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Billy A.

Billy A.

Joined on 07/06/05

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Most Favorable Review

Great Monitor

Acer 23" 60 Hz LCD Monitor 5 ms 1920 x 1080 D-Sub, DVI S Series S230HL Abd
Acer 23" 60 Hz LCD Monitor 5 ms 1920 x 1080 D-Sub, DVI S Series S230HL Abd

Pros: I bought mine brand new from a local retail shop, it really is a great monitor. LED Back-lit saves on power and looks wonderful, a thin 23 inch screen, overall very light weight unit, Has DVI and Dsub aka VGA digital and analog connectors with a max resolution 1920x1080 Full HD

Cons: No HDMI, would have been a nice option to have but not really a con just more of a nice feature set that's not included. The only real con is the stands were a little hard to get locked into the monitor, it takes a little carefully placed force to get the metal plate locked into place on the monitor, could have been better documentation included on this

Overall Review: @Dave The monitors don't just sit on top of the stands they snap in place, you have to look carefully at the metal plate on the stand you will see 2 tabs at the top and 2 tabs protrude from the sides at the bottom, when your tabs are lined up in there grooves it takes a little force to get them snapped in place to there locked position, but no the monitors don't just sit on there stands you have to carefully force them in place

Good case

LOGISYS Computer Area 51 CS51WBK Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 480W Power Supply
LOGISYS Computer Area 51 CS51WBK Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 480W Power Supply

Pros: Great looking case, came in good condition, looks good all lit up, has plenty of room for accessories and good fan slots. Vents out heat well.

Cons: Only con and reason I gave this a 4 rating is and this was reviewed by another person, you don't know what sort of power supply this will come with, definetly is not the Power Supply pictured (12v 25a pictured), as the power supply that came with the case was and is not sufficient to run a SLI rig with a good graphics card with only 330 watt 12v 16a rail.

Overall Review: Good case all in all for the price, looks good for a mod'ed case, but if you plan to game it with anything decent, go ahead and pickup another power supply box to save yourself some time, I picked up a BFG 800 watt box for my SLI system.

Not sure

ECS GeForce 9600 GT 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Video Card N9600GT-512MX EDM
ECS GeForce 9600 GT 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Video Card N9600GT-512MX EDM

Pros: Worked good at first.

Cons: Not sure if it was a faulty card or the power supply that came with the case I ordered that caused this card to die.

Overall Review: I gave this a 4 because from what I saw the card worked well before, nice graphics and good performance for the buck, I would have chose a replacement but the RMA was taking far too long (UPS Ground) and each day with no PC means each day no money earned.

Bought 2 of these

PQI TURBO 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 667 (PC2 5400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model PQI25400-2GDB
PQI TURBO 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 667 (PC2 5400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model PQI25400-2GDB

Pros: Works with no issues yet.

Cons: None

Overall Review: I did use or run Kingston HyperX in my old rig and these run just as well as the Kingston which I never was into OC'ing and still really am not into OC'ing

Works well

GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Lots of Features, great price for dual SLI but I guess that given considering triple and quad SLI is out now, Im running a bfg tech 9600gt oc card with this board just fine.

Cons: None so far, but I have a Rev 2.0 board so maybe that is why there has been no cons yet. And oh its not free!!

Overall Review: The chipset is getting to be a little dated but thats a given considering the computer world, but works well and supports a broad range of cpu's and devices.

Good Drive

Pioneer Black 18X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 10X DVD+R DL 18X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 40X CD-R 32X CD-RW 40X CD-ROM 2MB Cache E-IDE/ ATAPI DVD Burner
Pioneer Black 18X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 10X DVD+R DL 18X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 40X CD-R 32X CD-RW 40X CD-ROM 2MB Cache E-IDE/ ATAPI DVD Burner

Pros: Quiet, very Quiet drive pending on what your doing, this drive adjust disc speed accordingly so if your watching a DVD movie, its very quiet or even if your playing a cd so theres no extra noise coming from the drive, but even when the drive is spinning up for fast burns its still allot quieter than the Lite On drive I had owned previously, but it seems Pioneer took the time to investing into reducing noise levels the drives emit, Im just amazed I have never had a drive this quiet before and almost had me wondering was it working, kudo's to Pioneer. I have had no problems burning with this drive as of yet, from CD's to DVD's it does its Job.

Cons: None, no cons, this drive does as advertised and works well. But will see as time moves on and the media I have used works well so far.

Overall Review: I want to state that this is an OEM product so it comes with no cables and no mounting screws, and no trial software, all you get is just the drive, thats it, but thats OEM, If you are replacing a drive and have the cables and mounting screws then its no problem, you can also get burning software from almost anywhere and sometimes thats a better option anyways.

11/16/2007