictures to put on here but at that rate it would take what over 5 days to transfer everything to the device. NOT GONNA HAPPEN. If your gonna make it a cloud device great. But at least make it capable of being connected to the computer so you can load data at 3.0 speeds (50-100 MBS) then be able to use it as a cloud device because you dont need to transfer data more than 10 MB a second for video playback. This is going to sit and be useless now.
Amazing Card
Pros: This card is amazing, I upgraded from a GTX 580 that I have run for two years, ran DX 11 heaven benchmark before swapping cards one card was 100% faster than the 580 and SLi'd the cards were 300% faster. Battlefield 3 in 3d runs great at 1920 x 1080, nothing slows these cards down. Black Ops 2 never glitches.
Cons: I'm gonna say price but as the saying goes you get what you pay for.
Overall Review: My system i7-3930k, overclocked to 4.2GHz 16GB corsair Dominator DDR3-2133MHz 2x 90GB Corsair Force 3 GT in raid 0 3x 80 GB Intel SATA II in raid 0 2x EVGA GTX 680 FTW SLI
HD 3870 vs. 8800 gt oc
Pros: Quiet, Fast performance, Amazing card for the price
Cons: none yet
Overall Review: Ive had a 8800 gt for the past three months, i play cod4, crysis, and regretably WOW. The 3870, runs crysis and cod4 better than the 8800, even when i overclocked the 8800, there is no laging even in the most detailed scenes. I originally was going to get two of these but one is more than enough