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Aaron D.

Aaron D.

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Most Favorable Review

Awesome Card

EVGA SuperClocked w/ ACX Cooling 02G-P4-2774-KR G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 770 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card
EVGA SuperClocked w/ ACX Cooling 02G-P4-2774-KR G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 770 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card

Pros: Awesome Card!! Great performance for such a price.... Plays everything I throw at it on 2560x1440 max Quiet cooler I have purchased and owned many EVGA cards and have never had a complaint, will never by any other card!

Cons: NONE....Just Buy it!!!!

Overall Review: Not the cards fault but Newegg's.....be careful of the dimensions if you are installing in a smaller case.....Newegg lists this as 10" long....IT IS NOT!!!!! It is 10.5 INCHES!!! Might not be a big deal for most but when I was planning a WC system for my Bitfenix Prodigy, I took all my measurements and had clearance for a 10.25 card with the components I wanted. Obviously this does not work and now I have to figure out an alternative.....As I said, might not be a big deal for most but Newegg should be more careful about specs.....my fault for not going to the manufactures website for proper dimensions, I will never trust Newegg's again!!!

Most Critical Review
The Pearl Outlet FNCR8AAP-YG 14K 18" AAA Cranberry Red Freshwater Pearl Necklace
The Pearl Outlet FNCR8AAP-YG 14K 18" AAA Cranberry Red Freshwater Pearl Necklace

Pros: None

Cons: Price is very deceiving, do a web search for similar necklaces and you can find them cheaper with retail prices in the mid 100’s from national jewelry stores. Listing this at over 1K is just a major scam to get you to believe you are getting a great deal when you really are not getting a better price then you can find in a 5 second web search. I don’t know if this is something Newegg controls or the supplier, but I would hope Newegg would better control their “deals”. Love them for tech products but beware of these marketplace deals.

Not as good as the other reviews

WD Re 2TB Datacenter Capacity Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM Class SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 inch WD200MFYYZ
WD Re 2TB Datacenter Capacity Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM Class SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 inch WD200MFYYZ

Pros: I hope the two that work are as reliable as what the others have mentioned

Cons: 1 of 3 failed in less than 60 days. I know drives fail eventually, but at this price I expect better reliability than a month and a half. Going through the RMA process, never used WD for an RMA but at least they will ship before receiving. Will see how long it takes to get here.

Seems to be a trend

ASUS RT-N53 Dual Band Wireless N600 SOHO Router, DD-WRT Open Source support, Fast Ethernet, 5 Guest SSID, Parental Access Time control to Each User
ASUS RT-N53 Dual Band Wireless N600 SOHO Router, DD-WRT Open Source support, Fast Ethernet, 5 Guest SSID, Parental Access Time control to Each User

Pros: Zip

Cons: I will echo all the other issues raised, lasted 2 days, never recognized the 5ghz band, more complicated set up than just giving me log in info and let ting me set it up myself. After it stopped connecting to the internet (2 days), plugged my WRT54G in and everything was fine. Tried a firmware update and know it's bricked. Won't even let me log in. Asus seems to make it simple, download, select file, upload. And yes I used Win 64 bit, but the update failed and know its worthless. Won't reset to factory even. Guess I never should have left Linksys.

Overall Review: Just garbage from the start, their attempt to make it "easy" only complicates the set up compared to just letting a user log in and set up their router. The fact that it lasted two days and this many people have complaints should tell Asus this router is garbage and they need to put a little effort into a quality product.

Garbage Drivers

ASUS Xonar DG 5.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI Interface Sound Card
ASUS Xonar DG 5.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI Interface Sound Card

Pros: None

Cons: Drivers would not install.....shut down PC, plugged in card, Windows recognized it, but when I tried to install the drivers it asked me to plug in the card. Tried the CD, website, and even found modded drivers but had the same issue with all of them. Called tech support and they got nowhere, just said try pulling it out and plugging it back in which I had already done....twice.

Overall Review: Found a lot of complaints about the drivers for this card after doing some searching on driver issues. I only used the optical out, so maybe it is just this output, but that was the sole reason for the buying the card. Hopefully for everyone else I just had bad luck but I can not recommend a product with such bad driver support.

Poor Quality Control

CORSAIR Hydro Series H100 (CWCH100) Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
CORSAIR Hydro Series H100 (CWCH100) Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler

Pros: None for me

Cons: Bought two of these units. First one I brought home, installed and fired up. Pump made a terrible grinding sound. It was running but louder than all the fans in my case. In addition it cooled worse than my Arctic Freezer 7 Pro (92mm cooler). Temps went up 3 degrees. Re-seated with my own paste and got the same result. So I exchanged that unit and before I installed the second one I plugged it in to check it first. Same issue, very loud, making some grinding noise. So I took this one straight back and picked up a 212 Evo instead. Temps dropped 10 degrees as soon as I started it up and ran Prime. I have used Corsair before and used to be happy with them, but two units in a row being defective does not speak well. If it was cooling properly, just loud, it was not effective at all, worse than a 92mm fan cooler. Based on all the other reviews and online reviews, it seems I just had really bad luck, but I will not be attempting water cooling units like this again.

Overall Review: Hopefully for anyone else I got two bad units off the shelves. Corsair normally makes great products, I have used the H50, cases, and PSU's in the past but this is the third Corsair item I have had bad luck with. Unfortunately, I have had almost no issues with any other manufacturer with hardware or cooling so I will be avoiding them from now on. They need to improve quality before I re-consider.

12/16/2012