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David M.

David M.

Joined on 04/15/04

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Most Favorable Review

Best AMD AM3 board out right now.

GIGABYTE GA-790FXTA-UD5 AM3 AMD 790FX USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-790FXTA-UD5 AM3 AMD 790FX USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: This board was built with overclockers in mind;3-way Crossfire, OC ram to 1866, USB3/SATA3 gbps, along with tons of plugs for both, good bandwith allocation for PCI-ex lanes using usb3/sata3, and duel bios. There are power/reset switches built directly into the board, this is IMMENSELY useful for trouble shooting.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: Excellent board, never tried Gigabyte before (always an ASUS fan), needless to say I'm not going back.

Most Critical Review

Good Price

Western Digital Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Western Digital Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Lots of space for the price.

Cons: Had to RMA, drive was defective on arrival. Constantly clicked, slow to access programs, extremely loud rumble when read/write. Only deducted 2 eggs because of the minor inconvenience never had a problem with WD before this one.

Overall Review: I guess it's the luck of the draw, sometimes you get a dud. Hopefully the new drive works out of the box without problems.

Underrated and surprisingly good.

EVGA Z97 Stinger (111-HR-E972-KR) Core 3D LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard
EVGA Z97 Stinger (111-HR-E972-KR) Core 3D LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Excellent overclocking ability. -3 onboard 4pin fan headers. -Rear I/O CMOS clear button (invaluable for overclocking) -Onboard debug LED & temp monitor. -Onboard power & reset buttons. -Rear I/O is free of DVI/VGA legacy inputs (could be a con for some) -UEFI bios is very clean and easy to navigate. Some thing that aren't mentioned on the specs sheet: -Removable BIOS chip. -6 phase digi-power -Headphone amplifier (MAX97220 which is DirectDrive line) -Z97 chipset (supposedly CPU is upgradeable to broadwell when released) -10 layer PCB

Cons: -Creative Sound Core3d buggy drivers (see other thoughts) -Included manual is very generic (seems to be designed to cover the whole EVGA lineup -stinger/FTW/classified) -No included mSATA WiFi/bluetooth combo card (no included wifi on mITX? I guess they had to save costs somewhere) -Only 4 SATA ports (how many do you really need in an SFF build anyways?)

Overall Review: Overall the board exceeded my expectations. You can tell by the features what this board primarily focuses on - overclocking. It has an excellent power phase design for overclocking (I was able to achieve 4.7Ghz @ 1.35v stable on a Pentium G3258 4.2Ghz uncore & 2133 on ram). Aside from the Asus Impact VII, the z97 stinger has the highest quality power phase design that I've seen. The only major issue I had with the board so far is after initial instillation and updating the drivers on Creative's sound core3D I lost sound output to my front speakers, to fix this I had to rollback my drivers. However, creative's newest driver release has fixed this, but this isn't EVGA's fault more of a driver issue with creative. Otherwise the sound on this board is distinctly better than most other onboard options, and the headphone amp (not listed in the spec page) was a huge surprise major bonus - it drives my ATH-A700s nicely =). I would definitely recommend this board to any SFF overclocking enthusiast.

Great tablet

ASUS Google Nexus 7 ASUS-1B16 NVIDIA Tegra 3 1.20GHz 7" 1GB Memory 16GB Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) Brown Tablet PC
ASUS Google Nexus 7 ASUS-1B16 NVIDIA Tegra 3 1.20GHz 7" 1GB Memory 16GB Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) Brown Tablet PC

Pros: Purchased to store ebook textbooks (since they're cheaper) and to use a a pseudo-wifi phone w/gvoice. -Cheap -Lightweight -Perfect size for large hands.

Cons: -Doesn't have a slot for microSD (although this can be solved with ROOT and an OTG cable) -No front camera -A little slow loading large PDF files.

Overall Review: -Great when I purchased it, will definitely stick with the Nexus line for future purchases.

Purchased to protect 1st gen nexus 7.

Bundle Monster 12in1 Case Charger Cable Accessories for Google Nexus 7 Tablet BK
Bundle Monster 12in1 Case Charger Cable Accessories for Google Nexus 7 Tablet BK

Pros: Does what it's intended for. Very good price for what you get.

Cons: Styles is very cheap quality.

Overall Review: After about 1 year the case is showing signs of wear. Not really a con since I''ve really beat the thing up, but my nexus 7 looks like new.... So it's done a very good job protecting my tablet!

Works with 1st gen nexus7

Micro USB OTG to USB 2.0 Adapter
Micro USB OTG to USB 2.0 Adapter

Pros: Purchased to hook up a flash drive to my Nexus 7 for additional storage.

Cons: -none

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Ordered the bundle master for my Nexus 7. Some cords are a little stiff. Case is good quality. Couldn't go wrong for $20

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