Joined on 02/02/10
A monster

Pros: Take your pick: watercooling hybrid, or air cooling. Either way, it gets the job done better than most. Insane overclocking on water. Beautiful metal design. Very sturdy and the card doesn't sag on itself. Standard G1/4 threads for barbs. Cost compared to buying a reference card and adding a watercooling block. You save money on this card plus you're left with Asus' design for a little extra phase power over reference. GPU tweak but more importantly direct GPU control through AI Suite if you have an Asus board.
Cons: It is very heavy. While the GPU board itself doesn't bend, the whole card droops a little.
Overall Review: This card does amazing at what it's supposed to. The worry amongst a lot of people when the Poseidon 780 came out was cooling performance compared to traditional waterblocks. I haven't owned a traditional waterblock and I've been trying to find tests to compare mine too but there are none. I will say that on my setup (H240x connected to my 4790K and a second 45mm thick 140mm rad), with my card cranked to 1400mhz, it doesn't get over 50 degrees on any games I play. I think when I was running benchmarks, it got as hot as 53 degrees before my fans spun up. Personally, I will never go back to any other design. The hybrid cooling solution gives me the best of both worlds and gave me time to space out of watercooling rig. If you're on the fence, it's worth it...even if watercooling is way ahead in your future, get it now and add it later.
Quality, Unique, Value

Pros: Build quality is out of this world for the price. At $200 dollars currently, if feels like it blows away the Samsung and Apple tablets that run double the price. And what do you get for double the price? This thing is far more beautiful than any galaxy or pad; with its unique and eye catching metal finish in the back and that just sings, "Touch ME!" At the same time not gaudy or neon. <br>The display is unrealistically realistic. I've had a Nexus 7 for the last two years and I loved the screen. But picking that up after holding this feels like picking up a flip phone. The screen is sharp and bright and the contrast is great. Is it the highest pixel density out there? No. But this IPS display leaves little wanting. <br>Forward facing speakers are tablet quality great. Mind you, a bose speaker instantly is better on any tablet. But this is the first tablet I've even plated with that I don't need to bluetooth it to another speaker to enjoy some quality sound. Mind you it's not party ready, but for a small crowd or working out, it's great on its own.<br>Expandable memory is huge in a market that seems to be shying away from it quickly. <br>Idle battery life is great. Went several days before charging it, because I only use it for casting and as an alarm and some light video watching. Even then, it wasn't close to dead.
Cons: Bloatware is pre installed and quite a bit of it. I'd expect an android tablet to come with chrome as it's go to browser. Why Asus feels the need to make their own? I don't know. I switched it and it's fine, I'm griping....but still.<br>Intel Atom that's been underclocked just feels....meh. If it was broadwell or Skylake, it would be enough. But the scrolling is twitchy most of the time and sometimes screens are slow to load. In this regard, the tablet suffers from bad timing. A skylake mobile processor in this tablet at this price point would make it a wrecking machine. Make it happen next year Asus. <br>Didn't mess around too much with camera. I've always felt it was a lame excuse to show everyone you own a tablet when they first came out. Take a very bad picture with a bad camera on an expensive tablet. Yuck. That was 6 years ago. Today, it's a bit more normal and tablets are more common place and smaller. Still, I don't expect much from a $200 tablet for a camera and that's what I got. Not much. Save yourself the trouble. Buy a real mirrorless camera.
Overall Review: EDIT: My initial review has changed completely over time. Running this thing day to day as a casting tablet/email and video chatting is a nightmare. The exclusion of WiFi 5Ghz is a shame as it steps this tablet down from a dream to a reality nightmare. Internet speeds are shoddy and slow. Wifi connections seem to be made of a single strand of twine, ready to break if you lay a piece of paper inbetween the tablet and router. My phone will get 80mpbs 50 feet and one floor away from the router on 5ghz connection. On 2.4ghz connection, this tablet struggles to get 6mpbs. What's worse is the data pack loss is so high, that casting on netflix will give me barely the lowest pixel quality at peak hours. When I switched to my Note 3 phone however, quality returned to UHD levels. Nvm the rest of the issues, excluding 5ghz wifi to save couple of dollars in this day and age is really very sad. It's become a paperweight for me. Light gaming and the such is fine, but every update takes so long to download, it often fails after two hours of trying. Fail asus, major fail.
Best Router I've Owned

