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Christopher R.

Christopher R.

Joined on 08/19/03

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Most Favorable Review

Outstanding

Corsair, Carbide Series Air 540 Silver Edition High Airflow ATX Cube Case, CC-9011034-WLED
Corsair, Carbide Series Air 540 Silver Edition High Airflow ATX Cube Case, CC-9011034-WLED

Pros: Spacious, PSU segregated from mobo and gfx cards, excellent wire management, easies installation of all parts

Cons: Some people may not like a cube desktop. I have to antec 900s which are taller but skinnier. Honestly if you have a few more inches of width room, go with this corsair case!

Overall Review: I've been building custom desktops for 13 years now, and this is by far one of the easiest cases Ive ever built with. Every connection is as easy as connecting legos. push a button and you can install and remove four 2.5 drives, two 3.5 HDDs, and both 5.25 drive bays. Wire management is amazing with the sleekly designed "pass throughs" from where the PSU is operating in a compartment behind the mother board, giving ample room for heatsinks/fans. I ordered this with the Corsair H110 double 240mm water cooled radiator. Perfect setup at the top of this case. Huge fans included, and a spot for the radiator on the top of the case. And, with big fans you always have dust. I really like the ease of removing the dust cover from the front set of fans. All in all, if you have the space for a little wider build, get this one! It is the best priced I've seen it on Newegg (with the mail in rebate). As usual Newegg is top notch again in customer service as well

Most Critical Review

MIR Gotcha's!

OCZ Reaper HPC Edition 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ2RPR800C44GK
OCZ Reaper HPC Edition 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ2RPR800C44GK

Pros: RAM clocks in very fast...nice design, and temps are very reasonable

Cons: Vista 64 shows BSOD with 4gb of RAM, trying to troubleshoot now. Make sure you do your Windows install on only 2gb of RAM, evidentally the install doesnt like that much memory

Overall Review: The Mail in Rebate must be POSTMARKED in 12 days from purchase including weekends and holidays. It took 7 days from order to delivery. I waited a few days to get my other products and MIRs filled out (all the other companies gave a month or more for postmark). I filled out the paperwork and dropped it off at the post office on the 11th day, but it didnt cycle through for some reason (weekend?). I missed the postmark by 2 days. A call in to OCZ resulted in "we must follow our guidelines" :/

Antec 900 ~ nice but with precautions

Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case with Upgraded USB 3.0
Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case with Upgraded USB 3.0

Pros: Air flow and fans in this are great, simply amazing. Very nice setup, and easy use with swapping front fan locations. I also like the location of the audio/USB ports on top. I also like the fan speed adjusters...I can pick and choose which ones I want moving faster or slower.

Cons: If you plan on SLI'ing your mobo with double slot cards (like my BFG 8800GTS's) do not buy this case. With most mobo's having the second PCI slot low on the board to support double slot graphics cards, the second graphics card is going to almost rest on the power supply. My power supply has a top fan, and I can fit less than a deck of cards thick between the graphics board and the power supply. Also, the Power/Reset/HDD connect wires are too short. With having to run the line over top two graphics cards to get to the power pins (of course it is mobo specific)I barely have enough to reach...it is stretched pretty tight.

Overall Review: Newegg is great...shipping on this was very fast

Awesome first time router

D-Link DI-704P Broadband Router Plus Print Server 1 x 10Mbps WAN Ports 4 x 10/100Mbps LAN Ports
D-Link DI-704P Broadband Router Plus Print Server 1 x 10Mbps WAN Ports 4 x 10/100Mbps LAN Ports

Comments: This was my first router and it was easy to setup and worked like a charm. The html firmware in the DLink admin bar was great. Had this router for 2 years and only had one problem with the power adapter going out once. Cust Support sent me a new router completely free. Just upgraded to DI-624 Wireless G...it rawks too! Awesome and easy to setup, encrypt, and my laptop found it immediately. So far no problems with DLink!

11/22/2004