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Pavlo K.

Pavlo K.

Joined on 08/10/06

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Most Favorable Review

Good alternative to a stock HSF

COOLER MASTER RR-DCH-S9U1-GP 92mm CPU Cooler
COOLER MASTER RR-DCH-S9U1-GP 92mm CPU Cooler

Pros: Quite, compact, provides efficient not only for a CPU but also RAM and surrounding components. Has a speed control fan function through the mother board. Works excellent with mother boards that have passive cooling for north or/and south bridge (A$U$, Ab!t).

Cons: Will not work with taller than normal memory (C0rsa!r with THX heat spreaders), because the fan slightly over laps first RAM slot on Ab!t KN9 mother board but it will work with any other memory if you put memory in before the cooler.

Overall Review: Mounting bracket seams flimsy. Remove the thermal pad that it came with and invest into AS#5. When installing cooler into the case practice couple times with out thermal compound to see how it lines up.

12/17/2006
Most Critical Review

Does NOT fit EVGA 256-N550-T2 7600GT

ARCTIC COOLING AVC-NV6 Rv.2 ARCTIC Ceramic VGA Cooler
ARCTIC COOLING AVC-NV6 Rv.2 ARCTIC Ceramic VGA Cooler

Pros: Well built unit much heavier than the stock cooler on the 7600GT.

Cons: The holes are 1/8 of an inch off. There is now way to mount it on to EVGA 256-P2-N550-T2 with out moding a cooler or card. If you try to force it more then likely it will fry the card.

Overall Review: I can't understand how the other 6 guys got this to fit it on there 7600GT. Well this is my mistake for not researching the size of the card and a cooler.

12/21/2006

Simple and Effective

Arctic P12 Value Pack, Pressure Optimized 120mm fan - 5pack
Arctic P12 Value Pack, Pressure Optimized 120mm fan - 5pack

Pros: Good value for the money, Price / Performance Surprisingly quiet for 1800 rpm fans (much quieter than a decade old 1400rpm fans they replaced)

Cons: No RGB, not really a con if working with decade old hardware

Overall Review: As it says on the package, these fans are "pressure optimized", but only well above 1200+ rpm do they have "good" airflow, due to fan blade design. Using 50 Ohm resistor, between the Fan and PSU, for manual Voltage / Fan Speed control... Does NOT provide significant reduction in noise... but DOES provide noticeable reduction in air flow.

12/28/2021
OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Laptop Memory Model OCZ2M8004GK
OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Laptop Memory Model OCZ2M8004GK

Pros: Nice upgrade for my Toshiba U405D-S2848 that originally came with 3GB of RAM. My Windows experience index went from 3.5 to 3.8. which is a nice bump.

Cons: After I swapped out my old memory, I got a BSOD on the first boot, I guess the Windows didn't recognize it at first. After a reboot everything works fine.

Overall Review: Ordered Tuesday afternoon with 3 day shipping delivered Thursday afternoon, sweet. Timing according to CPU-Z is 5-5-5-18-24,which is ok because the last two numbers are chipset dependent. Another CPU-Z fact; date of manufacture, week 17 of 2007

Follow up

ABIT KN9 AM2 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard
ABIT KN9 AM2 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Had it for about 6 months, works like a champ. No conflicts running IDE and SATA 3G Hard Drives

Cons: See "Other thoughts".

Overall Review: sort of a no briner, but when running two(2) 1GB DDR2 800 dimms , don't forget to increase voltage in BIOS (to 1.90 volts if using Patriot RAM)

Exelent PSU

CORSAIR HX Series CMPSU-520HX 520 W ATX12V v2.2 and EPS12V 2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply
CORSAIR HX Series CMPSU-520HX 520 W ATX12V v2.2 and EPS12V 2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply

Pros: This power supply has enough good said about it already, so I am not going to waste your time try to repeat what everyone before me said.

Cons: No major cons with this unit.

Overall Review: VERY IMPORTANT: IN ORDER TO INSURE BEST PERFORMANCE CONNECT YOUR OPTICAL DRIVES, AND HARD DRIVES INTO FIRST 3 CONNECTORS THAT ARE CLOSEST TO MAIN RAIL(24, 8, 4 pin rails)

12/24/2006