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Andrea S.

Andrea S.

Joined on 03/30/06

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Most Favorable Review

Magnificent Processor

AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition - Phenom II X6 Thuban 6-Core 3.2 GHz Socket AM3 125W Desktop Processor - HDT90ZFBGRBOX
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition - Phenom II X6 Thuban 6-Core 3.2 GHz Socket AM3 125W Desktop Processor - HDT90ZFBGRBOX

Pros: 6 Cores Same wattage compared to 45nm Quad Cores 3.9 Ghz at 1.43v @ 20C at idle 42 load (water) Multitasking is better than a quad Same price Intel CPU is no where near the real performance of this chip. Backwards compatibility is ridiculous with the older AMD platforms, I don't even have an 890 motherboard, and i can still use turbo core, how cool it that! (bios update required.) Less than 300$ for a 6-core

Cons: No real gains in gaming, but that's the games fault/GPU limits frame rate. Not as fast as intel's current offerings. Smaller cache than i would like. Not on 32nm process. Still a bit dated architecture at this stage in the game.

Overall Review: If you have an aging 9950 or similar, this is a good buy, at this time. Wait too long, and it will be too close the the 8 core release. If you have a 955 or higher, just stick with that. Again, there are no real gaming gains coming from the current deneb series.

Most Critical Review

Good looking, but looks can kill.

G.SKILL Trident 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Desktop Memory Model F2-8500CL5D-4GBTD
G.SKILL Trident 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Desktop Memory Model F2-8500CL5D-4GBTD

Pros: Looks cool, Runs at 1066 on AMD platforms.

Cons: This ram is not stable. It doesn't overlock on my board. I have played with every bios setting, and I even set the timming to 5-5-5-15, and Memtest shows errors all over the place. Thats less than a minute into the test, folks. Running at 1066 and at advertised timings with everything disabled e.g. ECC mode, Bank interleaving and such is the only way it will go for long without a million errors. If you have any hope of getting it some what stable then you have to up the voltage. It does not run at 1066 with lest than 1.96 volts. 2.02 seems good.

Overall Review: I bought this ram because i had good luck with my 800 ddr2 from them, but i am thinking there quality control isn't up to par. This ram is listed as compatible with my M3a78-t Windows is horribly unstable. Godd i hope this is just bad ram and maybe an RMA will work. If so i will post another review of that ram.

Great product.

ProHT by Inland 05412 37" - 70" Full Motion TV Wall-Mount Bracket Designed to Fit Flat-panel Plasma and LED, LCD TV, Up to VESA 600x400mm, Max Load 77 lbs., with 6 ft. HDMI Cable and Bubble Level
ProHT by Inland 05412 37" - 70" Full Motion TV Wall-Mount Bracket Designed to Fit Flat-panel Plasma and LED, LCD TV, Up to VESA 600x400mm, Max Load 77 lbs., with 6 ft. HDMI Cable and Bubble Level

Pros: Installed in 10 minutes. Was easy to mount and level Very cost effective Even came with an HDMI

Cons: none

Overall Review: I would not install a wall mount like this on sheet rock. Only stud, or concrete. It would put too much stress on one location of the wall.

Great Headphones. Then there is the price

Rosewill 5.1-Channel Vibrating Gaming Headset- USB Connector - RHTS-8206
Rosewill 5.1-Channel Vibrating Gaming Headset- USB Connector - RHTS-8206

Pros: When I bought this headset I was just looking for a cheap 7.1 headset. I had no idea that these would be so good. The sound is amazing for the price. I had thought that the vibration feature was complete B.S., but and a big one here, it's really not. When an explosion happens you kind of feel it, and unlike vibrating controllers it's right there next to your ear, and you don't have to have huge amounts of bass turned up. That's the biggest selling point for these headsets, the bass is actual, and not through the speakers but right there, you can feel the volume, without having to turn it up. For the price these things are amazing.

Cons: The Highs could be better. But to get this quality for this price. You cannot complain. If these where 120$ I would say that the way the bass vibration happens on low volume videos can be annoying, but there is a switch to turn it off while watching videos that don't have a lot of action and such. Again, for the price YOU CANNOT BEAT these things. I can't stress that enough.

Overall Review: No problems with the mic other than the included pop filter will fall off over time, but it's no really needed anyway. No egg dropped for that.

Great little card

ZOTAC ZT-60901-10M G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 660 2GB 192-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
ZOTAC ZT-60901-10M G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 660 2GB 192-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: Bought this card after my PSU took out my motherboard and HD 6870. It's a decent upgrade from the HD 6870 it's not a massive improvement though, but it's about 10-15% faster in games. I paid 189 for it here on new egg and that was a STEAL if it goes down to that price again I'm going to SLI these bad boys.

Cons: I don't have any

Overall Review: My Assassins Creed 3 game did work, those who say it doesn't aren't reading the in step by step guide i think, it takes a little poking around but you get a 60 dollar game for free.

Decent Card

XFX Radeon HD 6870 1GB DDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card HD-687A-ZNFC
XFX Radeon HD 6870 1GB DDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card HD-687A-ZNFC

Pros: Can handle everything you through at it. DX11 looks great Very good price for a card that is of this magnitude. Will buy another for crossfire. Maybe not XFX though, Read below for info.

Cons: Screen flickers, not during 3d rendering, but just 2d rendering in windows. I don't know if this is a catalyst problem, or XFX's problem. I will have to wait until the next Catalyst update. I'm thinking it's the card though because it happens more on one DVI than the other. Never received the rebate coupon, so if the nice 199 with coupon is what sold you on this card, expect to pay full price, unless i was just the unlucky one.

Overall Review: This card is bigger than my old XFX HD 4890 by about a half inch. This isn't a problem for me, i just had to reroute a few tubes for my water cooling. No big dead, but if you go water cooling you can expect things like this to happen. Especially in a small Scout case. Hd 6870 XFX M4a78-T Patriot ddr 2 1066 AMD 1090T Kingston V series 120MB SSD