Joined on 06/11/04
Very Nice with mods...
Pros: Small foot print Long Battery life Black looks sleek (no smudging) and professional
Cons: No SSD factory option 1 GIG of memory Bloat-ware No driver disk included
Overall Review: I bought a nice case logic sleeve for this little guy. I installed an 60GB SSD and 2GB ram right off the bat and fresh install of windows 7 ent. I had a 16GB sd flash card so I installed debian to dual boot with windows7. Works great thus far. I would recommend this for the people that are willing to upgrade the memory and hard drive. Works much faster/better with the mem/disk upgrades. The SSD was a pain to upgrade though.
Great card but...
Pros: Fantastic price (10 instant + 25 rebate card + free delivery = $219 final price) to performance. Great percision software to tweak the card. Good FPS and score on 3dmark Cool and quiet. Lifetime warranty.
Cons: -Package looked like the ups truck had run it over. -The Evga package was damaged as well. -Hot and noisy at load with 3dmark11. -3dmark11 @load (90c-100c) fan at 3000+ rpm @ 70%
Overall Review: I am very dissapointed with the condition this package arrived in. I removed the HSF and cleaned off the thermal paste. I applied Artic Silver 5, then temps dropped 10 degrees. If you are comfortable taking this card apart and re-applying the thermal paste, buy it! I will probably buy another for sli. -1 egg for bad delivery -1 egg for heat and noise issues =3eggs
Nice Little Box!!
Pros: This little system is defintely worth the 129 bucks. Plus the 24 dolloras for a stick of memory. I had a spare 500GB sata hard drive that I threw in. I also had an external dvd/cdrom drive connected via usb. The bios saw the external dvd/cd as bootable with out any problems. I installed Debian (Lenny) with no problems.
Cons: The case is decent to work with but it is a little small area to work in. I had to mount a 3.5 harddrive in the 5.25 slot with a conversion kit.
Overall Review: Its a nice deal if you want a low end home theater pc or linux firewall/router device. Make sure you have a 2.5 to 3.5 or a 3.5 to 5.25 hard drive mounting kit you probably will need it.
Nice PSU
Pros: -low noise -nice quality packaging -works -Stable so far -Not a bad price with the rebate and free shipping.
Cons: none right now
Overall Review: I was worried when I read some of the negative reviews. But I did not get a DOA .. I read reviews on alot of power supplies on newegg.com and it seems like all power supplies have a few bad ones off the production line. I guess its the luck of the draw. I fell in the 86% of the good one for now. Well only time will tell. At least if something goes wrong there is the 5 year warranty with this one.