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Samuel T.

Samuel T.

Joined on 11/03/07

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Most Favorable Review

This card cooks - literally and metaphorically

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB, ZT-90501-10P
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB, ZT-90501-10P

Pros: Extremely fast card, has 2816 shader cores (Almost as much as the Titan X!) Has noticeable difference over the Gigabyte 980 OC Windforce 3 I had returned to buy this. Easily uses the DSR function in the Nvidia 3D settings to downscale from higher resoultions

Cons: This card runs hot. I was messing with my display settings and it reset the fan profile i made in MSI Afterburner. The default settings let the card hit the 84 C throttle point without any hesitation from the fan while playing titanfall. My custom fan profile has the fan reach 100% at 65C and it can still go past 65C sometimes. These temperatures are usually while i push the card to complete load, so keep that in mind. I have asked Zotac if it would void the warranty if i decided to put a water block on it, but i haven't received a reply let (sent it over the weekend.)

Overall Review: Even though it gets hot, and gets loud, it's still a great card. I'd recommend this as an upgrade from a 980 too, it's that much more powerful than the regular 980.

Most Critical Review

Works

Rosewill RNX-G100 IEEE 802.11b/g USB 2.0 Wireless Black Dongle up to 54Mbps Data Rates 64/128-Bit WEP, 802.1x, WPA - WINDOWS VISTA READY also Supported!
Rosewill RNX-G100 IEEE 802.11b/g USB 2.0 Wireless Black Dongle up to 54Mbps Data Rates 64/128-Bit WEP, 802.1x, WPA - WINDOWS VISTA READY also Supported!

Pros: This adaptor WORKS, but not good

Cons: Not very good range, the router can be picked up all over my block with my PSP, but this can barly get through the wall

Overall Review: i got mine for ten dollars, and i don't even think that it was worth that. don't buy it for 16.99 wait for a drop

12/28/2007

Great PSU

CORSAIR Professional Series Gold AX1200 (CMPSU-1200AX) 1200 W ATX12V v2.31 / EPS12V v2.92 SLI Certified 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Full Modular Active PFC Power Supply
CORSAIR Professional Series Gold AX1200 (CMPSU-1200AX) 1200 W ATX12V v2.31 / EPS12V v2.92 SLI Certified 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Full Modular Active PFC Power Supply

Pros: I've had this power supply for almost a week now, its possible the best power supply on the market, Corsair is rated the best by PC magazine. it has what you need, 10 fold. a SINGLE RAIL, JUST ONE, that handles upto 100.4 amps... ITS MODULAR, WITH ANY CABLE YOU SHOULD NEED. im running this inside of a Coolermaster HAF X, and im running the power lines behind the motherboard tray, the main power connection to the motherboard, the power cords to my GTX 260 c-126 from EVGA, my SATA power cable for my CD Drive, 2 SATA power cords for my 5 250 gb Seagate Barricudas in RAID 0, the power cable to my 2 320 gb Seagate Barricudas that are on the swap bays in the HAF X, and the molex connectors to my 3 fans, 2 200 mm and one 120 mm for the H50 (soon to be H70) in the back of the case.

Cons: None really, Except maybe its FREAKING HUGE, you will most likely need a full tower for this psu.

Overall Review: for the case i would highly recommend the HAF X, it may have you put the psu with the fan down, but it has rubber stoppers to give it breathing room and a vent at the bottom that could possible hold 3 120 mm fans. this is the best psu i've owned, and it will be for some time, until they video cards from nvidia that is 2 series from now and have like 6 in sli. the price is pretty high, but its rock solid, the voltages read in the bios of my p6x58d-e from asus as 3.25 for the 3.3 volt rail and 12.1 for the 12 volt rail. ill keep you posted incase anything happens, but i don't think it will, good luck, hope this helped.

