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Christopher K.

Christopher K.

Joined on 07/20/05

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Most Favorable Review

Amazing Little Board

GIGABYTE GA-B150M-D3H (rev. 1.0) LGA 1151 Intel B150 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-B150M-D3H (rev. 1.0) LGA 1151 Intel B150 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Windows 7 installed in under 10mins on the M.2 ssd that I ordered with it. Runs flawlessly for the environment that it's put in (small business workstation). Being able to build a small yet extremely potent workstation was key in choosing this board. All the features make it quite an amazing little board

Cons: None.

Most Critical Review
Corsair Force 2.5" 240GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-F240GB2-BRKT-A
Corsair Force 2.5" 240GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-F240GB2-BRKT-A

Pros: Fast, but it's an SSD, so what do you expect?

Cons: Motherboard had a few issues with recognizing it as a boot device, but I'm holding Windows as the main culprit on that one.

Awesome

DELL Alienware M18x (AM18X-6731BAA) Notebook Intel Core i7 2630QM(2.00GHz) 18.4" 8GB Memory DDR3 1333 1TB HDD DVD±R/RW NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M SLI
DELL Alienware M18x (AM18X-6731BAA) Notebook Intel Core i7 2630QM(2.00GHz) 18.4" 8GB Memory DDR3 1333 1TB HDD DVD±R/RW NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M SLI

Pros: Best desktop replacement out there. Fast, can boot up and run any game out there. Boot up takes about 10 seconds, which for Hybrid drives is pretty nice.

Cons: Sadly, the ONLY hybrid drives out there are made by Seagate....but hopefully they'll outlast everything else Seagate makes.

Overall Review: Best desktop replacement available.

Pretty Fast

Hitachi GST Deskstar 5K3000 HDS5C3020ALA632 (0F12117) 2TB 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Hitachi GST Deskstar 5K3000 HDS5C3020ALA632 (0F12117) 2TB 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Definitely a quick drive for being 5400rpm. Read speeds of 150mb/s sustained. Mind you this is on a sata 6gb/s connection.

Cons: None so far

Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case with Upgraded USB 3.0
Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case with Upgraded USB 3.0

Pros: Case is amazing. The 2 exhaust fans really help keep the hot air out and the cool air in. Definitely a great case to start out building a high end media/gaming system on.

Cons: Only con is the psu being on bottom, makes the wiring a bit of a pain.