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Vic B.

Vic B.

Joined on 02/02/07

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140MM ??

ID-COOLING NO-14025 Big Airflow 140mm PWM Controlled Fan With De-vibration Rubber, 76.8CFM
ID-COOLING NO-14025 Big Airflow 140mm PWM Controlled Fan With De-vibration Rubber, 76.8CFM

Pros: Good fan with rubber mounting bracket to dampen vibration. Seems to run quiet for the few minutes that i ran it. This is an exhaust fan, not an input with no selection on the direction of airflow unless you mount it backwards.

Cons: The fan is a 140MM fan but the hole alignment is 120MM. If you have the room in your build it gives you a bigger fan in the same space. However, the fan is not square and the mount holes are inset so it needs some space around it to fit. This is not a 140MM fan. it is an up-sized 120MM. It will not fit a 140MM chassis mounting block.

Overall Review: Make sure you know what you are buying. This is not what it seems.

Stay Away From Gigabyte

GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ AMD 990FX + SB950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ AMD 990FX + SB950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: I would like to be able to use the motherboard to see if there are any pro's.

Cons: The motherboard has a glitch and only runs for a few minutes. I contacted tech support and after an inordinately long time got an RMA and weeks later got back the same motherboard. I sent it in for RMA another time and told them the board was defective. I got the board back again and low and behold, yup the same motherboard. How hard is it to test a board and determine a defect? Stay away from Gigabyte. They will rip you off and send back the same defective board over and over.

Overall Review: I work for a computer services company and buy dozens of motherboards for systems. i have never had the problems with a company that I have from Gigabyte. Stay away from them and go with a company with integrity.

12/22/2014

Disappointing given the name

Hanns-G 23.6" HD LCD Monitor (WLED) 5 ms 1920 x 1080 D-Sub, DVI-D HE245DPB
Hanns-G 23.6" HD LCD Monitor (WLED) 5 ms 1920 x 1080 D-Sub, DVI-D HE245DPB

Pros: Low cost for a monitor of this size. This is going into a closet as a head for multiple systems so there are very few requirements other than connectivity and price. Meets the needs...barely.

Cons: Two areas of dead pixels on first use. one a 2cm crescent shaped area and the second a 2cm horizontal slash. Image appears fuzzy and is not crisp and lacks the expected sharpness of a HANNS Monitor.

Overall Review: This is not the HANNS that i know. This is a cheap monitor that lacks any recognized features or value that traditional HANNS monitors have been known for. Spend the extra few dollars and buy a good monitor from another manufacturer. Shame on me for trying to save a few bucks and ignoring previous reviews. This one will remain a closet queen through its usable life and i will not shed any tears when it dies and is added to the scrap heap.

Total Junk

Jetway JC200S-B-JNC9MGL-525 Intel NM10 Black Mini / Booksize Barebone System
Jetway JC200S-B-JNC9MGL-525 Intel NM10 Black Mini / Booksize Barebone System

Pros: Small form factor, Inexpensive, uses off the shelf components.

Cons: Quit working after 1 day. Internal power board failed. This is not inexpensive, it is cheap. Poorly made, and not worth buying. I had modified the case to access the PCI slot so I cannot return. I will salvage the mother board and buy a better case and power supply and try again.

Overall Review: I bought this to make a Linux firewall. I did not need high performance so I thought this would suffice. I will buy better quality next time. Cheap does not equal inexpensive.

Does not work on Tyan S7020

ZALMAN ZM-CS4A Socket 1366 Clip Support Kit for CNPS9500/9700
ZALMAN ZM-CS4A Socket 1366 Clip Support Kit for CNPS9500/9700

Pros: Low Cost. Effective if it works

Cons: Only works on motherboards that allow a screw through the motherboard. The motherboard mount on my Tyan S7020 has screw threads in the motherboard. I cannot blame Zalman for this 100% but i wish they had indicated the mount type more precisely so that I could have checked before ordering.

Overall Review: it would be nice to have some standards with mounting. Each manufacturer loosley follows the standard leaving a lot of room for incompatible hardware that "works" on a socket type but is not compatible.