Joined on 01/29/07
Great for Video Rendering
Pros: Running Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 with this in a system built for video rendering and it's been great! Used the motherboard's auto overclocking to 4.2 GHz on air without any special tweaks. Full HD AVCHD video plays very smoothly and Premiere's GPU integrated effects are smooth as silk. Transcoding takes less than 1:1, which is screaming for AVCHD. I'm thrilled with this proc and would recommend it to anyone needing the horsepower. Just make sure to toss the OEM heat sink and get a real one!
Cons: Factory heat sink/fan, but if you're building a monster machine, you should never consider keeping the OEM fan.
Overall Review: Antec Three Hundred Case Intel i7-2600K Zalman CNPS11X CPU Fan Corsair Vengeance 4x4G DDR3 1600 Windows 7 64-Bit Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD4 Motherboard EVGA 015-P3-1482-AR nVidia GeForce GTX 480 Corsair CMPSU-750TX Power Supply DVD/RW and BluRay RW Drives 2 - Western Digital RE3 2T Drives (Mirrored) 1 - Seagate Barracude XT ST33000651AS (3T used as backup) Crucial M4 CT064M4SSD2 - 64G SSD for Intel SRT caching Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 The RE3s are only used for Windows and applications. All the video and temp files are located on an external array (8 1T SATA - 6 @ RAID 5 with 2 hot spares, attached via Dell PERC/6e).
Arctic Silver Great - Packing AWFUL
Pros: Arctic Silver 5 is great. Follow the instructions and don't put on too much and you'll have great heat transfer between the proc and the heat sink.
Cons: Newegg's packaging was awful!!!! The tube of Arctic Silver was just tossed in the box (box also contained motherboard, proc, ram, etc). Never did find the cap for the Arctic Silver and there were globs of the stuff all over everything. Even the "OEM" products should have all the parts (the cap) and should be in a zip-lock or other type of baggie!
Overall Review: Newegg is normally great, but you have to wonder about some of their packaging practices.
Great Printer - WPA2 Wireless
Pros: This is a great printer, both for text and photos. it is quick, but produces very sharp output. Contrary to Adam's comment about only supporting WEP, it fully supports WPA and WPA2. Mine's configured as WPA2 with AES encryption. It has a rear paper tray for photo paper or even letter size stock.
Cons: The only "Con" is also a "Pro". The rear paper tray provides a straight through path, but it does increase the depth of the footprint some.
Great Monitor
Pros: All 2,073,600 pixels work! This is a great monitor - bright colors, good contrast, sharp image. Considering the price, it's a fabulous monitor. I replaced a 14 year old 17" Sony Trinitron that was still working, but couldn't resist the Black Friday deals.
Cons: Speakers sound like little tin cans. Don't buy it for audio, buy it for video!
Overall Review: Comes with VGA and HDMI ports with VGA and HDMI/DVI cables. I have it connected to a Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT card's DVI port under Windows 7. It recognized the display without any additional software and came up fully edge to edge.
Works in Dell PE R805
Pros: Installed in Dell PowerEdge R805 and works perfectly. Using it as a Hyper-V host & it really likes the additional memory. Will get more.
Cons: None
It screams!
Pros: Just put eight of these into a Dell PE2950 running W2003 64-bit and Virtual Server. WOW! I'll say it again... WOW! Seems to be very compatible. The PE2950 recognized it and booted right up. 16G really give 64-bit W2003 enough room to do anything you want. I'm placing an order for eight more.
Cons: None. Cost is high, but then it it's high for any FB-DIMM. These units are the least expensive and they work great.
Overall Review: If you're running any sort of virtual server, Microsoft, VMware, Xen, etc. you need lots of memory. Don't scrimp. You'll never regret stuffing 16G into your server.