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Farid B.

Farid B.

Joined on 06/22/04

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Most Favorable Review

Looks awesome

Thermaltake Chaser Series Chaser MK-I (VN300M1W2N) Black SECC Extra Big ATX Tower Computer Case Support ATX PS2 Power Supply
Thermaltake Chaser Series Chaser MK-I (VN300M1W2N) Black SECC Extra Big ATX Tower Computer Case Support ATX PS2 Power Supply

Pros: Large and roomy case. It has plenty of internal drive bays for SSD's and larger hard drives. You don't need screws to install hard drive except for SSD's. Has dust filters. You can remove the top fan and mount a water cooler there. You can adjust the lights to different colors and you can even turn it off. Has USB 3.0 panel on the top of the case and with the right motherboard you can plug it in and it's fast.

Cons: The tool free bay that houses bluray and DVD burners works horribly or maybe I am doing something wrong or my drive is not compatible with the design. But the clip that hooks on to the dvd burner doesn't grip the drive well, you can move the drive if you push or pull it. I fixed this by adding two screws to the cage and that held the drive firmly and no movement.

12/10/2014
Most Critical Review

Not compatible with antec 1200 case

Rosewill RX-C200 2.5" SSD / HDD Aluminum Mounting Kit for 3.5" Drive Bay
Rosewill RX-C200 2.5" SSD / HDD Aluminum Mounting Kit for 3.5" Drive Bay

Pros: It's cheap and strong.

Cons: The screw holes are not big enough for the screws that came with the antec 1200 to mount 3.5" internal hard drives and the screw holes don't line up correctly to the internal drive bays of the antec 1200.

Not compatible with antec 1200 case

Rosewill RX-C200P 2.5" SSD / HDD Plastic Mounting Kit for 3.5" Drive Bay
Rosewill RX-C200P 2.5" SSD / HDD Plastic Mounting Kit for 3.5" Drive Bay

Pros: It's cheap

Cons: It's made of plastic and it's screw holes do not line up with the internal drive bays of the antec 1200 case.

Overall Review: I RMA it and order the icy dock ssd drive bay converter hopefully that fits and I can mount my ssd drive.

This CPU is a BEAST (in a childs body)

Intel Pentium D 805 - Pentium D Smithfield Dual-Core 2.66 GHz LGA 775 95W Processor - BX80551PE2666FN
Intel Pentium D 805 - Pentium D Smithfield Dual-Core 2.66 GHz LGA 775 95W Processor - BX80551PE2666FN

Pros: Runs cool when coupled with a Zalman CNPS9500 and undervolt slightly to 1.28V will get your proc a cool idle below 28* easily and don't forget to crank your AC to high set the temp to **. Overclocked to 3.2ghz with no voltage increases with 100% stability. It can go higher with no increase in volts. I overclocked this proc easily to 4.0ghz with 800mhz FSB just had to bump up the volts to 1.4v. Temps where a suprising cool 31-32* idle and 38-41* at 100% load.

Cons: If you do not have very good knowledge on how to overclock to 30% and be 100% stable this is not for you. You will be better of with the 930 which is also dirt cheap at Newegg for under $200.00 and has a total of 4Mb of L2 cache and 800mhz FSB. This proc can also overclock easily to 4.0 and above with much higher FSB and more cache easily outperforms the 805.

Overall Review: BUT!!! For best price for performance there is no better offer out there. Unless you find something along the lines of Electronic bay :P If only Intel would have used the good old Northwood core and increase the L2 cache to 2MB per core and stuck two of the Northwoods together and made them for LGA775 imagine how brutal the gaming performance will be compared to the Prescott PD's. As the PD's are basically two Prescots stuck together. We all know the Northwood are faster than the Prescots in games but the Prescots beat the Northwoods easily on decoding and encoding. I wonder if the Conroe chip will utilize NForce4 SLI Intel chipsets with slight moding of the MOBO? P5ND2-SLI PD805 (3.2Ghz) CORSAIR 2GB XMS2 DDR2 667@800Mhz Evga 7900gt KO (optimal overclock 550 core and 850 mem)

Solid Stable cool running PS

Antec TRUEPOWERII TPII-550 550 W ATX12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready Power Supply
Antec TRUEPOWERII TPII-550 550 W ATX12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready Power Supply

Pros: Runs a stable 3V, 5V and 11.90 rails none of the values will ever drop below .05 points. The 12V rails are even mor stable the will overvolt silghtly but never undervolt.

Cons: I wouldn't say a con, but for some less technical savvy people in without wiring skills will have a horrible looking window to their case. As this PS is loaded with every kind of connectors you will need

Overall Review: This PS maintains this stability for me while running 2* 120mm(12v) and a 90mm(12v) case fan. Including 2 raptors in raid, a 400Gb harddrive, 150Gb ide drive, 7900Gt KO, Audigy 2zs, Zalman CNS9500(running at 12V), PD805 overclocked easily to 3.6 and 2GB XMS2 667 overclocked to DDR2 800 at 1.9V.