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Philip S.

Philip S.

Joined on 04/09/03

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Most Favorable Review

VERY surprised with effectiveness/quality

Bluedio TN (Turbine) Active Noise Cancelling Headphones, Bluetooth 4.2 Wireless Sports Headset with Mic (Black)
Bluedio TN (Turbine) Active Noise Cancelling Headphones, Bluetooth 4.2 Wireless Sports Headset with Mic (Black)

Pros: -TINY -Lightweight -Earbuds aren't just round, they are oblong and fit my ears better than most -ANC (noise cancelling feature) is SURPRISINGLY effective (see other comments)

Cons: -None so far

Overall Review: -Range seems so-so, but it's Bluetooth so I'm not counting it a negative at this point -Just got these off NeweggFlash a few days ago, and have been trying them out in various environs (travel for work currently). If you are a light sleeper like me, and hotels give you issues with noisy AC units/fridges/fans, these just turned on with the ANC switch on will mute all of those a surprising amount (to the point of near silence after taking into account the noise dampening of the earbuds actually fitting my ear for once). -Haven't tried sleeping with them on yet, but plan to, and they are also significantly louder than most Bluetooth headsets I've tried, as well as being lighter to the point I hardly notice I'm wearing them after a bit. Battery life is a factor I haven't quite figured out yet, as I haven't used them long enough to kill them, but will work on updating this as they see more use. -I bought a pair of T2S over-ear phones from these guys 2 years back, and was pleasantly surprised with those, so figured I'd try these, and I'm glad I did. On sale for $22 they are a great buy. Wish I had bought a second pair for keeping in my car while they were on sale.

Most Critical Review

Bought for travel/work. Gave to sibling

Roav VIVA with Car Mount, by Anker, Alexa-Enabled 2-Port USB Car Charger for In-Car Navigation, Hands-Free Calling and Music Streaming
Roav VIVA with Car Mount, by Anker, Alexa-Enabled 2-Port USB Car Charger for In-Car Navigation, Hands-Free Calling and Music Streaming

Pros: Nice design. Chargers work well.

Cons: BRIGHT/BLINDING blue LED ring. I couldn’t stand it. I thought it was just an accent when I ordered it but the blue ring around the top is illuminated and very bright. My car has the cigarette plug in the center console between the seats and with my glasses it just would cause WAY too much glare/reflections at night.

Overall Review: Seems like a good product, I ended up keeping the mount, which is a SUPER solid magnet base. Love that. Would have liked to order just the mount if possible. Ended up giving the charger to my sister since she will actually use the voice interface.

Cheaper than most, but not very fast

Team Group T-FORCE CARDEA ZERO Z330 M.2 2280 2TB PCIe Gen3 x4 with NVMe 1.3 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) TM8FP8002T0C311
Team Group T-FORCE CARDEA ZERO Z330 M.2 2280 2TB PCIe Gen3 x4 with NVMe 1.3 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) TM8FP8002T0C311

Pros: Was the right price on sale (at the time)

Cons: Slower than most nvme ssds (actually my biggest gripe with this drive), and gets hot when used for a while

Overall Review: Im not DISsatisfied, but am also not completely happy with this purchase either. This drive works as a backup install drive for older games, but it runs HOT. I HIGHLY recommend a heat sink as this gets so toasty under load I wouldnt touch it without an oven mitt. The included graphene heat spreader is basically a joke as it doesnt do jack. Its also slower than any of my newer drives that are comparable which was a disappointment. Doesnt even seem to hit the spec on its continuous read/writes (probably due to the heat it puts out). It was cheap on sale for the size, but I wouldnt buy it again.

