Joined on 08/12/03
very nice buy

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

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

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

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

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

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.