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Trung N.

Trung N.

Joined on 10/15/05

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Product Reviews
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Most Favorable Review

Stylish, well built, brighter than I thought

Icon Light SL102A Solo - Grey Pen light
Icon Light SL102A Solo - Grey Pen light

Pros: Whether on 2 or 16 lumen, I find it bright enough to work with. I'm not going to be working on ports while standing 50 ft away from the rack, so the distance and level of lighting on this pen light is perfect. Looks and feels very well built. No cheap spring inside the battery enclosure, no poorly painted parts. Pocket clip isn't flimsy.

Cons: Tad heavy, but that is due to the sturdy all aluminum build. If it were plastic I'd put light weight as a pro and plastic a con.

Overall Review: If you can get it on sale for under 16 bucks it's a great deal.

Most Critical Review

May as well be DoA

RAZER Naga Hex Wired USB Gaming Mouse - Green
RAZER Naga Hex Wired USB Gaming Mouse - Green

Pros: Lighting, looks, buttons. Light weight. DPI.

Cons: Will not boot up with my x58 SLI3 EVGA system. I own a Death Adder and Abyss from Razer and those boot up with the system fine. This Naga Hex will not boot, the lights stay dead and moving the mouse or clicking it does nothing. The only way to get this mouse to work is re-plug it into the USB slot after the OS boots up. But ask yourself, what kind of gamer wants to do that every time he boots up his PC? This mouse may as well be DOA.

Working Great, Fast as lightning

SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SRA-O ATX Server Motherboard LGA 2011-3 Intel C612
SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SRA-O ATX Server Motherboard LGA 2011-3 Intel C612

Pros: Boot time - I thought it was waking from sleep, no, it just boots that fast with Windows 10, SSD, and Xeon E5. What a beast. I love turning on the machine now. 9 to 15 seconds. ECC memory, I use 2 sticks of Crucial 8GB. So far so good. Used to need it for a database backend while I hosted an mmo. Still, good to have around and give the finger to cosmic rays. Holds up my gigantic Noctua i4 cpu cooler well. I can run that Xeon cool at all work loads. I never hear loud noise from any fans from the pc.

Cons: The labeling for the case power/reset pins was not clear. Even with manual guidebook, I had to trial and error with the case button until I got it right. I see some people mentioning lack of overclocking, mind you that this is not a gaming board. This was intended for work or hosting. Why would anyone in business mindset risk warranties overclocking. Wrong purpose, wrong board. But if we must talk gaming, it plays all my Steam games just fine, including Anno 2205 just fine even when I call in a dozen fleet of support ships, or have 3 islands fully populated and upgraded.

Over 3 years of great service.

PCM Powercom KING PRO KIN-1000AP 1000 VA 5 Outlets UPS
PCM Powercom KING PRO KIN-1000AP 1000 VA 5 Outlets UPS

Pros: I bought this thing in March 2012. It worked perfectly through storms and high wind power blips...until a month ago when could no longer smoothly and consistently transition in and out of power outage.

Cons: Warm. Annoying beeps during activate state.

Overall Review: I'm replacing mine with a Cyberpower 1500VA today, not because this powercom wasn't worth it. Just because I want to see if Cyberpower will last over 3 years compared to this thing.

Good enough for me to buy a 2nd

Wintec FileMate Swivel 32GB USB Flash Drive 3FMUSB32GWB-R
Wintec FileMate Swivel 32GB USB Flash Drive 3FMUSB32GWB-R

Pros: Capacity is above 30GB, good enough. Speed is why I went and bought a second one. It writes my 275 MB .mkv movie files with bursts starting at 30MB/s and stabilizing at 20MB/s, this is write speed from my Aspire 7741G-6426 to the stick. Read speed is 53MB/s burst and stabilizing at 30MB/s, that's from the stick to my laptop. To the people who said the cap is sharp, it is dull as a spoon. Maybe a bad batch had sharp caps? *shrug* Mine's fine.

Cons: none

Overall Review: The cap's so shiny and smooth that it may catch the attention of thieves :P