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JOHN M.

JOHN M.

Joined on 10/28/04

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Most Favorable Review

Huge Step Up

ASUS RT-AX86U Pro (AX5700) Dual Band WiFi 6 Extendable Gaming Router, 2.5G Port, Gaming Port, Mobile Game Mode, Port Forwarding, Subscription-Free Network Security, VPN, AiMesh Compatible
ASUS RT-AX86U Pro (AX5700) Dual Band WiFi 6 Extendable Gaming Router, 2.5G Port, Gaming Port, Mobile Game Mode, Port Forwarding, Subscription-Free Network Security, VPN, AiMesh Compatible

Pros: Easy setup, surprisingly helpful and capable companion app (Android), great power, reach and throughput on the Wi-Fi signal

Overall Review: Excellent router. Easily outclasses anything we've used in the past from a variety of manufacturers. Visited Newegg tonight to buy another one of these for our second location, and thought I'd leave a review on the initial purchase.

Most Critical Review

Works fine

BYTECC SATA-118C 1.5 ft. Serial ATA-150/300 Cable w/ Locking Latch
BYTECC SATA-118C 1.5 ft. Serial ATA-150/300 Cable w/ Locking Latch

Pros: Connects fine, fast throughput.

Cons: Doesn't really lock into place. I've just put four of these into my system and none of them locked on for either end of the cable.

10 Years at 3.8 GHz w/ Air Cooling

Intel Core i7-920 - Core i7 Bloomfield Quad-Core 2.66 GHz LGA 1366 130W Processor - BX80601920
Intel Core i7-920 - Core i7 Bloomfield Quad-Core 2.66 GHz LGA 1366 130W Processor - BX80601920

Overall Review: The i7-920 has been a remarkable workhorse. I overclocked mine to 3.8 GHz on day one (with air cooling) and never looked back. Here we are, 10 years later, and it's still strong, stable and performing like a (vintage) champ. Thank you, Intel - this was a real one.

Fast But Lots of Crashes

GIGABYTE Radeon R9 380 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 ATX Graphics Card GV-R938WF2-4GD (rev. 1.0)
GIGABYTE Radeon R9 380 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 ATX Graphics Card GV-R938WF2-4GD (rev. 1.0)

Pros: Very fast for the price, beautiful graphics, fairly quiet and cool

Cons: Crashes so often on my favorite games. 75% BSOD crash, 25% crash to desktop. I was playing a lot of Rust (pre development) so chalked up the early crashes to that. Wrong. Now I'm outside the return period...

Disappointed but still hopeful

SAPPHIRE 100282SR Radeon HD 5850 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card w/ATI Eyefinity
SAPPHIRE 100282SR Radeon HD 5850 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card w/ATI Eyefinity

Pros: Very fast, powerful card -- when it's running well, it really shines. Cool and quiet.

Cons: Buggy, buggy. HDMI connection does not fill the screen and display often goes psychedelic pink using the HDMI port. So yes, it has an HDMI port, but you won't be using it for anything higher than 1024X768. Also, be aware that if you plan on using two DVI connected displays (I gave up on the HDMI) this thing is very prone to flickering/glitching, even on stock settings. Alt-tabbing, vertical scrolling, window closing, etc. seem to be the biggest irritants. Some users have speculated that it's the power saving clock-down features that is causing all the flickering. However, if you force the card to stay at stock speeds with CCC you'll still get flickering. Even with all that, panels within applications (Adobe Suite, Premiere Pro, etc) always shimmer a bit (not in a good way) and stutter when I'm using dual screens. From what I've read, these are all "known issues."

Overall Review: Hopefully they can sort it out with driver updates down the road. In either case, it's bitterly disappointing to spend three-twenty on a high-end card only to have issues right from the get-go. Does not overclock much with stock cooling.

Boring

Game Party 2 Wii Game
Game Party 2 Wii Game

Pros: Price

Cons: Mundane. I don't think we played this more than twice before trading it in at gamestop.