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Joel R.

Joel R.

Joined on 03/23/07

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Most Favorable Review

not bad with combo

Rosewill RSV-L4000C - 4U Rackmount Server Case / Chassis for AI / Bitcoin Mining Machine, Supports 8 Graphic Cards
Rosewill RSV-L4000C - 4U Rackmount Server Case / Chassis for AI / Bitcoin Mining Machine, Supports 8 Graphic Cards

Pros: plan on doing 6 gpus each if Newegg keeps this in stock. liked the 9 smaller fan mounts with multiple mounting locations for the mounting plate. if you were forced too, drilling holes to mount gpus reversed wouldn't be too bad. definitely recommend high speed fans on front middle and back. this goes in a rack... who cares about fan noise.

Cons: motherboard mounting plate was not drilled properly. resulting in my mother board not seating fully on one end of the back plate and 1/2 inch off the other end. meh it's a set it and forget it case but come on... measure twice drill once please.

Overall Review: wish there was a substitute option to mount a second power supply 90° turn and next to current psu above CPU position. it would sacrifice two fans but could split load between pcie daughter board power and 6pin gpu power will buy again if in stock. need 5 more

Most Critical Review
ASRock Z77E-ITX LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI USB 3.0 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard
ASRock Z77E-ITX LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI USB 3.0 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Love the 5x5x5 options, having a virtual hdd on the ram is ver convient. On paper this board was great See cons

Cons: Got a defective board. The Sound would only output to the right speakers. I tried everything I could think of. Then noticed front ports weren't working either. Tried another board, front ports worked fine. Then did new drivers, no change. At that point I RMA'd the board due to the hardware sound chip not working right. Took it apart, all looked good and sent it back. Newegg declined my replacement due to what they say was customer neglect and pin damage. Kinda wish now I took pictures of the thing before sending it back but oh well. Just out the 100 dollars I guess. If the on board audio worked It would have been fine because it worked amazingly otherwise.

Overall Review: So yeah, really bummed I cant have my client's build ready till another week and having to absorb the cost of this board. Just going to buy from local dealer to save some time. Will say the RMA process @ newegg is usualy great. But my main con is the audio not working right on the board. so beware this may be a common issue, reguardless of my experience

Was so hopeful but needs maturity

ASRock Challenger Arc A380 6GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 ITX Video Card A380 CLI 6G OC
ASRock Challenger Arc A380 6GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 ITX Video Card A380 CLI 6G OC

Pros: -Worked -Played games sorta -Cost vs proposed performance level -The Driver utility didn't ask for my blood type, personal interests, age, browsing history unlike team green. -Driver Utility has Afterburner like features and as a widget, while in game, which is neat

Cons: -Lots of dropped frames -Finding drivers at first sent me to July drivers, the August one is what you want (at time of writing) This wasn't exactly Asrock's problem as Intel is just getting out the gate into the GPU market

Overall Review: -I used a 6th gen intel I7, 8 / 16 gigs of ram for testing, and ssd for boot and game installs -Could get an average framerate like intel says i should, But i get a ton of stuttering and frame drops for over 2 seconds while gaming in Halo. Rocket League demanded 16 Gb ram unlike the 1650 i was comparing this to. -I really want this card to have matured drivers and will be on the lookout for them. I want team blue to succeed in the GPU market. -Today I do not recommend anyone buying the card as a primary GPU but as a AV1 codec encoder. Its fairly snazzy. Gaming is almost there. - - As for anyone wondering why my test rig was 6th gen, I have 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 12th gen to play with. And Ryzen 1st -5th gen 3, 5, and 7's AND Thread-Rippers to toss this at. So my question back to you is, why spend $400 - $4000 on a CPU and not the same or more on a GPU?... Has intel said this GPU only does what it can on a 12th or better I9 CPU only? Who does that?

works as advertised

BIOSTAR TB250-BTC LGA 1151 Intel B250 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Motherboard for Cryptocurrency Mining (BTC)
BIOSTAR TB250-BTC LGA 1151 Intel B250 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Motherboard for Cryptocurrency Mining (BTC)

Pros: have 6 GTX 1060's running 24/7 with an m.2 as a win10x64 boot.

Cons: expect lots of boot looping if you change the boot device. some of the sata ports are shared with the m.2 and will be super confused if you have a m.2 and a sata drive plugged into the shared ports. it also is kinds picky about ram. had two similar speed and timed 4gb ram sticks in it but from different brands so the chips may have been from sources and caused issues. just pulled one and rocking fine since. day one had some tinkering to get this board stable but once it was it has been solid since.

Overall Review: 4gb of ram is ok but set a higher page file. your algorithms will thank you.

11/16/2017

Works

50000mah External Power Bank Backup Dual USB Battery Charger For Cell Phone
50000mah External Power Bank Backup Dual USB Battery Charger For Cell Phone

Pros: -Lasts forever -Has a backup led light -Power % led -Great Price

Cons: -No documentation or indication which usb port is the 1A and which is the 2.1A -My phone uses 1.8 A to charge and at a 50% charge (on the phone) this power bank does not supply enough output on either port to 'continuously' charge my phone. Worked fine on other devices that required from 1A to 2.8A. (May have needed an extended 10 hours of charging prior to being used for the first time)

Overall Review: I got this for $15. Was worth trying out and wouldn't have been a serious loss if it didn't work as advertised. So far the power density of this power bank is quite remarkable but the lack of the simple raised markings showing which port is which is quite annoying. Had a friend who bought one just like this with a solar panel on it and had to open his to repair the battery leads that were broken in delivery. The craftsmanship is about what you would expect with a $15 product.

Used for personal server use. Dead x16 socket

BIOSTAR H81MHV3 LGA 1150 Intel H81 HDMI USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
BIOSTAR H81MHV3 LGA 1150 Intel H81 HDMI USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Works great for running small game servers on a G3258. (I know it wont be OC'd here but another board is on the way. Everything worked great day 1 with all my SSD's for game server storage but today I tried to plug in an video card and the motherboard doesn't recognize the card.

Cons: Looked in BIOS and it doesn't recognize the x16 slot at all. The x1 lane is found fine though. Not sure if this was broken from day 1 but very disappointing. Did proper checks on graphics card seating, visual inspect of all connectors for all parts involved, upped the power supply to a 700 watt, tried another graphics card I had lying around, tried all parts in other systems I have on hand. The 'OS' version of the fan and system temp software is almost non-existent. It loads a window and says 1 thing, what the current temp of the CPU temp is. I suppose if you only have 1 job.....

Overall Review: Everything I own works find in other configurations just not on this board. Too bad, would have made a nice budget board for lan events but will just have to stay stuffed away in my rack at home. 1 Egg off for broken x16 lane, and 1 Egg off for too simplistic of features for the BIOS. Could use Raid configs and better fan control management in and out of BIOS.