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michael h.

michael h.

Joined on 06/04/06

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Most Favorable Review

AWSOME!

MSI GeForce 7900GS 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Support Over CLock Edition Video Card NX7900GS-T2D512E-OC
MSI GeForce 7900GS 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Support Over CLock Edition Video Card NX7900GS-T2D512E-OC

Pros: its a Nvidia, 512mb ddr3, the overclocker and the other things are in your desktop properties, gives you selections for how you want the graphics card to run,for office, for games, or for photos, with a 550 core clock speed and 1400 ramdac and able to over clock it to higher numbers than that, the graphics card i had before this was a Asus en7600 the 512mb fanless VGA Card i could run oblivion at 19FPS while idle, but this baby runs it at full settings and at 39FPS, and there is such a differench in quality of the textures, the fan makes less than 24.6 Dba because I cant here it over my case fans. even though this is the cheapest 512 with the fancy stuff on it it still delivers what i want, my asus ran WOW at 75FPS idle, i wounder what this will run it at?

Cons: None that i can see

Overall Review: if you updated the previous VGA card on your computer, make sure that when installing You will see a notice saying "the drivers you are installing are older than the ones in the folder" or something close to that click yes otherwise your VGA card is not fully intalled and you end up resetting you desktop resolution everytime you log on your computer. if something goes wrong i will write another review. NEWEGG ROCK 1 DAY SHIPPING AND RUSH PROCESSING! PURCASED ON MONDAY GOT IT ON WENDSDAY!!!:)

Most Critical Review

update drivers first

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card 100225L
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card 100225L

Pros: it allows hd compatability on my monitor, also runs oblivion faster than my 7900GS

Cons: the failure of my drivers while playing oblivion cheesed me off, if i have to restart my computer cause my graphics driver stopped working and wouldn't recover.

Overall Review: i wounder if ATI really tests their products before sending it to their partners if i almost RMA'ed it back and bought an better brand (like i need to say the name)cause of the fact my better overclocking program does not work now:( i get an Rundll 32 error message everytime my computer starts up. i know i already wrote a review, but man after i installed it the only thing i know now is the only working thing is the HDCP capability.

its on fire

AMD Phenom II X3 720 - Phenom II X3 Triple-Core 2.8 GHz Socket AM3 95W Black Processor - HDZ720WFGIBOX
AMD Phenom II X3 720 - Phenom II X3 Triple-Core 2.8 GHz Socket AM3 95W Black Processor - HDZ720WFGIBOX

Pros: this sucker is not too far off from the PII X4 940 just one processor short and underclocked. exept that means each processor has more of the cache available. this thing boots vista ultimate 32-bit at a insane speed compared to the phenom 9500 i previously owned. have not tried gaming on it. but i bet with the right VGA card this thing will treat high end games like a ten year old game. i have this thing to 3GHZ right now. could up the FSB but not up to it.

Cons: was not free. other than that?......................................................cant think of any.

Overall Review: BIOSTAR TA790GX A2+ 8GB of kINGSTON hyperX ram 1TB seagate barracuda 7200RPM HDD LG Blu-ray Disc drive. AFTERMARKET Zerotherm CPU cooler.

I Like It I Love It.

BIOSTAR TFORCE TA790GX A2+ AM2+/AM2 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
BIOSTAR TFORCE TA790GX A2+ AM2+/AM2 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: hybrid crossfire, 790GX, AM3 ready and AM2+ 45nm CPU ready. has nice overclocking features. got my 9500+ Phenom at 2.49 GHZ. but dont want to push my processor.

Cons: for whatever reason will not run my 4 sticks of kingston ram at the specified !066.

Overall Review: want 45nm processor now, but got to wait till april for the AM3 3.0 GHZ CPU. has long has i get the black version i will love it.

ahead of the game

Seagate BarraCuda 7200.11 ST31000340AS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive
Seagate BarraCuda 7200.11 ST31000340AS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: it has a 1000 gigabites of space, raised my vista index score from 5.1 to 5.9 where the rest of my hardware was scored at. i saw a 300gb 10000 RPM for 90$ more and thought might has well buy this and wait for prices on 10k rpm drives to drop.

Cons: i seem to have a problem getting my old SATA drive to work with this one as soon has i plug it in this drive will not show up in windows under my computer, though when installing vista the drive shows, but when i select it it gives me an error, im going to try to buy a external exclosure for the old drive and hope it will show up then,cant think of what to fill this drive with.

Overall Review: other than the fact that there was a jumper on the drive which i heard was to control between 1.5GB a sec or 3GB a sec. it was a royal pain in the but to get the jumper out and when i did i destroyed the jumper, and had to take one from my old IDE opticle drive, and replace it. which even then it acted funny a bit.

Took a bit to get the right settings

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card 100225L
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card 100225L

Pros: its a 512mb DDR4 vga card just has long, maybe a bit longer. than the 7900GS i was replacing, dont need a case for a 13" wide motherboard, temps are just the same has what my 7900 was at 45. is HDCP compatable able to get my monitor to 1080p HD makes me want another one if not a x2 version.

Cons: some things will not start up like MSI duel core center. doesnt seem to want to auto clock at all on my computer. price drop after purchasing it GRRRR! and obviously will not make the hottest girls attracted to me :(

Overall Review: the tower my parts are in is a sunbeam transformer case, and there is still room between the Harddrive rack and the VGA card.