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Julian K.

Julian K.

Joined on 12/15/02

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Most Favorable Review

Blazing fast

Crucial M4 2.5" 512GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CT512M4SSD2BAA
Crucial M4 2.5" 512GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CT512M4SSD2BAA

Pros: Great SSD, hasn't failed yet. And man it's comparatively cheap.

Cons: Needs more cowbell?

Most Critical Review

Questionable Motherboard

GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UP5 TH LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with Dual Thunderbolt
GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UP5 TH LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with Dual Thunderbolt

Pros: Love the construction, connectivity, color, BIOS and board layout.

Cons: Does not seem to work with Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model BLT4G3D1869DT2TXOB DIMMs. Works fine with older OCZ 1600MHz DDR3. I have an open ticket with both Crucial and Gigabyte and I have faith in getting this resolved.

RAM is great, cooler does not fit motherboard.

CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4 3466 (PC4 27730) Desktop Memory Model CMK32GX4M4B3466C16R
CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4 3466 (PC4 27730) Desktop Memory Model CMK32GX4M4B3466C16R

Pros: The RAM is solid RAM supported by my motherboard's HCL.

Cons: The included cooler doesn't actually fit in my system with the motherboard and video card. Motherboard is an ASUS MAXIMUS VIII GENE and video card EVGA 980ti FTW.

Overall Review: 5 eggs if it fit, 4 eggs since it doesn't. The actual core product though is 5 eggs.

Don't be afraid

Windows 8.1 64-bit
Windows 8.1 64-bit

Pros: Faster than Windows 7. Smaller footprint than Windows 7. Fixes nuances that were in Windows 8.

Cons: Sometimes you still miss a couple things from what you were used to in Windows 7. Every so often you might see some software that hasn't yet been optimized for Windows 8/8.1

Overall Review: Once you understand how to work around Windows 8 and 8.1 you no longer miss Windows 7.

12/29/2013

Nice clean look for my PS3

Pros: Cleans up the USB cables I had charging the PS3 controllers as well as it gives me a nice neat location to store them.

Cons: Nothing that I could put my finger on that could make it better.

Great perma use flash drive

SanDisk Cruzer Fit 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive SDCZ33-016G-B35
SanDisk Cruzer Fit 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive SDCZ33-016G-B35

Pros: These drives are perfect for things like ESXi hosts or small OS drives to just leave in a machine with a very small footprint. I use one of these for ESXi, I use one of these for UnRAID and even use one for logging information and config saves on my Tomato driven router.

Cons: None