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Craig M.

Craig M.

Joined on 03/05/03

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Most Favorable Review

Good fan, terrible MIR

XIGMATEK FCB (Fluid Circulative Bearing) Cooling System Crystal Series CLF-F1251 120mm Blue LED Case Fan  PSU Molex Adapter/extender included
XIGMATEK FCB (Fluid Circulative Bearing) Cooling System Crystal Series CLF-F1251 120mm Blue LED Case Fan PSU Molex Adapter/extender included

Pros: Quiet, quality LEDs (trust me some of the cheap ones use different sources so the colors don't always match, even on the same fan). Best price I could find at the time and with a MIR for half off I was sold.

Cons: It's been almost 5 months and I still don't have my MIR. Completely worthless MIR.

Overall Review: As much as I like them I feel cheated becaue without the MIR I wouldn't have ordered. Especially since a couple of months later I got a 4 pack of similar fans for $9. I spent $24 on 2 of these.

Most Critical Review

No Nvidia boards at all

Ceton InfiniTV 4 PCIe - Quad-tuner Card for Watching Digital Cable TV on the PC, PCI-Express x1 Interface
Ceton InfiniTV 4 PCIe - Quad-tuner Card for Watching Digital Cable TV on the PC, PCI-Express x1 Interface

Pros: The technical support is excellent. I couldn't get it to install so I submitted a ticket right away. This was Saturday afternoon. They got back to me in about an hour and within 90 minutes they had told me it was because of my board.

Cons: It doesn't work with any NVidia chipsets at all. When I read the warning that it doesn't work with nForce chipsets I wasn't worried because while my Foxconn board does have an NVidia chip it was not labeled as nForce. As far as I knew the actual nForce nomenclature was phased out, so I thought it would only not work on older boards with that moniker. Nope. It doesn't work with any NVidia boards at all.

Overall Review: I happened to pick up an FM1 board for super cheap from my local computer shop, which was going out of business, the same day I installed this card. So faced with the dilemma of not upgrading and paying TiVo I ordered a quadcore A8 chip for the FM1. After reading a bunch of stuff online about how this doesn't work well with the AMD APU processors I'm worried it won't have enough horse power to work well. Once I find out I'll update this review.

Does exactly what I want

Team Group 16GB C171 USB 2.0 Flash Drive (TC17116GB01)
Team Group 16GB C171 USB 2.0 Flash Drive (TC17116GB01)

Overall Review: I bought these to allow pausing of live TV on my Roku TVs. They work perfectly so far.

Not good

MSI R9 280 GAMING 3G 384-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
MSI R9 280 GAMING 3G 384-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Pros: When it works it had no issues at all.

Cons: Installed it, booted up, ran tests, happy with improvement, sent in MiR. Go to boot again, black screen after windows. I have to shutdown and immediately boot it back up in order to get windows to fully boot.

Overall Review: I worked with there support and tested multiple AMD drivers since the standard VGA drivers had no problem booting. And they did issue an RMA but I'm supposed to pay to ship a defective out of the box part to them, wait a few weeks and get a refurb in its place? No thanks.

Mostly good

Foxconn A75M FM1 AMD A75 (Hudson D3) USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Foxconn A75M FM1 AMD A75 (Hudson D3) USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Very nice compact board, all of the features you would need for basic computing. I'm using mine in my living room as my DVR computer.

Cons: The USB 3.0 ports do not play well with either of the USB 3.0 external drives I've connected to them. They keep disconnecting. These drives work fine with my Intel desktop. I currently have a USB 2.0 drive connected and it works without issue.

Overall Review: The last bios update has the wrong date on the website, it says its 2 months newer than it actually is, a fact that has caused me to flash it at least twice since I thought the bios from the website is newer than the one I'm running.

Awesome especially for the money

CM Storm QuickFire TK - Compact Mechanical Gaming Keyboard with CHERRY MX Blue Switches and Fully Backlit
CM Storm QuickFire TK - Compact Mechanical Gaming Keyboard with CHERRY MX Blue Switches and Fully Backlit

Pros: Spectacular key action, adjustable back light, solid construction, no special drivers needed

Cons: I didn't think I'd miss it but I do miss the arrow key row, mostly because I use the delete key more than I realized. The delete key is now only available as the alternate function of that number 4. Also the 00 is nice, but for me personally I would've switched it and 0. And because of the way the lights are set up the number 2, fn and f12 don't light up. Lastly the function key is on the bottom, I don't think I've ever seen that before.

Overall Review: I miss not having a dedicated calculator key, I hardly ever used it but looking at my old Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 I miss it nonetheless. And since I've only had it a week I can't really speak to longevity, which is a contributing factor to its 4 egg rating.