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Patricia R.

Patricia R.

Joined on 01/05/11

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Seagate 750GB Expansion Portable Hard Drive USB 3.0 Model STBX750100 Black
Seagate 750GB Expansion Portable Hard Drive USB 3.0 Model STBX750100 Black

Pros: 750gb USB 3, doesn't require external power I've had transfer speeds up to 120 MB/s with a normal hard drive It's lasted a year so far.

Cons: None

Overall Review: I like to open up external drives to see what brand of hard drive is actually in the drive... This one has a Samsung drive in it.

Pretty good, but a little odd.

Lenovo IdeaPad Y510p (59390909) Intel Core i5 4200M(2.5GHz) 6 GB Memory 1 TB + 8 GB SSHD Hybrid Drive 15.6" Gaming Laptop Windows 8
Lenovo IdeaPad Y510p (59390909) Intel Core i5 4200M(2.5GHz) 6 GB Memory 1 TB + 8 GB SSHD Hybrid Drive 15.6" Gaming Laptop Windows 8

Pros: Good processor 1080p Screen Dual 750m's capable of running games very well Full Backlit Keyboard, including numpad, which has two levels of brightness Speakers are pretty good for a laptop 2 USB 3.0 ports, and an always on USB 2 HDMI and VGA SD Card slot Gigabit Ethernet

Cons: GPU underclocks a LOT LOT when you are running on battery power, which saves some battery power. Weird issues with Explorer randomly freezing and restarting Battery isn't too great, but that was expected No media keys, just volume keys with the Fn modifier. For some reason, my main graphics card is underclocking itself even while the charger is plugged in, randomly going up and down from 940mhz to 135mhz, which is pretty annoying while I'm trying to play games.

Overall Review: This is a very good gaming laptop for the price, I generally use it for World of Warcraft, or Skyrim/Oblivion and now Battlefield 4, all of which it runs pretty nicely at reasonably high settings. I haven't tried the Geforce Experience recommended settings because I'm overly paranoid about heating, since it's a laptop it doesn't have as much cooling power as my desktop did. Running skyrim will get the cpu and gpu's running up to around 150F, with settings on high at 1080p. The screen looks pretty nice, and is reasonably bright. Ethernet is gigabit, but I'm usually just using Wi-Fi. Windows 8 isn't a huge deal for me, since I have already gotten used to it on my old pc, it has it's pro's and cons but using Start8 I can ignore a couple of those cons. I would definitely buy again.

Pretty good

RAIDMAX HYBRID 2 RX-630SS 630W ATX12V V2.2/ EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Modular Power Supply, New Version with Build-in LED Fan On/Off Switch
RAIDMAX HYBRID 2 RX-630SS 630W ATX12V V2.2/ EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Modular Power Supply, New Version with Build-in LED Fan On/Off Switch

Pros: I've had this for around 2 years, and just bought a second for my brother's computer. It has been running reliably for all the time I've had it, and everything i had in my pc worked properly with no power issues. Modular is a huge bonus, except I lost a couple of cables that I didn't really need.

Cons: None that I can think of.

Overall Review: For my brother's computer, it is powering an Intel i5 2500, and a Radeon R9 270x. In my computer, it powered an Intel i5 3570k and a Radeon HD 6850, able to overclock the cpu pretty easily.

Great Hard Drive

Seagate Desktop HDD ST1000DM003 1TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Seagate Desktop HDD ST1000DM003 1TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Runs quietly, fast enough for me

Cons: None that I can think of

Overall Review: I've owned one of these for over a year now, and it hasn't given me any problems, or clicking noises, or corruption errors. I just recently bought another one to put into another computer build, and it has been running great as well. Highly recommendable as an affordable hard drive.

Great Monitor!

ViewSonic 23" LED Monitor 5 ms D-Sub, DVI VA2342-LED
ViewSonic 23" LED Monitor 5 ms D-Sub, DVI VA2342-LED

Pros: Bright LED backlight, great colors, good gaming performance, DVI and VGA connections, decent contrast

Cons: Mine has some weird issue with the edges of windows and some shapes fuzzing up when I move them

Overall Review: I'm using a cruddy and old DVI cable which is what I think is the issue above, so not going to dock an egg for that. Also, UPS had a sub driving the day mine was delivered and dropped it off at the abandoned house beside me :/ But I found it and everything has worked out since then.