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Amanda J.

Amanda J.

Joined on 01/31/05

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Noctua NH-U9B 92mm SSO CPU Cooler
Noctua NH-U9B 92mm SSO CPU Cooler

Pros: This is hands down the best CPU cooler I have ever seen. Installation is not too bad. Super quiet, very effective fan and heatsink. Thermal paste is as effective as Arctic Silver. Do some research and come back and buy this. Only cooler better than this one is the 120mm version. Noctua is the premium heatsink company. The heatsink is set up so fan is blowing directly through it to the 120mm case fan out of the case. A+ Inaudible, effective, comes with quality thermal paste. Love it. Buy it. Recommend it.

Cons: Color...that's all I can come up with. This thing is awesome.

Overall Review: Antec 182 Case C2D 8500 CPU

Flaky Drivers

PowerColor Radeon HD 3850 512MB GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X Graphics Card AG3850 512MD3-P
PowerColor Radeon HD 3850 512MB GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X Graphics Card AG3850 512MD3-P

Pros: For what it is, a very fast AGP card with 512MB GDDR3 memory, it is more than adequate. It is a huge improvement on my previous card. I can play games I could have never played before.

Cons: Flaky drivers. The boxed CD drivers will not work. The ATI most up to date drivers = no work. Hotfix drivers = no work. Only thing I can get to work is the Powercolor website drivers. Issues with this is that the CCC crashes at least once a day. Quite annoying. I do not play many games. I wanted this to play HD content and it does a fine job of this. What I see here is excellent hardware, with bad software and support. Great hardware + questionable drivers = Bad Card. If they fix the driver issues, I am sure the card will function much better.

Overall Review: Heatsink/fan is packaged very well with styrofoam stuff. No issues with that part of it. All in all, I cannot recommend anyone get this card. But it is good for what it is. If they can give me a good driver...I could change my mind.

10/24/2008