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Justin F.

Justin F.

Joined on 02/24/10

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Most Favorable Review

Great Keyboard

CM Storm QuickFire Pro - Full Size Mechanical Gaming Keyboard with CHERRY MX Brown Switches and Backlit Gaming Keys
CM Storm QuickFire Pro - Full Size Mechanical Gaming Keyboard with CHERRY MX Brown Switches and Backlit Gaming Keys

Pros: If you're looking for a sturdy, matte, and Cherry browns, look no further. -Backlighting is awesome -Feels very sturdy -Matte finish

Cons: USB cords are a little weird, sometimes it doesn't work in the BIOS, restarts will fix it though, and honestly, CM should have just made the whole thing backlit

Overall Review: I got these after I tried the Razer BlackWidows. These keyboards were night and day. The Razer felt cheap, was not backlit (and more expensive), and had a glossy finish. In just the few days in which I used it, dust and food began to build up noticeably on areas of the keyboard, not to mention the fingerprint markings.

Good Card

EVGA GeForce GTX 470 (Fermi) 1280MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Video Card 012-P3-1470-AR
EVGA GeForce GTX 470 (Fermi) 1280MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Video Card 012-P3-1470-AR

Pros: Is an absolute beast when running games The Fermi architecture makes full use of tesselation Is much better than ATi when AA is present Overclockers dream card

Cons: Runs hotter than ATi cards Has some graphical glitches with BFBC2, but a driver update should fix that

Overall Review: This card is a nice, punch in the face delivered to ATi, it is not only a contender for the good value 5850, but the heavier 5870 as well. In BFBC2, aside from the glitches, it can run it an good 60-70 fps. The ATi 5870 could only get 50fps maximum, and was not very good at particle rendering, a thing I consider crucial in games with lots of explosions. The noise and temp are overrated, even setting the fan to auto, I've only seen a maximum temperature of 75-83 degrees, and an idle of 46-54 degrees. The other benchmark games I've used is Just Cause 2, suprisingly the fps isn't higher than ATi, even when the game is designed to run with CUDA and PhysX, but then I realized I could crank some of the AA up and some details and the fps was exactly the same. Then I tested the explosions, which looked absolutely brilliant. This card overclocks like nothing else, however, fiddling with the memory clocks too much caused major glitches in Battlefield. Nvidia needs to start fixing BF.