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Gabriel K.

Gabriel K.

Joined on 09/14/01

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Most Favorable Review

Great

TATUNG THWP-3L Electronic Hot Water Dispenser
TATUNG THWP-3L Electronic Hot Water Dispenser

Pros: This thing is great if you make alot of hot tea, or hot chcoolate, or hot soups, or whatever... Any reason you'd need hot water regularly... this thing is great.... Our tea kettle has been mothballed for good probably.

Cons: Water level indicator is hard to read sometimes... but not serious problem at all.

Overall Review: For the price,... this thing is a must for anyone who uses hot water daily.

12/15/2008
Most Critical Review

third time was a charm

Maxtor MaXLine Pro 500 7H500F0 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive
Maxtor MaXLine Pro 500 7H500F0 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Fast, quiet. Supposedly seagate will support the 5 year warrantys on these maxtor drives now that they own them.

Cons: Bought 4 of these things for my NAS. One was DOA so i had to wait for a replacement to get my NAS going, replacement arrived, box began formatting drive. It died about an hour into formatting, RMA'd, got a third drive here, formatted and been running fine for a couple weeks now.

Overall Review: I guess 1 out of 4 to fail isnt to bad, but the replacement dying also, had me really worried, especially since these are 'Enterprise Level" drives. Fortunately i'm running Raid 5 so i can withstand losing a drive. But the repeat drive death experience has me worried about the 0.001% chance that i have 2 drives die together or close together, and lose my whole 1.5TB array. eeek..

Garbage

Pioneer VSX-934 7.2-ch Network AV Receiver
Pioneer VSX-934 7.2-ch Network AV Receiver

Pros: The audio side is good, things sound nice (but so do most amps nowadays)

Cons: The software/digital side of it is complete garbage, and they refuse to fix it with firmware updates that they could easily roll out, but dont care as theyve moved onto the next scam. Some examples: Its plugged into my network.... its sent 15k requests, yes 15,000 , to the NTP time server in the last 24 hours. Airplay crashes within the amp software within a couple hours of streaming and then it wont work until you unplug the unit. This seems to happen to alot of the software features, they crash eventually and the unit has to be unplugged and plugged back in. I could go on.. but just avoid this flawed unit.

Overall Review: Do not buy. It seems to be discontinued and unavailable, if you see it, Avoid like the plague.

Good case. Roomie. Not recommended if youre trying to go as small as possible.

Thermaltake Core V21 Black Extreme Micro ATX Cube Chassis CA-1D5-00S1WN-00
Thermaltake Core V21 Black Extreme Micro ATX Cube Chassis CA-1D5-00S1WN-00

Pros: Nice case... build quality is good... it feels nice, not cheap.. looks good, everything inside was solid. I Fit in a big Graphics card, EVO 212 cooler, 600w CORSAIR power supply... all with tons of room left. Tons of options for drives inside of it.... I used an m.2 SSD so all of mine were empty.. but you could really setup a nice filer server in this thing.

Cons: It feels a little big, lots of wasted space inside. After staring at it for a week, I decided it was too big still and am going to rebuild with a smaller mobo and case. The audio port on the front got a little noisey (inside the headphones) after leaving the computer on for a few days, not sure if that was the case fault, or the mobo high impedance mobo setting for the high end headphones i was using. I plugged direct into the back of the mobo and it was fine.

Overall Review: I ended up going with an ITX option... many of these mATX options are still too big really, I would only go mATX if you really think you will end up going dual video card.... Other than that there are a lot of nice ITX options, that dont leave so much empty space on your desk........ This case was cheap though.. so it will probably sit around here for a bit, and then I'll give it to a friend building a rig.

Good card, no problems

ASUS GeForce GTX 960 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Graphics Card STRIX-GTX960-DC2OC-4GD5
ASUS GeForce GTX 960 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Graphics Card STRIX-GTX960-DC2OC-4GD5

Pros: Runs great. I didnt do any benchmarking, but seems very solid. Installs/Boots right up, installed Nvidia drivers for it in win 10 with no problems.. I have it running three 1080p monitors under Win10.. the Fans dont even kick on when its in the desktop doing basic stuff. The plethora of connection options on the back is great.

Cons: Its not small, but not too big really... The ports on the back in most cases will be right up against the edge of the slits to the outside of the case... so slimmer tipped cables are ideal. But I didnt find any cable that hasnt fit yet, but I could see that being an issue.

Yes. Just do it.

SAMSUNG 850 EVO M.2 2280 500GB SATA III 3D NAND Internal SSD Single Unit Version MZ-N5E500BW
SAMSUNG 850 EVO M.2 2280 500GB SATA III 3D NAND Internal SSD Single Unit Version MZ-N5E500BW

Pros: Works great, didnt need any special drivers to install this under Windows 10. Quite fast. Quite small. Doesnt put off heat.

Cons: None.