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Michael G.

Michael G.

Joined on 05/12/04

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Most Favorable Review

decent card, great value

Koutech IO-PSA421 PCI-X SATA II (3.0Gb/s) Controller Card
Koutech IO-PSA421 PCI-X SATA II (3.0Gb/s) Controller Card

Pros: Card shows markable performance increase over on-board SATA device. Great Linux support for JBOD modes. RAID modes not tested.

Cons: I'm pretty sure that this is a fakeraid device, so if I'm doing raid, I like the linux software raid a lot better than the proprietary drivers.

Overall Review: On this card I get ~70 MB(big B)/ sec to the drive. Tested with the following command: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc <bytes*>=1M count=30000 31457280000 bytes (31 GB) copied, 454.551 s, 69.2 MB/s The same test to the same drive, using the onboard SATA controller gives me about ~50 MB/sec. So, this card gives me a speed boost of ~1.4. * The bytes field in dd is actually "b s", (without the space). Putting b and s together in a newegg review is ruled as "improper and unsuitable for submission". So, enjoy!

Great value for money

Intel Core i5-10600KF - Core i5 10th Gen Comet Lake 6-Core 4.1 GHz LGA 1200 125W Desktop Processor - CM8070104282136
Intel Core i5-10600KF - Core i5 10th Gen Comet Lake 6-Core 4.1 GHz LGA 1200 125W Desktop Processor - CM8070104282136

Pros: Extremely good value for money on this Processor. Would recommend

Cons: No integrated graphics? This is desired for anybody wanting a useful GPU

Overall Review: Using this as a cpu for a VR rig. This does the job very well.

decent speeds

BYTECC PCIe NEC Chipset 2 Ports USB 3.0 Card Model BT-PEU310
BYTECC PCIe NEC Chipset 2 Ports USB 3.0 Card Model BT-PEU310

Pros: Easily hitting 100 MB/s with this card.

Cons: Difficult to get higher than 100 MB/s Drivers are difficult to get, and the cd that ships with this card is bad. Drivers available here: http://byteccusa.com/index.php/usb/usb-3-0/bt-peu310-html.html

Overall Review: Worth a buy at the price newegg sells them,

works very well on my 650ti

ARCTIC Accelero S1 Plus VGA Cooler - nVidia & AMD, Silent Passive Cooling, SLI/CrossFire
ARCTIC Accelero S1 Plus VGA Cooler - nVidia & AMD, Silent Passive Cooling, SLI/CrossFire

Pros: Able to cool my 650ti without any fan if I leave the computer case open. This was a excellent buy for my completely silent gaming rig

Cons: I really need to leave my case open for this to work without any fans. Not to much of a problem.

A microsd card that is fast

ADATA Premier Pro 32GB microSDHC Flash Card w/Adapter Model AUSDH32GUI1-RA1
ADATA Premier Pro 32GB microSDHC Flash Card w/Adapter Model AUSDH32GUI1-RA1

Pros: This card does preform nearly to the details advertised on the cover. Under windows, I am getting right about 30 MB/s write, and around 70 MB/s read speeds. After you factor in the overhead for filesystem, that's just about what the package advertises. It reads nearly as fast as my Sandisk Extreme Pro 32 GB SD card. This microsd card writes faster that the extreme pro sandisk card. Very happy with the purchase. It's worth the extra money if you need/want the speed. Also, the card seems to heat up less than a lot of my other microsd cards. As far as I can tell, this is the fastest 32 GB microsd card on the market at this time.

Cons: None so far

Overall Review: Note that if you get this card, it reads and writes faster than a USB 2.0 bus ca dish out. In order to completely utilize the full capability of this card, you'll need a USB 3.0 reader, or, a expresscard reader.

good card. quieter than expected

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 Graphics Card ZT-61102-10M
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 Graphics Card ZT-61102-10M

Pros: Card worked well, up to date drivers shipped with it. Preforms substantially better than the gts 450 it replaces. I am able to play starcraft 2 with all of the graphics setting set to the maximum. While playing starcraft, it doesn't get nearly as hot as the GTS 450 did. The card is physically very small. It clocks about 3.5 the performance in distributed computing projects. Very good GFLOP/Watt ratio. Would recommend.

Cons: I would have liked to buy this card with a dramatically larger heat sink to allow for passive cooling. I needed to buy a after market heatsink to make it a passive cooling system