Joined on 05/09/06
Nice- OEM ??
Pros: Received my new Blu-ray burner today (3 days free shipping) again, Newegg shines . I was prepared for an OEM version, but, it was in a nice retail box complete with screws & instal DVD with Powertogo 7 and firmware update. As a PC home builder, I had all the cables and PowerDVD11 installed. Burnt my first Blu-ray dvd on Optical Quantum disc with on problem. No problems.
Cons: None so far., wish I had a spare sata power cable extension lying around so I could use my other Light-scribe burner, ordered one so I can have 2 DVD drives.
Overall Review: Just love this OEM drive in retail format, plus MIR is great. I see that is drive is "Sold-Out"
Sort of worked
Pros: Spec wise, one of the better "PCI" cards left to support is old technology. Bought it to upgrade my old GeForce 6200. Fan-less is a plus. Installed easy enough, got drivers from Nvidia web site. Worked well until I ran my Flt Sim X. See Cons.
Cons: My old GF6200, when playing Flt Sim X ran at 28-30FPS. The Sparkle card ran at 4-5FPS. Used all the same settings as the GF6200. Contacted Sparkle USA, after 2 days got a response. After 3 emails and running some tests, They decided to RMA it for me. Waiting for the replacement. They claimed to have bench tested the replacement card. Will followup.
Overall Review: Building a new PC, the MoBo has PCEe X16. Wished I had thought ahead. So if the irreplaceable GF8400GS performs, I'll stick it in the new build. Oh well.....
Raidmax comes through
Pros: Followup, from fan issue.
Cons: None.
Overall Review: Raidmax says they carry no spare parts. So I did a little further research, and found a few fans that might work. In the mean time, I installed the new PSU and got my PC up and running. Few days later, received an Email from Raidmax, that they just received a returned unit, but fan was good. They pulled out the fan and shipped it to me, and no shipping. Now that's great service.
Just what I needed
Pros: Now I can feed my digital optical audio signal (24/48) from my PC into my stereo receiver.
Cons: Absolutely none.
Overall Review: You must be sure that the signal is 2 channel - PCM, this unit will not convert surround sound which I knew. I'm using this converter send my 24/48 audio, most of which are vinyl LP's converted to digtal wav or flac format into my 2 channel stereo receiver.
Great Value
Pros: Great Value ! Considering they are "Bookshelf" very high quality sound.
Cons: None....
Overall Review: Using these speakers in-conjunction with converting my vinyl collection to digital.
Great Little CPU
Pros: Great CPU for the price. It's not i5 or even IB, but it's great. Don't do a lot of gaming , only Flt Sim. Upgraded from a Core2 Duo E8500 (OC to 3.6). So this dual core i3 was a nice improvement.
Cons: None
Overall Review: Installed this on my new Z77-D#H MoBo , also as an upgrade. Now I can wait until some of the i5-2500K's come down in price as IB is being launched, then I can move into the IB CPU's without changing MoBo's
Great tires
Have not I stalled. But specs look good.
Great product
Will carry plenty of stuff needed for long daily ride.