Great Mouse Pad

BELKIN F8E089-BLK Mouse Pad
BELKIN F8E089-BLK Mouse Pad

Pros: Had it for 2 years and about 12 days, still works great with my G5, which barely has any sliding pad wear on the bottom of it, which is a good thing, because they don't sell the G5 anymore :(

Cons: non, other than its just a TINY BIT frayed around the edges, but its LASTED FOR 2 YEARS AND I PLAN ON KEEPING IT FOR ANOTHER 2.

Overall Review: great pad for the price, again works great with 400 to 2000 dpi laser mouses such as the G5.

Great Drive(s)

Seagate BarraCuda 7200.12 ST3320418AS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Seagate BarraCuda 7200.12 ST3320418AS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: These drives are great. I'm going to try not to write a useless review that's short and not helpful. These drives have to be some of the best, cheapest drives out right now. Running HD Tune Pro on it, they have a sustained read speed of 203-208 MB/s when the OS isn't accessing the Hard Disk Drive. HD Tune Pro said I would have to wipe the partitions on my HDD to test the Write speed so I used Performance test, which isn't as reliable as HD Tune is. The sustained Sequential write speed of the two drives in RAID 0 on Performance test was 170MB/s. These drives are one of the smallest drives you can find with the Largest Cache size. You may be able to find better, but not for 50 Dollars and Free Shipping. With that being said, just so you don’t have to look it up, that’s the average speed of most SSD’s read speed, and FASTER than a lot of their write speeds, for a third the price.

Cons: None really, but I haven't had the drives for long, I hope and pray if they fail, they fail in the RMA time frame. But so far, so good, fresh install, no speed decrease after all games and programs installed, Along with some VMware machines and VB2008 for school. Even though a lot hasn’t been deleted and wrote over, there usually is some speed decrease. Glad I transferred from my 1TB hard drive to 640GB for the speed.

Overall Review: Just FYI these drives are connected with SATA I cables, that are at 1.5GB/s, that shouldn't even matter because that is 1500 Megabytes per second and the drives sustained speed is 125, with bursts up to 300 megabytes / second I keep saying drives because I have 2 of these in RAID 0 Configuration. With Ref from Pros, the reason I don't trust Performance test for the read/write speeds of the drive is that performance test gave me a sustained read speed of 168 MB/s when the write speed was 170MB/s and that's the same no matter how many times you test it, at least on my board. Which if you have high enough understanding you should know that your read speeds SHOULD ALWAYS be HIGHER than your write speeds. Specs: MSI K9A2 CF Mother board (1.8v Bios) AMD Athlon 64X2 5400+ BE @ 3.2 GHz 4GB (2x2GB) G-Skill DDR2 800 @ 932MHz 700 Wt RaidMAX PSU 2 of these Drives EVGA GTX 260 core216 Toshiba DVD+DL Writer. http://mibclan.info/imgs/otherpics/

decent.

Rosewill RFA-120-WL - 120mm CULLINAN Computer Case Cooling Fan with LP4 Adapter - Semi-Transparent Frame & Blue LED Lights, Sleeve Bearing, Silent
Rosewill RFA-120-WL - 120mm CULLINAN Computer Case Cooling Fan with LP4 Adapter - Semi-Transparent Frame & Blue LED Lights, Sleeve Bearing, Silent

Pros: good fans, don't look like their dying, and don't have too much dust stick to them. look good with blue lights from my power supply.

Cons: seem a bit expensive, but i guess 5 dollars isn't too bad. do what they are suppose to.

Overall Review: can't really give you an estimate of how good they work because i have the side of my case off for the overclocked AMD Athlon 5400+ x2 BE and EVGA Super-clocked GTX 260 core216 i have inside. i probably will put the side back on when i get my Intel stuff im ordering. i said i would never buy anything made by Rosewill again after the Wireless G card and the 2.5" hard drive enclosure i bought a while back. the hard drive enclosure said it was 2.0 USB COMPATIBLE, which meant it was truly 1.1 and ran at 11MB/s. the wireless G card worked fine for a while, but decided it wouldn't work though 2 walls max after a few months. But these work fine, they don't reflect on what the previous problems rosewill has had.