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James D.

James D.

Joined on 11/20/06

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Most Favorable Review

Mostly functional (2nd year update)

GIGABYTE GA-78LMT-USB3 (rev. 6.0) AM3+/AM3 AMD 760G USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-78LMT-USB3 (rev. 6.0) AM3+/AM3 AMD 760G USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Recognized my SSD, 8core processor and DDR3 without issue<br>No issues in imaging and performed fairly solid

Cons: USB 3.0 ports failed little over a year in, used a PCI-E card to replace which was great until I upgraded video cards recently. Oddly enough the ports work, but not as 3.0 ports. Going to play with drivers etc since I don't want to downgrade my video card. I realize M-atx has limited space, but double sized video seems to be so common, why not put the PCI-E either a space above and a full space below the video card?!?

Overall Review: Previously had network issues, these were largely resolved via updates and a change in router (router went flaky after a lightning storm) I've raised my rating 1 egg as it's been solid and mostly reliable it's running one of the top AMD FX processors and a Radeon r7 with 32 gigs of RAM solidly...

Most Critical Review

Vertical Externals suck

Seagate Backup Plus 4TB USB 3.0 3.5" Desktop Hard Drive STCA4000100 Black
Seagate Backup Plus 4TB USB 3.0 3.5" Desktop Hard Drive STCA4000100 Black

Pros: Ran fast

Cons: one fall and it's all over.

Overall Review: Ran this as my primary media drive (Music, Pictures, Videos) since I bought it here last april, well last month my Father in Law and his sons where working on an add-on to my house while I was at work, when I came home the drive was on it's side. I reconnected everything and plugged it in and it recognized and behaved about all of about an hour before things started going wonky, I listened to it and got the click of death. Windows still recognizes it and sees the data, but any attempt to access or move it results in lockups.

Love it

Kingston FCR-HS3 USB 3.0 15-in-1 Media Reader
Kingston FCR-HS3 USB 3.0 15-in-1 Media Reader

Pros: FAST, reads well, does not have the issue I've had with most externals where certain card slots give out and it has a TRANSFLASH slot!

Cons: the only con is that I had to go external to get this sort of reliability.

Overall Review: the transflash is a big thing for me, I use this to load GIGS of music and videos to my microSD cards (32 and 64 gig capacity) from my USB3 external media drive. MUCH faster than USB2 readers and WAY faster than using the USB connection to the phone.

Ain't worth jack

WINTEC FileMate 16GB Mobile Professional Class 10 microSDHC Card with SDHC Adapter - Retail
WINTEC FileMate 16GB Mobile Professional Class 10 microSDHC Card with SDHC Adapter - Retail

Pros: came with an adapter.

Cons: Unreliable in Motorola Atrix, Atrix2, Atrix HD, Unreliable in Acer Iconia (any) only works in it's adapter on the computer.

Overall Review: won't by wintec Flash memory again.

10/24/2012

It worked fine for 3 weeks

Rosewill RCR-AK-IM5002 USB2.0 75 in 1 internal Card Reader w/ 3 ports USB2.0 Hub / eSATA port / Extra silver face plate / SATA Power
Rosewill RCR-AK-IM5002 USB2.0 75 in 1 internal Card Reader w/ 3 ports USB2.0 Hub / eSATA port / Extra silver face plate / SATA Power

Pros: 3 usb ports (The reason I went ahead and bought this despite the reviews) and a Micro SD card reader

Cons: SD and Micro SD quit working after about 3rd usage. I'd wager the rest of the readers don't work well either, but I don't use any other cards. Thankfully the 3 usb ports still work and I have USB card readers

Overall Review: I've bought allot of stuff from Rosewill, for a while I was using their cases, power supplies and card readers exclusively. I'm hoping this is just a bad model / bad project rather than a sign of their overall quality. I'm not going to RMA, given how true the negative comments rang, it's not worth paying return shipping plus taking my new rig apart, especially since the USBs still work.

I recant my earlier review

ASRock 760GM-GS3 AM3 AMD 760G + SB710 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
ASRock 760GM-GS3 AM3 AMD 760G + SB710 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Exactly what is described, Bios has good OC options and it was able to unlock 2 cores on a AMD Black Edition Dual core without me looking at the manual or a forum.

Cons: I could complain about the number of USB (you can always use more!), the number of Memory slots (really needs 4) etc but I won't, because it's all there in black and white on the description

Overall Review: Forgive me ASRock, for I blamed you when it was not your issue. If you cannot get an OS to load from install disks, try different RAM. I blamed this Mobo first because the ADATA ram passed Memtest 86+ after 24 hours. RMA'd it and while that was out I had another build, loved the price of the ADATA memory and bought 2 more pair. Had almost the exact same issue on a different brand mobo. tested great - so I tried one stick at a time, not a single of the 6 worked out. I blamed ASRock when it was not their problem. Which is good because I have a long history with ASUS/ASRock and I glad to see them vindicated. (Just stay away from ADATA)