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Jeffrey D.

Jeffrey D.

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Most Favorable Review

Once again, hard to beat...for the price

HANNspree 32" 1080p LCD HDTV
HANNspree 32" 1080p LCD HDTV

Pros: First thing first, if you don't own the product, DON'T POST A REVIEW! Yeesh! The screen is bright (very), has a relatively clean and attractive front bezel, and reproduces color reasonably well. HD TV image was great (watched some fast-moving Formula 1) as well as to my PC (played a little Left 4 Dead 2); the TV image was great; the PC image was a little less than stellar as I couldn't find any combination of settings on the TV or through the PC display settings to get 100% crisp text. Gaming with it, though, was surprisingly good considering the advertised 6ms when compared to the 28" monitor's claimed 2ms. Plenty of input choices, which is much appreciated when looking at the paltry 2 options with the 28" monitor. Dark images are displayed better on this screen when compared to the company's 28" monitors; details are better. Remote is decent. Reasonable number of options for calibrating/controlling picture settings. Brightness control for the plaque in the front

Cons: As mentioned earlier, using this as a PC monitor might be a pain if you read a lot of text... I think someone else mentioned this...though it is not a terrible issue, muting the speakers causes the mute icon to display on the screen. You'll have to/need to simply turn the TV's volume all the way down to "mute" it. Which brings me to the speakers... let's face it. They are pretty bad. I tried them out before connecting my receiver; there was barely enough power behind them to fill my modestly-sized living room and at the highest volume, the sound was of course garbled and generally unpleasant.

Overall Review: I am a long-time user of Hanns(G or Spree) products; I purchased a 28" LCD monitor about 2 years ago and purchased a second 28" about 1 year ago. This 32" HD television has many of the same great traits that made their 28" such a hot seller here on Newegg... and like those other monitors, I think it'll be difficult for you to find a better TV for this price. Is this TV perfect? Of course not; there are scores of better TVs out there, but after having been to several big box stores and a couple independent video stores, I don't think there are any TVs that offer as much as this one does for as little as this once costs. Price per performance earns this TV 5 eggs.

12/17/2009

Best GPUs/marshmallow roasters I've owned

EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW HYBRID GAMING, 08G-P4-6288-KR, 8GB GDDR5X, RGB LED, All-In-One Watercooling with 10CM FAN, 10 Power Phases, Double BIOS, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC)
EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW HYBRID GAMING, 08G-P4-6288-KR, 8GB GDDR5X, RGB LED, All-In-One Watercooling with 10CM FAN, 10 Power Phases, Double BIOS, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC)

Pros: Combined with the 6850K, a pair of these monsters have made it possible for me to play every game in my collection with the highest graphics settings on a 4k monitor without any problems whatsoever. Well, except for a couple games known to have issues such as DXMD (I haven't given up on it yet!). Considering these were purchased specifically to help me lose long tracts of time immersed in the latest and greatest games, I think they meet that requirement nicely.

Cons: Price. And the "hybrid" cooling system. I'm usually a fan of the "you get what you pay for" club, but this time it is a little different. Maybe my expectations were just unrealistic, but I was really hoping these cards would perform closer to the LCS I had previously than the "blower" style coolers I've also had... sadly, they are not. They make FAR more noise than I'd like. To make it even more annoying, the tube length is about 2 inches too short for my setup. That could be partially blamed on the the case. And the heat! Oh boy! Break out the chocolate and graham crackers because these suckers get darn toasty! I guess that's the price for stutter-free gaming with all the eye candy on a 4k screen.

Overall Review: In my opinion, while the cards do an awesome job pushing pixels, I feel like the extra money I spent for what was supposed to be a superior cooling solution was a bit of a waste. If I had the option to do it again, I'd shy away from this hybrid option and stick with significantly cheaper non-hybrid "blower" style card. Or go all-out with a custom LCS and spring for the Hydrocopper version.

