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Brent P.

Brent P.

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Most Favorable Review

Happy so far!

brother HL-4150CDN Color Laser Printer with Duplex and Networking
brother HL-4150CDN Color Laser Printer with Duplex and Networking

Pros: Color Laser with duplex, network, etc... Hard to beat the price for a quality unit. Many vendors sell this one with full cartridges and not starter ones.

Cons: Color toner is expensive, but thankfully is cheaper than ink in the long run.

Overall Review: Regarding the previous review about it saying toner was out when 3/4 full still. Clearly this is a malfunction or a sensor issue. Call support. You could also try the tricks that worked on the model you replaced... Not sure if they work on this model or not, but it's worth a shot before calling support. Taken from another review on the net: 1. Slide out the toner trays and put a piece of black electrical tape over the sensors on each color toner. This will make the print think that it has full toner. 2. If you already see "Replace Toner" messages, just RESET it by opening the front COVER and pressing CLEAR and REPRINT together. Scroll up and down to reset desired toner. 3. If you think you have more life and juice left on its drum and laser parts, just reset it and forget it

Most Critical Review

Died shortly after buying

PNY 128GB Turbo USB 3.0 Flash Drive (P-FD128TBOP-GE)
PNY 128GB Turbo USB 3.0 Flash Drive (P-FD128TBOP-GE)

Pros: It was super speedy for the first 4GB of file writes...

Cons: Speed tanked to 1mbps writes for the next 2GB... then 100kbps for reads... not usable.

Overall Review: Going to contact support for a replacement, but reading reviews here doesn't inspire confidence in the replacement lasting very long either.

Not impressed

PC 40mm 2 Pins Connector SVGA VGA Video Card Cooler Cooling Fan Clear DC 12V
PC 40mm 2 Pins Connector SVGA VGA Video Card Cooler Cooling Fan Clear DC 12V

Pros: It may work if plugged in?

Cons: Fan came with raw wires hanging out... no plug on the end of the two wires to connect to vide card port. Looks like it was ripped off prior to packaging as it wasn't in the bag either.

Overall Review: I could rip one off another fan and solder it up, but this isn't what I paid for. Not worth the $ to ship back for RMA... bummer.

Decent little box, not without flaws

ASRock VisionX 420D-8G1T88 Intel H87 Barebone
ASRock VisionX 420D-8G1T88 Intel H87 Barebone

Pros: I purchased due to form factor being small while still having an actual graphics card in it vs integrated intel hd graphics. I'm using them for a gaming kiosk with a touchscreen monitor. I LOVE the BIOS update over the internet feature this has. Just boot into the BIOS and plug in an Ethernet cable and tell it what server to pull from and it will update the BIOS. Doesn't get much simpler than that.

Cons: Purchased two units. One of them is fine, but the other has a defective component in the motherboard that requires the unit be disconnected from power in order to reboot. A system shutdown or restart from windows, or the power button on the front of the unit... will take it down, but trying to boot up again will cause it to go into a 1 second fan/drive spin up and power off cycle until the power is pulled from the back and then reapplied. Once you cycle the power cord like this, it boots and is fine. I've contacted ASRock for an RMA or replacement part. We'll see how that goes. Aside from that, the cost is HIGH on this box IMO. An intel NUC is less than half of this price... but this has a 1TB hard drive, 8gb ram, and an optical drive which the NUC doesn't... but still, if you don't need the better graphics or on-board optical drive, you can get a much smaller form factor and save some cash going with a NUC form factor. To each their own. I needed these for the graphics abilities which NUC can't provide yet.

10/24/2014

Nice upgrade!

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7950 3GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 100352-3L
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7950 3GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 100352-3L

Pros: Upgraded from a GTX260 core 216 OC card from MSI. This one is about the same length if not a few mm shorter. I use it for gaming and for some bitcoin mining on the side. The 260 card could run Borderlands 2 on minimum settings at 1280x768 and still froze every 15 min or so until I CTRL-ALT-DEL and cancelled to get back to the game. This card is running the game at max settings on 1920x1080... insane! Obviously mining is way faster with ATI vs NVidia... went from 40Mhps to 470Mhps easy at stock speeds. Built in 75Mhz overclock "boost" on the card vs stock 7950 cards. GREAT control over clock/fan speeds and such with the OverDrive featurs of the Control Center (under Performance tab).

Cons: Fans are a lot louder than the 260 had when mining (100% GPU use). Running BL2 at max settings the fans didn't go past 45% speed and the temps stayed in the 40s. Mining kicks temps up to 76c and the fans to 71% or so which gets loud. Think "loud" as in, what a CD drive sounds like when spinning at max speed. Anything past 55% or so on these is louder than the 260 card I had.

Overall Review: I bought this with a deal for Bioshock Infinite, Crysis 3, and FarCry 3... a card came with Bioshock and Crysis all over it, nothing for FarCry 3. I'll have to see what happens when I use this card, but I'm guessing I'll have to do some legwork to get my FarCry license. :-(

Love it.

Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 2.5" 60GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SV300S37A/60G
Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 2.5" 60GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SV300S37A/60G

Pros: Super speedy small drive for basic system. Installed 8 with no duds. Using for a kiosk and boot times are great on Win 7 x64.

Cons: No bracket included for 3.5" installation in a desktop setting. No upgradable firmware (or if there is, nothing is on Kingston's website for it yet). Blisterpack/Clamshell packaging... really?

Overall Review: Love me some Kingston. Just wish they would have thrown these things in a box like most vendors and skip the "slash you to shreds" plastic packs.

seller reviews
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VERY delayed order, but seller issued partial refund and delivered with faster shipping method

Communication was good. Order was placed late in the week with an arrival slated for early the following week. Didn't ship out until mid that following week, but seller issued a partial refund (at their own suggestion) and upgraded shipping methods. So yes, bummed on the timing as it held up my project for a week, but they made it right the best they could.

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