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shane g.

shane g.

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Most Favorable Review

Big and heavy

VIVO Dual Monitor Mount Fully Adjustable Desk Free Stand for 2 LCD Screens up to 27" (STAND-V002P)
VIVO Dual Monitor Mount Fully Adjustable Desk Free Stand for 2 LCD Screens up to 27" (STAND-V002P)

Pros: It works, very solid, no obvious issues.

Cons: Size and weight are over the top, I have it set to it's maximum height straight away. There is no height adjustment on arms, so monitors cannot be adjusted independently (handy for different monitors)

Overall Review: Had I been aware of just how big and heavy this stand was, I would have bought the smaller version: https://www.newegg.com/global/au-en/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA3BG16C7861&Description=vivo%20dual%20monitor&cm_re=vivo_dual_monitor-_-9SIA3BG16C7861-_-Product

Most Critical Review

Misleading advertising by Crucial

Crucial Ballistix 3200 MHz DDR4 DRAM Laptop Gaming Memory Kit 16GB (8GBx2) CL16 BL2K8G32C16S4B
Crucial Ballistix 3200 MHz DDR4 DRAM Laptop Gaming Memory Kit 16GB (8GBx2) CL16 BL2K8G32C16S4B

Pros: The Crucial advisor states that this product is 100% compatible with the Asus PN50, but it does not run at advertised speeds due to the Asus uefi/bios not having XMP settings. This 3200 ram only runs at 2667. Crucial have been made aware of this multiple times via reviews on the product page, but continue to ignore it and still claim that the ram is 100% compatible.

Cons: Does not run at advertised speeds on some systems, even though Crucial claim that it does

Overall Review: - Would you recommend this product to other people? No - If given the choice, would you purchase this product again? No - If there is something that you could change about this product, what would it be? Owning it

Lacking in some respects

ASUS PN51 MiniPC Barebone with AMD Ryzen R5-5500U Six-cores Mobile Processors, up to 64GB DDR4 RAM, M.2 SSD, WiFi 6 with Dual USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C (PN51-BB5000MD)
ASUS PN51 MiniPC Barebone with AMD Ryzen R5-5500U Six-cores Mobile Processors, up to 64GB DDR4 RAM, M.2 SSD, WiFi 6 with Dual USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C (PN51-BB5000MD)

Pros: It is small, it does work, it is easy to access to install ram and storage, decent amount and variety of i/o.

Cons: the uefi/bios is very limited, it still looks like an old school bios and lacks XMP settings, so while this is advertised as being able to run 3200 ram, my Crucial ram only runs at 2667, even though they claim that it is 100% compatible. The construction is plastic/cheap. The cooling fan is decidedly average. The 4x4 form factor would be restrictive if you wanted to change it to another case. AMD has very little interest in Linux, I had limited success getting this to run due to a lack of graphics drivers. Using a mainline kernel, linux mint 5.10.9 is the 1st one that has the drivers, but it also has a graphical defect just after the grub screen... but nowhere else)

Overall Review: I would probably not buy this again, but it is a suitable HTPC

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Very fast!

I ordered 2 sticks of Mushkin ram 22nd August, they arrived in Australia 03rd September!

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Beach Audio yes. Newegg no.

I placed an order on the 24th of November, the order was split into 2 parts due to 1 item coming from Beach Audio. The other 2 parts came from Newegg. The part from Beach Audio arrived at Newegg 28th November, it wasn't until 4th December that Newegg did anything about it, it then took a further 3 days for it to leave the US. The part arrived in Australia 5 days later (12th December), but then took a further 7 days to be delivered on the 19th December. Beach Audio appear to have done fairly well, Newegg and their freight choices completely sucked. I am still waiting for the other 2 parts of the order that came from Newegg and entered Australia on the 6th December (14 days ago), it should have been delivered on Monday the 10th, or Tuesday the 11th. Thankfully I paid with paypal, Newegg do not even appear to supply an email address to contact them with. The live chat worked fairly well, but after that the customer appears to be left in the dark. I have filed a claim with paypal.

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12/20/2018