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Carl D.

Carl D.

Joined on 01/16/07

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Be Cauious

ASUS Crosshair II Formula AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA nForce 780a SLI HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
ASUS Crosshair II Formula AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA nForce 780a SLI HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: This is in fact a REALLY good motherboard, it has tons of features like AI Suite and CPU Level up, Crazy amount of bios options.....uh.....just great.

Cons: Be Careful if you decide to buy this motherboard, it is quite moody.....i didnt find out about compatibility issues between the nvid chipset and $eagate hard drives until several motherboards later.....and velociraptors will not work either....i took off an egg for this reason alone....i spent alot of time and money. I have a bunch of expensive frizbees and useless harddrives now.....

Overall Review: like i said, good board but i couldnt give it five eggs due to the compatibility issues.....i have never had so many problems with hard drive compatibility and ive been building machines for a long time.

Most Critical Review

Luck of the Draw

ASUS M3N-HT DELUXE/MEMPIPE AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA nForce 780a SLI HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
ASUS M3N-HT DELUXE/MEMPIPE AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA nForce 780a SLI HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Good layout for everything you need for a bleeding edge gaming machine......looks very nice and fast.....the ram heat pipes are a nice touch also.

Cons: Died after two weeks.....Faulty MOSFET\Voltage regulator.....would boot sometimes and then is stoped booting all together......

Overall Review: when it did boot it was a really nice board.....fast fast fast.....loaded windows in 10 min! paired with a 9850BE, 8 gigs of 1066 ram and 2 9800 gx2s this setup screamed! I guess its just the luck of the draw.....ive been purchasing products from newegg for a long time now and this is only the third bad one ive got of about 60 or so....not to bad ratio if you as me.....i still love the egg.

Best netbook on the market

Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3T(0651-85U) Intel Atom N450(1.66 GHz) 10.1" WSVGA 1GB Memory 250GB HDD Netbook
Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3T(0651-85U) Intel Atom N450(1.66 GHz) 10.1" WSVGA 1GB Memory 250GB HDD Netbook

Pros: The multi-touch display makes it very easy to navigate web pages and pictures among other things, comes with touch optimising software for music and other things. It has a very personal look with the lenovo squares and its shiny. Comes with windows 7 home premium so the multi-touch functionallity is good right out of the box.

Cons: The only thing i can think of that could have been better on this netbook is a solid state. There are so many netbooks out there and so few of them have ssds anymore. You would think with mobility in mind that there would be more of them.

Overall Review: I ordered a 2 gig stick along with a ssd at the same time i ordered this and used it before i put either one of them in. The preformance of the 2 gig stick alone was double what it was and then added the ssd and that doubled it again. All in all i was say this is definately the best netbook on the market in my opinion.

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR

StarTech 1 Port eSATA + 1 Port SATA II PCI Express SATA Controller Card
StarTech 1 Port eSATA + 1 Port SATA II PCI Express SATA Controller Card

Pros: NONE

Cons: DOA, harddrive spun up but did not show up in windows.....i know its not the drive because i have an adapter this was going to replace so i would have some protection for the drive and it works perfectly with the adapter.

Overall Review: you might get a good one out of every ten of these maybe.....lets just say you get what you pay for.....that being said, im going to get an ice e d0ck.

Fast Processor

AMD Phenom 9850 Black Edition - Phenom X4 Quad-Core 2.5 GHz Socket AM2+ 125W Processor - HD985ZXAGHBOX
AMD Phenom 9850 Black Edition - Phenom X4 Quad-Core 2.5 GHz Socket AM2+ 125W Processor - HD985ZXAGHBOX

Pros: This is a really fast processor........the price to speed ratio is dead on.....not only that it doesnt run anywhere near as hot as i thought it was going to.

Cons: the only con i have for this processor is not even really a con for the processor it self.....the motherboards that are out right now the are supposed to support this processor are having issues with bios conflicts......ie, i need a bios downgrade to salve voltage issues with the peticular motherboard that i purchased (m3nht deluxe) have to play the waiting game for white until they come out with a bios that solves these issues

Overall Review: dont let the bios issues stop you from purchasing this processor......even though i had to go through a bit of trials and tribulations, the speed of this chip is wonderful.....not to mention how much cheaper is compared to the competitor.

Great Gaming keyboard

RAZER Lycosa Keyboard
RAZER Lycosa Keyboard

Pros: This is by far the best keyboard i have ever owned......it has a wonderful piano black shine to it......the keys are just like the mouse buttons on the raser mouse(really smooth feels like velvet)and the back lit keys are definately a bonus.

Cons: none

Overall Review: if you are looking for a good gaming keyboard with lots of features and backlit keys, look no further.....not to mention this thing is beautiful....the picture do not do it justice.....did i mention the velvet like keys?