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Matthew K.

Matthew K.

Joined on 02/05/08

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Most Favorable Review

GREAT CPU!!!

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ - Athlon 64 X2 Windsor Dual-Core 3.2 GHz Socket AM2 125W Processor - ADX6400CZBOX
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ - Athlon 64 X2 Windsor Dual-Core 3.2 GHz Socket AM2 125W Processor - ADX6400CZBOX

Pros: I have owned this CPU for just under a year, all I can say is WOW very fast. Opens up Applications fast, boots the system fast, noticeable jump in speed, etc..

Cons: It does put out a lot of heat, so buy an aftermarket cooler of the sort.

Overall Review: I can't find this cpu on the market as easily as it was a Year ago. I Play lots of games with it, Run Auto CAD and it's a big jump from a CPU I borrowed from a friend (AMD 64x2 brisbane@ 2.6ghz) Sorry I am short on time writing the review to list more about it. Also I have this CPU cooled by a Koolance fluid cooling block and system (which I did not buy at newegg) and no it is not over-clocked. I did not see the need to. Great CPU to own, Owned it for just under a year (shy of a week or two)and still running strong. BUY IT!!!

Most Critical Review

Awesome Paperweight

Hitachi GST Deskstar 7K1000.C HDS721032CLA362 (0A39264) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Hitachi GST Deskstar 7K1000.C HDS721032CLA362 (0A39264) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

Pros: Great for holding down desk papers, sitting on a shelf looking cool and an expensive conversation piece.

Cons: DOA right away. I was going to install a hard drive for a buddy of mine, low and behold a 1/4 of the way installing windows the hard drive died. :-(

Overall Review: (I would prefer not to say my other thoughts with this matter) Im finding that SCSI drives seam to be the ONLY thing reliable these days. If it says "Made in China" it probably means your going to throw it away in less then 2 years.

Board DOA

GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: NONE

Cons: The onboard sata controller died on this motherboard.

Overall Review: This is not the first Gigabyte board I have purchased (other boards were purchased from local store too) with a dead SATA controller on it or the same model. It seams as if their Sata installation department has problems. Although the IDE interface is just fine, but who wants to resort to running small IDE hard drive just to make it work. Will be RMA'ing to newegg.

Exellent Card

EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card 512-P3-N871-AR
EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Support Graphics Card 512-P3-N871-AR

Pros: The product has been up and running for around a month now, no issues So i won't complain at all. I Probably will buy 2 of these in SLi to stand in place of my 8800GTS.

Cons: Power hog, bottom line, But thats not a con for the caliber of this Graphics card, just be smart about your case, LOTS of airflow is needed.

Overall Review: I have not had time to do any bench marks other then from WOW. Bought this for a rig I built for a friend last month, Running windows 7 by user request, (Windows Xp Pro did so much better with this card) period. 8x Anti-aliasing, 8x AA, Dalaran runs around 12FPS on full settings. but that is expect for a cheep build w/ a 2.2Ghz AMD Athalon 64x2 and a Gig of ram. Backed down the settings a bit on this build to run WOW smoother.

Good Product.

SNT SNT-SCA2131B 3x3.5" Hard drive in 2x5.25" Bay Hot Swap SCSI U320 Backplane RAID cage w/ 80mm fan
SNT SNT-SCA2131B 3x3.5" Hard drive in 2x5.25" Bay Hot Swap SCSI U320 Backplane RAID cage w/ 80mm fan

Pros: Offers the ability to Run SCSI U320's in a desktop or adding to a server. Fan on the front of the opening door offers plenty of airflow and helps cover up the scream of High speed drives.

Cons: Installation is NOT a breeze, and required removal of the back fan on the chassis. But don't let that discourage you from buying this product. Regardless the front fan works just fine.

Overall Review: MAKE SURE YOU SET THE JUMPER SWITCHES For the buss ID on the cage's board! or you will have a tons of problems on your raid controller! you must have a SCSi Raid controller for this product, so don't expect an SCSI Adapter card will work! For this setup i have; Dell PERC 3 Raid controller w/128mb stick on the card, 2x9.1Gig HP SCSI Drives in RAID 0, going to be purchasing a 147gig U320 to add in the last bay for additional storage in another configuration. I wish more companies still offered U320 cages.

Excellent server

HP ProLiant DL380 G6 Rack Server System Intel Xeon L5520 2.26 GHz 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1333 491335-001
HP ProLiant DL380 G6 Rack Server System Intel Xeon L5520 2.26 GHz 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1333 491335-001

Pros: *First off WE did not buy this from newegg* But I feel that I must write a review on this System to let others know about this great machine. Comes with very versatile rack mounting hardware, great instructions and over all is the server to buy. *Important note: UID Button is "User Identification light" lights up blue, lights up the button on the front of the bezel and the back of the server, so you can find which one of these machines you are working on in the rack.

Cons: NONE

Overall Review: Deployed the server on the campus this week, deployment was very fast, up in running within less then 15 minutes after mounting hardware, 8x300GIG SAS hard drives, 2x2.7Ghz Intel Zeon, 2x750watt PSU's. 48gig of RAM, VSX Server loaded. Sound is very loud when winding up, but quiet during moderate load.