Joined on 02/25/10
Real Owner
Pros: Affordable works great. no hiccups bogs or video freezing. Ran multiple programs and video player just fine.
Cons: none yet
Overall Review: heat sink looks small, works fine at stock settings. was amazed that while playing a vid file i could FF to any spot and it would automaticaly continue playing at the new start point. No wating for it to catch up. Seems to be snappier than my black 955, but have not used it with a HD mmorpg yet, but not its purpose. on a Bio star a85 mb 8 gigs 7 7 7 21 1333 ram 60 gig corsair ssd os drive
move along
Pros: might get refund
Cons: eight days to get order out. no track number. after 21 days after order asked 'sup. received track number. order not move since day 1. after asking nice for refund 2 times got the mail time/wait/worry line. after demanding refund and requesting deletion of store I was informed that I would get refund.
Overall Review: hope I get refund. Think twice b4 order then press filter button to get rid of non new egg stores from view. Ever notice that when you filter out the other stores you can find what you are searching for? and can get it in 1-5 days. nothing to see here.....unless you have a lot of time to wait (months)
Ugh!
Pros: Full micro .. 4 slots ram, 4 cards, 8 sata III's. seeming nice layout quality ect. Have many ASRock boards this ones great, cept for one thing..
Cons: The A88X chip itself, on the board, gets hot, then lose mouse, keyboard and monitor . Computer stays on. have to hard reset. on occasion could not find my SSD, had to use older/smaller ssd to put a os on...then lost it too, then found after couple reboots.
Overall Review: Too much time went by to add it all up, thought it was a refurbed ssd card first time, I just replaced it with an older 60g ssd and all was find, then could not get it out of sleep, no wake, dead mouse, keyboard, mon in sleep. hard reboot only option. I said hmm.. turned off any sort of sleep or rest options, bios, monitor, screen savers ect. All is find, then no mouse, no keyboard monitor froze on last image. Read, read read, the chip is overheating.. Box is plenty big for micro card, and is watercooled, so maybe with less box air its heating up, maybe it is over heating because it might be useing a thermal pad to contac with chip/sink; and not paste. Maybe its a usb device pluged into back. Lots O maybes . In the mean time,as I started my Newegg journey here, I had to hardboot and redo this lol. So time ran out for simple return. I don'y want to to deal with any not simple returns, so next option is getting the heatsink off the chip and putting some paste on there , then maybe a liquid heatsink, then I'll check for a usb power prob :( Ran out of fan headers fast...
almost
Pros: Fits in the roswell case very well. looks nice. does its job.
Cons: came with two wye hook ups to conect 4 fans right to the pump,wow nice, except that all fan ends are same as hook ups.all male so instead had to use mb. has a sata power 15 pin conect with 2 wires on it, waste sata power lead.
Overall Review: 5 star looks and quality.just can't use way it was made
cool and working
Pros: works. price decent. 3 year warrenty
Cons: not yet
Overall Review: Got a pair of these to replace another failing pair of another brand . these run @about 93 deg f when im working them.. other 130+ real world write speed of 104mb+ for 40-100gig file. write faster for smaller passed all test no errors or wierd happenings going on. I have to say the red drives bring less worry then the SGs....idle temp 74 work out 93-94 f. sg of same size idle 108deg f crash at 135 deg f I still check temps when doing alot of writting ( i burnt up 12tb of drives last week doing system backup, i mean hot burn. only 6tb replaceable) large files..over 100gig, and every time I check the red drives they are fine. I hope I get a good batch again next purchase. using on linux as gpt ext 4 and ntfs
nice
Pros: works great, does all I need it to do with out a prob
Cons: none
Overall Review: EZ OC to 4.4 no adjustments, have aftermarket cooler, not a must for reg use.. get 1866 ram , I running it on 1600 cas 7,7,7 ram that is just fine, but cost more then some 1866 or 2133 with 9-11 cas. I have gpu ocd to 1ghz, but no notice in proformance... cpu speed and ram effect it most. For the price its is really good, of course I started with a 4.7mhz cpu so 4.4ghz is nuts..... Can play MMORPH games mostly maxed with smoth render, fully max settings get a little frame stick, but not like a 1-5 sec lag, just a stutter maybe goes down to 20fps