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Bradley B.

Bradley B.

Joined on 08/17/11

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Most Favorable Review

Um, thanks nVidia!

NVIDIA Gift - BATMAN Arkham City Game Coupon
NVIDIA Gift - BATMAN Arkham City Game Coupon

Pros: FREE GAMES YEAH!

Cons: Never played Batman...

Overall Review: Got two of them... gave the other to a friend. ;-)

Most Critical Review

>17hrs Use = Flickering Colors?

Dell M110 Ultra-Portable Projector HDMI 1280x800 300 ANSI Lumens 10000:1
Dell M110 Ultra-Portable Projector HDMI 1280x800 300 ANSI Lumens 10000:1

Pros: - Small, portable, great for deployment... at least for one season of Spartacus and a hand full of movies at one or two sessions a night until it decides to stop working.

Cons: - $350 + $25 for APO shipping for 17 hours of use worth it? NO! - Did I mention it stopped working properly after merely 17 hours of use at one to three hour sessions each night until then? - Loud fans (didn't bother me when it worked) - No simple lens cap to protect the lens while still being plugged in (I could unplug everything and put it back in the case after each session, but... no). - Speaker is a waste of hardware space and money for the product (I used a pair of Bluetooth headphones instead). - Glossy exterior attracts finger prints (doesn't bother me here) - You cannot focus everything, there will always be a blurry area. - 30 day replacement only, which is useless for me in Afghanistan, because it took 20 days to get to me. $375 down the drain. I'm pretty furious... - Useless blinking blue light when in standby mode (manufacturers, I can tell when something is plugged in; I do not need a light to obnoxiously remind me every other second).

Overall Review: Whatever happened, it wasn't due to my faults. I set this thing up on a trip pod and I've left in that spot for about two weeks. I'd only used it for about one to three hours each night and it worked wonderfully. Around ten hours of use it started flickering the colors. I messed around with the settings and found that turning down the color temperature from the default 'high' to 'med' stopped this until last night. Now it flickers between red, blue, and green unless I turn the color temperature down to 'low,' but then it only displays blue and green colors. There's no red present at all. It's a paper weight for me now, I can't get a refund, I can't return it, and I highly doubt Dell is going to do a darn thing about it. I take care of my things; I'm OCD as hell. I didn't knock it at all, I didn't drop it, I didn't leave it exposed to the elements, and I didn't overuse it. The information screen says it's been used for a total of 17 hours. I covered it up every night after I was done with a towel AFTER it had finished cooling itself off with the loud fans. It's just a faulty device, period. I buy things highly based on their reviews, and did not expect this thing to malfunction this soon. I'm very disappointed...

Worked Great for 30 Days...

ASUS PCE-AC55BT B1 AC1200 Wireless Bluetooth 4.2 PCIe/Mpcie Adapter
ASUS PCE-AC55BT B1 AC1200 Wireless Bluetooth 4.2 PCIe/Mpcie Adapter

Pros: - I used this for about a month after I finally got around to installing it in my system (built in 2011, still working great: Asus P8Z68 motherboard, i7 2600k). - I streamed via OBS to Twitch at 2500Kbps every day for 8-12 hours a day during that time. - I did not utilize the BT 4.2, but it did work just fine when plugged into a USB header on the motherboard.

Cons: - Last night I shutdown my PC as usual; this morning when I hopped on to begin my stream, Windows 7 (64bit Ultimate) froze shortly after loading to desktop, completely locking up the system... - After having to force restart a few times, using the power button (risking my data), I noticed it would freeze just after the WiFi indicator on the taskbar began searching for the network... - I then suspected the card was the culprit, not only because of that, but because it was the last change I had made to my system, that had been stable and perfect since 2011... - I booted into Safemode, (which actually froze upon loading drivers the first time, restarting itself) and then proceeded to disable IntelPROset upon startup... - Rebooted... no freezing... but obviously also no WiFi... - Uninstalled the drivers and software... tried to reinstall using the most up-to-date version direct from Intel's site... AAAAND, it froze half way through the process... - I tried this again twice, each time having to go back to Safemode to disable it first and then rebooting so the desktop wouldn't freeze... I tried it a third time in a different PCI slot... - Upon freezing during install even in a different slot, I thought to try and simply unplug the WiFi card from the slot... it immediately unfroze my system... - For whatever reason, unfortunately 14 days past the return date, this card is causing a hangup...

Overall Review: - My only option is to pay to ship it to Asus, wait for them to hopefully identify the problem (with a system that is most certainly NOT my exact setup), hope they don't look at it and be like, "it's fine," and then wait for them to hopefully ship me back a working card that will stay working... - I don't think it's worth my time or the hassle or the additional cost to ship for no guarantees and just hopes, so I guess they just get to keep my money for buying a cheapo made in China seemingly timed to die just after the return date. FeelsBadMan

11/26/2017

At First, I Thought It Was Broken...

CORSAIR Survivor Stealth 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive CMFSS3-64GB
CORSAIR Survivor Stealth 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive CMFSS3-64GB

Pros: First off: Corsair. 'Nuff said. To add, it is very rugged and has tons of storage space. It also was instantly recognized on my Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit PC and properly named "Corsair." Using USB 3.0 and writing large files, it reached an average of 65MBps. Although, it would also frequently slow to around 40MBps and then pick back up. I can't say much for read speeds, as I don't much care to test it; but it SEEMS pretty quick to me. I just wanted a large storage drive that was durable enough for a deployment (I'll update this when I get back next year).

Cons: Much larger than expected. Definitely not going to be utilizing it on my key ring as I originally wanted to do. I could, but it's just too bulky. It SCREAMS when you screw and unscrew the casing. I'm assuming that will die down with use, when the aluminum wears in. The actual USB head is slightly lose. It wiggles. It isn't one, stiff piece... almost as if the aluminum housing was built around it, instead of being a portion of the drive. No manual - Most people will say, "Why would you need a manual? Just stick it in the hole!" (explanation follows)

Overall Review: Now, this is entirely on me; but I thought I should mention this: If the first thing you try to do is move a file from your PC to this USB drive that is over 4GB in size and it tells you there is not enough space on the flash drive and you flip your desk in an angered confusion, relax... it just needs to be reformatted properly. This is where some form of small manual or quick reference guide would have been nice. I thought it was broken. It moved other files just fine. It wasn't until I noticed all of the files I couldn't copy to the drive were 4+GB in size when I saw a pattern and decided to research. I had no clue about the differences in FAT, FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS; nor did I know what "allocation unit size" meant. This flash drive comes default in exFAT with an allocation of 128kilobytes. You'll need to increase that allocation to an appropriate size. I chose 4096kilobytes. Now I can move 4+GB files to the drive. Google it for further information. Hope this helps!

I have the same thing made my Nyrius

C2G 28734 3-Way TOSLINK Digital Audio Selector Switch
C2G 28734 3-Way TOSLINK Digital Audio Selector Switch

Pros: Works wonderfully for me... PS3, Xbox 360, and PC all connected to my Z-5500's ONE optical input.

Cons: Mine is grey, not black... made by Nyrius; I bought it from a certain website named after a female D2 character. ;-)

Easy Installation

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

Pros: Water cooling! ME?! No... Too simple to be water cooling!

Cons: Fan speed button is inside the case on the unit itself... if you don't have the fans on a external fan controller, it can be annoying to open your case and press that button every time you want to play a high end game. It should just be automatic.

Overall Review: Make sure you can fit this baby above your mobo and ram in your case... In the Corsair 600T, you have to mount the fans on the outside of the case above the radiator... It's meant to be on the underside of the radiator, but won't fit.