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david m.

david m.

Joined on 12/11/03

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Most Favorable Review

Works out of the box.

LINKSYS WES610N-CA Dual-Band N600 4 Port Wireless-N Entertainment Bridge
LINKSYS WES610N-CA Dual-Band N600 4 Port Wireless-N Entertainment Bridge

Pros: Extends your wifi to your media devices. WPS install. Easy to install.

Cons: Wifi Protected setup. If you like to hard wire your configuration settings this will be too simple.

Overall Review: Its a little bit on the large side. Wish it was 25 % smaller and rectangular in shape.

Most Critical Review

When works its a great card but..

ASUS Radeon R9 290X 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Video Card R9290X-DC2OC-4GD5
ASUS Radeon R9 290X 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Video Card R9290X-DC2OC-4GD5

Pros: Fast for a single card with plenty of vram. Looks sharp and is customizable either red or yellow.

Cons: Very power hungry and a hot head. Very picky about working with certain drivers. Day one I installed this 6 months ago it flickered and the monitor went black. Had to pick and choose more up to date drivers for this to work in safe mode. Windows technical preview installed the wrong driver and crashed the screen as well. Forget about using beta drivers. I tried this card in two different systems with plenty of psu headroom just to be sure..

Overall Review: Was tempted to get a second card now that its on sale but why throw good money after bad. I read that RMA'ing the card is useless as they send the cards back telling you theres nothing wrong with it from previous reports. I talked to tech support and they think certain drivers don't set the screen refresh rate appropriately. Well this is a serious problem. I have even updated the firmware to the latest. Forget about resell value if the card is a dud. I like Asus as a company, esp their motherboards, but their driver support for audio and video components is fair at best. STAY AWAY!!!

Looks and feels great. Solid memory kit!

CORSAIR Dominator Platinum RGB 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Desktop Memory Model CMT32GX4M4C3200C14
CORSAIR Dominator Platinum RGB 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Desktop Memory Model CMT32GX4M4C3200C14

Pros: Whats stunning is the build quality Cas latency and frequency LED lightening effects

Cons: Very expensive - need second mortgage to afford this ram

Overall Review: At first my X99 Broadwell-E board went into an endless tailspin nosedive trying to post with these at advertised settings Had to clear CMOS and load XMP profile which worked! Last kit was a HyperX 2800mhz kit and motherboard did not like the XMP settings. So running off of a 6850K without issues! Also need to update your iCue software for it to be recognized.

Not so easy to setup!

NComputing L300 Virtual Thin Client System for Windows and Linux VDI Solution
NComputing L300 Virtual Thin Client System for Windows and Linux VDI Solution

Pros: Small form factor

Cons: Doesn't work. Might be a software compatibility glitch with the Dell Inspiron we bought but on both machines as soon as we log in to the client the main machine locks up and will lockup 5 minutes into every boot up until the software is removed.

Overall Review: They still need to work on their coding apparently. Had the L100s in the past and had no issues.

Ignore my last revew

MSI MSI Gaming X99S Gaming 9 ACK LGA 2011-v3 Intel X99 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Extended ATX Intel Motherboard
MSI MSI Gaming X99S Gaming 9 ACK LGA 2011-v3 Intel X99 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Extended ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: The last review I wrote was incorrect. There is a setting that may not have seemed so obvious to enable over clocking. Please ignore my last review. Newegg please delete it.

Cons: Complicated bios

No 3D support

Intel Pentium G3258 - Pentium Haswell Dual-Core 3.2 GHz LGA 1150 53W Intel HD Graphics Desktop Processor - BX80646G3258
Intel Pentium G3258 - Pentium Haswell Dual-Core 3.2 GHz LGA 1150 53W Intel HD Graphics Desktop Processor - BX80646G3258

Pros: Somewhat adequate to run a home HTPC box. Cheap.

Cons: No support in the iGpu for inTru 3D which is what you need to play 3D titles off of a Bluray player drive.

Overall Review: Havent tried overclocking it at all.