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Tarren P.

Tarren P.

Joined on 03/12/05

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Frankenstien?!

Rosewill RCX-Z4 120mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler
Rosewill RCX-Z4 120mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler

Pros: These thing is huge!!! The pictures do not do this monster justice. It's a radiator for your computer. It lowered my temps 12 degrees. I went from 32 degrees idol down to 18 degrees. Under a load it has not went above 30! It has even dropped the system temperature in my whole case!

Cons: This thing is massive. If you have a micro atx board or small case beware. I honestly had no problem fitting this in.

Overall Review: Make sure you have no capacitors around the processor to block the heatsink from clamping down. With the AM2 socket of board there is only two directions that you are able to clamp it down. Either shooting air towards the front or towards the back of the case. I have mine blowing air towards the back, then a case fan is then shooting that air directly out of the case. I also used Arctic Silver 7 as my thermal compound. My build is... AeroCool AeroEngine Plus Case Biostar TForce TA790GX A2+ AMD Athlon x2 7750 BE G.Skill 4GB 2x2GB DDR2 1066 2 Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 512mb in CF

Soundtastic

Sound Quest CAP2M 2-Farad Capacitor with Digital Display
Sound Quest CAP2M 2-Farad Capacitor with Digital Display

Pros: Looks great. Comes with nice hardware to mount. Great looking unit. Took less than 10 seconds to charge and has been working great. Significantly less loads on my battery with this installed.

Cons: None at this point.

Overall Review: Still dimming my lights when I am running my sound system at max, but honestly with just adding the capacitor and no extra batteries this was expected. my setup includes the following. Installed in a 1999 Chevy Tahoe 2 Rockford Fosgate Power T1 12" Subs Powered by an Orion 1200d Mono Amplifier Eclipse 6 1/2 components Front and Back Door Eclipse 4x10 coaxials in the Rear Deck Powered by an Orion 4004 4-Channel Amplifier

B-E-A-utiful!

Saitek Eclipse II Illuminated Keyboard
Saitek Eclipse II Illuminated Keyboard

Pros: Great looking keyboard. Very well built. Three different choices of LED colors, Blue, Red, and the two mixed together to make purple. I love the feel of the keys very easy to type on for hours and better yet game for days! Also has a dimmer as well so it can be changed for varying brightness! Purple is Sexy!

Cons: Only half of my space bar lights up from the LED, the left side is lighted and the right side is not, no matter what color I choose from. Either they only use one LED for the whole space bar or I got a defective LED in the right side.

Overall Review: The lights for the Caps, Num, and Scroll lock are always blue and they dont change like the other LED lights. Also the F keys directly under the caps, num, and scroll lock lights if not on blue show a blue light from the light above. Not a huge deal.

B-E-A-utiful

Acer S231HLbid Black 23" 5ms HDMI  LED-Backlight LCD monitor  Slim Design  250 cd/m2 ACM 12,000,000:1 (1000:1)
Acer S231HLbid Black 23" 5ms HDMI LED-Backlight LCD monitor Slim Design 250 cd/m2 ACM 12,000,000:1 (1000:1)

Pros: Crystal clear LED display. No flaws in the display. Great viewing angles. Playing all games at 1900x1200 resolution and looking flawless.

Cons: Switching from Computer to Xbox is a pain. I have the Computer hooked up as HDMI 1, and the Xbox on HDMI 2. It sometimes takes a while for the monitor to recognize the xbox and may take two to five times for it to work. It might be a handshaking problem with the HDMI, but the xbox will turn off and restart if you switch from the xbox to the computer and back and forth. So no cheating or multi tasking between COD rounds on the Xbox.

Overall Review: Great monitor for the money. This 23 inch beauty looks more like 24 or 25 inches.

Quality is here!

Link Depot DVI-10-DD Black 2 x DVI 24-pin (Others Also Call 25-Pin or 24+1 Pin) Male Male to Male DVI-D Male to DVI-D Male Dual Link Cable
Link Depot DVI-10-DD Black 2 x DVI 24-pin (Others Also Call 25-Pin or 24+1 Pin) Male Male to Male DVI-D Male to DVI-D Male Dual Link Cable

Pros: Very huge and long! I did not think that this cable would be this hefty. Its very well put together. It does fit in tight places you just have to work with it. Even at 10ft there is no signal loss! Beautiful signal quality!

Cons: None

Overall Review: Running my LG Flatron W1942T on this from my two sapphire Radeon HD 4830 in CF and the quality this cable brings to the equation is just devine!

Its a 7000 series!

AMD Athlon 64 X2 7750 - Athlon 64 X2 Kuma Dual-Core 2.7 GHz Socket AM2+ 95W black edition Processor - AD775ZWCGHBOX
AMD Athlon 64 X2 7750 - Athlon 64 X2 Kuma Dual-Core 2.7 GHz Socket AM2+ 95W black edition Processor - AD775ZWCGHBOX

Pros: More than meets my expectations! I am so glad that I got this over the x2 6000+...Mainly because that the 7000 series of the Athlon x2 have an L3 cache. What that means is that it has double the bandwith! 2.7ghz right out of the box and easily able to oc and hit 3.0-3.2 ghz! Thats very impressive especially without having to mess around with the FSB or the memory frequency! mine ran fairly cool around 32 degrees Celcius idoling with the stock cooler never going above 40 degrees. The cooler was loud, but thats a stock cooler! (I did not use the thermal paste that came on the heatsink, I applied Arctic Silver 7) With the money your saving on this processor spend the 15-30 bucks and get a nice cooler.

Cons: Only a 5.5 in vista! But thats also not overclocked! For any application that you throw at this processor it will take it with stride!

Overall Review: Get yourself a better cooler! The stock cooler is not the best as with ALL stock coolers! Great Dual-Core processor for the money!