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Caleb L.

Caleb L.

Joined on 12/03/14

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Most Favorable Review

Budget Beast

AMD Ryzen 7 2nd Gen - Ryzen 7 2700X Pinnacle Ridge (Zen+) 8-Core 3.7 GHz (4.3 GHz Max Boost) Socket AM4 105W YD270XBGAFBOX Desktop Processor
AMD Ryzen 7 2nd Gen - Ryzen 7 2700X Pinnacle Ridge (Zen+) 8-Core 3.7 GHz (4.3 GHz Max Boost) Socket AM4 105W YD270XBGAFBOX Desktop Processor

Pros: Does everything it claims Easy set up Comes with cooler if you don't want to spend any extra cash

Cons: Nothing of the top of my mind.

Overall Review: I've been running this for months now and its a beast. Mine runs at 4.0ghz on all cores just with my motherboard bios auto setting for overclocking and up to 4.5ghz to 4.6ghz in boost. My temperatures range from 35 degrees C at idle to about 63 degrees C on heavy work load on a cooler master ml120 aio, would run cooler but my case has terrible air flow.

Great.

EKWB EK-Vardar F3-120 High Static Pressure 120mm Cooling Fan
EKWB EK-Vardar F3-120 High Static Pressure 120mm Cooling Fan

Pros: Almost silent the whole rpm range. PWM. I personally love the color scheme.

Overall Review: Fan works great, not sure what else you could ask from it.

11/23/2019

Great for expanding the af kits.

EKWB EK Fluid Gaming EK-FG 360 Expansion Pack
EKWB EK Fluid Gaming EK-FG 360 Expansion Pack

Pros: Price, fans, 3 fan split, and fittings.

Cons: Wish it had a tiny bit of tubing including, maybe like 6 inches or something, my loop was very close to running out of tubing.

Overall Review: Finished off my loop and kept the price affordable with great results.

11/23/2019

Great product, but most people are going to want a expansion pack.

EKWB EK Fluid Gaming A240R Complete Dual 120mm Water / Liquid Cooling Kit 240mm with EK-AC Radeon Vega GPU Block
EKWB EK Fluid Gaming A240R Complete Dual 120mm Water / Liquid Cooling Kit 240mm with EK-AC Radeon Vega GPU Block

Pros: Complete package, blocks, tubing, pump, jumpers, fittings, fan, mix, thermal paste/pads, everything you really need. Quality was excellent and packaging was very nice. Directions for beginners with a bunch of basic tips. Literally almost silent with the fans and pumped hooked up to pwm.

Cons: Would like to see them include their fill bottle but not a make or break for most people. If you have am4 you will have to take the block apart to swap the bracket, wasn't really a big deal for me but I can see how some people might not be comfortable with it. Fans might run a lot with only the 240 radiator, I would probably at least run another 120 radiator or 240.

Overall Review: This kit is great, I added the 360 expansion kit however because I have my Vega 64 and 2700x overclocked and wanted to make sure the temps stayed in check. Under load and gaming temps haven't gone past 60c with the fans still being barley audible. The kit is honestly really nice, and has basically everything you need. You will hear a lot of people complain about it being aluminum but it keeps the cost down and still performs great, just make sure you only upgrade your loop with other aluminum parts. The directions are also way above average, I was quite pleased with them, overall definitionally recommend this kit.

11/23/2019

Great Budget Card

SAPPHIRE Radeon RX Vega 64 8GB HBM2 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Video Card 21275-03-20G
SAPPHIRE Radeon RX Vega 64 8GB HBM2 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Video Card 21275-03-20G

Pros: Awesome Card for the price and the games were amazing bonus Decent core/memory clock speeds

Cons: You need to know how to under volt/over clock to get the most out of this card (which is not hard) Card needs lots of air to stay cool and if you adjust fan curves to prevent thermal throttling it will sound like a jet.

Overall Review: I've had this card for months now and I've had no major issues and when I did have issues the latest driver updates fixed them. I run my card around 1600 core clock and 1000 memory clock and its completely stable in all games at about 71 Celsius but I do have the fan curve maxed out to maintain temperature.

Not bad for price

GeIL 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 2400 (PC4 19200) Desktop Memory Model GASB416GB2400C16DC
GeIL 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 2400 (PC4 19200) Desktop Memory Model GASB416GB2400C16DC

Pros: 16 gb, works well with Ryzen Master

Cons: speed is a little on the slow end.

Overall Review: I run this with a 2200g and I haven't had any bottle necks however I do let Ryzen master control the memory speed.