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David T.

David T.

Joined on 09/13/13

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Product Reviews
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Most Favorable Review

Great SSD

SAMSUNG 850 EVO M.2 2280 120GB SATA III 3D NAND Internal SSD Single Unit Version MZ-N5E120BW
SAMSUNG 850 EVO M.2 2280 120GB SATA III 3D NAND Internal SSD Single Unit Version MZ-N5E120BW

Pros: Great Performance Good Reliability

Cons: Newegg's 3 unit limit

Overall Review: I'm using 20+ of these SSD's in Intel NUC machines that work as thin clients. Their performance is great allowing me to image the machine in 5 minutes. They boot fast, and I have yet to run into any problems. Nice product Samsung!

Most Critical Review

Could Have Been Perfect

GIGABYTE GA-H110-D3A (rev. 1.0) LGA 1151 Intel H110 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 ATX Intel Motherboard for Cryptocurrency Mining (BTC)
GIGABYTE GA-H110-D3A (rev. 1.0) LGA 1151 Intel H110 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 ATX Intel Motherboard for Cryptocurrency Mining (BTC)

Pros: The first mining board I've tried that worked with 6 x GeForce GTX 1080 Ti's.

Cons: The M.2 slot will not recognize any drive I install. I was forced to setup the system with an old SATA drive I had laying around. Minus 2 eggs for this flaw because the mining chassis does not have space to install the 3.5" drive I was forced to use, and mechanical drives use more power and are less reliable.

Overall Review: It would have been a 5 star board had the M.2 slot recognized either drive. Both M.2 drives work fine in other boards.

Intel BOXD54250WYK NUC Kit
Intel BOXD54250WYK NUC Kit

Pros: Great performance for the price, small form factor.

Cons: Include drivers - downloading and installing the latest drivers is a great practice, but including a small usb key with drivers would have made initial setup much easier. Windows 7 does not include the NIC driver so you have to download the drivers from a different machine.

Overall Review: Well worth the money. Runs Autodesk Revit and Sketchup great.