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Steven R.

Steven R.

Joined on 08/17/04

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Most Favorable Review

Works great

CORSAIR 1GB ECC Registered DDR 266 (PC 2100) Server Memory Model CM72SD1024RLP-2100
CORSAIR 1GB ECC Registered DDR 266 (PC 2100) Server Memory Model CM72SD1024RLP-2100

Pros: Compatible with my Tyan S2723 (Tiger i7501) dual Xeon motherboard.

Cons: Price? It's ECC Registered memory, so I knew it wasn't going to be cheap. Newegg had an excellent price on it compared to everyone else as usual! :)

Overall Review: Running 4GB of this in my Tyan Tiger i7501 w/ dual 3.06GHz Xeons (HT), Adaptec 29160 scsi controller, and 4x IBM 36GB 10K RPM drives. I use this server to run the recently release for free VMware ESXi server. I use the VMs as test environments.

Most Critical Review

Great until the fail

CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWINX2048-3200
CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWINX2048-3200

Pros: Decent price and performance.

Cons: I've now had 2 sets of this memory go bad in less than 6 months. Verified with memtest86, errors galore. :( The first set was replaced by Newegg with no problems. I've decided not to bother with this second set. Why keep getting bad modules? I'm going back to Mxxxkin - I've yet to get a bad stick from Mxxxkin.

Love it!

Gigabyte Aivia Osmium Cherry Brown Mechanical Gaming Keyboard White Back-lit (GK-OSMIUM BRN)
Gigabyte Aivia Osmium Cherry Brown Mechanical Gaming Keyboard White Back-lit (GK-OSMIUM BRN)

Pros: I love this keyboard. I enjoy the feel of the mechanical keys (seriously, I hate membrane keyboards now). The anti-ghosting works. I don't really use the programmable keys, so I can't comment on those. I like that that the back-lighting has adjustable brightness (as well as you can turn it off completely), and I find the volume wheel and fn keys useful, too.

Cons: I can't think of any, other than price, but it seems that all good quality mechanical keyboards are pricey.

Works great

AuzenTech  AZT-FORTE  X-Fi Forte 7.1 Low Profile PCI Express Sound Card
AuzenTech AZT-FORTE X-Fi Forte 7.1 Low Profile PCI Express Sound Card

Pros: I've not had any problems with drivers. Worked out of the box no CD required in Windows 7 x64 Release Candidate! Also was trouble free for me in Windows XP 32-bit and Vista x64. (Used the drivers from the CD for XP).

Cons: Haven't found any so far.

Overall Review: I love it!

I love 10k RPM WD drives!

Western Digital WD VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS 300GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Western Digital WD VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS 300GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Excellent performance. If you have a case that has rubber grommets for the hard drive mounting, you'll never hear these drives. On the flip side, if you don't have rubber grommets, you'll hear the read/write heads during heavy use. I cannot hear them at all when they are idling.

Cons: Price, but you get what you pay for.

Overall Review: The review below me mentioned he's had terrible luck with WD, and got a bad VelociRaptor. A shame really. I've been using WD for 15 years. During that time, there was a year where they had some DOA problems, but that was 1 year in 15, and I've had a total of 2 dead drives in 15 years from WD. I have several of the first generation Raptors that are still running awesome also.

Powerful graphics solution

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4870 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 100259-1GL
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4870 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 100259-1GL

Pros: Fast GPU, plenty of memory, nice price. I bought two of these and run them in Crossfire. However, if you buy two of these to run in crossfire, there is a space issue. See Cons below for details.

Cons: You'll need a motherboard that puts two other slots between your x16 PCI-E slots. You need the wide space because of the screws that stick out on the backsides of these cards. They are the screws that hold the cooler on. I tried putting these in the closest two x16 slots and couldn't because the screws would have interfered with the fan on the card above it.

Overall Review: My motherboard has 4 x16 slots, so I just moved my second card down to the next x16 slot. Asus was smart enough to include long Crossfire bridges with the motherboard. My setup: ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe (790FX) Motherboard AMD Phenom 9850 Black Edition 4GB DDR2 1066 SDRAM (Mushkin) Crossfired Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 1G 150GB Raptor, Samsung DVD-RW, etc.....