Excellent CPU

Intel Core i7 6th Gen - Core i7-6850K Broadwell-E 6-Core 3.6 GHz LGA 2011-V3 140W BX80671I76850K Desktop Processor
Intel Core i7 6th Gen - Core i7-6850K Broadwell-E 6-Core 3.6 GHz LGA 2011-V3 140W BX80671I76850K Desktop Processor

Pros: This CPU has handled everything I've thrown at it without complaint. I've always been a advocate of overclocking to eek out the most performance, but honestly I haven't really felt the need with this CPU. At least, not yet. Heat isn't nearly as bad as I was expecting. Going from a 2nd gen quad-core to this hexa-core has been a real treat.

Cons: A few people tout price as a con... I don't really agree. While certainly not on the cheap end of the spectrum, I'd argue this is still within reason, especially when considering what the CPU can do out of the box. I've seen other people suggest that it should come with a cooling solution. To them, I say - are you sure? I'd bet the vast majority of people buying this CPU are like me... they are doing research, reading the benchmarks and carefully selecting the parts that best fit their needs. I'd really rather not spend even $10 extra for something that will immediately be chucked into the trash can.

Overall Review: I'm using the H115i with the two stock 140mm fans pushing cool air from the top of my case through the radiator to cool this CPU. Only during the most demanding games do I detect the fans spooling up at all and even then it is hard to really distinguish the CPU fans from the GPU fans.

Good Fan, minor flaws

Corsair Air Series AF140 140mm Quiet Edition High Airflow Case Fan Single Pack(CO-9050009-WW)
Corsair Air Series AF140 140mm Quiet Edition High Airflow Case Fan Single Pack(CO-9050009-WW)

Pros: The fan moves a decent amount of air and is reasonably quiet while doing so. This fan replaced the stock Corsair front intake on the 330R "quiet" case (the stock fan moved down to blow air over the HDD cage). Even with the front door closed, it does an admirable job of providing cool air to the GPU. Given that part of the results are due to the case design, the fan is, of course, integral to the final results so... with the front door closed in ambient temp of 20 deg, the GPU (GTX 770, reference cooler) hit 84 deg after sustained stress-testing. With the door open, it topped out at 82 deg.

Cons: Perhaps I'm just used to longer power cords, but the on on this fan seemed extremely short. I have it mounted as a front intake and had to buy an extension in order to reach the main bundle of connectors mid-way across the back of the motherboard tray. None of the other 3 case fans required this extension, including the front intake just below this fan which, oddly enough, is also a Corsair.

Overall Review: Decent fan. Find it on sale and buy yourself a fan header extension with the savings.

Great little kit

Kingston 16GB microSDHC Flash Card with Adapters & USB Reader Model MBLYG2/16GB
Kingston 16GB microSDHC Flash Card with Adapters & USB Reader Model MBLYG2/16GB

Pros: I bought this 5/2009. I used it in my cell phone as media storage for 2 years until I upgraded to a 32GB card 10/2011. From there on, I used it as movie storage for a netbook... until I left it on a plane 11/2012. Worked like a champ, never had any file degradation issues and the read/write and transfer speeds were fine.

Cons: None that I can think of.

Overall Review: I just bought a replacement (at a local brick and mortar store) yesterday. Instead of a traditional lanyard, I'm chaining it to my belt loop.

Still works...

CORSAIR Flash Voyager 2GB Flash Drive (USB2.0 Portable) CMFUSB2.0-2GB
CORSAIR Flash Voyager 2GB Flash Drive (USB2.0 Portable) CMFUSB2.0-2GB

Pros: Still works as good as it did the day I received it. I use it primarily to transfer documents between customers' new and old PCs and to transfer drivers to those new PCs. I couldn't accurately estimate how many GBs I've written to the drive, but I'd guess "a whole helluva lot" is pretty close.

Cons: I did lose the cap once. Found it when my robot vacuum cleaner choked on it.

Overall Review: I've seen lots of complaints regarding Corsair's newer drives dying after a short period of time. They should repackage these guys and sell them new :)