Joined on 05/06/08
Very good quality plastic
Pros: It comes with the required screws. Use a very firm grip and push down while you thread the screw holes as the adapter is made of some really tough plastic. Make sure you keep a very firm grip on the adapter and fan or get a second person to help you out on holding the fan together tight.
Cons: Could be cheaper but the adapter is worth it if you want more airflow to the graphic cards.
Overall Review: The adapter is about a inch wide and a 38mm thick fan is about 1.5 inches wide for those who want to know. You will need about 0.6 inches of room on each side of your 80mm opening when you install the adapter and fan. You will need about 2 inches of room if you are installing a fan 25mm thick with the adapter or 2.5 inches of room if you are installing a 38mm fan with the adapter. Most full ATX towers you don't have to worry about the amount of space you need. I have the Antec Plus 1080AMG tower if you need a good size reference for the adapter with a 38mm fan on the side panel.
Dead.
Pros: Worked for a while being slow.
Cons: Caused problems with windows system files within the first few months and then would only work for only 10 minutes each time you boot into the computer.
Excellent
Pros: Two huge quiet 140mm fans Great mounting hardware(You will have to reuse the stock AMD backplate for AMD installs like my ASUS AM3+ board) Looks nice in my white case The Y fan cable to connect the two fans into one header is nicely braided in a white braid instead of what is shown in the images. Keeps my FX-8120 cool
Cons: Potentially bad for travel due to the heavy weight of 2.7 pounds when using both fans. The protective plastic sticker over the contact point to the CPU left some adhesive behind. It took a lot of rubbing alcohol and scratching to remove. Thankfully was able to make the surface look nicer with a microfiber cloth.
Overall Review: Screwing the cooler into the mount was a little annoying. As soon as you screw a little bit of one screw, you need to go to the other one and attach that one. Then you can finish tightening down one at a time. I never made use of the included thermal paste but I kept it in it's box if I want to try it out another time.
Decent enclosure
Pros: Copied a 2.2GB archive file over within 30 seconds. I've seen 54MB/s max burst and 25-30MB/s to be a more reasonable constant speed over USB 2.0. I don't own a computer with USB 3.0 so I can't report those speeds. I also copied a 1.4GB video file over and got 25MB/s max and down to 18MB/s transferring the video. I've noted on other USB 3.0 enclosures that people lose connection due to the wobbly USB connection. Though this enclosure uses the same USB port you would see on your computer and I've not noticed any loss of connection.
Cons: The led light is like a search light? I would not be going around and letting it get damaged since the metal is thin and bends under pressure from my thumb. It could of used rubber feet but I will let it slide since you have to remove the metal piece to get to the screws that hold the hard drive in the enclosure.
Overall Review: I would of bought this from the egg but I found a better price on a different store. Here is how you add a hard drive: The metal pieces(top and bottom) side off towards the USB port. When you take those metal pieces off you will see a plastic You then have to take the circuit board out, hook the 9mm thick hard drive to it(quite a tight fit), screw four black screws to hard drive and enclosure, side the metal pieces back on, and put in the last four screws. It's nothing to take an egg off but it's just a lot to go through just to get a hard drive in the enclosure. I don't plan on changing hard drives anytime soon so it does not matter to me right now. I'm just letting any other buyers know.
Great fan, better air to noise ratio compared to other fans
Pros: Relative low noise at full speed compared to other brands at the same fan size and CFM speed. Also has great use when wired or adjusted by a fan controller at 5 volts. Very quiet at 5v and pushes a good amount of air even at 5 volts.
Cons: Not for a person who wants low noise(if so look at fans that produce less than 30dba). This can be a fan for a person who wants low noise if the person has a fan controller to lower the voltage.
Overall Review: I've got three of these fans wired in USB 5v parallel and plan on making my own laptop cooler with them.
So far it has been good
Pros: Powers my Core 2 [email protected](65watt TDP) and the onboard Nvidia GeForce 9300 overclocked(takes 108watts max at stock clock). Fan noise is not bad for it's size.
Cons: Warm? But that is to be expected with the Mini-ITX format and small fans.
Overall Review: I bought this power supply installed in a hec Mini-ITX case and it's performing well after six months of daily use. I browse the web, watch videos online, watch DVD's and Blu-Rays, and I play some casual games with the GeForce 9300 every day. It seems like the power supply was designed for my hec case because the power cables are the perfect length for the case.