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James b.

James b.

Joined on 05/10/08

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Most Favorable Review

The White Angel Of Your Dreams!

NZXT SWITCH 810 White CA-SW810-W1 Steel / Plastic ATX HYBRID Full Tower Gaming Computer Case
NZXT SWITCH 810 White CA-SW810-W1 Steel / Plastic ATX HYBRID Full Tower Gaming Computer Case

Pros: Sweet Carols Are sung about this Case - This thing is a full tower so expect it to be quite tall and measure where you are placing this bad boy. - Its white - Lots of dust filters on this case ( total of 4 filters ) - If you want to water cool I'm pretty sure you are going to have the room for it with all this space. ( Don"t really water cool ) - The cable management is overall great with this case. Can pretty much hide anything in it. - Comes with a free hot swap-able bay ( which I missed on the overview of the case ) - Big fan of the CPU cutout on the back plate for when I do intend to put a corsair CPU water cooler on since you will have to put a plate on the back to make it work - Now I know not having a fan controller with this case could be a con but come on guys... Really really just buy one - I love the white leds on the back of the I/O plate makes it look very nice!

Cons: Now for the bad news - When hiding cables the back panel seems like it needs another 1/2 a inch to fit everything well. ( Just a preference I would like to have, still can fit everything nicely ) - The hard drive bays are a little wonky and a little to remove, but if you just pull them out like 20-30 times they should good - Might have to get some longer power cables if you want it to look really nice! -Not a fan of the no hinge design front door. Coming from one with it I'm just not a fan of it. But I like seeing all my expensive components in the giant window of the case. - I get that the fan in the case by the hard drive bay is to control air flow, but I don't like it one bit. I actually removed the fan a re purposed it to the top to have a pull config ( for the time being until the CPU water cooler. Then ill probably but it in the front. - One thing to note as others have as well is the screws for your PCI cards. As said they are a little hard to put in and honestly if you can find replacements then do it cause they really do not screw in well.

Overall Review: I really wanted a high quality white case to match my 2 ASUS VX238H-W monitors and this won the fight of the others. Even though I listed a lot of cons this is more of a bring to your attention kind of cons then actually bad. Since overall this case is the best I've owned to date ( not the best I have worked on, but that was a $400 dollar case so it had better been a case made out of marble ) I would also like to note that getting the NZXT power supply deal during the Christmas time saved me as much as a power supply that would not have match to this case at a great price and seems to be the only white power supply I have found. Happy Case shopping Folks! P.S. Buy this case.

12/27/2013
Most Critical Review

DOA

WD Red Plus 2TB NAS Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM Class SATA 6Gb/s, CMR, 64MB Cache, 3.5 Inch - WD20EFRX
WD Red Plus 2TB NAS Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM Class SATA 6Gb/s, CMR, 64MB Cache, 3.5 Inch - WD20EFRX

Pros: Would be a awesome drive to have installed for the money.

Cons: Would have bought more if it wasn't my inner IT saying buy one to test them...

Overall Review: Seems like many people are experiencing dead drives this holiday season. Personalty I think it was how they shipped mine and maybe others. I mean putting it in a anti-static bag and some puffy bubble wrap.

12/27/2013

Yellow brick road

XPG V2 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model AX3U1600W8G9-DGV
XPG V2 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model AX3U1600W8G9-DGV

Pros: - Yellow - Okay ram - It works

Cons: - Now I'm only saying this since someone else bought theses for me but for the price of them with other sticks you can do better

Overall Review: - It comes at a nice votage and is really good ram but my board comes with higher OC frequency and would have liked 2133 rated ram at this price

12/27/2013

Great Card

MSI N770 Lightning G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 770 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card
MSI N770 Lightning G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 770 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card

Pros: -Nice yellow card to match there MPower board's - Its a screaming great of a card if you get at the right price - I like all the overclocking ability to match my overclock build - Its also really quite

Cons: Okay this needs to be said Why on earth would you put a yellow card with blue LED's on it. Not many people are going to have a yellow blue color scheme. And to top it off at the time of writing this review you are unable to turn them off. I swear the day when you can turn them off will be the day I'm a happy camper. Because of this it has ruined my whole color scheme of my build. Worst part also is it looks like the LED's are hardwired into the card it's self, and looks like no soldering can save me from changing them out. For real though MSI please give support on Nvidias led visualizer so i can change this.

Overall Review: For real though great card If yellow and blue is your color go for it....

12/27/2013

Awesome Price at the time

ASUS 23" LCD Monitor 1ms (GTG) 2 x HDMI, D-Sub, DVI-D (Via HDMI) VX238H-W
ASUS 23" LCD Monitor 1ms (GTG) 2 x HDMI, D-Sub, DVI-D (Via HDMI) VX238H-W

Pros: - Very nice white monitors - Comes with cables and the monitor - It works! Nothing to amazing to note on other then what has been said before by others

Cons: - Now I ordered 2 of these's since that's all I could order at the time. But when put together there are some noticeable differences between them. One is set at a different height then the other so OCD is kicking in for me because of that and it sands on bills to make it even on my nice and tidy desk... Also there is a brightness difference between them. Now I'm not to sure since I haven't hooked up the other monitor to HDMI and is using VGA. One is at a way greater level of brightness and I have to turn it down to make it match. - As others have noted when the HDMI monitor goes to sleep it puts it on a bright blue screen when at night is not so great. - Its advertised as a D-sub "AND" DVI connector but that is not the case. It comes with a adapter which is just not right for them to advertise it like this. Lucky I looked at the pictures to see this is something that is not true for theses.

Overall Review: I got the white ones to match my white everything

12/27/2013

Highly reviewed

SAMSUNG 840 EVO 2.5" 500GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-7TE500BW
SAMSUNG 840 EVO 2.5" 500GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-7TE500BW

Pros: - Its a SSD ill be a Non IT's uncle if this didn't perform - It works has a reliable rate of read and write from what I've seen in tests -Takes windows 8.1 with quick boot option on my mother board about 8 sec's to boot (at the moment with out any program start ups to slow it down)

Cons: - Cant think of any!

Overall Review: - I have to say every time I hold a SSD I'm just amazed at how light theses things are (and how expensive they are)

12/27/2013