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Cho C.

Cho C.

Joined on 01/15/04

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Most Favorable Review

Cool and Quiet for real

Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200JB 320GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 / ATA-6 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive
Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200JB 320GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 / ATA-6 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: I have been using a pair of WD80JB in RAID0 for 3 years without any failure but the they are noisy and hot while giving performance so I decided to spend some money to replace the RAID0 array with these WD320JB drives. I like my computer very now while it is whispering quiet and having good performance. The new drives are very quiet and cool comparing to another brand such as Maxtor(I have a Maxtor 10 300G installed in the RAID card with RAID array.) Here is my setting: Lian Li 6070A case Kingwind internal water cooling P4 2.26A Northwood Soyo 845PE Lite mb eVGA 5700LE 256Mb 2x1G Corsair Value RAM Pinoeer 107XL DVDRW Pinoeer 116 DVD 2x WD320JB 1x Maxtor 10 300GB Audigy P Adaptec 1200A Raid Card 3Com 905TX NIC Enmax 400W silent trans

Cons: none yet.

Overall Review: hope it will have a discount in the future.

12/29/2005
Most Critical Review

Quite disappointing and annoying

Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6L300R0 300GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA133 / ATA-7 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6L300R0 300GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA133 / ATA-7 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: large cache (the drive is actually slower than WD320JB+ more CPU load)

Cons: I bought this drive 6 months ago, and the first delivery received was not working at all and RMA-ed. It took me a week to receive the second drive, which is a refuribished product. I am desperated because I paid the price of a completely new drive + extra shipping cost of the RMA, and a refurbished drive was received. It is not the main reason why I gave it low score. The main reason is that this drive runs hot and noisy. There is an obvious spinning noise when it starts. I just use this drive once a month to backup my projects and document, even though my WD RAID0 has never failed. However, this drive is dying now. I just connect this drive to my PC when I backup. I just used it 10 times, dude. I want to give Maxtor 10 middle fingers. Consider WD320JB if you are going for a IDE 3xxG HD (just costs $1 more). Maxtor does not deserve any pitty.

Overall Review: UPS is unsurprizingly rude.

Juicy and Quiet, but poor ventation

Antec NeoPower 550 550 W ATX12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready Active PFC Power Supply
Antec NeoPower 550 550 W ATX12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready Active PFC Power Supply

Pros: This PS is very quite and juicy. The build quality is fairly good.

Cons: There should be a knob to control the fan speed. There should be an extra 12cm fan on the top for better cooling. VERY HOT

10/14/2007

Wondering and Wonderful

CORSAIR 1GB DDR 400 (PC 3200) Desktop Memory Model VS1GB400C3
CORSAIR 1GB DDR 400 (PC 3200) Desktop Memory Model VS1GB400C3

Pros: I have bought two sets of it since it is strange that buying 2 sets of 1G is cheaper than buying 1 set of 2x1G kit while you are getting the exactly same thing.(some people will say you will get different chips, but actually it is very unlikely to happen) On the other hand, some people wrote a review in this product said that the default setting of this RAM is 2.5, 3, 3, 8. It sounds different to me since I got a default setting of 2.3,3,3,7 by the SPD setting in BIOS, and my systme is operating as soild as usual.

Cons: none yet.

Overall Review: Wish UPS can have better handling on the item and Newegg have better packing on this item since my RAMS WERE BENT when I received them but luckily, there is no physical damage on the circuit.