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William S.

William S.

Joined on 06/27/12

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Most Favorable Review

Good card.

Silverstone PCI-E to USB 3.0 Add-On Card Model SST-EC04-P
Silverstone PCI-E to USB 3.0 Add-On Card Model SST-EC04-P

Pros: Works great. As fast as advertised, even boosts the speed of a USB 2.0 flash drive by a small margin. Driver was easy to install and included on a disk.

Cons: A small issue for me. I have an Ubuntu/Win 7 dual boot. The driver wont kick in until the windows logon screen comes up. So if your keyboard happens to be plugged into the 3.0 card you can't use the arrow keys to select your preferred OS at boot. That being said, I don't have a USB 3.0 keyboard or mouse. So this is not a big deal at all. But if u wanted to boot an OS off of a capable flashdrive, for example, you could not do so with a port on this particular card.

Overall Review: Works great: fast, compact, user friendly. Also the power supply via 4 pin molex is critical. Some cards can function without it they just cant charge a device via that port unless the power cable is plugged in. The card will not function with out the power supply. Also the 4-pin molex is an older power connection and was replaced by sata power. Newer power supplies may not have the 4-pin molex. Check before you buy, if not adapter are very cheap no prob to buy one.

Most Critical Review

Linux Update

Rosewill RC-404 - PCI Ethernet Card - 10 / 100 / 1000 Mbps, 1 x RJ45
Rosewill RC-404 - PCI Ethernet Card - 10 / 100 / 1000 Mbps, 1 x RJ45

Pros: See previous review

Cons: Can't get to run on Ubuntu 14.04 (Kernel 3.13.0-29).

Overall Review: Out of the box drivers were old and no longer compatible. Tried getting new drivers but Rosewill re-branded a chip and changed the vendor id (or mine was bad). Either way drivers would load and couldn't be loaded. I got the kernel source and added the new vendor/device id pair. Rebuilt kernel still no luck. Then the card disappeared off of lspci. In short, I've had no success with this card on newer versions of Linux. I'm no system programmer but I tried pretty hard on this one. Might be good for windows?

Not Compatible with Linux Kernel 3.13 Out of the Box

Rosewill RC-404 - PCI Ethernet Card - 10 / 100 / 1000 Mbps, 1 x RJ45
Rosewill RC-404 - PCI Ethernet Card - 10 / 100 / 1000 Mbps, 1 x RJ45

Pros: I can't really say yet. The design was clean, straight forward, and solid.

Cons: Okay I'm not really going to get on the company or newegg for this given its a unique situation. THAT BEING SAID. The device is listed as compatible with Linux Kernel v3.6 and later. Unfortunately, in a recent release the structure of net drivers changed slightly and any driver not in the Kernel tree has tobe updated by the manufacturer. BUT WAIT THE CHIP DRIVER IS IN THE KERNEL. However, the pci vendor is not listed in the driver. So I am currently rebuilding the Kernel having modified the driver. I will update once I have tried that and hopefully made some progress. LONG STORY SHORT: This PCI card is not recognized by Ubuntu 14.04 LTS out of the box.

Overall Review: Seems like a good product if the drivers worked out of the box. Will update after I try some driver fiddling.

Fantastic

Thermaltake Level 10 GT (VN10001W2N) Black SECC / Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case with Four Fans - 1 x 200mm Colorshift side fan, 1 x 200mm top fan, 1 x 200mm front fan and 1 x 140mm rear fan
Thermaltake Level 10 GT (VN10001W2N) Black SECC / Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case with Four Fans - 1 x 200mm Colorshift side fan, 1 x 200mm top fan, 1 x 200mm front fan and 1 x 140mm rear fan

Pros: Very roomy. My system runs much cooler now. It looks great. Excellent cable management. Dust screens come in very handy. Overall a fantastic product, I would recommend it and would buy it again.

Cons: THE FAN POWER CABLE. It uses a four pin molex connector (older) not sata power. My power supply did not have a molex connector so I had to buy an adapter. No biggie it was 3$ but it would have been nice to know ahead of time. I had just reasoned that a cutting edge case would support a newer power connector. This was minor I didn't feel the need to take off an egg. Some weaker internal wireless cards may loose a bar or two on connectivity because the case is so large and the metal detailing works a bit like a Faraday cage losing some signal strength. (If I had only 1 or two bars i would have taken off an egg for this but i only dropped from 5 to 4, no biggie.)

Overall Review: A few things: People complaining about poorly locking harddrive trays and easily breaking connectors were obviously being *excessively* forceful. After putting everything together I found that concern to be unreasonable. This case is very large. Because I was taking already existing hardware and putting it in this case getting some of the power cables to fit was challenging. If you have a small case buy some power cable extensions. Same goes for sata cables. If you have short ones you will need longer ones. Overall its a great case.