Joined on 07/27/10
great little card
Pros: Does whats made to do. Lets my intel HD GPU take a rest and shines when playing games. Can play 90% of what ever I throw at it.
Cons: its not a 560, no really this card has no cons. I have had the rare Nvidia driver missing in windows but I have had this issue in other nvidia cards both mobile and desktop cards. So not enough to take a card away.
Overall Review: Planning to upgrade to a 560 or AMD 69XX. I wish Nvidia had mini display out.
tight fit just how I like it
Pros: 450W 80+ PSU thats actually good lots of options for such a small unit. 2 HDD locations,120MM fan,up to a 8" graphics card. Light weight and of course really is a small case And like many had said free USB 3.0 upgrade!
Cons: tight fit for water cooling If you do use water cooling your GPU options shorten cable management is understandably hard. PSU does not include mini sata connections
Overall Review: So many points others have made, there is slight flex in the case but no more then what I would expected from most cases. So I didn't see that as a con. Personally was great case for a long time, I would not consider this a HTPC case IMO but to each there own. about 6 months ago I upgrades alot of things in my system and have now just about out grown the unit. I will say due to the amount of stuff thats in there its a great case. Specs: Intel Core i7 2600S (Still in there) ASRock Z68M-ITX/HT (still in there) Patriot Gamer 2 Series 2x4 8GB (still in there) Things that I have changed Nvidia Geforce 440 GT ( Now a AMD Radeon HD 6850) Patriot 32GB SSD + Hitachi 500GB HDD ( Now 2 Samsung Pro 256GB SSD's in raid ) Optical was removed due to the addition of intels Liquid cooling solution.
Common Razer KeyBoard issue.
Pros: Owner of a few razer keyboards and I like them.
Cons: I have had EVERY razer keyboard have the same issue the keys stop working. excepted for there mechanical keyboards.
Overall Review: I finally decided to take one of these razer keyboards apart both a lycosa and Anansi to find they are very much a'like in design. they use this 3 layer plastic filament like sheets that line up the keys. This makes for the input. The plastic often slips to the side making it no longer possible for the button to land properly on the plastic sheet. This makes the button not work or you have to push really hard. Also if left like this button in the same area will slowly stop working. I wont mention a fix because it will void your warrantly and you would be better off just sending it in. But if you are wanting to know what the issue is and why this is so often a issue with razer keyboards. Here ya go.
Its works well!
Pros: Easy to install. Small compacted. Great features for a board this size.
Cons: None really the CPU shield scrapped the side of my cpu but I have seen this with other 2nd gen i7 cpu's aswell.
Overall Review: I was worried that my i7 2600s would kill this board due to the heat output. But it has been doing just fine. I do plan on updating to a z77 asrock board.
Little power house but left me wanting more
Pros: Fast, low voltage, Sandy Bridge,1155 socket type
Cons: Still runs abit hot. Intel 2000 HD Graphics,not Intel 3000 HD ( this might be a problem with my motherboard ) But CPU lock scrapped side of CPU not sure if its because of the heat spreader/shield or what motherboard CPU lock.
Overall Review: I think the pros out weight the cons. And in all its a really nice processor. Fast energy officiant, and using Intels net technology.
Great Laptop Upgrade
Pros: Great SSD, this was a upgrade from a Toshiba 3.0GB 500 HDD and wow is this that much faster. Faster load times, Less fragmentation with files,30% longer battery life,less head output ( not that I noticed ), totally silent.
Cons: This drive is just ever so larger then a slandered laptop drive because of its fancy casing. So if your laptop has a mounting system then there might be some small issues getting it in. Personally all I have is two rubber pads that sit on both sides of the drive that hold it in place, even this made for issues.
Overall Review: Laptop Work Station: - Lenovo ThinkPad T610 - i5 M540 2.55GHz - 4GB DDR3 (x2 2GB Remaxel) - 60GB OCZ-VERTEX2 - Windows 7 Pro