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Edwin Y.

Edwin Y.

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Most Favorable Review

Blown Away!!

ASUS GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 768MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card ENGTX460 DirectCU TOP/2DI/768MD5
ASUS GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 768MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card ENGTX460 DirectCU TOP/2DI/768MD5

Pros: I did some research before buying these cards....and boy the reviewers were right, 2 of these are close to beat my friend's HD 5970 (no kidding!). SLI scaling is just phenomenal. The pros: 1. Price/performance: got mine for $300 including tax & shipping, with 2 free games, and excluding $40 rebate ($260 for SLI) 2. Very good frame rate if you’re playing on 1920 x 1080 res max! 3. Sucks less power and way cooler than other 400 series (470’s, 480’s) 4. Overclockable at 850/2000 w/ stock voltage 5. 3D capable!!

Cons: 1. can't go tri-sli 2. it will struggle on a 2560 x 1600 (30" monitors) even in sli because of 768mb memory.

Overall Review: Just FYI: if you have an Asus P6T x58, SLI setup will be a little crammed. I noticed a 10C difference between 1st (78C/load) and 2nd (68C/load) card due to limited ventilation of the 1st card. I have a very good case cooling so it's not really a problem.

11/27/2010
Most Critical Review

Good sound, bad quality

Turtle Beach Ear Force P11 Headset
Turtle Beach Ear Force P11 Headset

Pros: Very light and comfortable, good sound (when working).

Cons: "Hissing" sound. Very doubtful quality control. Right speaker is dead out of the box.

Overall Review: I bought this headset at the local store because it was on sale and I have a gift card, but the right speaker failed right out of the box. I had P21 but the left speaker died after 3 days (returned). I also had Z6A but the hissing sound was intolerable and lacks bass for its price (returned). Now I usually don't give bad reviews right away just because I had a bad set, but 3 bad headsets in a row is not a coincidence. Turtle beach should be checking their quality control and solve that hissing sound (it's becoming a know problem from turtle beach). I'll probably get the Razer carcharias and will stay away from TB from now on.

10/31/2011

Update:

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7950 3GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 100352-2L
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7950 3GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 100352-2L

Pros: Great card while working

Cons: It will cost you lots of money for shipping to RMA

Overall Review: I bought this 5 months ago and started acting up on me (black screen). I was trying to RMA it and they emailed me back saying that it will cost me to ship it back to them and on top of that it will also cost me for them to ship it back to me. They told me that they will ship it from Hongkong to Canada and it will cost me $30 to $50 plus $30 to ship it back to them. That's like about $80 just for the damages. I'd just probably buy another card from other company that offers free shipping both ways. I never experience that from EVGA, MSI, and ASUS.

Great monitor for the price

PLANAR PXL2760MW Black 27" 3.4ms HDMI Widescreen Edge-lit LED Monitor 300 cd/m2 1200:1 Built-in Speakers
PLANAR PXL2760MW Black 27" 3.4ms HDMI Widescreen Edge-lit LED Monitor 300 cd/m2 1200:1 Built-in Speakers

Pros: beautiful screen, no dead pixel, large screen, non-reflective screen. It also comes with displayport and hdmi. the speaker is not bad compared to my 23" asus that i replaced.

Cons: Out of the box--it's too bright and the presets does not look good, standard is better but you still need to tweak it. I think they need to ditch the VGA imo.

Overall Review: I bought this for $210 which is relatively cheap for the size. FYI, if you're planning to use the displayport to HDMI adapter, it's not going to work. You have to use straight up DP to DP cable. At first, I thought my monitor is bad but you have to use a direct cable and not some adapter. Good buy and I recommend this to anyone.

Not bad eh!

SIIG Model CB-DP0E11-S1 Mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort Adapter Cable
SIIG Model CB-DP0E11-S1 Mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort Adapter Cable

Pros: Very Cheap, does the job well

Cons: I don't see any con

Overall Review: I bought monster DP cable for $90 at a local store. I compared this one and they're pretty much the same. So I decided to return the monster and settled with this one. Don't waist your money on monster unless you find it very cheap. $11 = $90.

Simply Amazing

OCZ Vertex 4 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) VTX4-25SAT3-128G
OCZ Vertex 4 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) VTX4-25SAT3-128G

Pros: Blazing fast, enough for OS and some programs, got it on shell shocker for $79. Up to now, the read speed is around 498 mb/s and write speed is 390 mb/s.

Cons: I heard some bad reviews from other reviewers that it's not reliable. I can't tell right now, I just got this a month ago.

Overall Review: Hope it will last longer. It has 5 year warranty so I'm not worried.