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James W.

James W.

Joined on 03/20/08

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Product Reviews
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Most Favorable Review

Acer Does it Right!!

Acer Iconia-6120 4GB Memory 14.0" 1366 x 768 Dual-Screen Touchbook Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Acer Iconia-6120 4GB Memory 14.0" 1366 x 768 Dual-Screen Touchbook Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Pros: -Virtual Keyboard is unbelievably accurate. My biggest surprise was that I could type at near 100% normal speed with no difference in the occasional rare typo. -Ebook (Nook) works perfect, with swipe gestures in either window. -The dual page Browser is wonderfull for swipe movement of webpages. - All my Apps work as designed after all it's still a PC.

Cons: -Battery life 2 hours - But I found I get much longer battery life if I turn the brightness down which is defaulted to the Brightest setting. (Each monitor has a separate control for brightness.

Overall Review: - After I installed iTunes, I had a one time error on the Media Ring when I opened the Audio Pane. It appears you have to let it finish cataloging all your Music the first time it opens before you try to play something. After 4 minutes, no more errors and all the Album art showed up.

Most Critical Review

Works - But not as Advertised

ASUS GeForce GTX 590 (Fermi) 3GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card ENGTX590/3DIS/3GD5
ASUS GeForce GTX 590 (Fermi) 3GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card ENGTX590/3DIS/3GD5

Pros: The card runs all my content much faster than my SLI'd GTX285s' with Cinema4D, Unity3D, and City Engine.

Cons: For the Price of $700.00 I was looking forward to actually overclocking the card up to 50% as "Advertised" on the box. Now it has been revealed some serious flaws in the VRM's on this card preventing any of the peak advertised levels of Overclocking as some persons have had failures at stock voltages with the Drivers supplied on the CD, not to mention the SWEoverclockers video of them toasting their card while Benching. However they did not have the most recent drivers...it's a lame excuse I know(after the fact).

Overall Review: I was so looking forward to buying a second card to support Folding@home, and for even greater performance for the projects I had in mind for very high end processing. Now I'm somewhat stuck $700 with a card that does not live up to the expectations as advertised. I want to return it and buy two other high end cards, but I'll have to talk to Newegg first.

Excellent OC Board

GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD7 LGA 1366 Intel X58 USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD7 LGA 1366 Intel X58 USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Overclocked my I7 920 to 4.2 Gig with no sweat at all. The Northbridge Waterblock is a very nice touch especially for the price...it fits. Memory to 1600 was a non issue though some people had problems. You really have to know what you are doing, as the Bios has enough options to get you there as long as you have a working motherboard of course.

Cons: None

Overall Review: None

Excellent 1K Power Supply

KINGWIN Lazer LZ-1000 1000W Modular 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC W/ 3-Way LED Switch and Universal Modular Connector Power Supply
KINGWIN Lazer LZ-1000 1000W Modular 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC W/ 3-Way LED Switch and Universal Modular Connector Power Supply

Pros: Very easy setup, being Modular and the right cables for both SLI and Crossfire. The Blue neon lights perfectly accent my already blue lights in my case. LArge Fan "Moves" air very nice.

Cons: None

Overall Review: None

Great Foundation

ASUS P6X58D Premium LGA 1366 Intel X58 USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
ASUS P6X58D Premium LGA 1366 Intel X58 USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Easy to build with Antec 902 case, I7 920 cpu, with a corsair H50 CPU cooler in push/pull. My first attempt at 4Ghz with this board as a foundation was flawless.

Cons: Not really a con but I did notice that the board really prefers that you use one SATA controller or the other. Does not like to identify my Intel SSD (Boot) drive, and my 1.5TB seagate in the correct boot order as easy as I'd liked when in different SATA controllers, but once I figured it out it wasn't a problem.

Overall Review: The additional connectors for both SLI or crossfire is a nice touch, as well as the Northbridge cooler fan. the blue color matches my Antec 902 case like they were made to be together.