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Joe V.

Joe V.

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Easy upgrade

Adaptec 8405 (2277600-R) PCI-Express 3.0 x8 High Port Count SAS / SATA RAID Adapters
Adaptec 8405 (2277600-R) PCI-Express 3.0 x8 High Port Count SAS / SATA RAID Adapters

Pros: * Super easy upgrade from an Adaptec 6405 to this. Just plug the card in, attach the internal cable (once you have it), attach the cables to your drives in whatever order, the card determines what the correct order is automatically and asks you to confirm. * Twice the cache of the 6405

Cons: * Doesn't include the cable that's needed. You local electronics store most likely doesn't have the cable for sale (mine didn't) so you'll probably want to grab it from Newegg while you're here. * There seems to be some kind of bug with the card, or maybe it's my system, but when I do a soft reset or soft reboot, the card doesn't re-detect the drives. Never had that problem with the 6405.

Overall Review: The internal connector is SFF-8643 and my drives are SFF-8482, so the cable I opted for is "ADAPTEC 2280100-R 0.8M INT MINI 4SAS HD SFF-8643 TO 4XSAS SFF-8482 FAN-OUT CABLE". Adaptec has a cable chart on their site somewhere.

Much better now

TRENDnet TEW-828DRU AC3200 Tri Band Wireless Router
TRENDnet TEW-828DRU AC3200 Tri Band Wireless Router

Pros: 1) 802.11ac is fast and has much better range than standard 5.0 Ghz. My Roku 4 is about 50 feet away in my living room, connected by 802.11ac, and it says the signal is excellent. 2) Seems to be fairly stable now. No more daily resets.

Cons: 1) Needs a better way of changing settings. Once you make changes on any given page, you have to apply those changes which takes about 20 seconds to complete. It would be nice if would behave more like a desktop application where you would just click Apply and that's it. In the end this isn't really a big deal because how often are you going to be in there making changes?

Overall Review: This is a revised review. I was having to reboot my router daily and was getting ready to RMA it when I decided to try Support's steps to reset the router again. Now it's rock solid. If you're wondering what I did: 1) Re-flash the most recent BIOS (1.0.5 at the time) 2) Backup the router config to an external file 3) Hold the reset button for 10 seconds At this point they asked me to reapply the config, but wanting to start as fresh as possible, I just changed the settings again manually. I think resetting the unit after the flash was the trick because they said it will "finalize the firmware upgrade" though it does also reset the settings to defaults. Anyway, it worked. It's been running for over 2 weeks without a problem now, plus I've upped the BIOS to 1.0.6 and had no issues with that at all.

Huge monitor

lenovo ThinkVision LT3053p Black 30" 6ms (GTG) WQXGA HDMI Widescreen LED Backlight LCD Monitor AH-IPS 300 cd/m2 1000:1
lenovo ThinkVision LT3053p Black 30" 6ms (GTG) WQXGA HDMI Widescreen LED Backlight LCD Monitor AH-IPS 300 cd/m2 1000:1

Pros: 1) It's huge. 2) No dead pixels.

Cons: 1) Cost. 2) Black levels aren't completely black, especially towards the corners.

Overall Review: I bought this as a replacement of my 27-inch 1920x1200 monitor which finally fritzed out after about 5 years of use. 1920x1200 seems to be an endangered species these days so I decided to up my resolution. I'm glad now that I went with this resolution but at the time I was a bit scared that it was going to a) negatively impact the framerate of my games and/or b) make my 40+ year old eyes have to squint to make out the text. Neither seems to have come true. These are my current system specs: Intel Core i7 4771 Asus Z87-PRO Nvidia GTX 690 G.Skill F3-1600C9-8GXM (x4) The only negative to this monitor is having to get used to the backlight bleed that comes with the LED backlight. This is the first LED monitor I've ever owned and thought it might be defective at first. On colored or lighted areas the picture looks absolutely crisp and brilliant, but when you view a dark area you start to see white backlight bleed in the corners and to a lesser extent across the entire screen. You kind of get used to it eventually, though, and as I said you don't see it at all when the screen is colored. I'm viewing the monitor at the same distance as my 27-inch so that might have something to do with it as well. Still, playing games in 2560x1600 vs 1920x1200 is really nice.

11/26/2013

Rock solid

EVGA 017-P3-1298-AR GeForce GTX 295 FTW Edition 1792MB 896 (448 x 2)-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
EVGA 017-P3-1298-AR GeForce GTX 295 FTW Edition 1792MB 896 (448 x 2)-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

Pros: Extremely fast without the need for water cooling Micro-stuttering is no longer the issue that it was with earlier releases of the 295

Cons: Other than price, nothing

Overall Review: This is the second 295 I've owned. The first one was bought about nine months ago and was promptly returned due to the 'micro-stuttering' caused by the dual GPU architecture. Even games like World of Warcraft would stutter when you did a sudden 180. That's no longer the case. If you want an over-clocked card but don't want to deal with water cooling, this is the card you want.

Big and Fast

WD My Passport Essential SE 750GB USB 2.0 2.5" Portable Hard Drive WDMET7500TN
WD My Passport Essential SE 750GB USB 2.0 2.5" Portable Hard Drive WDMET7500TN

Pros: It's about 3 times the size of the last Passport drive I bought and that was only a little over a year ago. Unlink my previous Passport, this one is fast when it's formatted as NTFS. The previous one acted like it had to buffer writes before it committed them.

Cons: It isn't really 750 gigs, it's 698 gigs. I understand with flash drives that's to be expected since the flash controller has to allocate space of its own on the drive in order to keep track of all the block states, but still, they shouldn't include that amount of space in the listed specs since you can't actually use it. But I'm not blaming Newegg for this discrepancy, no I blame WD.

Overall Review: Guess I should've looked at the picture more closely because the drive itself is not black, it's grey. Oh well. I'm still quite satisfied with the drive. Huge improvement over its predecessor.

Expensive but worth it

Corsair P128 2.5" 128GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CMFSSD-128GBG2D
Corsair P128 2.5" 128GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CMFSSD-128GBG2D

Pros: 1) It's completely silent, obviously. 2) It's fast. 3) No moving parts, so it's expected to last a good while. 4) No drivers needed, at least in Windows 7. The OS treats it like any other drive.

Cons: 1) Price per gigabyte. 2) Physial size was unexpectedly small. 3) Takes a little getting used to not hearing any drive activity at bootup. 4) Drive is so small it won't fit in a standard sized drive bay and there is no equipment included to fit it to one.

Overall Review: I've been using this as a system drive running Windows 7 x64 RTM for a few weeks now with no hiccups. The drive itself is pretty small compared to a standard spindle drive, I'd say about half the dimensions of one. When I opened the box, I mistook the drive itself for being the manual until I realized there was nothing else in the box. That's the drive. I actually dropped it by accident just after I got it out of the box. Didn't phase it at all, apparently. Having booted from spindle drives for close to two decades now, booting from this completely silent SSD drives was a trip. You kind of get the impression that you're logging into a computer that's in another room because you can't hear any drive noise at all. As far as speed, I'd say booting up is about twice as fast. I haven't noticed any CPU usage issues from driver overhead or anything like that from using this drive.

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