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Russell C.

Russell C.

Joined on 07/20/05

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Good board for the money

MSI P45 Neo-F LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard
MSI P45 Neo-F LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: This is a basic motherboard, you get what you pay for. If you want more features such as sli, firewire etc you will need to buy a more expensive board. If you don't need those things this board is good. I am running a Intel core 2 E6300 overclocked from 1.86 ghz to 2.8 ghz, Evercool Buffalo cpu cooler,4 gb Kingston hyper x ram, Gtx 260 video card and a WD raptor hard drive, and two 120mm case fans. This set up scores a 5.5 on cpu (stock was 4.9) and 5.9 on everything else in Vista and a score of 1297.6 in Passmark ( stock was 959.3) with a max temp of 47.6 under full load. I may try to get the full 3.2 ghz out of this chip later this week. If you overclock just make sure you have a good cpu and case cooler

Cons: Bios could have more selectable choices. The manual could be more discriptive of what the settings do and it could have better overclocking instructions.

Good cooler for the price

EVERCOOL HPFI-10025 100mm Ever Lubricate CPU Cooler
EVERCOOL HPFI-10025 100mm Ever Lubricate CPU Cooler

Pros: This cooler does what it is supposed to do for a very good price. I have overclocked my E6300 cpu from 1.86 Mhz to a 2.8 Mhz with a max temp reading of 116.6 F under heavy load using this cooler. Using passmark 7 my cpu score went from 1418 to a 2037. Overall score went from 959.3 to 1297.6. System setup MSI P45 Neo motherboard Intel E6300 Cpu BFG GTX 260 Video Card 4GB Kingston DDR2 1066 Hyper X ram WD Raptor Hard drive

Cons: I wish it had more heat pipes, but for $16 you can't complain.

toshiba u205-s5057

Crucial 4GB (2 x 2GB) 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Laptop Memory Model CT2KIT25664AC667
Crucial 4GB (2 x 2GB) 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Laptop Memory Model CT2KIT25664AC667

Pros: I was very confused about which memory to buy for my toshiba satellite u204-s5057 laptop. New eggs memory config tool did not list my laptop so I bought it from Crucial, on my invoice found out that the ct577755 memory is the same as ct2kit25664ac667. I paid $118 from crucial and would have prefered to buy from newegg since I ordered office 2007 from them the same day. New egg needs to update their config utility for laptop memory, ended up costing me more money. I always try to buy from Newegg. good service, and fast shipping.

Cons: nothing

good hard drive

Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Good hard drive. This is my second one I have bought. I bought it so I could use two of them in a raid 0 configutration. I didn't see any improvement for gaming in the raid configuration. I just ordered a 150GB raptor and will put these two hard drives in my wifes computer in a raid 1 configuration. As a stand alone or raid 1 configuration these hard drives are great. Faster than alot of other sata drives and much faster than Eide drives.

Cons: None that I can think.

Overall Review: New Egg has the raptor 150GB hard drive on sale with a $xx rebate. Final price is $xxx. If you are looking for speed and don't need the extra space, Don't use these in raid 0, two of these will cost just as much. Just buy the raptor.