Hands-down, WORST, HORRIBLE, etcetc. Case on this thing

Acer Aspire TC - Intel Core i5-10400 - 8 GB DDR4 - 512 GB SSD - Intel UHD Graphics 630 - Windows 10 Home - Desktop PC (TC-875-UR13)
Acer Aspire TC - Intel Core i5-10400 - 8 GB DDR4 - 512 GB SSD - Intel UHD Graphics 630 - Windows 10 Home - Desktop PC (TC-875-UR13)

Pros: -Cheap? (on sale)

Cons: -The case is a maze, absolutely UNuserfriendly, and obnoxious as hell to get at the SSD. - Poor construction (both assembly and materials), took me an hour to get the case front back on -SSD (nvme) that it came with had a un-bootable copy of Win10 on it, I had to use a recovery drive to get it functioning -BLOATWARE! Took a good hour to uninstall all of it -GARBAGE BIOS! I got this for my parents to replaced their antique, and figured it would be quick and easy to throw their old hdd into it as a secondary drive, and then copy the files they wanted to the new win install... WRONG! Two BOOTABLE DRIVES installed concurrently will corrupt whichever it tries to boot from. Bios only has ONE OPTION for 'bootable' drive and it seemed like it was randomly choosing one or the other. NOT COOL.

Overall Review: -Complete TRASH. Will never buy acer again, and advise others who have any tech-savvy-ness in them to avoid like the plague! Wasted over half a day getting this up and running (and I've been building PCs for 20+ years). Thankfully my parents don't care about anything but internet, their printer, and maybe some light word processing.

Excellent but PRICEY

Logitech G Powerplay Wireless Charging System for G502 Lightspeed, G703, G903 Lightspeed and PRO Wireless Gaming Mice, Cloth or Hard Gaming Mouse Pad - Black
Logitech G Powerplay Wireless Charging System for G502 Lightspeed, G703, G903 Lightspeed and PRO Wireless Gaming Mice, Cloth or Hard Gaming Mouse Pad - Black

Pros: Love not having to charge my mouse with a plug or dock. Just leave it on the mat, and it’s always charged. Have had it for just over a year, and it still works perfectly.

Cons: It adds about 10ms to the input lag vs a wired mouse (compared via an input lag detector, using a G502 Proteus Spectrum RGB as reference, both plugged in simultaneously); this isn’t really a con because compared to other wireless mice it isn’t perceptible.

Overall Review: If you got the cash to burn and want/prefer a wireless mouse: I can’t give you a reason NOT to buy it. Well, other than the software which I LOATHE, but that isn’t a reflection on the hardware itself. If I were to review the SOFTWARE on the other hand.... it gets MAYBE a 3/10? The software sucks. Yes you can download premade profiles, which I suppose could be useful, but I just can’t get past no on-board profile saves. It has to be running or your profile won’t load. Which means you HAVE to have the software installed on any system you want to use it with. HUGE (MASSIVE, GIGANTIC, etc!) downside compared to the onboard profiles allowed with previous mice, but since I don’t travel with it because the pad is too big, it’s a moot point to some extent. Some people won’t care, but I hate having ANY unnecessary programs running in the background, this being my new least favorite. Still, OVERALL it’s a great mouse/pad setup if you can ignore the software, and like having no cord.

Works

ORICO M.2 NVME to PCI-E Adapter, M2 SSD to PCI-e 3.0 x16 Host Controller Expansion Card with Low Profile Bracket, Support M Key Solid State Drive
ORICO M.2 NVME to PCI-E Adapter, M2 SSD to PCI-e 3.0 x16 Host Controller Expansion Card with Low Profile Bracket, Support M Key Solid State Drive

Pros: -Turns an unused PCIE slot into an NVME -Relatively inexpensive

Cons: Seems to (slightly) slow the speed of the drive compared to the on-board slots for the other two of these in my system.

Overall Review: Does what it’s supposed to. As I said above, the transfer speeds are slightly lower than a native NVME slot on the mobo, but that’s kind-of expected. Still far faster than an HDD. It seems to run a bit hotter than the on-board slots too. May be part of why it is slower. I don’t have a spare NVME heatsink to try on it, but might be something to consider to alleviate the issue. Overall decent product.

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Meh

Not sure if it's worth the $7 I paid for it or if I should have put the money towards a more reliable brand. Further use will tell me if it was worth it or not. Construction seems shoddy at best, so I'm not hopeful.

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