Pros: Easy setup - I did it all from my phone. Connected, set up networks, set passwords, changed router name and password and I was good to go. FAST - I didn't know what I was missing with AC. I had a dual N150 router for a long time and was tired of my streaming programs pausing and reducing image quality. I went from 15mbps speedtest at the router to 90mpbs two rooms over. Coupled with a new chromecast and business is good. Setup was a dream and there are good features. I have the lower end model at my shop and I was able to setup a main network for employees with a hidden SSID and a guest network with a password for customers. Parental controls and bandwidth priority, it's all there.
Cons: I would have liked 3x3 MIMO
Overall Review: I bought this refurbished from another site and it's a great deal. Anyone complaining about lack of features or connectivity issues is either unrealistically picky or has no idea what the function of a router is. Best bang for buck router on the market. Sexy looking too.
Great For Mobile Processing

Pros: It's totally free...and actually in this case, they give you a dollar. Deposits are made daily. For generic processing, the price is really good. I know people getting 5% processing fees. 2.75% is great.
Cons: I've lost more than I care to admit only to find them again months later. It's quite small, but I haven't broken one yet. They just get easily buried and don't come with a pouch or case, at least not a good one.
Overall Review: Had the above reviewer read the actual description, he would have seen that this square reader is $9 but Square still gives you $10 back. YAY! Five plus two stars to make up for the other guy
Bluetooth barcode scanning

Pros: Power by easy to find AAA batteries. Come with rechargeable batteries and a USB to 12V plug charger and wall plug. You also have the option to buy a cradle where it can sit and charge more conveniently. Relatively low cost...non-bluetooth scanners go for about half the price. It's small, very small. Like fits in my slacks pocket small. Buttons have a nice tactile feedback and noise alerts to let you know when you're pressing and when your scanner has read a code. In SPP mode, it has a VIN decoder, great for automotive use.
Cons: Pairing to Windows 7 took a lot longer and was more frustrating then I ever thought possible with any bluetooth device. It was not doing what I needed it to do in HIS mode. Having installed SocketMobile's Windows program and driver, I attempted pairing. An hour later, it finally connected. I had factory reset the scanner twice and restarted my computer as well. I don't know why it had so much difficulty, but I wasn't going to try for much longer. It finally connected on one attempt. I knocked an egg off for weak pairing ability and that in default mode, there is no automatic VIN decoder (it just picked up a bunch of 1s).
Overall Review: I'm also not certain about the build quality. There isn't a whole lot of affordable or reasonably priced scanners made for the tough environment of automotive repair. When I first opened the device, everything was flush. After installing batteries, the back cover bulges a little bit. The plastic feels thick and sturdy however. Still, only time will tell if it withstands a heavy duty environment. That also being said, this tool has only one purpose in my shop currently and that's scanning VIN codes to add to our management program. Overall, once I got it working, it works quite well. I just hope I don't ever need a reason to redo the pairing process
An Incredible GPU

Pros: Beautiful design, even two years later Nice price Long lasting design from Asus and NVidia Excellent cooling
Cons: it's two generations old, which in the GPU books makes it a dinosaur. comes with no extras. all the power adapters, vga adapters, stickers...nothing but a cd, manual, and the card. which can also be a positive but I have found use for those things before.
Overall Review: Let's be honest, this card didn't break any records in it's hayday. Everyone was buying the 660ti, and this little guy was forgotten about. But I have had this card for two years and it's run everything at ultra or near ultra settings. Crysis 2, WoW, ESO, CSGO: they all ran flawlessly. With the mail in rebate, this card is a really good deal at $120. It also overclocks really well. If you don't have the extra money for a 960, this is a great card and will last you a long time. It's been retired for a 970, this review is just a swan song for a great video card that I know a lot of my WoW friends still use.
Item Received, Timely, Accurate
Ordered A/C Hoses w/ gauges and I got it within the week. It was the correct item. I was fairly satisfied with them.