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Matthew M.

Matthew M.

Joined on 12/18/02

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Product Reviews
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Most Favorable Review

Worth the money, but still a few rough edges

NVIDIA 3D Vision Glasses Model 942-10701-0003-000
NVIDIA 3D Vision Glasses Model 942-10701-0003-000

Pros: Really makes the games pop out, truly amazing.

Cons: Sometimes flickers and flashes even in a dark room which can become a distraction and is the reason I give it only 4 eggs. Glasses also become uncomfortable after an hour or so as they arms push against my head to tightly.

Overall Review: Make sure you download and install the latest Nvidia drivers after installing the drivers that come with the glasses. I had an issue where it would blue-screen my Windows 7 box every time you pushed the 3D button but the latest drivers fixed the issue. There is also an issue with WoW, if you get kicked back to the windows desktop for any reason such as pop-ups for patching, or just tabbing out to check an IM or thottbot causes the 3D to freak out and lose sync and the only way to fix it is to log out and log back in.

10/24/2009
Most Critical Review

Absolute rubbish support

GIGABYTE X570 AORUS XTREME AMD Ryzen 3000 PCIe 4.0 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.2 AMD X570 E-ATX Motherboard
GIGABYTE X570 AORUS XTREME AMD Ryzen 3000 PCIe 4.0 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.2 AMD X570 E-ATX Motherboard

Cons: Support is worthless. Last Gigabyte board for me!

Overall Review: The fan controller died within a week of receiving. Sent it into support and they did absolutely nothing but send it back to me in the box I sent it to them. Same problem, still dead. Gigabyte, never, ever, again.

Nice Monitor Overall

ASUS VE248H 24" Full HD 1920 x 1080 D-Sub, DVI, HDMI Built-in Speakers Asus Eye Care with Ultra Low-Blue Light & Flicker-Free LED Backlight Monitor
ASUS VE248H 24" Full HD 1920 x 1080 D-Sub, DVI, HDMI Built-in Speakers Asus Eye Care with Ultra Low-Blue Light & Flicker-Free LED Backlight Monitor

Pros: Very nice picture, it's very bright and I have not noticed any ghosting. Back lighting seems fairly consistent. It is also cool to the touch even after hours of use.

Cons: The speakers are tinny, but usable in a pinch. The casing attracts dust like a magnet.

11/30/2010

You'll regret purchasing this board if you have any problems.

GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Once it warms up it runs like a champ. Sadly your choices are to never turn it off once it's finally booted and stops crashing, or simply replace it with a board that actually works and tech support that actually cares to respond in less than 3 days per worthless email.

Cons: Darn thing repeatedly crashes at boot time if let sit overnight pointing to a failing/marginal capacitor or a solder joint that only makes proper contact once it warms up. Reporting issues to their tech support is like pulling teeth without anesthesia. It takes days for them to respond to emails were they tell you to do the same things you've already stated you've tried.

Overall Review: My first motherboard was a gigabyte and it was great, this board and it's corresponding support experience has convinced me to never purchased another product from them under any circumstances. It wouldn't have been so bad if they would take their time to respond to issues (an RMA would have been nice) but they want to play email games, worst support I believe I have ever encountered, even worse than dealing with Oracle.

11/30/2010

Amazing Monitor

ViewSonic FuHzion X Series VX2265wm Black 22" 3ms 120Hz 3D Ready Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 1000:1
ViewSonic FuHzion X Series VX2265wm Black 22" 3ms 120Hz 3D Ready Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 1000:1

Pros: Very sharp screen, good color contrast, no dead pixels and works amazingly well with the 3D glasses.

Cons: Stand is wobbly

10/24/2009
ASUS P5Q-EM LGA 775 Intel G45 HDMI Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
ASUS P5Q-EM LGA 775 Intel G45 HDMI Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Excellent board. Easily runs other OS such as Solaris, OpenSolaris and Linux. Very fast and reasonable stable.

Cons: Seems to have some issues with XP service pack 3. The board gets very hot when running Windows especially if you play a game. When the CPU hits 120F the system sometimes bluescreens, but this seems to be relegated to just 32bit XP.

Overall Review: Avoid the "DO" implementation of this board if you plan on using any OS other than MS Windows. The two are not the same board.