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Cody J.

Cody J.

Joined on 04/10/05

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Product Reviews
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Most Favorable Review

Good Ventilation, Solid Case

Thermaltake V3 Black Edition VL80001W2Z Black SECC / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Thermaltake V3 Black Edition VL80001W2Z Black SECC / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Pros: Awesome case! Has great air flow and is surprisingly quite.

Cons: The screw holes intended to lock the PCI cards in place required a bit of force. They didn't seem to be threaded properly.

Overall Review: This is a great case for quick and easy installation. Had all my parts installed in less than 30mins.

Most Critical Review

In time of need

Maxtor 5A320Jo 320GB 5400 RPM 2MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA133 / ATA-7 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
Maxtor 5A320Jo 320GB 5400 RPM 2MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA133 / ATA-7 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

Pros: 320 GB for a fair price. It works. Used in conjunction with a SSD

Cons: Connects through IDE Can hear the disk spinning, clicking, etc. Would not trust as a boot drive.

Overall Review: You can purchase a SATA to IDE adapter for under 15 bucks.

Good Chip

MSI GeForce GTS 450 (Fermi) 1GB DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Graphics Card N450GTS-MD1GD3
MSI GeForce GTS 450 (Fermi) 1GB DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Graphics Card N450GTS-MD1GD3

Pros: This video card installed easily. Runs nice and quite. I got pretty much what I expected. I am able to push games like Crysis with great ease on Med/High Settings (1680x1200) Display. (Struggles on anything but medium setting in Metro 2033) Mid Level game performance is great and that's what I was looking for.

Cons: I didn't notice that this card is way under clocked when compared it's brothers in the chipset family.

Overall Review: This chip came at a large discount through MSI + it runs smooth/stable/quite. I can't complain. Not quite GTS 450 performance. I recommend using the provided software to overclock the memory speed to see largely significant frame-rate gains.

Works like a charm

Rosewill RNX-N360PC (RNWD-11003) IEEE 802.11b/g/n, PCI, Wireless-N Adapter (3T3R) Up to 300Mbps Data Rates, 64/128/152-bit WEP, complies with WPA/WPA2 standard (TKIP/AES), Shared Key Authentication, IEEE 802.1X
Rosewill RNX-N360PC (RNWD-11003) IEEE 802.11b/g/n, PCI, Wireless-N Adapter (3T3R) Up to 300Mbps Data Rates, 64/128/152-bit WEP, complies with WPA/WPA2 standard (TKIP/AES), Shared Key Authentication, IEEE 802.1X

Pros: Had zero problems getting this card to work. Ran on both a 32 and 64bit Windows 7 setup.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Not seeing the speeds I would like but I am not sure if that is the routers fault.

Good Value

Cooler Master GX - 450W Power Supply with 80 PLUS Bronze Certification
Cooler Master GX - 450W Power Supply with 80 PLUS Bronze Certification

Pros: Great power supply. Keeps everything juiced and runs quite.

Cons: None

Quick and Stable

AMD Phenom II X4 960T - Phenom II X4 Zosma Quad-Core 3.0 GHz Socket AM3 95W Desktop Processor - HD96ZTWFGRBOX
AMD Phenom II X4 960T - Phenom II X4 Zosma Quad-Core 3.0 GHz Socket AM3 95W Desktop Processor - HD96ZTWFGRBOX

Pros: Great processor for the price! Runs stable even when pushed.

Cons: Wish I had sprung for a beefier heat-sink. The cooler is just sad. (It does the job)

Overall Review: Processor installation is cake :D