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Mark W.

Mark W.

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Most Favorable Review

Does the job

SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Performs well. Windows 7 5.9 rating. Seemed to improve boot times and app load times. No installation issues. NTFS Formatted capacity 931GB. Does not appears to make any noise that can be heard over 120mm fans. Arrived very quickly. Thanks Newegg!

Cons: None as long as does not fail within 5 years.

Overall Review: Q6600, P35, 4GB memory, 8800GT. Upgrading from a 250GB Hitachi.

Most Critical Review

RMAing this one.

Saitek PK17U Black/Silver 104 Normal Keys 12 Function Keys USB Standard Cyborg Keyboard
Saitek PK17U Black/Silver 104 Normal Keys 12 Function Keys USB Standard Cyborg Keyboard

Pros: Keys feel great. Metal keys are nice. Backlight was very cool as well as the touchpad (the first 24 hours when they actually worked.)

Cons: After 24 hours of mild use the touch pad started acting up before finally dying altogether along with the backlight. The drivers are difficult to find on the vendor website (two places for the same drivers, one place with out of date drivers.) The macro key software has a tough learning curve. A keyboard that costs this much should not be this flaky.

Overall Review: I would have kept this keyboard had the touchpad, backlight stayed functional. Since I'm going to have it to send it back anyways I'm going to get something different with better driver support & software.

Great card!

ASUS Radeon HD 5850 (Cypress Pro) 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card w/ Eyefinity EAH5850 DIRECTCU/2DIS/1GD5
ASUS Radeon HD 5850 (Cypress Pro) 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card w/ Eyefinity EAH5850 DIRECTCU/2DIS/1GD5

Pros: Great looks, great overclocking, software volt modification is neat. Temps stay fairly good.

Cons: Asus SmartDoctor wants Gamer OSD (which is useless to me) also installed or it bugs you every time you boot. SmartDoctor's interface does not give good feedback (no charts for example) and looks sorely outdated. It's hard to get the clock speeds at round numbers because you can't use keys to adjust the clocks 1 unit at a time. I would appreciate it if Asus would release a better designed utility, but the card is good enough not to subtract eggs and the overclocking software does as advertised.

Antec earthwatts EA500 500W Continuous Power ATX12V v2.2 80 PLUS Certified  Active PFC "Compatible with Core i7/Core i5" Power Supply
Antec earthwatts EA500 500W Continuous Power ATX12V v2.2 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC "Compatible with Core i7/Core i5" Power Supply

Pros: Very efficient according to my equipment. Works as advertised.

Cons: Lots of cable, but that could be a pro if you need it.

D-Link DSL-2540B ADSL2/2+ Modem with 4-Port Ethernet Router TR067/069 ADSL Standards
Multi-mode
Full-rate ANSI T1.413 Issue 2
ITU-T G.992.1 (G.dmt) Annex A/C/I
ITU-T G.992.2 (G.lite) Annex A/C
ITU-T G.994.1 (G.hs)
ADSL2 Standards
ITU-T G.99
D-Link DSL-2540B ADSL2/2+ Modem with 4-Port Ethernet Router TR067/069 ADSL Standards Multi-mode Full-rate ANSI T1.413 Issue 2 ITU-T G.992.1 (G.dmt) Annex A/C/I ITU-T G.992.2 (G.lite) Annex A/C ITU-T G.994.1 (G.hs) ADSL2 Standards ITU-T G.99

Pros: Works as advertised. Fast & effective. Fast shipping from Newegg.

Cons: Extremely difficult to setup if your ISP will not cooperate. I had to call AT&T 5 times before I got someone who would actually help me out and give me the info I needed to get it working.

Rebate Problems solved.

OCZ Platinum Revision 2 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ2P800R22GK
OCZ Platinum Revision 2 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ2P800R22GK

Pros: Good Ram, runs great.

Cons: Updating what I said about the rebate problems. OCZ support honoured my rebate even though I used the wrong form(the form that was linked to the product page changed shortly after I purchased). I returned to the page after I received the item and thought I had the correct form. This needs to be clearer but OCZ came through for me and took care of it.

Overall Review: Issues taken care of!

10/18/2007