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Aaron P.

Aaron P.

Joined on 07/07/04

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Most Favorable Review

Extremely sturdy feeling keyboard

Rosewill NEON K52 Wired Waterproof Gaming Keyboard, Mem-chanical Switches, 8 RGB LED Backlight Effects, 104 Keys, 19-Key Anti-Ghosting, 12 Multimedia Hotkeys, Spill-Proof Dust-Proof Aluminum Plate
Rosewill NEON K52 Wired Waterproof Gaming Keyboard, Mem-chanical Switches, 8 RGB LED Backlight Effects, 104 Keys, 19-Key Anti-Ghosting, 12 Multimedia Hotkeys, Spill-Proof Dust-Proof Aluminum Plate

Pros: - Lighting is just right, not too bright, not too dark -Keys feel substantial, great weight -Keyboard build itself is a tank - Click-clack sounds (if you're into that)

Cons: - Light does not shine through the caps

Overall Review: I ordered this keyboard for my computer at work. I was just tired of having a run of the mill Dell keyboard. I also own a G.Skill KM780 keyboard for my personal PC, along with the matching mouse. I bring that up, as I will use it for reference. First of all, was shipping. I was initially told by Newegg that the keyboard would show up sometime the first week of December. It showed up the last day of November. Kudos! It came in a plain brown box. So if fancy boxes are your thing, don't expect it here. But that didn't bother me, at all. The first thing I noticed when opening the keyboard was the weight. This thing is a sherman tank! The top of the keyboard itself (not the keys) is made of metal, and feels super sturdy. Below the at is a thick feeling plastic. It is much heavier/durable feeling than my G.Skill keyboard, which is still a sturdy feeling keyboard in it's own right. The keys themselves also feel well made and sturdy. And make a noticeable clicking when typing (like most mechanical keyboards). It does seem a bit louder than my G.Skill Keyboard, though. As stated, I bought this for a keyboard on my work computer. So I don't have any use for additional programmable keys, as it's simply a typing device. I don't game with it either. However, the keys seem fast and accurate, and likely would game just fine as well. All in all, if you're looking for a well built, mechanical keyboard with RGB on the cheap. This is your huckleberry.

Most Critical Review

Great while it lasted

GIGABYTE Eagle GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12GB GDDR6X PCI Express 4.0 ATX Graphics Card GV-N308TEAGLE OC-12GD
GIGABYTE Eagle GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12GB GDDR6X PCI Express 4.0 ATX Graphics Card GV-N308TEAGLE OC-12GD

Pros: Played nearly everything I threw at it. Played a lot of games at 4k resolution on my Aorus 43" monitor.

Cons: None, until it died. I'm exactly 2 years and 4 days after purchase as of this writing (4/24/24), and after a few hour gaming session of wow, the video cut, the fans ramped up to 100%. Upon forcefully shutting the PC down and letting it sit for a while, it still would not boot up. I get a D6 post error on my MSI x570 Meg Ace motherboard, which after some research appears to point to a dead card. Thankfully I was able to borrow a 3070 (non Ti) asus card, and it fired up in the same PC where the card died, no issues. Upon throwing the 3080Ti in the PC the 3070 came from, it would not display. But I could hear the chimes from Windows 11 that it makes when first getting into windows, so the PC itself booted fine, just no display out.

Overall Review: As of right now, I would not recommend this card to anyone. I've never had a graphics card die at all in my 23 years of building PC's. Let alone after only 2 years of use. I still have an evga 1070 that works fine to this day, as well as another GT 730, and even a few older cards than those.

Died after 13 months

XPG GAMMIX Gaming S70: 2TB Internal SSD PCIe Gen4x4 M.2 2280 Solid State Drive
XPG GAMMIX Gaming S70: 2TB Internal SSD PCIe Gen4x4 M.2 2280 Solid State Drive

Pros: -Fast -Nice Heatspreader -Fancy Packaging

Cons: -Died after 13 months

Overall Review: I bought two of these drives, one for my PS5 (for the record, it does fit as long as you don't put the PS5 SSD cover back on. You can put the outside shell on however). They're fast, they don't read as fast as rated on the PS5, coming in somewhere in the 6500mbps range IIRC. But did run as rated on Win 10 Pro PC. While playing some WoW on my PC (WoW was on a different drive from this. This drive had a partition for OS of 512gb and the remaining 1.3TB was a game library), the NPCs in the game suddently went dark as well as the scene of the game. Text appeared almost fluorescent, but very dim in comparison, and the PC just locked up. I couldn't ctr, alt, delete to task manager or anything. Upon force restarting the PC, my PC went straight into bios. My motherboard is an MSI Meg x570 Ace for the record, the motherboard no longer detected the drive. The PC will sometimes detect the drive, but after a few minutes of running, it gets very hot and crashes again. I replaced the drive with a Samsung 980 Pro 2TB drive and thus far have had no issues (only a few hours in).

Good bang for the buck!

ABS Gladiator Gaming PC - Intel i7 10700KF - GeForce RTX 3070 - 16GB DDR4 3200MHz - 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD - EVGA CLC 280MM RGB AIO - Windows 10 Home 64-bit
ABS Gladiator Gaming PC - Intel i7 10700KF - GeForce RTX 3070 - 16GB DDR4 3200MHz - 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD - EVGA CLC 280MM RGB AIO - Windows 10 Home 64-bit

Pros: Price All name brand/high quality parts Packing was fantastic

Cons: Windows install was funky

Overall Review: Normally I build all my systems. But like many of you, Ive had a hard time getting ahold of a 3000 series gpu. So I purchased this system from a shell shocker the other day (roughly $400 off msrp). At the time, the listing was a bit ambiguous on the make and models of the nvme drive and PSU. The PSU ended up being an evga, and done nvme drive was a team brand drive. The drive is a slower model than I would have bought. But still, this prebuilt is all name brand parts. Im happy. The only issue that I had is that the system kept trying to boot into windows repair mode. It wouldnt go into the OS unless I went into the repair section and cancelled. But I had a license of Windows 10 pro I wanted to use anyway. So not a big deal. The packing was the best I have seen on any item Ive ordered. They put instapack expanding to support the 3070 during shipping. The computer was then put into the case box, which had nice foam supports to hold it in place nicely. The case box was then wrapped in bubble wrap and placed in an outer carton. This was nice because it wasnt a huge advertisement saying I have computer related products being delivered! Steal me!. An adult signature was required also as a means to mitigate theft. Out of the box, this little thing is fast! My personal box is a Ryzen 7 5800x, 32gb of ram, etc. that runs very nicely and this thing as far as desktop/general use is not noticeably slower. Gaming is a different story. But this thing is still plenty powerful to play any and all current titles out there. Long story short. I wanted a new GPU to replace my 1070, and I bought this as a means to get it. And so this machine plus my old 1070GTX are being gifted to my 9 year old for future schoolwork and some gaming on the side. Its a win/win IMO!