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Andrew A.

Andrew A.

Joined on 01/21/08

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Product Reviews
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Most Favorable Review

Good lights if you can get them to stick.

LOGISYS Computer CLK12WT2 12" Dual White Cold Cathode Kit
LOGISYS Computer CLK12WT2 12" Dual White Cold Cathode Kit

Pros: Nice and bright. Clean white color very neutral color temp. They work well until ...

Cons: ... they fall off. The velcro squares that come with the kit for mounting in your case or predetermined location of choice are completely and utterly pointless unless you want to continuously reattach the tubes every 15 mins when they fall off. The person who designs and sells proper mounting brackets for these will make a fortune.

Overall Review: I fried the ballast when I hooked them up to my car as lights for in the trunk. Purely my fault did not use a voltage regulator. *palm in face*

Most Critical Review

Good RAM Bad Heat Spreader

Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model 994043
Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model 994043

Pros: Nice RAM sticks. Work well no problems so far. Latency of 8 running at 1.5 stock is pretty nice. Promises to OC well when I get to it. Plays nice with ASUS Z77 mobos.

Cons: The heat spreaders are horribly designed. They will not help dissipate heat that well because the metal is so thin and because they are more likely to just block proper airflow than do anything else. In addition, the heat spreaders are attached with thermal pads that will not withstand much pressure before falling off for example when you are trying to slot them in your mobo.

Overall Review: Lets just say that I spent a lot of time swearing at the person who designed the heat spreaders. Other than that they work quite nicely.

Speed Demon

HyperX 3K 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (Stand-Alone Drive) SH103S3/120G
HyperX 3K 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (Stand-Alone Drive) SH103S3/120G

Pros: Super quick, came with a $35 rebate when I bought it, hooked up no problem (with a working motherboard at least), no need to install any drivers or firmware to recognize this drive at least on the ASUS Z77 line of motherboards.** Plus this drive is advertising data speeds of up to 555 Mbs per sec!

Cons: None so far *knock on wood*

Overall Review: The 2.5" to 3.5" adapter could have been a matching color and not so ... blue, but I suppose I'm just looking for something to complain about now. ** Can not say that I recommend the ASUS Z77 line of motherboards went through 2 boards before getting one that works. Using a Z77 Sabertooth right now with no issues, so far.

Great Board (Potentially) 2.5 eggs

ASUS P8Z77-V LK LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
ASUS P8Z77-V LK LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

Pros: This board is packed with a load of nice features. Smooth BIOS. Runs whatever RAM you throw at it with no problems. Nice coloration. USB + SATA 3.0 are very nice to have.

Cons: Board shipped with non functional SATA 3.0 ports which really defeats the purpose of buying this board. Luckily no bent CPU pins though. Not really a major con, rather an inconvenience, some types of RAM will be "Auto" recognized as a slower speed until changed in the BIOS, not too big of a problem.

Overall Review: Make sure you update the bios as soon as you get it, the new version is much better than what it ships with. RMA through Newegg was smooth, ASUS was ok when I called the Tech Support but I could tell the guy was reading off of a note card.