Joined on 01/10/06
Really surprised!
Pros: They're one of the cheapest brands you can find, and they WORK!
Cons: Not as pretty looking as some brand name discs.
Overall Review: Great story - I got a 5-pack of these discs free with my ASUS Burner, and used all five with no problems. Naturally, since they were el cheapo discs, I did not order more. I figured i'd better go with a reliable brand, so I bought a 30-pack of Memorex discs. Figuring I was all set, I burned 15 movie backups before I ever tested one. Then one night I wanted to watch one of the backed up movies and it would not play! Turns out NOT A SINGLE ONE of the 15 discs I had burned actually worked!! I was furious of course, so knowing that the 5-pack I got for free worked fine, I ordered this 50 pack, then re-burned all those backups plus a few more. Wouldn't you know it, they ALL WORK PERFECTLY!! These are great discs!!
Not DDR3-1600 Memory!
Pros: Great price, looks good, plenty of memory.
Cons: Did not run at advertised speeds on my system. System would not cold boot with memory at DDR3-1600 and 9-9-9-27 timings and 1.65v to the memory. I could boot the system at DDR3-1333 and then up the speed, but I would get frequent BSODs. Also, I have always been a big fan of Newegg but they lost a point in my mind on this one because apparently they feel that I deserve to pay a restocking fee because the memory I ordered is defective.
Overall Review: Always bought Corsair in the past, gave Kingston a chance and ended up with this ordeal. Back to Corsair I go. In case you are considering buying this memory, here is my system config for comparison purposes: Asus Rampage III Extreme Core i7-965 EVGA GTX 570 HD 3x Samsung HD322GJ in RAID0 Silverstone ZF650 PSU All air cooled and running at stock speed.
Not worth the price.
Pros: Beautiful, super comfortable, excellent accuracy.
Cons: Died after one year and one month of use. Unacceptable for a mouse at this level and price. Also needs higher quality finishes...while it looks nice and is solid enough, it feels very plasticky...and not the good kind of plastic. It's the super-cheap chinese plasticky feel.
Overall Review: At this price and this level of play, a product needs to last longer than a year. When this mouse died on me, I went to my closet and pulled out an old Microsoft laser mouse (that I used like 3 mice ago)...it cost me $25 11 years ago, and is still working perfectly. THAT'S how you build a mouse.
Really beautiful but too expensive.
Pros: - Absolutely beautiful. The lighting on this board is incredible. I decided to try this board mostly on it's looks and it does not disappoint. - The Cherry MX keys are a joy to type on. I've always been very heavy-fingered and usually wear out the membrane-switch boards pretty quickly. These keys are perfect for me. - For a plastic board, it is well put together, feels very solid, and looks great.
Cons: - It's LOUD. Wow is it ever LOUD. Did I mention it's LOUD? Cause it's frikin LOUD. - It's overpriced. At about $30 cheaper, it would be perfect. But there are better boards out there at $130
Overall Review: I bought this board mostly on it's looks. I had no doubt I would love going back to mechanical switches. I'm ok having overpaid for it because no other board would match my desktop the way this one does. However, if you are looking for a keyboard based on the criteria most people would, then I cannot recommend this board. There are better options.
Reality
Pros: Fact: the 3960X/3970X/4960X are the fastest desktop CPUs in existence. Period. There's no question, no matter of test setups or threading/lack thereof that can dispute that. There's nothing from AMD that even plays in the same league. If you must have the best, these chips are it. My 3960X is running at 4.2ghz on dead silent air cooling and idles at 30c, topping out at 70c after days of running full-out. I'm certainly not setting any records, but then again there's no piece of software i've come across that I have to wait for.
Cons: $1000+ is ludicrously expensive for any desktop processor, no matter how fast. Then again, like me, most of us who run this CPU didn't have to pay for it. If you have to spend money to get a CPU, get the 3930k and overclock it. You'll be just as fast as we are.
Overall Review: Thoughts from a completely neutral datacenter engineer: - Comparing a $200 AMD CPU to this chip is laughable. If you are buying $200 CPUs, you have no business even looking at this page. Don't kid yourself. Conversely, if you are seriously considering this chip, you aren't cross-shopping anything with the AMD brand on it. Don't waste your valuable time. - If your CPU is running at 84C EVER, you have a cooling system issue. Not even a Prescott dual core should get that hot. Ever. Just want to reiterate - EVER. - Genitalia-measuring contests over computer hardware are about as low as you can get. Stop wasting your time and get back to embarrassing old guys like me in BF4.
WHY?!
Pros: Super bright, deep color LEDs. VERY cool concept...it's flexible and low profile...you can create a lot of really neat effects with these strips.
Cons: The "adhesive" that they use on the back of these strips wouldn't stick to super glue. WHY create such a great little device and waste our time by using completely ineffective adhesive on it? Either spend the extra $0.50 per strip to put good adhesive on it or save us $0.50 and put NO adhesive on it. I had to use 3M double sided tape anyway. Such a shame that great ideas like this get ruined by cost cutting.