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Jared H.

Jared H.

Joined on 05/31/05

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Product Reviews
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Most Favorable Review

Amazing cooler

ZEROtherm BTF90 92mm Silent UFO CPU Cooler
ZEROtherm BTF90 92mm Silent UFO CPU Cooler

Pros: Cools without the noise. AMD X2 7750BE stock would go up to 50C under full load (both cores), at a high fan speed, this cools to 42C, just above lowest fan speed, silent. Will cool to 30C full fan speed but sounds like a jet engine. Idles low 30's low fan speed. System temp reported @ 40C by speedfan.

Cons: Loud at full fan speed, but not needed.

Overall Review: HUGE, not ginourmous, but bigger than the pictures look. Should be fine in any mid tower case. I no longer feel hot air, but warm air out rear case fan, because this is oriented so fan is blowing to the rear.

Most Critical Review

Abysmal cooler

EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING, ACX 2.0 (Single Fan), 03G-P4-6160-KR, 3GB GDDR5, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC), Only 6.8 Inches
EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING, ACX 2.0 (Single Fan), 03G-P4-6160-KR, 3GB GDDR5, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC), Only 6.8 Inches

Pros: Great for 1080p gaming, low power.

Cons: Completely worthless cooler that is a disgrace to the GPU. Starts thermal throttling after about 15 seconds under load. Constantly at 82C, with heavy thermal throttling, sometimes causing hitching. The Precision X utility they brag about for card fails to open, it says it only supports 1060, 1070, and 1080...., is 3GB version not supported? So I can't undervolt it.

Overall Review: My 470 I undervolt (extremely easy with Wattman), never throttles, even with OC, runs ~65C.

Great chopper.

Syma S107 Mini RC Helicopter Metal Series with Gyro (Blue)
Syma S107 Mini RC Helicopter Metal Series with Gyro (Blue)

Pros: I have had 2 of these, and the 2 bigger siblings. Very stable for indoors, easy to fly, nimble, fairly durable. Can hold up to some amount of bad crashes. Excellent inside toy and starter for those that want to move up to bigger and/or single rotor helis.

Cons: Only ~5 minutes of flight time. You can order a larger battery from parts sites, though it is soldered not plugged in, so requires soldering or splicing, but can nearly double flight time. Can develop "toilet bowl" effect, see other thoughts.

Overall Review: My second one needed trim adjusted a lot less, almost none at all until below 1/4 battery. Can get a "toilet bowl" effect if connecting link on balance bar gets dirty, it needs to be able to slide like butter or it lags. Can sand with fine grit sandpaper for manufacturing imperfections, and periodically spray with silicone. Good signal indoor if not in giant room, outdoor must be 0 wind, and in low light since its infrared, but these are designed for indoor, and fly fast and stable. All coaxial helis are bad at flying in wind/breeze, you can add some noseweight to help for light wind, makes it bearable on medium-large ones. Battery should last around 100 charges, can be replaced with higher capacity for ~$5 from online parts shop, needs solder or splice. Syma did excellent with this model, bigger ones are decent also, but all being coaxials, not good for wind, though can be tolerable with nose weight, and/or removing some weight from balance bar, and for price hard to beat.

Awesome

ZEROtherm GX810 2 Ball VGA Cooling
ZEROtherm GX810 2 Ball VGA Cooling

Pros: Easy to install, quiet. I ordered this when it was 35 with 30 mail in rebate......., was cheaper than just ordering replacement RAMsinks for zalman (they are one time use, unless you then used thermal paste of course). Needed them to switch GFx cards. My ATI 4850 runs 55-60 under load, stock cooler was ~70-90, and MUCH louder if you wanted cooler. I can't here this over fans/hard drives, computer sounded half on when I first booted with it being used to stock cooler.

Cons: Comes with RAMsinks, but not seperate sinks for voltage regulators and such, but I dont know of any cooler that comes with these and they are fairly cheap.

Overall Review: I would prefer it over the zalman vf900, due to being slightly easier to install (the zalman was easy to), built in auto adjusting fan, and having a lower profile. I will probably never use SLI/Crossfire but can be done with this, as apposed to the zalman. Cooling wise, about the same as the vf900, no experience with the 1000 but i am sure its superior. DON"T forget to remove the protective base sticker, luckily my card has a thermal shut off (computer completely instantly shut off before completely booted)

Great

SONY MDR-XD300 Circumaural Studio Monitor Series Headphones
SONY MDR-XD300 Circumaural Studio Monitor Series Headphones

Pros: Amazing sound, massive, clean bass. I once turned bass up to much from sound card, with it turned up from speaker master control, it was to much, instant headache, though there was some distortion at extreme high bass. Clean sound all around. 8 foot cord, w/8ft ext is nice for watching movies on bed from computer (output to tv of course). Braided nylon cord is awesome. Pretty comfortable, though start to hurt somewhat after bout 3 hours

Cons: kinkda cumbersome for travel.

Great monitor, has some issues

SCEPTRE X20WG-Naga Black 20.1" 5ms (GTG) Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 1,000:1, US Warranty
SCEPTRE X20WG-Naga Black 20.1" 5ms (GTG) Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 1,000:1, US Warranty

Pros: Awesome picture quality No ghosting Low price

Cons: Ruthlessly preffers D-Sub over DVI. Has a MAJOR glitch. If you just plug it in and turn on it wont work, you must plug it in then start/restart computer. IF you come out of standby, it will not work unless you have D-Sub plugged in and then must switch to DVI, if you use DVI. After much frustation found that if I turn off monitor, then go to standby, and upon returning resume standby then turn on monitor it seems to work, though there is a delay. Last monitor just came on virtually the same second I came out of standy. This problem seems like the dumbest thing but oh well I guess you get what you pay for...

Overall Review: has 6bit color per channel (16.2M color w/dithering, 262k actual.... if you do some research on the topic, as opposed to 8, (16.7M true colors), but I cant tell the difference. I would rate it a 5 besides the extremely annoying problem of not turning on.

12/15/2006