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DAVID G.

DAVID G.

Joined on 09/03/07

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Most Favorable Review

Great product!

Creative ZEN X-Fi 2.5" Black 8GB MP3 / MP4 Player ZXFI8GBBK
Creative ZEN X-Fi 2.5" Black 8GB MP3 / MP4 Player ZXFI8GBBK

Pros: good sound quality (not GREAT though), great menus, very easy to use. Its got Microphone, FM radio, and a couple other features i've yet to fool around with. The screen quality is fantastic also, videos look great! And no more sharing earbuds if you and someone else want to watch together, its got a built in speaker that actually sounds pretty darn good! Battery life is also very impressive.

Cons: Buttons are not backlit and can be a little small and clustered together if you have large fingers. Other than that the sound quality isn't as good as I thought it would be, but still good enough for a portable mp3 player.

Overall Review: Didn't even install any software, just plugged it in and started adding songs through winamp!

Most Critical Review

Unbearably SLOW

Kingston DataTraveler 101 G2 8GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive (Red) DT101G2/8GBZ
Kingston DataTraveler 101 G2 8GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive (Red) DT101G2/8GBZ

Pros: Cool looking drive and great aesthetic design.. no having to worry about losing the cap!

Cons: Too slow! This is by far and bar none THE slowest USB drive I've ever used. Even when changing it to optimize for performance, the transfer speeds are just unreasonably slow. Literally about 10 minutes to move just 1GB of data.

Overall Review: Would never buy a Kingston USB drive again. This thing will be used for emergency backups and stored away.. its far too slow for daily use like I planned on.

GREAT!

Antec EarthWatts Green EA-430D Green 430W Continuous power ATX12V v2.3 / EPS 12V 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply
Antec EarthWatts Green EA-430D Green 430W Continuous power ATX12V v2.3 / EPS 12V 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply

Pros: Popped this into an HTPC build, and it works perfectly. Dead silent + runs cool as ice.

Cons: Only 5x SATA connectors.. they couldn't just add ONE more to match the 6x SATA ports many of us are working with on our motherboards? C'mon!!

Overall Review: Color not the nicest shade of green, but irrelevant unless you have a big case window.

Works fine.

Rosewill RNX-56AG Agere 56Kbps PCI Bus (Plug & Play) Internal V.92 PCI Data/Fax/TAM modem Windows 8 Compatible
Rosewill RNX-56AG Agere 56Kbps PCI Bus (Plug & Play) Internal V.92 PCI Data/Fax/TAM modem Windows 8 Compatible

Pros: Been using this to fax for months now.. works fine.

Cons: Actually plays the fax dialing noise through the speakers while faxing. Not sure why anybody would actually want to hear this..? Obviously you can turn it down, but odd for a default option.

Overall Review: If this isn't working for you, it might be because you have to use Windows XP SP2 or lower, and it probably has more to do with the fax software that went incompatible from this point on.

Perfect

Crucial 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model CT2KIT25664BA1067
Crucial 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model CT2KIT25664BA1067

Pros: Its RAM! Works perfectly, runs cool, and has the old school RAM look without the completely unnecessary "heat spreaders" which do absolutely nothing but try and dress it up. These already run as cool as can be.

Cons: None.. besides maybe the packaging.

Overall Review: Lifetime warranty .. can't go wrong ..

Mindblowing sound

HT  OMEGA Claro Halo 24-bit 192KHz PCI Interface Sound Card w/ a built-in HI-FI Headphone Amplifier
HT OMEGA Claro Halo 24-bit 192KHz PCI Interface Sound Card w/ a built-in HI-FI Headphone Amplifier

Pros: Phenomenal sound quality, absolutely stunning on my studio monitors.. all hardware, unlike Creative and others who skimp on the DAC, DSP, and opamps.. all high quality parts all around. These are NOT for those with rinky dink satellite speakers.. they are for those with nice bookshelves at the bare minimum, but mostly the biggest gains are from studio monitors.

Cons: Old school looking software, but a very minor con.

Overall Review: OUTPUT ANALOG... I cannot stress this enough. If you are buying a sound card like this and outputting digital, you are NOT taking advantage of the glorious DAC in this 8788 chipset that is basically what makes this thing shine.. more than any other component.. You have to spend about a thousand dollars on a Stello External DAC to go beyond this type of sound clarity.. So if you output DIGITAL, you are just bypassing the DAC to be handled by your receivers, which is guaranteed to sound inferior unless you've got a $1000 Marantz.