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Mr E.

Mr E.

Joined on 12/15/03

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Most Favorable Review

Great cooling if you have the room

Thermaltake CL-W0052 Tide Water All in One VGA Liquid Cooling module
Thermaltake CL-W0052 Tide Water All in One VGA Liquid Cooling module

Pros: MSI X1900XT went from 49idle/62load deg. with stock fan to 36/47 with this and even at *max* Catalyst oc'ing (690/800 MHz) is running at 36/49 with fan set to low! Took 10 minutes to install for water cooling without hassle. Much quieter!

Cons: Directions are badly translated but it's easy. Need lots of room internally - it's double slot and full ATX width. Fit is not perfect and I made a custom bracket so the radiator would line up better with the outside case slots.

Overall Review: This costs only a little more than the best air coolers and will give you far better cooling and be much quieter.

Most Critical Review

OK for price

Rosewill RC-212 VIA PCI SATA 1.5G / IDE ATA 133 Controller Card / Supports Raid 0, 1, 0+1, JBOD, non-RAID mode
Rosewill RC-212 VIA PCI SATA 1.5G / IDE ATA 133 Controller Card / Supports Raid 0, 1, 0+1, JBOD, non-RAID mode

Pros: Easy to install, does what it says for cheap. Includes 1 PATA and 2 SATA cables.

Cons: Corrupting large files occasionally - BAD! I will drive different drivers though. SATA, not SATA 2. Instructions vague. External ports should really be eSATA.

Overall Review: I added SATA drive to older Athlon 3000+ system for Vista, installed Vista by just adding the driver during the installation, and am booting off it easy enough. I have only tried included driver so far. Had to look up the chipset (Via 6421). As SATA 2 cards are only a little more I recommend looking for one of those if your drive(s) is/are SATA 2.

Very nice

EVGA GeForce GTX 560 (Fermi) 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card 01G-P3-1460-KR
EVGA GeForce GTX 560 (Fermi) 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card 01G-P3-1460-KR

Pros: 150 watts max (stock speeds) for low heat and pretty fast mid-range card. Runs amazingly cool with stock fan.

Cons: None

Overall Review: I'm impressed with the overall performance gain versus GTX 285. This is mostly due to lack of heat. I will very likely consider getting another - this is an ideal SLI card.

12/22/2011

Yep!

PNY GeForce GTX 285 1GB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card VCGGTX285XPB
PNY GeForce GTX 285 1GB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card VCGGTX285XPB

Pros: Had a PNY 8800gts that's been great so went with PNY for GTX285. Reference or near reference design but oc'able. Flawless and very fast so far for me!

Cons: Need 42 amps @ 12v so minimum ps would typically be 650w+. My original 550w with ~38 amps was NOT enough. Not a con - but somewhat mis-advertised.

Big but good so far on Conroe

Thermalright Ultra-120 CPU Cooling Heatsink
Thermalright Ultra-120 CPU Cooling Heatsink

Pros: I have this with a Scythe SFlex fan (also newegg and I recommend!) on a Conroe E6600 which is probably overkill. I have oc'ed it from 2.4 GHz to 3.2 and leave it at 2.88 now. Idles at a cool 33 deg and stays under 40 even oc'ed.

Cons: Need a larger size case - it sticks out aways - but you should be ok with any of the standard larger cases. The clips to hold the fan on are a little dorky but work fine. Fan not included but at least you can pick your own then.

Overall Review: Good deal for such a nice big well designed air cpu cooler.

Great deal, no complaints

Seagate BarraCuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive (Perpendicular Recording Technology) Bare Drive
Seagate BarraCuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive (Perpendicular Recording Technology) Bare Drive

Pros: Works great, fast and cool.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: I've been a Seagate fan after I've had problems with most other drives not lasting past a couple years. This one is a winner too so far.