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Ken M.

Ken M.

Joined on 07/23/20

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Most Favorable Review

Great price and easy to carry

Seagate Backup Plus 5TB Portable Hard Drive with Rescue Data Recovery Services
STHP5000600
Seagate Backup Plus 5TB Portable Hard Drive with Rescue Data Recovery Services STHP5000600

Pros: Great price. Light. No power cord needed.

Cons: Not very fast. Its fast if you move files under 5 gb but you will bottleneck to around 20 mb/s if you try anything bigger. Took me around 30 minutes to move 100 gb file.

Overall Review: 5 tb storage for around 100 bucks is great. I can live with the slower speeds.

Most Critical Review

Great looking outside, horrible inside.

VANTEC NexStar SX NST-203C3-SV Silver M.2 SATA SSD to USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type C Enclosure
VANTEC NexStar SX NST-203C3-SV Silver M.2 SATA SSD to USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type C Enclosure

Pros: -Looks good. Nice sturdy aluminum.

Cons: -Terrible inner design. The m.2 port is designed backwards so you will have to flip your SSD ram facing down. This will lead to fitment issues. Sliding it in is also as issue because of how tight the port is, you might have to force it in and people with expensive SSD don't want that. -It crashes nonstop. If you try to move too many files at once it crashes. If the file/folder is too large it crashes.

Overall Review: This thing is terrible. I would not suggest buying it. It doesn't work with NVME and it crashes nonstop with regular m.2 SSD. If it crashes too many times it will also crash windows so stay away.

11/24/2020

Good but too much bloatware

ASUS ROG Strix G17 (2021) Gaming Laptop, 17.3" 165Hz IPS Type WQHD Display, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX Processor, 16GB DDR4, 1TB PCIe SSD, RGB Keyboard, Windows 10, G713QR-ES96Q
ASUS ROG Strix G17 (2021) Gaming Laptop, 17.3" 165Hz IPS Type WQHD Display, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX Processor, 16GB DDR4, 1TB PCIe SSD, RGB Keyboard, Windows 10, G713QR-ES96Q

Pros: The laptop is solid and light. You can't beat the price for a 17 inch high end laptop in todays market.

Cons: It comes with alot of unneccasary software and some are impossible to get rid of. I upgraded the SSD and did a fresh install but the myasus software remained. Annoying but you can turn off all the notifications after to not see it anymore. You should upgrade the ram because mine came with one 16 gb single channel x16 stick. You want dual x8, its literally a 10-20% upgrade in fps. The keyboard does not have a full key setup, its a weird hybrid so you might have to get used to it or just plug in a full keyboard. The track pad is horrible. Its oversized and the left and right click buttons are not seperated. Half the time you will be clicking the wrong button because you have no idea where the button is. I plug in a mouse.

Overall Review: The laptop is great for the price. It came with a generic 1 tb samsung oem ssd. Speeds of 1800 read/write so its decent. Just get rid of the bloatware and get used to the random querks.

Sound works, everything else not so much.

Sony CH700N Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones - Stereo - Mini-phone - Wired/Wireless - Bluetooth - 30 ft - 22 Ohm - 20 Hz - 20 kHz - Over-the-head - Binaural - Circumaural - 3.94 ft Cable
Sony CH700N Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones - Stereo - Mini-phone - Wired/Wireless - Bluetooth - 30 ft - 22 Ohm - 20 Hz - 20 kHz - Over-the-head - Binaural - Circumaural - 3.94 ft Cable

Pros: -Good Design, comfortable and good bass and sound.

Cons: -Bluetooth didn't work, Noise Canceling didn't work, and Power button didn't work.

Overall Review: I liked the design and sound of the headphones. Too bad everything else didn't work. This was a refurbished pair from VIPOUTLET. I like the headphones so I'll find a different seller to get another pair from.

Great when they work.

G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C16D-32GVKC
G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C16D-32GVKC

Pros: Good value for high speed low latency ram.

Cons: These ram sticks are a real hit or miss when it comes to making the XMP work. I've bought 6 different sets and 3 of the sets had at least one stick that could not boost to the advertised speed.

Overall Review: They're a good value when they work as advertised but you might run into some bad sticks.

11/16/2020

Works great if it fits your desktop.

ARCTIC Accelero Xtreme IV Enthusiast VGA Cooler-nVidia/AMD, Triple 92mm PWM Fans, Patented Back-Side Heatsink, SLI/CrossFire
ARCTIC Accelero Xtreme IV Enthusiast VGA Cooler-nVidia/AMD, Triple 92mm PWM Fans, Patented Back-Side Heatsink, SLI/CrossFire

Pros: Lowers Thermals by as much as 30 degrees Celsius.

Cons: Very large and oddly shaped. If you have a large CPU fan (I have a Noctua D14) and the Heat sink on the Arctic made it too wide to fit on the first PCIE x16 slot. I had to use my 2nd PCIE x16 slot. My mobo performance isn't slowed down by using the 2nd PCIE x16 slot but if it does on your board then I wouldn't recommend this. The instructions to install it are terrible.

Overall Review: If it fits your motherboard without any loss in performance then its great. I have a 2080 Super blower style so it runs super hot with the stock fan. I tested my temps with Afterburner and under 98% load stock temps were 92 degrees Celsius. With the Arctic temps were 62 degrees Celsius. If you know how to take apart a GPU and know how to research putting the Arctic together properly and have a blower style GPU then I would recommend this.

10/20/2020