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nathaniel s.

nathaniel s.

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Most Favorable Review

Cheap

BELKIN F8E070 PC Service Tool kit
BELKIN F8E070 PC Service Tool kit

Pros: Comes with alot of tools. Anything you need to build a computer and a bit more.

Cons: very cheap materials. Screwdriver broke in half. Screw tips stripped out after a tough bout with a screw.

Overall Review: You are better off buying some real tools your going to spend double the money but they will last and you will not have to buy another set ever again(if you go with a good brand)

Most Critical Review

Great for office work.

Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5000 Laser
Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5000 Laser

Pros: LCD screen on the keyboard is slightly customizable, You are able to change the Top buttons on the keyboard to open differant programs great for useing a word program. Mouse battery life is very good for being wireless. The touch slider for Sound and zoom is nice. Software is great!

Cons: battery life on keyboard is very short (about 30 hours at a 5-6 ft range) The LCD is not backlit so you cannot see it when it's dim in the room. Get's electronical interfirance to easily by other electronic devices.

Overall Review: I would highly not recommend this keyboard for someone who plays games on PC. However I would Highly recommend this for an office worker. Having the keyboard at a desk will increase the battery life for the keyboard. Look at Manufacter web site to get the full details of the keyboard can do quite abit of stuff.

Still kicking

OCZ Agility 4 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) AGT4-25SAT3-256G
OCZ Agility 4 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) AGT4-25SAT3-256G

Pros: This drive has lasted far longer than expected considering I bought it 6 years ago now and that was around the time when SSD's were still considered pretty unreliable. It has seen 2 MoBo's Several new Video cards. Many windows install. Several new HDD's sitting beside it. This drive deserves my praise. -over 46117 hours of uptime on this drive so far used as an OS drive -only 202 reboots thus far -Over 116,572,593,424 blocks written to date -94% Drive life left* *Completely a guesswork formula but very few errors still on R/W side of things. So I expect it to keep going.

Cons: The SSD utility software that is used for this drive is kinda junk and always has been. Doesn't scale well with windows 10 DPI settings and missing quite a bit of info for the drive. There much better software out there for reading SMART information about drives now.

Overall Review: If I went back in a time capsule I would still purchase this drive. It's been rock solid since I've owned it. Currently, I wouldn't buy it since there is much better on the market for options. But I'm very impressed by OCZ and this drive. I won't shy away from looking at their SSD's in the future that's for sure. The only reason I'm looking to upgrade now is simply that I feel it's too small for me.

Nice Features

Astro Gaming A30 PC Gaming Headset - League of Legends Edition
Astro Gaming A30 PC Gaming Headset - League of Legends Edition

Pros: Headset is able to be unplugged at every point you would want which is nice if something breaks would be easy to be able to just replace a certain part. The speakers are able to be rotated 90 degrees so it will stay close to your head/ears at all times. The materials seem to be good quality, all gold plated connectors. It has a mute button right next to the mute slider switch which is great for when you need to cough or make some obnoxious noise just press a button to temp mute yourself. You can get redesigned ear phone covers even custom designed ones which is very cool, the covers are easy to change and it comes with two different ones. Good sound quality. Mids and highs sound great. Works with cell which is nice. The noise cancellation is amazing, I can listen to music very loud and it still only picks up my voice when I talk I really like that.

Cons: The only problem I have is when I hit the mute button and then let go it does not pick up my voice for about 10 sec after I release the button.

Overall Review: I'm not sure if there is something wrong with my headset or it's a common thing, but it seems when I mute the headset with the slider and other people are talking they are able to hear themselves from me, Not even sure how that is happening.

10/19/2014

Could be worse.

EVGA G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 770 DUAL SuperClocked 4GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card 04G-P4-3774-KR
EVGA G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 770 DUAL SuperClocked 4GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card 04G-P4-3774-KR

Pros: Stock boost settings are pretty good. They go up to 1201 mhz core clock for me. Customer service is great, first card had a screaming fan(bearing loud as could be.) Sent them an e-mail got a response with in 30 min. I was in the first 30 days they offered to pay for shipping both ways and replace the card.

Cons: First one was DoA bad fans. This cards fan is incredibly loud above 2000 RPM if you use a headset or have music going it's not going to bother you as much. I have a feeling it's the set up of the fans that makes it loud and not the quality of the fans. The heat! This thing runs hot it could be that the heat sync was put on poorly or something but even at idle it doesn't drop below 40 degrees, under full load it get's in the mid to upper 70's. I have a well ventilated case with several 120mm fans and 220 mm fans on it but I have never had a GPU run that hot even overclocked.

Overall Review: MSI z87 mPower mobo i7 4770k Ocz Agility 4 ssd 16 gb 2133 DDR3 Corsair 600T white Case Windows 7 x64 332.21 drivers

Great Picture quality

ASUS VG Series VG23AH Black 23" 5ms HDMI Widescreen 3D LED Monitor 250 cd/m2 ASCR 80,000,000:1, IPS Panel, Height & Swivel Adjustable with Speaker and 3D Glasses
ASUS VG Series VG23AH Black 23" 5ms HDMI Widescreen 3D LED Monitor 250 cd/m2 ASCR 80,000,000:1, IPS Panel, Height & Swivel Adjustable with Speaker and 3D Glasses

Pros: I have owned this monitor for 10 months now. The colors are very rich and bright, I have it setting next to my LG TV and it blows it away on the colors and quality of the screen. The Default menu options are actually useful where as most tv/monitors always seem to look a bit off. The swivel stand works great haven't had any issues with it at all, I could see it being a bit flimsy at times but I rotate it daily 90+ degrees and still do not have any issues. The high adjustment is pretty good as well. Can get about 5" out of it pretty easily and it has held up well so far. Easy and quick to put together and start using. Comes with a standard set of 3d glasses and a clip on set in case you wear glasses.

Cons: 3d is useless for the most part, if you own nvidia you will have to purchase additional accessories for it. Only 60hz (which I knew about going into it. And you should as well if you read the specs.) The 2d to 3d conversion they have built in only seems to add a bit of depth for what ever you're viewing. You also have to be looking at a certain range from it and have it adjusted Perfectly then it will get about 60%-70% of the screen The menu user settings were pretty lacking not much to adjust or change.

Overall Review: Cannot overclock this pretty much at all, got about 70hz and that was it. I was able to get 2560x 1440 on the screen res no problem. Though I did not try to go any higher on the screen reso. Personally I wish I would've skipped on the 3d and just got a higher hz/resolution monitor for the money. But I cannot complain it has been good so far