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Mark L.

Mark L.

Joined on 02/28/06

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Most Favorable Review

Great GFX Card

GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER WINDFORCE OC 4G Graphics Card, 2 x WINDFORCE Fans, 4GB 128-Bit GDDR6, GV-N165SWF2OC-4GD Video Card
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER WINDFORCE OC 4G Graphics Card, 2 x WINDFORCE Fans, 4GB 128-Bit GDDR6, GV-N165SWF2OC-4GD Video Card

Pros: Great value Lower power usage

Cons: Some fan noise when starting up a game

Overall Review: My PC build is about 9 years old and still kicking but the GFX was getting a bit long in the tooth. I wanted something that would allow me to continue gaming 1080P on decent settings without consuming too much power. This GFX hit the mark. A few reviewers mentioned noise. I can hear it spooling up but really don't notice much fan noise once I'm gaming. I'll probably upgrade to one of the newer RTX 3000 cards when they become more widely available and repurpose this for an HTPC build later.

11/14/2020
Most Critical Review

Not a Cross Shredder

Fellowes P-57Cs, 8 Sheet Cross-Cut Shredder
Fellowes P-57Cs, 8 Sheet Cross-Cut Shredder

Pros: Large capacity

Cons: This is not a cross shredder. It gives you rather long strips that are easy to read if you shred in the same direction as the words. The top is also difficult to handle.

Very Unreliable

OCZ Agility 3 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) AGT3-25SAT3-120G
OCZ Agility 3 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) AGT3-25SAT3-120G

Pros: Very Fast

Cons: This drive is extremely unreliable. I purchased two of these to run in a RAID configuration. First time within 24 hours one of the hard drives failed. I reset it with the intel hard drive controller and had to reinstall windows. This happened repeatedly over the coarse of a couple months before I finally convinced OCZ to take it back and give me a new one. The second drive came and worked for about 24 hours before BIOS stopped being able to detect it at all. I'm going back to the one working drive. I found some websites with recommended fixes online but the computer still crashes quite frequently even with the functional drive. The entire point of getting an SSD was to save time on boots and loading, but with the amount of time I've spent fiddling with this drive it's totally not worth it (had to stay at home from work to accept the RMA because OCZ requires signature in person).

Poor face plate

LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black IDE Model DH-20A4P-04
LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black IDE Model DH-20A4P-04

Pros: Cheap and reads disks

Cons: This device has a really poor face plate.

Overall Review: The face plate is not an issue if you don't want to change it, but if you do I'd highly recommend a different product. First off, when I took off the face plate the CD tray jammed open. It took me half an hour to fix it. When I did, it wouldn't work in my case because the botton is in a recess that prevents the case button from depressing it.