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Christopher Y.

Christopher Y.

Joined on 05/04/06

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Massive

Cooler Master COSMOS 1000 RC-1000-KSN1-GP Black/ Silver Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case
Cooler Master COSMOS 1000 RC-1000-KSN1-GP Black/ Silver Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case

Pros: This case i NO joke. The case, as other reviews have said, is huge. Tons of room in the case, and keeps everything nice and cool. The massive fans give great airflow and the padding on the sides keep it really quiet. The case itself is beautiful, almost ever part of it is of steel construction, with very little plastic. Sturdy and solid case, with a door panel that i can deal with since it is reversible.

Cons: The shipping, other reviews have said this too, but mine after spending a while getting it all set up i noticed in the lower right corner a crack through the tiny bit of plastic. Nothing major and surely did not feel like taking everything out to RMA the thing back, but they literally just used a cardboard cover over the tower and shipped it. The packing inside isn't sufficient enough to sustain the falls it will go through during shipping. Luckily nothing major or any dents happened, but after paying this much you'd think the shipping would be a tad more reliable. The cable management inside could of been a bit better, little restrictive to pretty much only in the HDD area to have cables put inside. Could of used more under the motherboard itself, but small complain for how great the case looks / how sturdy it is.

Overall Review: Overall i love the new case, it looks amazing and everyone asks me about it when they see it.

Most Critical Review

Hmmm...

OCZ Vertex 3 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) VTX3-25SAT3-120G
OCZ Vertex 3 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) VTX3-25SAT3-120G

Pros: The drive will perform quite fast, but lost some performance from a necessary firmware upgrade

Cons: BSOD issues, Firmware upgrade was mandatory, still have some freezing / issues, is not "peak" performance now due to firmware messing up it's optimization.

Overall Review: The drive is not bad, but not very reliable. I've done 3 reinstalls since buying it, first because the Bsods were literally every 5minutes. After finding the firmware upgrade I flashed the drive to new firmware, and proceeded to have problems still. Fixing all power issues and turning off all options to cutt power to drives, not to mention working with many different fixes registry edits, power options, BIOS changes, Cmos clearing, etc. I have had it running 'stable' for a max of 4 days, but now again i'm seeing degrade. Starts slower, i'll occasionally get the system locking up, woke up this morning with the system not recognizing the drive due to a failure in the night. The overall experience has been very disappointing. Thinking about RMA'ing or Exchanging if it is still possible, and sticking with the Intel. I'll lose performance but lose the headache of potentially losing data.

Intel X25-V 2.5" 40GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SSDSA2MP040G2R5
Intel X25-V 2.5" 40GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SSDSA2MP040G2R5

Pros: These drives, although are a bit under than the X25ms, run extremely well. However I am currently running mine in Raid-0 to get an even better increase in performance. Works flawlessly and everything has almost no load time.

Cons: Mine is more or less a con agains Raid-0 not supporting TRIM as i write this. Hopefully some controller updates will support it.

Overall Review: If you're looking for better load times and are unsure of the SSDs this drive is pretty cheap and will perform just under the 80 gig intel x25ms. Really a big increase in all kinds of load times.

Star Ocean Love

Star Ocean: First Departure PSP Game SQUARE ENIX
Star Ocean: First Departure PSP Game SQUARE ENIX

Pros: Get to know the characters from the original star ocean to learn a bit more about this universe. Great port, updated and very fun systems just like any other Star Ocean.

Cons: Voice acting is pretty consistently bad with this series, dont know what it is but it wouldn't be so bad if i had the option, like the other games, to turn the voice acting off.

Overall Review: Great game if you love the series, keeps true to the series, private actions, tons of skills, a ton of levels, and of course lots of extras for the endings... a game that actually deserves to be replayed over and over.