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GARETH M.

GARETH M.

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Most Favorable Review

thanks new egg!

AMD Phenom II X4 970 - Phenom II X4 Deneb Quad-Core 3.5 GHz Socket AM3 125W Desktop Processor - HDZ970FBK4DGM
AMD Phenom II X4 970 - Phenom II X4 Deneb Quad-Core 3.5 GHz Socket AM3 125W Desktop Processor - HDZ970FBK4DGM

Pros: Get one whilst you can, initially tried to get 955 but those have been out of stock for a month. The Phenom 2 line is being phased out, don't sit on fence any longer waiting for them to get cheaper, it not happening.

Cons: not really a con, but upgraded from phenom 9600, and truth be told can't tell much of a difference, crysis still has the same frame rates. May be when i upgrade my 8800gt graphics card, i'll need the extra go go. I do have dvds to convert to H264, i'm sure it will eat through that.

Overall Review: make sure your AM2+ board supports 125w processor, if it don't get the 960T. Clearly it came without a heat sink & fan, a 125w processor should be a bit of furnace, got a COOLER MASTER Hyper TX3, it works great the fan hardly turns, and the sink isn't even hot! In control panel, under power, make sure you set your power setting to minimal power management - sounds the reverse of what you want, but this is the setting you want, it clocks it down automatically and saves you ton of power.

Most Critical Review

bought two

GIGABYTE Radeon R9 290 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Video Card GV-R929OC-4GD
GIGABYTE Radeon R9 290 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Video Card GV-R929OC-4GD

Pros: one worked

Cons: one didn't work

Overall Review: Spent two nights trying to figure out why system kept hanging when booting ubuntu after installing amd drivers. After numerous formats and reinstalls, I thought I just go ahead a try the second card, and it worked no problem, annoyed but happy. Put the first card back in, back to no boot. It was a bit suspet when red lines appeared on the screen very briefly on boot and on shutdown. Normally when cards are bad its red lines and blocks everywhere, but not on this baby. Anyway anybody that bought just one of these, would still be trying to get to work. Even though these cards are in great demand, gigabyte need to do some better quality control, as its real time consuming doing there QC at home by installing OS's. Just sent RMA to newegg, and I'm sure they be great as always at getting me another one.

Works Good

TP-Link WiFi 6 Router AX1800 Smart WiFi Router (Archer AX21) - Dual Band Gigabit Router, Works with Alexa - A Certified for Humans Device
TP-Link WiFi 6 Router AX1800 Smart WiFi Router (Archer AX21) - Dual Band Gigabit Router, Works with Alexa - A Certified for Humans Device

Pros: Setup is easy, handles the multitude of wifi & ethernet devices in my house, whilst remaining snappy

Cons: Why do I go through so many routers? they seem to last 5 years, then start to drop connections

Overall Review: works well for the money

Buy It!!!!

TP-LINK Archer C7 Wireless AC1750 Dual Band Gigabit Router, 450 Mbps on 2.4 GHz + 1300 Mbps on 5 GHz, 1 USB Port, IPv6, Guest Network
TP-LINK Archer C7 Wireless AC1750 Dual Band Gigabit Router, 450 Mbps on 2.4 GHz + 1300 Mbps on 5 GHz, 1 USB Port, IPv6, Guest Network

Pros: Easy to setup, just plug the router straight into your computer, used my old wifi network names and passwords, all my devices connected up straight away. So my situation is that I'm renting an apartment, and the owner had a 'free' wifi router from Charter. It was so bad it couldn't even stream standard definition video consistently to my fire tv box, and browsing the web on my computer it would hang and stall a lot, so I offered to buy him a new router for xmas since I get to use his WiFi for free! The area I'm in has a lot (25-ish) of 2Ghz networks going, so moving to a dual band with less interfering 5Ghz networks seemed to be a good idea. Connected my fire tv upto the 5Ghz network, now it can stream 4K video consistently!! I just left channel under auto, and channel width under auto, and it figured it all out.

Cons: Nothing, great product for great price. I was a little wary of not buying a well known name brand, but I've owned at least 5 routers over the years, this is my second TP-Link (the first is still going strong), they work great, don't worry.

Overall Review: If you are thinking of doing the triple band router, read up on them, 99% of the time a dual band will be just as fast for a lot less money.

12/29/2017

work great

memorex 25GB 4X BD-R 30 Packs Spindle Disc Model 98499
memorex 25GB 4X BD-R 30 Packs Spindle Disc Model 98499

Pros: works as promised

Cons: none

Overall Review: using lg burner, I normally like plextor, but the lg was so cheap i had to give it a go.

Good Product

Actiontec GEU003AD3B-01 Ethernet DSL Modem with Routing Capabilities 24 Mbps 1 x RJ-45 10/100Base-TX LAN
Actiontec GEU003AD3B-01 Ethernet DSL Modem with Routing Capabilities 24 Mbps 1 x RJ-45 10/100Base-TX LAN

Pros: much, much, more responsive than my old isp provided gateway device. i've flashed it, tried to tweak it, but it's just really bad.

Cons: had to lookup online how to put it in bridge mode, wish they put that in there instructions so i didn't have to rewire everything halfway through to get online to look it up! my old somewhat working gateway GT704 was made by actiontec, so when i opened the newegg package and seen the same name my heart sank, but it turned out that this product really works great, buy it.

Overall Review: bridge mode for the people that don't know, this modem has only one port, so you can connect your router to it, then once you put it in bridge mode, you make your router log into your dsl provider straight through the modem. thus you get more ports, and wireless off your router

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didn't work

top button didn't work, requested replacement, sat waiting with no phone for replacement for over 2 weeks, then they just issued a credit, I wish they would of told me no replacement would be sent. just ordered replacement, replacement arrived, this one is blocked for either being stolen or non payment of bill, got to RMA that one as well. will it be 3rd time is a charm?

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