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John C.

John C.

Joined on 08/12/03

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very nice buy

DIAMOND Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 4870X2PE52G
DIAMOND Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 4870X2PE52G

Pros: extremely powerful - eats games for breakfast solid construction great packaging

Cons: stock drivers, update the latest off ATIs website

Overall Review: I purchased two of these and have them cooled on liquid ~55C under load. I have been extremely pleased with the construction and the ease of install. Highly recommended over a NVIDIA card.

Excellent Buy

SilverStone FM121-B Case Cooling Fan
SilverStone FM121-B Case Cooling Fan

Pros: Variable speed with convenient control; powerful or quiet. Your choice of black or silver speed control plate.

Cons: If you dont like noise, keep the fans dialed down. Not really a con.

Overall Review: I have a four component custom built alchol cooled PC. Water blocks on my two 4870 X2's, a QX9770, and also the north bridge. Using a very roomy case and a three fan radiator, my previous fans brought my system idle to ~53 C and 75 C full bore. I removed the four fans in the system and replaced the 3 radiator and one case fan with these silverstone fans and my idle temp has dropped a full 12 C! Thats a drop of 22 F degrees! Your case will increase 3 times in loudness and more or less will sound like a server, but that is the case fans doing their jobs; reducing the heat before it has a chance to build. Highly recommended!

Excellent work/entertainment laptop

HP Pavilion 17.0" Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 4GB Memory Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit dv7-1270us
HP Pavilion 17.0" Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 4GB Memory Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit dv7-1270us

Pros: 1. Large wide screen display for movie playing 2. Plenty of inputs on the sides, no inputs on the rear 3. Optical drive plays the latest movies and burns them too (excluding Blu-Ray) 4. Quiet operation 5. Low heat generation 6. FULL size keyboard (oh yes, its gigantic) 7. sensitive and accurate touch pad mouse (i use an external most of the time though) 8. HD expansion bay for an additional HD 9. SD/XD etc card reader (excellent so i dont have to pull out my cameras cables) also a sleak way to hide memory if you plan to use a card to boost vistas speed

Cons: 1. If you are looking to burn DVDs quickly, this is not the machine for you. You sacrifice the ability to play a lot of disk types at a cost of speed. It still burns, just very slowly. 2. Issues with webcam drivers/recognition

Overall Review: When i first started this guy up the optical drive whined quite loudly. I thought it was damaged, but the problem corrected itself after i did a wipe and install of the OS, vista pro 64bit. This solved and cause a lot of problems. problem solved; bloat ware, several drivers and the whine in the optical drive. If you are planning a wipe, i highgly recommend you download the network/wireless drivers first on a stick so you can download what you need later. All the drivers seem to be functioning correctly except for the webcam which i cannot get to function after reinstalling the hp drivers off the support website. Short of the webcam issues, the laptop does what it was built for, entertainment.

Excellent precision tracking

Logitech MX 518 Aluminum 8 Buttons 1 x Wheel USB Wired Optical Gaming Mouse
Logitech MX 518 Aluminum 8 Buttons 1 x Wheel USB Wired Optical Gaming Mouse

Pros: Good dpi precision, sensitive and adjustable on the fly. If you are looking for a good gaming mouse this may suit you just fine.

Cons: still not familiar with the forward and back page buttons on the right side of the mouse. Im more accustomed to back being by your thumb and forward being by your ring finger. a personal preference

Overall Review: excellent delivery time to APO, thanks newegg

stable and quiet

ABS Tagan ITZ Series ITZ1300 1300 W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready Active PFC Power Supply
ABS Tagan ITZ Series ITZ1300 1300 W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready Active PFC Power Supply

Pros: between a single rale and multiple rails, this one won out primarily because...well how can i tell the difference.

Cons: none

Overall Review: I bought this to feed the power to a water cooled dual HD 4850 X2 cards with an intel extreme quad core. No issues at all, consistant power and quieter than the noisiest fans in my case (50 mm radiator fans) highly recommended

Solid, simple

LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model iHAS120-04
LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model iHAS120-04

Pros: Simple Black good speed

Cons: none

Overall Review: A simple drive, does what it needs to with no problems. For the price, i would recommend it.