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Sean M.

Sean M.

Joined on 03/24/04

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Most Favorable Review

Super Flexible Board

ASUS M4A78T-E AM3 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
ASUS M4A78T-E AM3 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Very fast and rock solid even when overclocked. Can use on-board video and dedicated card simultaneously.

Cons: On-board video has weird problem where very dark blacks will display a green flickering-pixelating pattern sometimes. I use the on-board as a secondary monitor so it isn't too distracting. May be related to overclocking.

Overall Review: Unable to unlock my particular X3 into an X4, but i am running at 3.5 Ghz comfortably with no voltage adjustments. Also running my 1066 memory over spec at 1333 just fine. It will run a little faster clocks but i prefer stability and like to run my system for several weeks between reboots.

Most Critical Review

OK device if it worked

Kocaso M1061 10.1"Android 4.0 Capacitive Tablet PC - 8GB, 1.2 Ghz,  1080P, WiFi
Kocaso M1061 10.1"Android 4.0 Capacitive Tablet PC - 8GB, 1.2 Ghz, 1080P, WiFi

Pros: looks ok. decent build quality. cheep price.

Cons: Very slow CPU, supposedly 1.2 GHz, but not a modern CPU. Wireless constantly drops signal, even with good bars and good known location. Many basic apps like netflix will crash instantly. Any app that uses location services will lock up the device, this includes the builtin apps.

11/20/2012

Ok MP3 player but forget radio

Aluratek BUMP Portable MP3 and FM Radio Boombox                                                              AMS01F
Aluratek BUMP Portable MP3 and FM Radio Boombox AMS01F

Pros: Cute and sounds pretty good with MP3s considering its diminutive size built in battery and charging mechanism works well and lasts for several hours at least.

Cons: FM radio reception is poor Fm station manual programing is impossible Fm station automatic programing is atrocious

Overall Review: I bought this mostly for the radio feature and the clock. The clock turns off the display after a few seconds, even when plugged in making it not so useful. The radio has no way to program stations manually, instead it relies on an autoscan feature to load all of your local stations. unfortunately it does not scan the entire spectrum and load the 20 strongest but instead just loads the first 20 it finds, further the vast majority of the "stations" it finds are pure static. It does have a manual tuning feature so if you want to listen to one radio station and one radio station only, and that radio station has a very strong clear signal it may suit your radio needs.

Great potential

ASUS F1A75-M FM1 AMD A75 (Hudson D3) SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
ASUS F1A75-M FM1 AMD A75 (Hudson D3) SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

Pros: Runs Windows very fast, CPU side of things seems very stable. Runs very cool and quiet. Compact package should theoretically make a great media computer.

Cons: This is my first APU, but something is seriously wrong with this setup. Video flickers and flashes constantly and Windows and IE have video corruption of text and little triangles getting drawn all over. In addition the onboard sound gives me little high-pitched squeals every few secconds with some media (specifically netflix). Doesn't matter if I use analog optical or hdmi, same annoying noise. Been trying for three days to contact ASUS support. Received disconnects; garbled automated messages I am unable to understand, then disconnected; and on two occasions real live people who were too busy to talk but promised to call back, I have yet to hear from them.

Overall Review: A4-3400 APU 8 GB gskill 10666 WD 2TB HD Troubleshooting performed: Updated bios to latest, and reset all settings. Used drivers on disk and latest catylist from AMD Tested on Windows 7 32, and did fresh install of Windows 7 64. disabled all overclocking options set the memory to run at the slowest speed set the memory to run at the next highest speed nothing made any difference. Probably would run great with an external video and audio card, but that defeats the purpose.

11/14/2011

Nice Picture - But HOT!

MSI MS-8621-010 TV Tuner PCI Card
MSI MS-8621-010 TV Tuner PCI Card

Pros: Very sharp clear picture with good colors. much better than the old avermedia 150 card. Works great with MCE havnt tried the included software.

Cons: This sucker gets really hot. Before I added an additional fan and pointed it at the card the system was crashing continually. the case does get hot inside, but the old avermedia card ran in this system for over a year just fine.

Overall Review: Some of the other 550 based tuners have a large heatsink on the chip, if your system runs hot, you should think about one of them instead.