Joined on 05/12/02
Gamer
Pros: Screen is great if you don't mind glossy. The keyboard and touch pad are good. This laptop can run pretty much every game out there right now, you may have to turn setting low for the newer games.
Cons: Speakers not that good. They get loud with little distortion but absolutely no range. The exhaust cooling fan is horrible as it pushes hot air on your hand if you use external mouse. The lid doesn't lock down when transporting. Internal HDD is slow to load windows and game screens.
Overall Review: I got this as an open box buy and couldn't pass it up due to price. Swapped 2nd Ram stick for an 8gb ddr-1600 for a total of 12. Read somewhere that the 7640g reserves 512 but can also use several more gigs so I figured why not. Impressed with performance for the price.
died after 3 months of light use
Pros: it was fairly inexpensive, worked for awhile. I purchased this model at a local B&M, not the egg.
Cons: Didn't last long. Trying to physically read the serial# off the card for the RMA is almost impossible without industrial magnifier.
Overall Review: started to get warning message from my Samsung Galaxy (SD Card unexpectedly unmounted). Happened many times then just stopped working. Tried to see the card with adapter to PC and it won't even see the card.
Great for the price with some cons
Pros: Price is unbeatable. From a little comparison shopping and forums I learned asiahorse brand is decent among the low cost options. Looks really nice with speed and color options solid, rainbow, or swirly. 1/5 the price of other kits.
Cons: 4pin molex connector quality is SUS! When plugging power in the pins push out from the other side. A little gentle handling and a flap broke open on the connector plug. Did a fix with zip ties and electric tape to keep it from causing a short. My box was missing the fan screws so I had to spend extra time and money to get from another source.
Overall Review: Overall considering the price I was willing to endure some little annoyances. Installed into a Corsair 4000D Airflow and it looks great.
Good upgrade from stock CPU
Pros: 5600x CPU and I wanted a more efficient and nicer looking Cooler than stock AMD cooler. This CPU is only 65W so this cooler is more than enough. Looked at a couple reviews online and it cools significantly better than stock. Was easier than expected to install. I'm building a second identical unit soon and will buy again.
Cons: I didn't see airflow direction indicated on the fan anywhere. Maybe I missed it but I did look so ended up initially installing in wrong direction of airflow. Easy to correct.
Overall Review: For the cost conscious you get a nice performing and good looking cooler that is better than stock cooling. For high end CPUs you should buy something else but for great performing midrange CPUs this does the trick.
A short review
Pros: Cooler is good looking, quiet. Less artifacts than my 7850 in highly modded games. 8 pin power so no worries about pulling too much power from pci slot.
Cons: Low availability, kind pricy, like all these new midrange cards that promised top be more affordable. Can't cross fire unless you card slots are really spaced out well
Overall Review: I bought at a big box store cause it was the only one left. Didn't know this was going to be so nice. Having a difficult time finding a game to really push this card
Exactly as expected
Pros: Seems to run cool pretty cool and quiet on my topmost drive slot. 31C at rest with ambient of 30C
Cons: None yet
Overall Review: Instead of shunning Seagate drives, I got some great deals shopping around, loaded up rig with 8ea 3tb and 2ea 5tb. Newegg packing is pretty good (4 of the drives from them) none DOA. I'm happy with the purchase. The noisiest thing in my PC are the fans, which aren't loud at all. I'll know in a few weeks if everything is all well and will update my review if anything changes.
Value
The device was rock bottom price and works as expected. Delivery was expected time frame.