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Mike R.

Mike R.

Joined on 07/24/05

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Most Favorable Review

Fast with a Nice BIOS

GIGABYTE GA-Z77-D3H LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-Z77-D3H LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Gigabyte has great tech support. After enabling XMP, it set the memory voltage and CAS speed perfectly. Easy to cable. Easy to upgrade the BIOS. Win7 and Win8 drivers from GB Website.

Cons: None

Overall Review: My dual boot of Win7 and Win8 is working well with all the drivers. Combined with SSD & i5-3570K it boots and runs lightning fast. Downloaded the Win8 drivers for the GB website. This is a great board for my needs but if you need eSATA or more than 2 SATA III connections, then you will need to buy a more expensive board. Note: With a 2 DIMM Kit use both white slots to auto enable fast Dual channel. Note: Win8 wanted GPT not MSB partition table so I had to boot the Win8 install DVD first, partition the drive, then on the reboot, I booted the Win7 and installed, then I finished the win8 install later. Hope this is helpful to the folks that want to play with win7 and win8. Note: pay attention to the AHCI setting in the BIOS before you partition/format the HD or SSD.

Most Critical Review

Dead in 3 days

CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2X1600C7R
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2X1600C7R

Pros: XMP recoginizes the memory correctly for speed and voltage. Corsair has great tech support. Also, The Corsair SSD GT 240GB drive is lighning fast. I will write a review soon.

Cons: First day passed all memtest. One of the pair died the 3rd day. Caused corruption during OS install then finally BSOD with mem error. Memtest finds errors on first pass.

Overall Review: Newegg RMA advance replacemet over the phone was great. Started RMA on Friday. Monday UPS tracking show half way here. I Expect it come Tue or Wed. Also, Biostar (Motherboard) support confirmed turn on XMP and let auto do its job. It set speed and voltage correctly. Biostart gave me greeat tech support also.

Works great in iMac

G.SKILL 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Memory for Apple Model FA-10666CL9D-8GBSQ
G.SKILL 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Memory for Apple Model FA-10666CL9D-8GBSQ

Pros: Installed in late 2011 iMac. Replace old me with new G.Skill. Worked great the first boot.

Cons: none

Runs Perfect after 2 years.

Corsair Neutron Series 2.5" 256GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-N256GB3-BK
Corsair Neutron Series 2.5" 256GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-N256GB3-BK

Pros: SSD still runs strong after 2 years. Made and old system runs faster than new systems with SSD. Nice upgrade to Win 7 system as primary drive. Easy hardware install. Windows boots so fast now.

Cons: none

Still Runs Strong after 2

Corsair Force Series GS 2.5" 180GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-F180GBGS-BK
Corsair Force Series GS 2.5" 180GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-F180GBGS-BK

Pros: SSD still runs strong after 2 years. Made and old system runs faster than new systems with SSD. Nice upgrade to Win 7 system. Easy install.

Cons: none

Still running strong after 3 years

Corsair Force Series GT 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-F240GBGT-BK
Corsair Force Series GT 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-F240GBGT-BK

Pros: SSD runs 15 hours a day for 3 years without problems.

Cons: none