Joined on 12/10/09
Buy from Newegg
Pros: Great looking, Love the manual switch, No LED's which I think are unnecessary as I won't see them in the back of the case. Seemed to cool the case pretty good at first.
Cons: Manual switch cord could be alot longer.
Overall Review: I made the mistake of trying to give a local PC store my business, they've never steered me wrong before and I've never had an issue with anything I bought from them till now. Got it home and opened the package only to see the 3 pin connector even though it says right on the package 4 pin connector included so my plan of moving my other case fan to the front of the case is a no go till I get a 3-4pin connector. I should've figured something was fishy since the package was so easy to open and it looks like somebody else took a knife or scissors to the packaging. Yesterday it seemed to work pretty good keeping the case cooler than the oem fan. However today the fan didn't even come on when I started it so I had to pop the case open and start the pc give the fan a flick with my finger to get it started, and switched the setting to high as I had set it for medium yesterday. Doesn't seem to be cooling the case off as well today though so I might end up returning it and order one from here.
Buy another brand PC
Pros: Nice case and the black/silver color combo is nice too look at. Decent psu for base pc. Big case fan. Can handle up to 8gb of ram. CPU is upgradeable
Cons: Backwards motherboard. Case fan and heatsink are one unit. PSU fan is in a place where it can't get decent airflow.
Overall Review: What moron at Dell thought it wold be a genius idea to make the case fan and CPU heatsink all one unit!?!?!?! This thing is a nightmare to clean with a dustcan. Since the fan/heatsink shroud is in the way good luck finding a graphics card with a fan that will fit into the PCIE slot. It deserves 2.5 stars but I gave it 3 to be nice.
Works fine till it needs cleaned
Pros: Great ergonomic layout and comfortable to use
Cons: Needs cleaned routinely usually once or more a month after a few months use. Now after a year and a half it decided to stop working all together even after cleaning. Glad I kept the keyboard my pc came with.
Overall Review: Won't be buying any more Microsoft garbage keyboards/mice
Have fun with the Case fan/heatsink unit
Pros: go to cons
Cons: Case fan & Heatsink are one unit, have fun with that. If the fan goes out you have to rip out the heatsink to change the fan!!! Wish I would've stuck with HP
update
Pros: 100 pack
Cons: alot of coasters
Overall Review: Since Verbatim has switched to lower quality factory I'll be switching brands. Burned 4 coasters today. After the first 2 coasters I randomly selected dvdr's from the stack. A couple burned correctly while 2 more others will make a nice coaster set >:( .
Switched factories?
Pros: 100pk for $30 is a great deal considering most stores sell them for $50.
Cons: none yet...
Overall Review: Apparently Verbatim has switched factories as the new 100pk I bought 2 weeks ago has different disks than the last Verbatim 100 pack I bought in 2011. Unfortunately the new discs look like they were made by the same factory a friend of mine's Verbatim 50pk was made in and he's got about 5 coasters out of 30 from that pack so far. While I was at a local office store a lady asked me what brand would be good for Cdr's and I said Verbatims and that's what she was returning for a refund because they burned 10 coasters in a row out of a 50pk. It seems Verbatim's quality is slipping lately. If I get any coasters from this pack I guess I'll switch back to Sony's as I've never had an issue with them either yet.