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Before we dive into the review, check out this gallery of unboxing and installation images. ID COOLING FROSTFLOW X 280 Rating ★★★★☆ (4 out of 5) Pros Price Paid $49.99 (pre-tax) Performance 280mm Radiator vs a 240mm radiator = More surface area and larger fans that can run at lower RPMs to achieve the same level of cooling performance Works well being setup as a front intake push configuration It keeps my i7-11700K temperatures in check even under extreme synthetic load (230-250w sustained at 4.5GHz all core) with temps staying between 90-93c. Under a more reasonable load (125-150w), temps hover around the mid 50's! Under idle, temps hover around 30C or below. Fans The included 140mm fans come with a highly compact and convenient daisy chaining connector to reduce the amount of wires to route Fans move A LOT of air. Especially at higher RPMs The fans do their job without being obnoxiously loud as well. The loudest noise they make is from pushing air through the radiator whe...

Check out the new listings I just put up if you're interested at all. All of these listings will be live for 30 days over on  Jawa . Acer Predator Z1 Z321QU 32" (inch) WQHD 1440p 165hz Curved NVIDIA G-Sync Gaming Monitor / Display Listing https://www.jawa.gg/product/58977/acer-predator-z1-z321qu-32-inch-wqhd-1440p-165hz-curved-nvidia-g-sync-gaming-monitor-display My Review https://tech.brandonwhitehead.com/2018/03/acer-z1-z321qu-32-1440p-144hz-va-g-sync.html SOLD Razer Basilisk FPS Gaming Mouse: 16,000 DPI Optical Sensor Chroma RGB Lighting 8 Programmable Button Listing https://www.jawa.gg/product/59094/razer-basilisk-fps-gaming-mouse-16000-dpi-optical-sensor-chroma-rgb-lighting-8-programmable-button My Review https://tech.brandonwhitehead.com/2019/03/a-great-alternative-to-g502-mouse-from_18.html SOLD Razer Black Widow Tournament Edition Chroma V2 TKL Tenkeyless Mechanical Game Keyboard Orange Switch Listing https://www.jawa.gg/product/59101/razer-black-widow-tournament-edi...

Rating ★★★★☆ (4 out of 5) Pros Price to Performance Paid $289.99 (pre-tax) for a 180Hz with adaptive sync, 3440x1440, VESA Certified DisplayHDR 400 monitor Desktop Software  G-Menu /I-Menu for controlling the monitor hardware settings within the windows desktop is a nice addition Hardware Design is fairly tame, not overly gamer looking by any means Plenty of input and output options 2x HDMI 2.0 - Up to 100Hz 2x DisplayPort 1.4 - Up to 180Hz (8-Bit with dithering) or 144Hz (10-Bit) 3.5mm audio out 4x USB [one of which supports Quick Charging] with upstream USB-B port Good stand (although I'm not using it because mine is VESA mounted) VESA 100x100 support Visuals Great Contrast! Black levels are MILES better than the Acer Predator Z1 I'm coming from Hardly any "flashlighting" on the screen from the backlight, or at least I can't see it  High refresh rate Going from 165Hz to 180Hz isn't a huge jump, but it does provide just a bit more smoothness PPI ~110 PPI ...

Keeping this short and sweet. Just passing along a helpful forum post I came across for resolving an issue when only one of the ZenWiFi ET8 units / access points was broadcasting the 6 Ghz signal instead of both.  Check out this forum post if you are experiencing a similar issue:  https://zentalk.asus.com/t5/networking/axe6600-et8-6ghz-issue/m-p/461593/highlight/true#M1842

Here we are back at it again! Check out the new listings I just put up if you're interested at all. All of these listings will be live for 30 days except this time over on Jawa  instead of eBay.