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Matthew Z.

Matthew Z.

Joined on 02/15/05

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Most Favorable Review

Great Case Alot Bigger than you may think.

nMEDIAPC Red Wood Wood/Steel HTPC 8000 ATX Media Center / HTPC Case
nMEDIAPC Red Wood Wood/Steel HTPC 8000 ATX Media Center / HTPC Case

Pros: It's Wood, Looks Great in My Entertainment Center. The Last thing people think it is is a Computer

Cons: The Annoying Blue LED Around the Power Button. But thats easily resolved by not plugging the Power LED Header in. Otherwise None.

Overall Review: For those who are curious. This Case will fit a Full Length Graphics Card. Because you have the entire Depth of the Case to work with. This is due to the fact that the 3.5"/5.25" Bays are mounted completely above the Expansion Slots. So Unless the cooler itself extends about 3" Above the PCI mounting Point. It should Fit as you'll see in my product Specs: nMEDIAPC HTPC 8000 HTPC Case Asus Maximus III Formula Intel Core i5 750 OC'd to 3.1Ghz @ 40Degree Celcius 4GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3/1333 OCZ Z-Drive 120GB (Boot Drive) (3) Seagate Barracuda 2TB Storage Drives SPARKLE SXX4602048D5SNM 2GB GTX 460 Corsair H70 Exhausting w/Bracket From Evercool RSF-14 So You Can Fit a Pretty Beasty System into a Very Compact Case. Have not done any Benchmarks on it yet

Most Critical Review
ZEROtherm CORE92 Socket 1156/1366 HDT Cooler
ZEROtherm CORE92 Socket 1156/1366 HDT Cooler

Pros: Quiet, What Some would consider Low Profile. See System Specs in "Other Thoughts" to see Why.

Cons: I Wish they had designed the Mounting System a Little bit better. The Clips would slide as I am trying to install. And it was also the cheap plastic which bent when I tried to thread it so that was 5 more minutes than it should have taken to install. The fins are very sharp (I cut myself twice on them

Overall Review: All in all, What should have taken 5-10 minutes to install took almost a half-hour due to the sliding of the mounts as well as the fact that 2 of them bent as I was doing it. But overall a good cooler: System Specs: Silverstone GD01B-R HTPC Case ASRock P55 Deluxe Motherboard Intel Core i5 750 4GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333 OCZ RevoDrive 120GB PCI-E SSD (Boot Drive) (3) 2TB Seagate Barracuda SATA 3.0GB/s Hard Drive ATI All-In-Wonder HD TV Tuner/Graphics Card ABS Majesty 1100W 80-Plus Gold Power Supply Logitech Dinovo Edge Bluetooth Keyboard LG Blu-Ray Burner

12/21/2010

Third Failures a Charm

OCZ RevoDrive PCI-E x4 120GB PCI Express MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSDPX-1RVD0120
OCZ RevoDrive PCI-E x4 120GB PCI Express MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSDPX-1RVD0120

Pros: Fast when it worked

Cons: 100% Failure Rate. Have gone through 3 drive in little more than 2 Years

Overall Review: I 1st purchased this item back in august 2010. Unit Lasted only 6 months and had to RMA the 1st one to OCZ. Got the 2nd unit & come april 2012, I was sending the 2nd one back to OCZ cause one of the 2 Drives in the array failed. Here I am again in October. And my 3rd one has failed on me. I'm gonna end up having to go in a different direction

10/14/2012
ABS Majesty series MJ1100-M Continuous 1100W@50°C ATX12V/EPS12V 80 PLUS GOLD Certified, Single 12V Rail, Modular Flat Cable Design, Active-PFC  "Compatible with Core i7, i5" Power Supply
ABS Majesty series MJ1100-M Continuous 1100W@50°C ATX12V/EPS12V 80 PLUS GOLD Certified, Single 12V Rail, Modular Flat Cable Design, Active-PFC "Compatible with Core i7, i5" Power Supply

Pros: 1100W 80 Plus Gold Quiet

Cons: Wished all of the Cables were Modular. Some People Don't Need all those 6 & 8-pin adapters by default. So If there is anything that I would Change, it's that

12/18/2010

RE:Awesome but need help!

ASUS 27" LCD Monitor 2ms(GTG) D-Sub, HDMI MT276HE
ASUS 27" LCD Monitor 2ms(GTG) D-Sub, HDMI MT276HE

Pros: Dont know, dont have it

Cons: Cant tell you, Dont own it yet

Overall Review: To the guy from 8/7 talking about the audio to his speakers. If you are trying to send the audio to you speakers via the 3.5mm(headphone plug) jack on the monitor, you're gonna have no luck. That jack is for input purposes only. The only output is the SPDIF port, which would be used to send the digital audio received via the HDMI to an Audio Receiver. If you want to use your speakers, you're gonna have to plug them into your computer and then go through control panel to make sure that your using the proper audio output.

Great board

ASRock P55 Deluxe LGA 1156 Intel P55 ATX Intel Motherboard
ASRock P55 Deluxe LGA 1156 Intel P55 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: SATA3 Card. Great Board Layout Fast FREE Shipping

Cons: None so Far

Overall Review: TO:maxxxem7771 The Problem with your ram also depends on if you installed the 32 or the 64 bit versions of your OS. If you have installed the 32-bit version. Windows will only recognize 4GB. And then it takes out for the main system resources.