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Jason C.

Jason C.

Joined on 04/12/07

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Most Favorable Review

Decent Camera For the Price

TRENDnet TV-IP410 640 x 480 MAX Resolution RJ45 SecurView Pan/Tilt/Zoom Internet Camera
TRENDnet TV-IP410 640 x 480 MAX Resolution RJ45 SecurView Pan/Tilt/Zoom Internet Camera

Pros: It was simple to set up and works great.

Cons: It is not night vision, only "nightmode" which just ups the saturation, brightness and contrast to allow it to see better at night. Does not show the typical green glows of night vision. Does not work at all in extreme low light.

Overall Review: It works great in places that have security night lights and is supurbe during the day. Recording is not bad, I recorded 10 hours straight and didn't use more than 2 gigs of space and I bought a Terrabite for security footage storing.

11/25/2009
Most Critical Review

One of the worst expensive Power Supplies

Thermaltake toughpower W0117RU 750 W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply
Thermaltake toughpower W0117RU 750 W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply

Pros: Worked great when it worked.

Cons: Only worked for about a year or so and that was with the Thermaltake 150 Graphics power supply running in concert to take the graphics load off the Toughpower. I would not call it a Toughpower, I would call it a No-Power as it does not work and I have a power supply from NewEgg that cost me 40 bucks that has worked for the last 4 years without fail, my toughpower is a paper weight and has been for the last 5 years or so. Which is rediculous. It lived just long enough to be out of warranty.

Overall Review: I expected much more from Thermaltake. I have now switched to all Corsair Power supplies. Gold Series.

Not-So-Tough--Tough Power 750

Thermaltake toughpower W0117RU 750 W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply
Thermaltake toughpower W0117RU 750 W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply

Pros: Appears very sturdily made, 200 mm fan

Cons: Non-Modular, Not to mention, I have a 20 dollar cheapo that has lasted longer than this thing. I was going through some old parts doing some "early" spring cleaning and came across this thing. It has been dead for several years. It was connected to an Asus Striker II Extreme, 8 Gig's of Corsair and a Quad Core. I now have a cheapo 1000Watt that cost 20 bucks on the Bay and it has run the system longer that this "Power Supply??" did. I paid 279 for this one new and it lasted less than two years. It was in a Thermaltake Cube with 13 Fans and I also have the 300W Thermaltake Video Card add on Power Supply so my total TT power was well over 400 dollars and only the Video card one still runs just perfect. I have now moved to corsair power supplies when I used to be Thermaltake all the way. I am very UN-Impressed with the longevity of this Power Supply. Thus very UN-impressed with Thermaltake in general. I have even moved away from their CPU fans. Now I run Tunia and a couple others. But all my Thermaltakes are box decorations in storage.

Overall Review: Back in the day, when this first went caput, I emailed Newegg and they told me tough luck, it was out of warranty, by less than 30 days. LOL. Nice, a 300 dollar PSU and I'm done. I must say though, New Egg has always treated me right so I would assume that it is a Thermaltake issue. I even sold my Cube for 100 bucks and went with an old Alien Ware case and a couple Cooler Masters.

Corsair Force GT CSSD-F120GBGT

Corsair Force Series GT 2.5" 120GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-F120GBGT-BK
Corsair Force Series GT 2.5" 120GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-F120GBGT-BK

Pros: This drive has very high read/write rates, it loaded the os without issue and has thus far performed flawlessly. It took a somewhat quick laptop and turned it into a near lightning fast laptop. From the time you press the on button to fully ready to roll, 4 seconds with Win7Pro and 8gigs RAM.

Cons: The only thing I can think of seriously is that I know they are holding back on sizes to milk the SSD for all its worth before upping the capacities to within reasonable costs.

Overall Review: SSD's have been around long enough now that we should be able to get a 500 gig for around 200 or less. Yet, we are still paying a buck a gig?? C-Mon.

Plextor Is by far one of the best

PLEXTOR 24X Internal DVD Super Multi Drive 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model PX-L890SA LightScribe Support
PLEXTOR 24X Internal DVD Super Multi Drive 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model PX-L890SA LightScribe Support

Pros: High quality, fair/reasonable cost for the product that you get

Cons: None really. A little more expensive than the others but with that comes better quality so I do not consider this to be a con.

Overall Review: If you are no concerned about quality and just need something to fill the slot, go with the cheaper one.

Great Entry Level SSD

Corsair Nova Series 2 2.5" 60GB SATA II Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-V60GB2
Corsair Nova Series 2 2.5" 60GB SATA II Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-V60GB2

Pros: Extremely quick compaired to a platter driven HDD.

Cons: Does get to the point where it starts to slow down if you make too many software changes. I simply did a wipe of the drive and started over and "planned" my installation and it works fine now.

Overall Review: This is a great entry level drive to wet your tastebuds on the SSD world. Once you have had one, you will never go back, it is like dial up to high speed connections, could not immagine NOT having one now.