Joined on 01/19/08
So awsome,Super overclocker

Pros: I have built aprox 130 or so systems for myself, friends, family and clients. I have been dooing PC building since windows 3.0 and DOS, so, from lots of CPU's going through my hads i will say that this Intel Core i5 2500k is one of the best i have used.This CPU is wicked. I have mine running at 4 GHZ and i can give her more and it just seems to keep going. I bummped mine up to 4.3 without messing with any settings for voltage on either the CPU or Memory. I am also useing air cooling. I bought a Coolmaster Hyper 212 Plus, from Newegg paid like $25.00 for it and it is so awsome.It keeps my system around 30-40 C on heavy load. It does come with one 120 MM fan so pick up a UltraKaze from newegg it blowes 133.60 CFM.Talk about moving some air,make sure you get a RHEOBUS Extreme, 6 channel fan controller. Paid like $25.00 here on new egg, but it handles 30 W per channel so you will not melt the fan controller like you would on some cheep ones.No big bells and whistles you have 6 knobs that
Cons: continued-- brighter as you turn them up and dimmer as you lower it.Make sure you hook the UltraKaze to the fan controller,also put the 120 MM fan that comes with it on the back side so it's just going to be sucking the air that the beast you put on the front of the cooler will be blowing at it.So for less than $40.00 you can have a very very good cooling system on your CPU. I highly recomend the Intel i5 2500 K CPU.And one last sweet spot.If your MOBO has built in Video links (NOT ONBOARD VIDEO) just like a SVGA-HDMI or DVI,download VIRTU from Lucidlogix and you can run the CPU as one Video card and get a PCI Express and it only uses the powerhouse video card when it needs it.Otherwise is uses the sandy bridge Intel video off the CPU.Well what are you waiting for get on your computer go to Newegg and get this stuff ordered and get it in your system.You will be very pleased with your purchase.If your married start begging dont forget the flowers for her before you ask for the money.
Overall Review: Best purchase i have made in awhile. I ordered it on a Tuesday and Newegg like they always are(FAST AS LIGHTNING) had it to me on Thursday morning. : )
byer beware

Pros: none
Cons: bought two of these and could not get either of them to work.Even with their tec support.
Overall Review: dont waste your money
Freaking fast

Pros: Fast fast and fast very fast. My download speed is 3x better now because it can write the data to this ssd way faster than my old one.
Cons: None very happy with this SSD
Overall Review: If you are looking for a lighting fast NVME M.2 SSD look no further. This is by far the fastest ssd i have seen or owned.
It's a beast

Pros: Fast, Fast and oh did i say fast Price. Saved like over $1000 going with the 4080 super over the 4090
Cons: None it is very big but my case is enormous but if your running a smaller case you mite have to get a bigger case because its a very big card.
Overall Review: Love this video card and i would recommend this card to anyone building a new system or upgrading there video card.
Love this board

Pros: Easy setup saw the memory at correct timings with the flip of the power switch.Have done several builds around 35 and this was probably the easiest one out of the box set up running windows in less than 2 hours.Got into the bios to check it out very nice easy to get around lots of overclocking options.just love this board.Wanted to buy another one for myself but all sold out now.
Cons: sold out and want this board.see it on your competitor's site tiger direct but they want $10 more for the same exact board.
Overall Review: 1st build or 50th build definitely recommend this board very nice. wish i could give 6 eggs very nice board tons of options rgb headers and just so much for such a great price.
OCZ Vertex 4 ssd drive love it

Pros: WOW I do not even know where to start.Vertex 4 buy one now, actually buy two or three if you can afford them. I had two ssd drives hooked up in raid from another brand and i thought those were fast, but this drive blows those out of the water. This is by far the fastest drive i have ever owned or even have seen. I am surprised i do not see flames coming out the back of my computer this is so fast. From the second i hit the power button to when windows 7 64 bit is up and running is 23 1/2 seconds. Shut down is almost instantaneous. I was used to hitting the power button and waiting about 65 seconds with two ssd set up in raid but they were also sata 2 this beast is sata 3 so maybe that makes the big jump in speed. This is so fast i will be ordering at least 3 more so i can set this system up in raid. I kept 1 mechanical drive that is 500 gb just for back up but ssd is the way to go. I did my homework before i bought this ssd and i must have looked at about 30 ssd drives reads and writes and all the different specs and for the speed you get this should cost well over the $104.00 out the door i payed. OCZ disregard that last remark please. I was even surprised on how much faster my web browsing sped up, the pages load almost instantly and before it was fast but you could see a loading effect like it would take a second or two for the page to load, not now. Also i play World Of Tanks and the load times for the game to start and for the multiplier matches to start are way way faster. I had seen in a review about ssd drives how someone said they installed windows 7 so much faster,but when i installed windows 7 there is one thing you cant speed up and that's the CD-DVD ROM drive you install windows off of. So windows 7 did install a little faster but not until it was done with the CD part of the install. All in all i am super pleases with this ssd drive.
Cons: There is no cons for the drive. The only thing i can think for a con but not worth removing an egg for because it is not Newegg's fault was when i recieved the drive the packaging looked like it had foot prints and tire tracks all over one side so i was very worried at first that the shipper dropped it and did not know and ran it over and stepped on it. But low and behold once i opened it nothing was wrong with the package inside.
Overall Review: I can see that ssd drives have come along way since they have come out,performance and price are the big two. If you have the extra cash get one of these drives well worth every penny and you will be very happy with the increase in performance.
Very impressed
Love this and would recommend if your looking to add another NVME drive to your system. It comes in a couple parts but very easy to assemble and i absolutely love the added LED's makes it stand out. It took all of like 5 minutes to put it together and it has very good instructions on how to assemble the drive one you have your new NVME drive. Once installed in my system windows 11 picked it up rite away. I did not need to add any drivers or tinker around with it. The only thing you have to do is assign it a drive letter and you can name the drive if you wanted to. I think it look sawesome and the specs are spot on. I'm not going to throw a bunch of test numbers at you because most wont understand it anyway's but ill say this the advertised speed is exactly what i get from the drive so there is no speed loss not using the motherboard vs this setup you get the exact speed using the PCI express slot. Very happy and i mite get one more to add a 4th NVME drive to my system.
Does its job
Works as intended