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Joseph D.

Joseph D.

Joined on 11/01/03

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Most Favorable Review

Great card for the money

PNY VCGGTX260CXPB GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
PNY VCGGTX260CXPB GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

Pros: Great card for the money. Runs all games well. COD, CSS, BIOSHOCK,WOW,AA are the ones i'm currently playing

Cons: There warrenty is a little shody. Lifetime means as long as they are manufacuring the card. :(

Overall Review: Another bad review guy your power supply is most likely droping out under load. Putting in a card that draws less current like the one you tried doesn't prove the card to be bad. You need a good supply with a single +12v rail. I recommend corsair supplies they make the best single rail supplies 650w is waht i have. Some people are getting power supplies that have plenty of total current but the current per rail is not enough to run these power hungry high performance cards. Have yet to see a PNY die. I have PNY 5950 ultras still running after 6yrs of continues use. Other then fans stop working but that is a problem with all fans. Fans are cheap and easy to replace.

10/15/2009
Most Critical Review

poor QC

BFG Tech GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Support Graphics Card BFGR88640GTSOCE
BFG Tech GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Support Graphics Card BFGR88640GTSOCE

Pros: worked great

Cons: died in three days

Overall Review: BFG get on your QC or QA department or product will continue to suffer. Figured I would give BFG another chance after poor experiences in the past with agp cards your pci cards are just as bad. :(

high pitch noise

MSI NF750-G55 AM3 NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
MSI NF750-G55 AM3 NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: works

Cons: high pitch noise is anoying if you are working quietly. Gamimng or listening to music it is not noticeable.

Overall Review: never had a mb squeal like this one

no wifi card

ASRock K10N780SLIX3-WiFi AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA nForce 780a SLI ATX AMD Motherboard
ASRock K10N780SLIX3-WiFi AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA nForce 780a SLI ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: none

Cons: If you by a wifi motherboard it should have wifi module with it. I have the board installed and running then go use wifi and there is no place to hook up the antena. I then discover that it is a separate board. The board is suposed to come with it but it is not in the box. Called new egg they want me to ship the motherboard back because they don,t carry the module by itself even though it is available for sale stand alone on other web sites for $13 plus shipping. Called asrock they completely refused to work with me even though they sell this module by itself thanks for nothin Simen. They say i have to go through new egg because i just bought it. This really stinks. Why can't they just send me the wifi module? New egg didn't package the motherboard. Asrock should ship the items that are suposed to be included! I should not have to pay extra for an item that was supposed to be included.

Overall Review: First and only asrock MB i will ever buy. I will never buy ASROCK again. Furthermore anyone who asks me about ASROCK will not get a good review from me. If you read this ASROCK send me the WIFI module I no you stock it by itself.

fixed video issue

ECS BLACK SERIES GF8200A (V1.0) AM2+/AM3 NVIDIA GeForce 8200 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
ECS BLACK SERIES GF8200A (V1.0) AM2+/AM3 NVIDIA GeForce 8200 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: correcting old reviewFound in bios HT speed was at 200mhz set to auto now the video works great all settings on high 30fps runs wow sweet. Also has hybrid sli mode that shares the on board video and pci 16X to boost performance. Can't wait to upgrade to quad core and 1066 ram and pci 16x video to try the hybrid sli mode.

Cons: Bios is a little tweeky. Default settings don't work for all systems. Needed windows xp with sp2 on cd in order to install windows. XP without sp2 on cd came up with error repeatedly after loading drivers. Found in forums that cd with sp2 may help and it did. loaded first time with sp2 on XP cd. If you don't have sp2 there is a program called slipstream that will creat a copy of your xp cd and put sp2 on it.

Overall Review: Runs fast!! 250g maxtor ddr2 800 2X512mb corsair ram amd 4200+ dual core and thermaltake 430W power supply. Built this system for under $300 great system for the money.

10fps in WOW

ECS BLACK SERIES GF8200A (V1.0) AM2+/AM3 NVIDIA GeForce 8200 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
ECS BLACK SERIES GF8200A (V1.0) AM2+/AM3 NVIDIA GeForce 8200 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Upgrade option for quad core and 1066 ram 5 sata ports and lots of usb and pci 16x.

Cons: onboard video has problem. only 10fps in WOW 800x600 res and all low settings. newest drivers installed from ecs website didn't help anyone else have this problem? Did you find a fix?

Overall Review: I bought this as an upgrade from my ecs MB with nvidea 6100 series gpu but its no upgrade. with the 6100 series gpu on my old ecs MB I was able to get high res and all settings maxed with little decrease in performance. I have 1g ddr2800 ram amd dual core 4200+ 250g sata hard drive dvd burner.