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Jamison T.

Jamison T.

Joined on 04/27/08

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Most Favorable Review

Good for the price

ASUS 22" WSXGA+ LCD Monitor with EzLink Technology 5 ms D-Sub VW223B
ASUS 22" WSXGA+ LCD Monitor with EzLink Technology 5 ms D-Sub VW223B

Pros: Nice size. Pretty design. USB hub built in can be useful. Looks good. Not a single dead pixel.

Cons: A good bit of back light bleed. No DVI or HDMI. No height adjustment. Maybe not really a con, but I wish that the USB ports were on the right side instead of the left.

Overall Review: I got this during the black Friday sale. For the price it's hard to beat but there are obviously better monitors out there. However, I'm just using it for documents and the like so it doesn't really matter. I now have two ASUS 22" monitors and it is wonderful.

Most Critical Review

Great card, but the noise ruins it

GIGABYTE GeForce GT 240 512MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Graphics Card GV-N240D5-512I
GIGABYTE GeForce GT 240 512MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Graphics Card GV-N240D5-512I

Pros: Great performance. Doesn't need power connectors. Perfect for a dedicated physx card. Stays cool. Good price. Gigabyte has provided newer bios options. Comes with a black fan shroud instead of the pictured white one, which looks better in my opinion.

Cons: LOUD. UNBELIEVABLY LOUD. I am an enthusiast with a heck of a lot high RPM fans in my case, but I can hear this above them all. I flashed this card to the latest bios which drops the minimum fan RPM from 50% to 29% but it didn't change the noise at all. I customized the bios and flashed again. Even at only 20% of its max speed, the fan can still be heard. It is so darn loud. Doesn't come with the latest bios installed. Which means using a bootable usb drive and NVFlash to flash a new bios to the card. I cannot imagine an average user figuring out how to flash a vga bios. Common Gigabyte, make it easy on your customers and just give them the latest bios pre-flashed.

Overall Review: Tomorrow I'm probably going to pull this card out, take the fan off of the heatsink and just strap a spare 120mm or 80mm case fan to it. I just can't take the noise any longer. I really really love the performance. I'm using it for a hybrid physx setup with a xfx HD 4890 and it runs Arkham Asylum physx great, but even with the sounds of the game I can still hear the fan. Again, let me emphasize that I am completely thrilled with the performance of the card. If the fan was quiet I would immediately rate this as a 5 egg card.... The loss of 3 eggs should give you an idea of how loud the fan is. I'll point out again that it is the fan. Even at only 20% it is as loud as my 4890 at 100% fan speed.

Great little card

ASUS Radeon HD 7850 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card HD7850-DC2-2GD5
ASUS Radeon HD 7850 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card HD7850-DC2-2GD5

Pros: Huge improvement over my old 4890. Stays very cool. Even at full load under games or furmark the fans never seem to go above 30% and are super quiet. Overclocks great. So far I've taken it to 1000MHz core clock and 1270MHz memory clock with no problems at all. Longer warranty than most other brands.

Cons: When I first installed this card my system would not POST. I would get a post code of 2A. Eventually however it would start. Now it works just fine. I have no idea what the problem was.

Excellent PSU

Antec TruePower New TP-750 750W Continuous Power ATX12V V2.3 / EPS12V V2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC "compatible with Core i7/Core i5" Power Supply
Antec TruePower New TP-750 750W Continuous Power ATX12V V2.3 / EPS12V V2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC "compatible with Core i7/Core i5" Power Supply

Pros: 80 Plus Bronze. Some modular cables. Very quiet fan, I can't hear it at all over the sound of my case fans. Looks good. 5 year warranty. Professional reviews have shown it to be capable of providing much more than 750 watts. Manufactured by Seasonic.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Wish it was fully modular, but I knew what I was getting when I ordered it. Mailed the rebate around 3/15/10 and received a check 5/28/10. I had been eyeing the Corsair 750HX, but this was a heck of a lot cheaper but still offered a quality Seasonic build. I am completely satisfied.

Great product

NZXT CB-24P 9.84 in. (25cm) 24 Pin Motherboard Extension Cable
NZXT CB-24P 9.84 in. (25cm) 24 Pin Motherboard Extension Cable

Pros: Looks great. Much easier than buying sleeves and doing all of your cables.

Cons: A little stiff, which makes it look a little funny in my case because there is a crease from where it was bent. My arrived open, which I'm guessing is just a packaging issue since I didn't order mine from newegg like the other reviewer did. They aren't as good as the stuff that Nils from mdpx-x offers, but it's much easier if you don't have OCD.

Overall Review: This cable was way longer than I needed, but some of their other cables (the 6pin vga) are way too short. What's up with that? These aren't as tightly woven as the sleeving kits that Nils sells, but because NZXT uses black wires beneath the black sleeves, you really can't tell, especially once it is in your tower.

Horrible experience

G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-4GBNQ
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-4GBNQ

Pros: Never really worked, so none. Newegg was great, but the product sucks.

Cons: 1st set sort of worked. At stock cpu settings this stupid memory did work as long as I kept it running around 1333. If I took it up to 1600 Prime95 would get errors within a couple of minutes. Also, if I enabled hyperthreading on my i7 860, prime 95 would only last for seconds. I tried every voltage setting you could imagine with no luck. So I RMA'd it back to newegg who promptly got me a new set. Set #2 worked better. Overclocking was actually stable. HOWEVER: I still could not enable hyperthreading... Actually, I could enable hyperthreading, but I couldn't run any stress tests that worked the memory or it would fail (Prime95 smallFFTs worked great, but the Blend test that tests a lot of memory would still fail quickly). Then things got BAD! BSOD every few minutes. 100% memory usage at all times. Out of desparation I pulled out one of the two sticks and what do you know? It worked. With the one good stick I can overclock, enable hyperthreading, everything. All with perfect stabili

Overall Review: What really ticked me off is that running memtest is no help. It doesn't find any problems. Oh I should also mention that for some reason if I go into manual timings and set the tRFC setting to below 66 I get something called a watchdog timeout error when I try to boot. Sorry G.SKill, I hate to leave bad reviews, but you are 0/2 here. I have wasted so much time trying to figure out what was causing all of my system's problems, and both time it has been the stupid memory. So much frustration. So many Blue Screens of Death. Well, I need to RMA this set back to G.Skill. Hopefully their RMA process is better than their products. System Specs: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit Core i7 860 @ 4.0GHz (21 x 191) w/ Cogage TRUE Spirit EVGA P55 LE Intel x-25m 80GB SSD 3 x WD 640gb in raid 0 XFX 4890 OCZ StealthXStream OCZ600SXS Antec 900 Lite-on Blu Ray