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Matthew M.

Matthew M.

Joined on 10/01/03

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Most Favorable Review

Great Memory

GeIL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Dual Channel Kit Laptop Memory Model GX2S5300-4GDCA
GeIL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Dual Channel Kit Laptop Memory Model GX2S5300-4GDCA

Pros: This is a great set of memory. For the price, (after the $100 rebate) you can't touch this memory on a price/performance ratio. (Might not be able to anyway although I did see a major memory dealer drop their price to match this) I bought this for my m1210 running Vista Ultimate 64-bit and it runs great.

Cons: I haven't found any cons on the memory. The computer might be another story.

Overall Review: The Dell m1210 will only allow 3327mb to be used by the OS. The rest of it is used for system resources. (It does see 4096mb) Dell apparently maps out the top 500Mb of RAM space for memory-mapped PCI cards!! Another 256Mb for shared RAM for the video card and that takes care of ~750Mb of your installed memory. They use a 32-bit m/board with 64-bit processor and ran out of address space. While I don't want this to turn into a 64-bit support rant, I believe in truth in broadcasting. 3327mb is great however. I turned off the pagefile and have been getting great performance.

Very Pleased

ADATA 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model AD2U800B1G5-DRH
ADATA 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model AD2U800B1G5-DRH

Pros: I bought this memory (2 sets for a total of 4gb) for my girlfriend's Dell Inspiron 530 that I bought her for christmas. It only came with 1gb, so now she has 4gb. Although she won't appreciate it fully like I would, it pushed her memory score in vista from a 4.5 to a 5.9. All 4 sticks worked perfect right out of the package. I would recommend this memory to anyone.

Cons: None. The price was better than every other namebrand option. If I could have gotten it for the same price without the $15 rebate would have been the only thing I'd wish for.

Overall Review: I'm usually a geil/micron memory guy and I've been on an A-DATA kick lately with flash memory and computer memory. It's really good stuff.

D-Link DGS-1008D Desktop Switch
D-Link DGS-1008D Desktop Switch

Pros: Jumbo Frames, Inexpensive, Very Quiet

Cons: I haven't found any yet.

Overall Review: My old gig switch had a fan so now when I walk in I always think something is wrong because it's silent. The power flashed the other night and my other gig switch locked up and this one kept purring.