Joined on 03/17/03
Good price-performance ratio
Pros: No problems with resolution. HDCP support. Excellent grayscale tracking.
Cons: Requires a dual link DVI cable not included with the monitor. The included cable is single link and therefore is useless.
Overall Review: Excellent and fairly accurate grayscale tracking can be had by setting contrast & brightness to 50% and setting red to 100%, green to 90% and blue to 80%. The temperature between 20 and 100 IRE is 6500K ± 100K as measured by spyder2 and HCFR. Excellent results for accurate color reproduction.
Most units are broken
Pros: none
Cons: I ordered 3 units total. The first one stopped playing tapes after a week. The other two arrived with the tape player already in a broken state.
A tablet not an ultrabook
Pros: Maybe OK for someone who's willing to spend extra on a keyboard/touchpad.
Cons: Not as described. Wrong item received.
Overall Review: Bought based on description that this is an ultrabook. Unfortunately what I got was a tablet. Returning this to get an ultrabook instead.
Very fast RAM
Pros: Able to run at a real 17GB+/sec rate. Able to run with low latency on slower systems
Cons: price
Overall Review: This is a very fast RAM. Even on systems that cannot utilize the full 2133 rate, it runs with a lower latency than other RAM. For example on the Intel NUC 2820 it is the only RAM that runs with 7-7-7 timings @ 1333. On the NUC 54250 it runs with 10-10-10 timings @ 1866.
Not compatible with NUC
Pros: Fast timings at lower speeds
Cons: Not working at 1866 in a NUC
Overall Review: I have this RAM's sister F3-2133C11D-16GRSL which works great at 1866 in a NUC. I decided to get this one for my other NUC to save few bucks, but this one does not work reliably at 1866 in a NUC. I had to drop the speed to 1600 to make it work. It might work however at advertised speeds in other systems.
Excellent media computer with slight gaming capabilities
Pros: small footprint, good looking, 4 USB3 ports, some overclocking capabilities (see details)
Cons: no voltage adjustment controls, automatic memory settings are unstable at 2133 speeds, hardware revisions prior to -104 have SATA drive detection issues with some drives
Overall Review: This is an excellent NUC for those who need transcoding capabilities in their media PCs or who like a high end office PC with slight gaming support. For those who like to tinker, there is a slight "overclock" capability. You can do two things there: 1) You can buy fast RAM (such as F3-2133C11D-16GRSL) and then manually set it up to run at 1866 with the following timings: tAA: 10, tRCD: 10, tRP: 10, tRAS: 29, tCK: 1, tRRD: 5, tRC: 38, tRFC: 249, tWR: 14, tWTR: 7, tRTP: 7, tFAW: 25. This will give you over 17GB/sec bandwidth 2) You can increase the TDP from 25W short burst / 15W steady to 35W short burst / 31W steady along with an increase in max current to 42A. This will increase your 3d Mark 11 score from ~1200 to ~1700 or about 40% increase due to 50% increase in graphics capabilities. This chip (HD 5000) has 40 cores and with 15W total to be shared with the CPU it has not enough power to fully utilize those 40 cores. By raising the limit you allow those cores to run at full speed rather than be throttled, while still allowing safe temperatures (<80C) at the expense of a much louder fan.