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Christopher W.

Christopher W.

Joined on 02/01/14

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Most Favorable Review

Great quality for the price

Logitech G230 3.5mm Connector Circumaural Stereo Gaming Headset
Logitech G230 3.5mm Connector Circumaural Stereo Gaming Headset

Pros: Great sound. High dynamic range, crystal clear sound with heavy, thumping bass. The soundstage is pretty good as well. These are fantastic for watching movies, listening to many different kinds of music and especially gaming (more in notes). The build quality is quite solid, and they feel like they will last a long time. The cord is very long, this is either a pro or con depending on your PC setup. And above all, fantastic price for this great sound quality.

Cons: Build quality, while strong, is somewhat uncomfortable. I often readjust my headphones while gaming and take breaks altogether due to the fabric used in the earcups and cushion in the top. It is comparable to the fabric inside a swimsuit. For a 3-5 hour gaming session, though, you start to not notice it. Volume control on the cable is weirdly far along the cable from the headset, I just leave it sitting on my desk. The earcups rotate inwards, opposite to most headphones I have used which rotate out wards and it took some getting used to. You might want to mess with the EQ a bit. Also mine were shipped cracked.

Overall Review: Overall fantastic sound quality for the price. While fantastic for music listening, these headphones are by far intended for gaming and at their best when playing game audio. It's addicting to listen to songs with heavy bass, but that can often drain some of the fidelity of the music, so I would mess with your EQ first and also check out music with more dynamic range. BIGGEST CON: if you don't live alone, others will want to murder you for never, ever hearing when they call your name, even if the volume's low. Keep your phone in front of you when you game, screen up. Enjoy the headphones, I love them!

Good for a beginner

RAIDMAX Blade ATX-298WW Black / White Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
RAIDMAX Blade ATX-298WW Black / White Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Pros: This case is good for a first build. It's pretty, It has enough room for everything, a cool window so you can watch your internal components as they work, and great support for cooling. A nice silent fan is included in the back. Very durable and well built with very satisfying front panel buttons.

Cons: Could be much flashier. When all's said and done, there's not much room in here. Cable management will also be very hard and it's inevitable that you'll just leave a big bundle of cables sitting at the bottom. Only comes with enough drive bay clips to hold two of each kind.

Overall Review: Great case for a first build, working fine for mine. Make sure you have a big desk though. Less than a millimeter's clearance for a tall fan like the Hyper 212. Be careful with the measurements.

I love it

MSI N660 TF 2GD5/OC G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 660 2GB 192-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
MSI N660 TF 2GD5/OC G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 660 2GB 192-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: Awesome card, can run all last-gen games at 60+ FPS, current-gen games It runs fine as well although the only one I have is AC4 and that particular game is a terribly optimized port. You can still run it fine though and most other games will probably run at 60 fps, at least for the first half of this generation. Two big beautiful, silent fans will never let this card overheat and it looks pretty sexy as well.

Cons: Heavy.

Overall Review: You might want to upgrade or get SLI about halfway through this generation.

Great motherboard

GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ AMD 990FX + SB950 USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ AMD 990FX + SB950 USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Everything you could possibly need, very durable and everything works seamlessly, incredibly sexy in that "stealth jet" sort of way. Good BIOS, not as good as those Asus ones, but good enough. Very impressed by the quality.

Cons: If you have the Hyper 212 fan or another large CPU cooler, it might interfere with the RAM slots. Any other cons are probably just due to my inexperience, as this was my first motherboard.

Overall Review: Make sure you know what you're doing during your build, because I didn't entirely and almost broke it a few times.